Staff Introductions
Director
Yasumichi MATSUMOTO
Director & Vice-President
Kumamoto University
Professor, Industrial Science
Field of Expertise: Electrochemistry
Visiting Professors
Kang Sang-jung
Emeritus Professor, The University of Tokyo
Yoshiko SHIOTANI
President of the Kumamoto Scocial Welfare Council (former Kumamoto Prefectural Governor)
Kensei TAGAWA
CEO, Hotel Nikko Kumamoto, Chairman, Kumamoto Chamber of Commerce
Shinichiro KOEJI
Kumamoto Nichinichi Shimbun
Arvind SINGHAL
Professor, Department of Communication, University of Texas at El Paso
Eiji HATO
Professor, The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Engineering
PENG Bo
Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Cyrille MARLIN
Associate Professor, National School of Architecture and Landscape
Faculty members at Policy Studies Division
Shinya UENO, PhD
Professor, Center for Policy Studies
Graduate School of Social and Cultural Sciences (Joint Professorship)
Fields of Expertise: Political Science, Comparative Politics, Local Government Management, Social
Capital, Social Network Analysis
Naoto TANAKA
Associate Professor, Center for Policy Studies
Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology (Joint Professorship)
Fields of Expertise: City and regional planning, Community-based landscape development,
History of civil engineering, Waterfront design theory, Regional-social climate theory
Yoko KAWAMURA
Associate Professor, Center for Policy Studies
Graduate School of Social and Cultural Sciences (Joint Professorship)
Fields of Expertise: Health Education and Promotion, Health Communication, Community Health,
Health Behavior, Social Psychology
Shinnosuke TAKAHASHI
Specially Appointed Assistant Professor, HIGO Program
Field of Expertise: Sociology, Globalization and Regional Japan, Race/Ethnicity/Identity Politics,
Social Capital in Multicultural Contexts, Social Movements
Faculty members at Lifelong Learning Division
Shigeki TSUZUKU
Professor, Center for Policy Studies
Graduate School of Social and Cultural Sciences (Joint Professorship)
Field of Expertise: Health Promotion, Training Science, Instructional Design
Takuya MARUYAMA
Associate Professor, Center for Policy Studies
Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology (Joint Professorship)
Fields of Expertise: Transport Policy Analysis, Transport Planning, Infrastructure Planning
Faculty members at Organization for Community Development (COC)
Miwa ABE
Specially Appointed Assistant Professor, Center for Policy Studies
Fields of Expertise: Disaster management, Environmental Sciences, Community Development
Kei Amano
Specially Appointed Assistant Professor, Center for Policy Studies
Fields of Expertise:Eductional Technology, Instructional Design, Human Resource Development
Visiting Policy Researchers
Osamu YOSHIZUMI
Kumamoto City Government Dispatch
Technical and Business Assistants
Miki YAMASHITA, Akiko SAKEI, Yoshiro SATO, Terumi YAMASHITA, Nami FUKUI
Center for Policy Studies