Staff ｜ The Center for African Area Studies, Kyoto University

Name	Position	Area	ASAFAS	Work	Others
Utako Aoike	Institutional Research Fellow
Motoki Takahashi	Professor	Development Economics, Political Economy, African Area Studies, Development, the state, market economy, poverty reduction, international cooperation	LINK	LINK
Juichi Itani	Professor	Tropical agriculture, Tanzania, Conventional agriculture, Miombo forest	LINK	LINK
Gen Yamakoshi	Professor	African area studies, Guinea, Chimpanzee, SATOYAMA, Chinjyu-no-Mori, Oil parm	LINK	LINK
Shuichi Oyama	Professor	Geography, Human and environment, social change, human security, practical peace study	LINK	LINK	LINK
Misa Hirano (Nomoto)	Professor	Cultural Anthropology, Cameroon, Gift exchange, Money, Okinawa	LINK	LINK
Akira Takada	Professor	Children, Ethnicity, Environment, Interaction, Southern Africa	LINK	LINK	LINK
Morie Kaneko	Associate Professor	Material culture, Techniques of body, Local knowledge, Cultural transmission, Community museum	LINK	LINK
Hirokazu Yasuoka	Associate Professor	Ecological anthropology, Historical Ecology, Ethnobiology, Ethnography of the Baka hunter-gatherers, Collaborative wildlife management between scientists and local hunters	LINK	LINK	LINK
Hidenori Harada	Associate Professor	Environmental engineering; water environment; WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene), environmental pollution, material cycle	LINK	LINK	LINK
Hiroki Sato	Associate Professor	Tropical Ecology, Primatology, Ethnobiology, Ecosystem Services	LINK	LINK
Seiji Nakao	Assistant Professor	Historical Anthropology, African History, Islam of West Africa	LINK	LINK
Miho Saito	Assistant Professor	Tanzania, miombo woodland, giraffe, rearing strategy, nature resources	LINK	LINK
Kae Amo	Assistant Professor	Religion and Politics, Anthropology, Senegal, Islam in West Africa, Media and youth culture, Asia-Africa relations	LINK	LINK	LINK
Akiyo Shioya	Project-Specific Assistant Professor	Market, Merchant, Urban-Rural Relations, Agricultural Marketing, Cassava, Cameroon, Food Culture, Food security	LINK
Koji Uozumi	Institutional Research Fellow Specially Appointed Research Fellow
Shingo Takamura	Specially Appointed Research Fellow			LINK
Eunji Choi	Specially Appointed Research Fellow
Kagari Shikata-Yasuoka	Project-Specific Research Fellow	tropical agriculture, shifting cultivation, agroforestry, bananas, NTFPs		LINK	LINK
Shun Hongo	Project-Specific Research Fellow Specially Appointed Assistant Professor	Primatology, Animal behavior, Mammal ecology, Wildlife management, Conservation science		LINK	LINK
Aino Ikeda	Project-Specific Research Fellow
Kamgain Towa Olivier William	Project-Specific Research Fellow
Masaaki Hirai	Project-Specific Research Fellow
Asami Kabasawa	Specially Appointed Assistant Professor	Human-animal relationship, Wildlife conservation, Chimpanzees, Africa, Area Studies		LINK
Shizuka Asada	Specially Appointed Research Fellow	area studies, biomass briquettes, Uganda, cooking		LINK
Teppei Okamura	Specially Appointed Research Fellow	Rural electrification, Micro-hydro, Solar home system		LINK
Tamahi Kato (Yamauchi)	Specially Appointed Research Fellow	Gender analysis, Evaluation, Area Studies, Poverty Analysis		LINK
Tomoki Ikebe	Specially Appointed Research Fellow	Anthropology, Senegal, Islam, Mouride		LINK
Seera Georgina	Specially Appointed Research Fellow	Cultural anthropology and folklore, Local studies, Home economics and lifestyle science, Social welfare, Sociology		LINK	LINK
Noriko Ito	Specially Appointed Research Fellow
Hiroyuki Inai	Specially Appointed Research Fellow
Ryutaro Tara	Specially Appointed Research Fellow	Ecological anthropology, Charcoal production, Food culture ecology, Tanzania
