LES MEMBRES DU CERCLE

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Naoko ABE

Researcher, The University of Sydney
Sociology of body movement, analysis of human movement and its application to robotics, movement analysis method and Laban kinetography, technology and its relation to socio-cultural factors, urban mobility and the question of trust in an unknown.

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Nobuyo AIZAWA

Lecturer, Tokyo Keizai University
Comparative history of contraception between France and Japan.

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Myriam AKIAN

PhD Candidate, Paris University
Archaeology in Japan, Memory creation

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Kae AMO

Scientific coordinator, Kyoto Seika University
African studies, Political anthropology, Education, West Africa, Islam

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Shin ARITA

Professor, The University of Tokyo
Comparative Sociology, Education, Labor Market, Social Stratification

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Sarah BOISSARD

PhD Candidate, EHESS
Economy, Public Policies, Madagascar

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Robert BOYER

Associate researcher, The Institute of Americas
“Regulation” theory, The transformations of capitalisms, Asian and Latin American Capitalisms, European and other regional integrations, Financial crises, History of economic theories, Innovation and growth analysis, Institutional and historical macroeconomics, Labor markets and wage labor nexus and variety of capitalisms and international comparisons

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Sophie BUHNIK

Researcher, Maison franco-japonaise
Socio-spatial reconstructions of Japanese metropolises; Consequences of demographic decline and ageing in cities on mobility and access to urban resources.

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César CASTELLVI

ATER, Paris University
Journalistic practices and the labour market’s transformations in the Japanese print media.

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Martin CHEVALLIER

PhD Candidate, CEMS-EHESS
Robotics, France, Sociology of techniques, Co-construction of uses, Ethnography

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Ken DAIMARU

Associate professor, University of Paris
Sanitary boundaries, Medical knowledge, Care practices, East Asia and the Pacific under Japanese influence (mid-19th-20th century)

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Pauline DEBANES

Ph.D, Paris 13 University
Role of the state in contemporary capitalism from the point of view of political ecomony.

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Jérémy DUCROS

Economist senior, IEFP
Lyon stock exchange (1845-1945)

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Arisa EMA

Assistant professor, Tokyo University
Benefits and risks of artificial intelligence.

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Beatriz FERNANDEZ

Associate professor, EHESS, Géographies Cité
Urban studies and urban planning, Capital cities, metropolisation and growth, shrinking cities, socio-spatial disparities

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Éloi FICQUET

Professor, CéSor-EHESS
Power and Religion in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa (19th-21st centuries), Ethiopian Muslim literatures, written and oral, Identity politics, cultural politics and heritage politics in contemporary Ethiopia.

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Masayo FUJIMOTO

Professor, Doshisha University
Sociology of work, sociology of professions, social mobility and institutional change.

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Shigefumi GOTO

Researcher, Frontier Research Center
Innovative transport systems and infrastructures in Europe and emerging countries.

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Yasushi HARA

Researcher, Hitotsubashi University
Policy making in the field of science, technology and innovation.

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Tomoko HASHINO

Professor, Kobe University
Evolutionary process of the textile industry in Japan as well as the development history of weaving districts in modern Japan.

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Hidetada HIGASHI

Lecturer, Yamanashi Gakuin
New product development processes, organizational structures of automotive companies, production systems of the agricultural industry.

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Yoshio HIGUCHI

Professor, Keio University
Labour market and employment policies.

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Takeo HOSHI

Professor and Senior Researcher, Stanford University
Financial aspects of the Japanese economy, corporate finance, monetary and banking policies.

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Naoko HOSOKAWA

ATER, Strasbourg University
Language and national identity through discursive analysis of public debates.

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Sarah HUMBERT-VALETTE D'OSIA

PhD Candidate, Paris University
Edo Period, Prostitution, Women’s history, Early Modern Society, Courtesans

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Masatoshi INOUE

PhD Candidate, CAK, CEMS-EHESS
Nuclear history, Image of atomic bomb, Military/Civilian nuclear disaster, Hiroshima/Nagasaki, Technonationalism in electronuclear power

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Grégoire JOUCLAS

INALCO
Intellectual history of Japan

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Ryo KAMBAYASHI

Professor, Hitotsubashi University
Labor economics, law and economics, Japan's economic history, and institutional economics.

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Nobutaka KAMEI

Professor, Aichi Prefectural University
Cultural anthropology, sign languages and deaf communities, childhood in Africa, hunter-gatherer societies.

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Pierre-Antoine KAPFER

Paris University
Medieval Japanese-Chinese relations

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Sota KATO

Professor, The International University of Japan
Comparative political economy, Political methodology, Public opinion

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Jeehoon KI

Associate Research Fellow, KISTEP
Differences in Public Policy on Autonomous Cars in France, Japan, and Korea: An Analysis through the Lens of Sectoral Innovation System.

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Francis D. KIM

Assistant Professor, Indian School of Business
Entrepreneurship, corporate governance, corporate finance and economic history.

