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Faculty Spotlights
【GSAPS Faculty=Expertise × Humanism】
At the Waseda University Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies (GSAPS), students are taught by diverse faculty members with high-level research skills and practical abilities, who conduct cutting-edge research in their field, and who have real world experience, such as in international institutions-like the United Nations, the World Bank, and UNICEF-in diplomacy, and in the mass media.
In this edition of Faculty Spotlights, we take a look at the attractive learning experience and the three specializations-‘Area Studies’, ‘International Relations’ and ‘International Development/Policy Studies’-offered by GSAPS through the voices of its teaching staff and their unique expertise and rich humanism cultivated from various backgrounds.
*The information of the contents is current as of the time it was uploaded.
Interview Videos&Digital Book
Among the faculty members who are recruiting for Project Research, those whose interview videos or digital books can be viewed are listed below.
| AOYAMA, Rumi | BACON, Paul Martyn | BUKH, Alexander | ENDO, Tamaki |
| 【Field of Specialization】 International Relations, Political Science, Contemporary China’s Foreign Policy, Politics in Contemporary China |
【Field of Specialization】 Inter-regionalism (Europe and Asia), Comparative Regionalism (Europe and Asia), Human Rights Promotion and Protection |
【Field of Specialization】 International Relations, International Relations of Northeast Asia, Japan-Korea and Japan-Russia Relations |
【Field of Specialization】 Urban Studies (mainly Southeast and East Asia), Socioeconomics, Development Studies, Regional Development Economics |
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| Digital Book【Vol. 2】 | Digital Book【Vol. 3】 | Digital Book【Vol. 4】 | Digital Book【Vol. 4】 |
| GAGNE, Nana Okura | KATO, Atsushi | KATSUMA, Yasushi | KAWANO, Mariko |
| 【Field of Specialization】 Work & Wellbeing; Work & Leisure; Gender & Sexuality; Family & Reproductive Health |
【Field of Specialization】 Economic Development, Political Economy, Indian Economy |
【Field of Specialization】 Development Studies (Human Development), International Human Rights (Child Rights), Human Security, Global Governance |
【Field of Specialization】 International Law, International Law of the Sea |
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| Digital Book【Vol. 4】 | Digital Book【Vol. 3】 | Digital Book【Vol. 2】 | Digital Book【Vol. 3】 |
| KIKUCHI, Tomoo | KURODA, Kazuo | LEHENY, David | LIU-FARRER, Gracia |
| 【Field of Specialization】 International Macroeconomics, Economic Growth and Development |
【Field of Specialization】 Comparative and International Education, Educational Policy, Education and International Development, International Higher Education |
【Field of Specialization】 Japanese Politics, East Asian Security, Culture and International Relations |
【Field of Specialization】 International Migration, Social Stratification and Inequality, Globalization, International Education |
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| Digital Book【Vol. 3】 | Digital Book【Vol. 1】 | Digital Book【Vol. 1】 | Digital Book【Vol. 1】 |
| MIICHI, Ken | NABESHIMA, Kaoru | NAKAJIMA, Seio | SETA, Makoto |
| 【Field of Specialization】 Comparative Politics, Southeast Asian Studies |
【Field of Specialization】 International Trade, Development Economics, Technological Innovation |
【Field of Specialization】 Economic Sociology, Organizational Sociology, Cultural Sociology, China, East Asia, Creative Industries in Asia |
【Field of Specialization】 International Law, Law of the Sea |
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| Digital Book【Vol. 2】 | Digital Book【Vol. 2】 | Digital Book【Vol. 2】 | Digital Book【Vol. 4】 |
| SHINOHARA, Hatsue | UEKI, Chikako |
| 【Field of Specialization】 International Relations, International History, US-Japan Relations, Foreign Policy (Japan, East Asia, the US) |
【Field of Specialization】 Political Science, International Relations, Security Studies, International Relations and Security of East Asia, US-Japan-China Relations |
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| Digital Book【Vol. 3】 | Digital Book【Vol. 2】 |

















