Gender Studies, Gender Studies on the Middle East, Cultural Anthropology

I have been conducting researches on ways how people live their lives from the everyday-life perspectives in the Middle East. I deploy Gender Studies that problematizes the inequality and people’s suffering through the lens of gender, and Cultural Anthropology that attempts to comprehensively conceptualize human beings. My previous research topics include work life balance for women, implications of pursuing career for women, and sex and procreation for women, as well as the various school systems and their relations to the social structure in the Middle East.

Anthropology by looking into “foreign” cultures and societies enables us to see that the common sense only works within the very small circle of communities. Gender Studies encourages us to seek the source of joys and sufferings within social structures. Both perspectives promote conceptualizing the world orders in a relative sense, and suggest the possibility of alternatives. They cater the powerful tools for social critiques that allow us to face, to tackle, and many times even to laugh at sufferings for envisioning a better world.

Only your own problematization makes the graduate education meaningful. What makes you upset? What did you find to be problematic? What would you like to overcome? If you have something to share with those questions, and if you are willing to discuss them with critical perspectives, I will be happy to contribute seeking the answers.

• ELIMINATION OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN. GENDER EQUALITY ISSUES IN THE KYRGYZ REPUBLIC.
• グルーミングとプリンセス  ドバイ・モールの日常分析
• Beyond Anxiety: A Study of the Materiality of Japanese Apostolic Christians in Kyoto
• Yeohyeom in Korean Mass Media: A Case of Fashion of Female Korean Idols
• <ドラマ『如懿伝』に見る現代中国女性のライフモデル―愛情、友情、物質的な豊かさから>
• ⼄⼥ゲームにみるクィアな愛の形 ─⼥同⼠の関係性の地平─
• 深圳における結納金をめぐる考察ー第四波フェミニズムの視点から
• The Dilemma of Chinese Online Feminism ――A Case Study of Yang Li and Papi Jiang
• A Study of the Impact of Gender Role Concepts in China on Fertility Intention
• 「強制婚姻」という人身売買を通じた中国におけるフェミニズムの考察
• 中国ネット空間における「女嫌い」と「男嫌い」 の言説 ―鉄道での生理用ナプキン販売拒否事件を例に―
• 20 世紀の英領マラヤに移動・移住した瓊僑女性からみた海南島のジェンダー観に関する研究 
• The Ideal Pakistani and the Making of a Nation
• A Story of Undivided Identity: A Transcultural Narrative of a Chilean-Palestinian Across Miami and Japan
• Blueprinting DEI in Japanese Higher Education: DEI and Japan’s “Top Global University Project” Initiatives
• The Production of Systemic Silence: The Coordinated Operations of Discursive Power in the Zhu Jun-Xianzi Case
• 女性雑誌における「女性目線の乳房」 ―『an・an』の「美乳特集」を中心に
• 性的マイノリティ研究をめぐる「困難」に関する考察 ――＜研究によるカミングアウト＞に着⽬する
• 「専業子ども」に見る現代中国社会 ――階級、ケア、ジェンダーの視点から
• Strategic self-representation of Ethnic Minority Women on Douyin (the Chinese version of TikTok)