Shunkichi Hanamura	Specially Appointed Research Fellow	primate sociology/anthropology; interaction study; social space; chimpanzees; Japanese macaques		LINK
Hana Shimoyama	Specially Appointed Research Fellow
Azusa Matsui	Specially Appointed Research Fellow	Cultural anthropology, Mozambique, Neighborhood relations, Social relations, Environment, History, Women		LINK
Teruya Maehata	Specially Appointed Research Fellow
Nobuko Yamazaki	Specially Appointed Research Fellow	African Area Studies, Anthropology, Refugee Studies, Post-Conflict Societies, Postwar Compensation, Migration, Border Studies		LINK
Yumi Yamane	Specially Appointed Research Fellow	Conservation Ecology, African Area Studies, Wildlife Management, Biodiversity Conservation		LINK
Kana Yamamoto	Specially Appointed Research Fellow	Tanzania, Land tenure, Seasonal wetlands		LINK
Kaoru Kitajima	Professor Advisory staff				LINK
Ryo Kimura	Professor Advisory staff				LINK
Masato Nakatsukasa	Professor Advisory staff				LINK
Mareyuki Ebata	Specially Appointed Research Fellow Specially Appointed Assistant Professor	Anthropology of religion, Sacred place, Pilgrimage, Possession, Doany ｗorship, Madagascar		LINK	LINK
Shinya Funakawa	Professor Advisory staff				LINK
Takeshi Furuichi	Professor Advisory staff				LINK
Kazuharu Mizuno	Professor Advisory staff				LINK
Miho Murayama	Professor Advisory staff				LINK
Keiichi Shirato	Specially Appointed Professor	Journalism Studies (Japan, African countries), African Area Studies, Japan-Africa Relations		LINK	LINK
Kazuyo Ideue	Specially Appointed Lecturer	African Area Studies, Development Economics		LINK	LINK
Junichiro Itani	Emeritus Professor	Ecological anthropology, Primatology, Human evolution, Hominization
Yasuo Takamura	Emeritus Professor	Crop science, Agricultural Ecology / Indigenous agriculture in Africa / Livelihood structure, Productivity of indigenous agriculture, Zambia - Chitemene, Tanzania - Ngoro, Ghana - mound cultivation
Jiro Tanaka	Emeritus Professor	Anthropology, Area study, Kalahari desert, Hunter-Gatherer, Bushmen, Modernization, Indigenous people
Naoki Koyama	Emeritus Professor	African Area Studies, Madagascar, Ring-tailed lemurs, Nature conservation
Makoto Kakeya	Emeritus Professor	Ecological anthropology, Ecology and society of swidden agriculture farmers, Rural development, Mechanism of standardization, Spontaneous development, African development, Extensive, Internal frontier, African intensification, Tanzania, Zambia
Mitsuo Ichikawa	Emeritus Professor	Anthropology, African Area Studies／Coexistence of human with nature in tropical Africa／Wildlife, Forest conservation, Resource Use, Indigenous knowledge
Shuhei Shimada	Emeritus Professor	Nigeria Research, Political ecology, Vulnerability, Conflict regions in Africa
Shigeru Araki	Emeritus Professor	Tropical pedology, Tropical agricultural ecology / Studies for red soil in Africa, Practical area studies, Swidden cultivation, Cassava, Virtual earth
Shigeki Kaji	Emeritus Professor	Linguistics・African area studies / African studies based on linguistic description / Language and culture
Itaru Ohta	Emeritus Professor	African area studies, Anthropology, African pastoral societies, conflict resolution, peace building, local practice, indigenous/local/traditional knowledge and institutions, development, social change, risk management, coexistence.
Jun Ikeno	Emeritus Professor	Area Study, Tanzanian Study, Rural Socio-economic Transformation, Livelihood Strategy, East African Economy
Masayoshi Shigeta	Emeritus Professor	Anthropology, Development and Education, Research on sleep culture		LINK

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