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Haeng-Sun KIM

Assistant Professor, Jeju National University
International trade, finance and economy in Asia.

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Meriç KIRMIZI

Assistant Professor, Ondokuz Mayıs University
Post-industrial urban change, gentrification, area revitalization, mobility, and urban commons in Japanese and Turkish cities.

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Yukinobu KITAMURA

Professor, Hitotsubashi University
Public finance, monetary economics, development economics, economic history, econometrics, industrial organization and macroeconomics.

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Kota KODAMA

Associate Professor, Ritsumeikan University
Technology management, entrepreneurship, business development and bioinformatics.

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Naonori KODATE

Associate Professor, University College Dublin
Comparative public policy and science, technology and society (STS), use of technology.

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Masahiro KOTOSAKA

Associate Professor, Keio University, Hitotsubashi University
Internationalization Strategy, Global Value Chain, Institutional Logic

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Nam LEE

Assistant Professor, Chung-Ang University
Management Studies.

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Chikako MAJIMA

EHESS
Ethnology and Social Anthropology

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Hiromi MATSUI

Senior Lecturer, Kobe University
Modern and Contemporary Art History, Cubisme, Abstract Art, Artistic Anatomy, Pablo Picasso, Raymond Duchamp-Villon.

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Toshiyuki MATSUURA

Associate professor, Keio University
Determinants and consequences of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), and the link between export behavior and firm performance.

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Soichiro MINAMI

Research officer, Policy Research Institute for Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism
Public Finance, Environmental Economics and Transportation policy.

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Atsushi MIURA

Professor, Tokyo University
19th century French painting (Manet, Fantin-Latour or Raphaël Collin) and artistic exchanges between France and Japan (Japanism in France and modern Japanese painting).

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Hidemichi MIYAKE

Associate Professor, Senshu University
Product development and small- to mid-sized entrepreneurial ventures.

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Yuichiro MIZUMACHI

Professor, The University of Tokyo
Comparative and Historical Study on Labor and Employment Law

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Brieuc MONFORT

Lecturer, Sophia University 
Japanese Economy.

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Kazuyuki MOTOHASHI

Professor, Tokyo University
Economic impacts of information technology, international comparison of productivity, global infrastructure business strategy and national innovation system focusing on science and industry linkages and SME innovation and entrepreneurship policy.

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Shinsuke NAGAOKA

Professor, Kyoto University
Islamic Economics, Islamic Finance, Economic History.

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Sakiko NAKAO

Post-doctoral Fellow JSPS, Paris University
Pan-Africanism, cultural policies, decolonization.

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Ai NISHIMURA

Ph.D, Tokyo University
Urban policies in relation to sustainable development.

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Shiho NISHIYAMA

Professor, Rikkyo University
Comparative study between community development and urban governance formed by civil society organizations.

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Ayaka NODA

National Institution for Academic Degrees and University Evaluation

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Emiko OCHIAI

Professor, Kyoto University
Family, Welfare state and Migration.

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Hiroyuki OKAMURO

Professor, Hitotsubashi University
Entrepreneurship and innovation.

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Tatsuyoshi OKIMOTO

Associate professor, Australian National University
Macroeconomy, unconventional monetary policies in Japan.

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Kostiantyn OVSIANNIKOV

Post-doctoral researcher, Kōchi University of Technology
Corporate Governance, Labor Economics, Technological Innovation, Experimental Economics.

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Yana PAK

Ph.D, EHESS - CETOBac
Islamic Economy, Entrepreneurship, Central Asia.

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Saadia M. PEKKANEN

Professor, University of Washington
Foreign affairs of Japan and Asia, Strategy and governance in the world order.

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Ito PENG

Professor, Toronto University
Family and gender policies. Analysis of welfare states from a comparative perspective. The labor market and social reform policies in East Asia from a political economy approach.

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Angelo RIVA

Professor, European Business School - Paris
Architecture of financial system, Long-run evolution of financial systems financial databases, Digital social sciences, Financial regulation, Stock exchange industry organization, Market microstructure, Financial crisis, Banking; banking crisis, Financial history, Sociology of finance.

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Glenda S. ROBERTS

Professor, Waseda University
Gender, work, family, and migration policy in contemporary Japan.

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Oussouby SACKO

Professor, President of Kyoto Seika University
Community architecture, spatial transformations and transitions, restoration and conservation of architectural heritage.

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Yukie SAITO

Researcher, Geneva University
Economic geography and management sciences.

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Makiko SAKAI

Associate Professor, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
Rural development in sub-Saharan Africa, small economic activities of women, micro-finance and tontine, mutual aid mechanisms in rural societies.

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Sayaka SAKODA

Post-doctoral, Kyoto University
Labor economics, family economics, income distribution, economic development.

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Adrienne SALA

Researcher, Maison franco-japonaise
The history of the market and the political economy of creativity in Japan and the political economy of consumption.

