Professors Emeriti
- Directors-General
- Professors Emeriti
UMESAO Tadao（1920-2010）
Director-General, June 1974–March 1993
Ethnology, comparative study of civilizations
SASAKI Komei（1929-2013）
Director-General, April 1993–March 1997
History of agriculture in East and South Asia
ISHIGE Naomichi
Director-General, April 1997–March 2003
Cultural anthropology
MATSUZONO Makio
Director-General, April 2003–March 2009
Social anthropology
SUDO Ken’ichi
Director-General, April 2009–March 2017
Social anthropology
YOSHIDA Kenji
Director-General, April 2017–March 2025
Cultural anthropology, Museum anthropology
SEKI Yuji
Director-General, April 2025–
South American archaeology, cultural anthropology
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| Name | The year when the title was conferred | Research Specialization |
|---|---|---|
| SOFUE Takao * | 1984 | Psychological anthropology |
| IWATA Keiji * | 1985 | Cultural anthropology |
| KATO Kyuzo * | 1986 | Ethnic history in North and Central Asia |
| ITOH Mikiharu * | 1988 | Anthropology of religion |
| NAKAMURA Shunkichi * | 1988 | Study of ethnic technologies and tools |
| KIMISHIMA Hisako * | 1989 | Chinese folklore |
| WADA Yuiti * | 1990 | Linguistic anthropology |
| TARUMI Minoru * | 1991 | Anthropology in spatial domains |
| SUGIMOTO Hisatsugu * | 1992 | Cultural geography,Cultural anthropology |
| UMESAO Tadao (First Director-General) * |
1993 | Ethnology, comparative study of civilizations |
| OGYU Chikasato * | 1993 | Cultural structure of Latin America |
| KATAKURA Motoko * | 1993 | Social geography,Ethnology |
| TAKEMURA Takuji * | 1994 | Social anthropology |
| CHOU Ta-sheng * | 1995 | Theory of material culture |
| MATSUZAWA Kazuko | 1995 | Social anthropology |
| DAIMARU Hiroshi * | 1996 | Comparative study of the history of lifestyles, based on clothing, etc. |
| TOMOEDA Hiroyasu * | 1996 | Social anthropology |
| FUJII Tomoaki * | 1996 | Ethnomusicology,Anthropology of music |
| SASAKI Komei (Second Director-General) * |
1997 | History of agriculture in East and South Asia |
| SUGIMURA Toh * | 1997 | Study of ethno-arts |
| WADA Shohei | 1998 | Comparative study of cultures,Anthropology of Africa |
| SHIMIZU Akitoshi | 2000 | Comparative study of families,Study of Oceania |
| KURODA Etsuko | 2001 | Theory of ethnicity and social culture,anthropology of Central America |
| SAKIYAMA Osamu | 2001 | Linguistic anthropology,Oceanic linguistics |
| HATA Nobuyuki | 2001 | Economic anthropology,Anthropology of Africa |
| KOYAMA Shuzo * | 2002 | Ethnoarchaeology |
| MORITA Tsuneyuki | 2002 | Conservation science,Ethno-technology |
| ISHIGE Naomichi (Third Director-General) |
2003 | Cultural anthropology |
| KURITA Yasuyuki | 2003 | Museum anthropology,Study of Bhutan |
| SUGITA Shigeharu | 2003 | Computer ethnology,Study of civilization |
| Kumakura Isao | 2004 | History of Japanese culture |
| TACHIKAWA Musashi | 2004 | Philosophy of religion,Buddhist thought |
| TANABE Shigeharu | 2004 | Social anthropology of Southeast Asia |
| FUJII Tatsuhiko | 2004 | Prehistory of the New World continent |
| YAMADA Mutsuo * | 2004 | History of Latin America,Area study of Latin America |
| EGUCHI Paul K. * | 2005 | Oral literature and material culture of the Fulfulde-speaking people,Cameroon |
| OHTSUKA Kazuyoshi | 2005 | Aynu (Ainu) culture,Material culture of North Asian food gatherers,paleoecology, Prehistoric Subsistence,Japan |
| MATSUBARA Masatake | 2005 | Social structure, Turkey,Eastern Asia, Central Asia |