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Yoshimichi SATO

Professor, Tohoku University
Social Capital, Evolutionary Game Theory, Social Theory, Sociology, Social Exclusion, Game and Decision Theory.

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Haruki SAWAMURA

PhD Candidate, Ecole Polytechnique
Electric vehicles, innovation in business models, on the ecosystem of innovation.

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Kulacha SIRIKHAN

PhD Candidate, The University of Tokyo
Urban architecture, urban engineering, creative cluster, developing economies.

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A.K.M. SKARPELIS

Postdoctoral fellow, The Berlin Social Science Center
Culture and comparative history, Racialized authoritarianism, Subjectification and the transformation of large scale institutions.

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André SORENSEN

Professor, Toronto University
Urban Institutions, Urbanization, Urban Governance.

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Cornelia STORZ

Professor, University of Francfort 
Institutional change, institutional benchmarking, innovation systems in Japan and Asia.

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Takeki SUNAKAWA

Associate professor, Kobe University
Macroeconomics and monetary policy.

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Jun SUZUKI

Professor and Deputy Director, GRIPS Tokyo
Science and technology policies, the study of innovation and management according to an empirical approach.

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Akira TAKADA

Associate professor, Kyoto University
Childhood in the hunter-gatherer society.

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Kanak TAKEDA

PhD candidate, Centre Georg Simmel, EHESS-CNRS
Marital mix, Migration of women (of East Asian origin), Sociology of the couple, Women's work.

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Hiroko TAKEDA

Professor, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo
The study of gender, political economy in Japan and East Asia, governance, analysis of political discourses.

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Shogo TAKEGAWA

Professor, The University of Tokyo
Social policies.

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Akira TAKEISHI

Professor, Kyoto University
Management of inter-firm division of labor, innovation process, and the music industry and technological changes.

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Shoichiro TAKEZAWA

Researcher, Osaka National Museum of Ethnology
West African history and archeology.

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Toshiaki TANAKA

Professor, Hokkaido University of Science and The University of Tokyo
Development of versatile devices for the elderly and disabled persons in Kinesiology.

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Eiichi TANIGUCHI

Professor Emeritus, Kyoto University
Transport planning, Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS), operations research, urban freight transport, humanitarian logistics in disasters, and healthcare management.

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Hiroshi TERUYAMA

Professor, Kyoto University
Macroeconomics and labor economics, redistribution of wealth, tax policy and the internal labor market in Japan.

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Willem THORBECKE

Senior Fellow, RIETI
Global value chains, exchange rates, and Asian development.

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Yves TIBERGHIEN

Professor et Institute Director, British Columbia University
Financial regulation, corporate governance, GMOs and climate change - mainly in Japan, South Korea and China, but also in the European Union.

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Hugo TREVISAN

PhD Candidate, EHESS
Anthropology, Religion, Christianity in Japan.

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Mari UCHIUMI

Professor, Komazawa University
Urban planning, urban policy, and local administration.

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Kozo UEDA

Professor, Waseda University
Monetary policy, Japanese Economy, Macroeconomics.

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Yuko UENO

Associate professor, Hitotsubashi University
Labor Economics and Monetary Economics.

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Maki UMEMURA

Senior Lecturer, Cardiff University
Evolution of frontier industries (ex. biomedicine, renewable energy) in East Asia, Role of expectations in shaping technological development, Market categories.

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Steven VOGEL

Professor, California University
Political economies of industrialized countries.

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Ulrich VOLZ

Reader, SOAS University of London
International Finance, Open Economy Macroeconomics, Financial Market Development and Stability, Development and Transition Economics, Global Economic Governance, East Asian Financial Markets.

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Élise VOYAU

PhD Candidate, INALCO
Japanese photography.

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Louise Claire WAGNER

Ph.D, Paris Nanterre University
Urban theories, the history and functioning of the world's major tropoles, urban populations.

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Linda WEISS

Professor Emeritus, The University of Sydney
Comparative and international politics of economic development, with a focus on state capacity and public-private sector relations.

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Scott WILBUR

Presidential Management Fellow, U.S. Department of the Treasury
Interaction between government and business in domestic and international politics and policy, zombie firms.

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James WRIGHT

Research Associate, University of Sheffield
Robotics, AI and algorithms, welfare technologies and public innovation policy.

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Mayuko YAMAMOTO

PhD Candidate, CESPRA-FFJ-EHESS
Islam in the European public space, Muslim schools.

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Ritsu YAMAMURA

Associate Professor, Nihon University
Social policy for people with disabilities.

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Jing YANG

PhD Candidate, CECMC-EHESS
Local central tax and social protection system in China.

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Toru YOSHIDA

Professor, Hokkaido University
European politics in a comparative approach, the history of life and political parties in France.

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Céline ZURETTI

PhD Candidate, Paris University
Industrial complex of Shūseikan in Kagoshima, Industrialisation in the Early modern Japan, Acquisition of Western know-how, Imported books, Technical hybridizations, History of technology.

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