| ISHIMORI Shuzo | 2006 | Cultural development studies,anthropology of tourism,Museum anthropology,Cultural resource management;Micronesia, Polynesia,Southeast Asia, Japan |
| NOMURA Masaichi * | 2006 | Nonverbal communication,Ethnology of Mediterranean Europe |
| OMORI Yasuhiro | 2007 | Ethnology,Visual anthropology |
| YAMAMOTO Norio | 2007 | Ethnobotany,Ethnology, the Andes, the Himalayas |
| MATSUZONO Makio (Fourth Director-General) |
2009 | Social anthropology |
| Matsuyama Toshio | 2010 | Ethnology of contemporary Australian aboriginal society |
| NAGANO Yasuhiko | 2011 | Historical linguistics, lexical semantics;Tibeto-Burman area |
| AKIMICHI Tomoya | 2012 | Maritime anthropology,Ecological anthropology;Oceania,Southeast Asia, Japan |
| NAKAMAKI Hirochika | 2012 | Japanese religion,Brazilian company culture; Japan |
| KOBAYASHI Shigeki | 2014 | Museum Science,Cultural Anthropology |
| TAMURA Katsumi | 2014 | Cultural Anthropology;Southeast Asia, East Asia |
| YOSHIMOTO Shinobu | 2014 | Textile Arts and Technology;Asia, Africa, America, Europe |
| KUBO Masatoshi | 2015 | Ethno-Informatics,Computer Ethnology,Study on Aboriginal Australian Culture |
| SHOJI Hiroshi * | 2015 | Finno-Ugric Linguistics,Ethnolinguistics,Language Policy; Northern Europe,China |
| YASUGI Yoshiho | 2015 | Linguistic Anthropology,Writing Systems, Mayan Civilization,Mesoamerica |
| ASAKURA Toshio | 2016 | Social structures in East Asia;Korea, Japan |
| SASAKI Shiro | 2016 | Socioeconomic history of reindeer-breeders and forest hunters;Northern Asia, Siberia |
| SUGIMOTO Yoshio | 2016 | Social anthropology;Sri Lanka, South India |
| SUDO Ken’ichi (Fifth Director-General) |
2017 | Social anthropology |
| TAKEZAWA Shoichiro | 2017 | Afirican history,History of anthropological thought;West Africa |
| TSUKADA Shigeyuki | 2017 | Ethnohistory; Southern China |
| INTOH Michiko | 2018 | Prehistory of Oceania; Oceania,Island Southeast Asia |
| YOKOYAMA Hiroko | 2018 | Cultural anthropology,Chinese society and culture |
| TERADA Yoshitaka * | 2020 | Ethnomusicology,Study of South India |
| DEGUCHI Masayuki(Masa) | 2021 | Third sector research, civil society studies |
| SEKI Yuji | 2022 | South American archaeology, cultural anthropology |
| HAYASHI Isao | 2022 | Social structure, cosmology, risk and disaster; Melanesia, Polynesia, Japan |
| SUZUKI Nanami | 2023 | Cultural anthropology, culture of medicine, life-design studies, American and European medieval social history |
| NISHIO Tetsuo | 2023 | Linguistics, Arab culture; Middle East, North Africa |
| MORI Akiko | 2023 | Cultural anthropology, ethnography; Central Europe, Germany, Austria, Japan |
| KONAGAYA Yuki | 2023 | |
| IKEYA Kazunobu | 2024 | Environmental anthropology, cultural geography; Southern Africa, Japan |
| KISHIGAMI Nobuhiro | 2024 | Cultural anthropology, Inuit studies; North America |
| SONODA Naoko | 2024 | Conservation science |
| YOSHIDA Kenji (Sixth Director-General) |
2025 | Cultural anthropology, Museum anthropology |
| MATTHEWS, Peter J. | 2025 | Ethnobotany, prehistory, crop plant biogeography; Asia, Pacific |
| SASAHARA Ryoji | 2025 | Japan, Folk Culture, Performing Arts |
| SHINMEN Mitsuhiro | 2025 | Science of religion; Eastern Europe |
| SUZUKI Motoi | 2025 | Anthropological perspectives on development assistance evaluations |
| UDAGAWA Taeko | 2025 | Cultural anthropology, gender studies; Italy, Mediterranean Europe |
*Deceased