Department of Cultural Resources Studies

e-mail:	bunka[at]l.u-tokyo.ac.jp *Replace [at] with @.
Tel:	03-5841-3722

Fostering applied and interdisciplinary research, The Department of Cultural Resources Studies offers two postgraduate degree courses: “Cultural Resources Studies” and “Cultural Management”. The courses are available at both the master’s and doctoral levels. The Cultural Resources Studies course focuses on the identification and assessment of what could/should be valued as cultural resources, and the Cultural Management Studies course examines the methods and methodology for sustainably utilizing cultural resources in modern society. The research areas addressed in the department include: documentary culture studies, the history and culture of the book and bookmaking, material culture studies, heritage studies, heritage management, cultural policy, cultural governance, arts management, video game studies, and digital humanities. Reflecting its multidisciplinary nature, the members of the department work closely with colleagues based at other departments in the Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology and welcome working professionals to pursue their research as postgraduate students.

Teaching staff

Yusuke NAKAMURA (Professor) Cultural resources

Research fields:	General technologization of cognitive artifacts
Courses taught:	Reading and writing cultural resources is a workshop on how to research miscellaneous cultural resources that are not necessarily easy to cite in academic papers. This is aligned with each participant's research project. Document culture theory traces previous research on voice culture and reading and writing of paper documents. The lectures and discussions consider the currently unfolding encounter between humanities studies and digital technology. (Click here for more information: https://www.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/eng/teacher/database/149.html)

Research fields:

General technologization of cognitive artifacts

Courses taught:

Reading and writing cultural resources is a workshop on how to research miscellaneous cultural resources that are not necessarily easy to cite in academic papers. This is aligned with each participant's research project.
Document culture theory traces previous research on voice culture and reading and writing of paper documents. The lectures and discussions consider the currently unfolding encounter between humanities studies and digital technology.
(Click here for more information: https://www.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/eng/teacher/database/149.html)

Yuri NOMURA (Associate Professor)

Research fields:	Books as cultural resources (history of binding, book design, reliure).
Courses taught:	Courses include Introduction to cultural resources studies, Seminar in cultural resources studies, and Special studies in cultural resources studies. (Click here for more information: https://www.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/eng/teacher/database/11777.html)

Mari KOBAYASHI (Professor)

Research fields:	Research on institutions that protect and promote culture (art, cultural assets, etc.), Research on the operation of cultural policy institutions and systems, mainly at the national and local levels
Courses taught:	Courses included Management of cultural facilities, Jurisprudence (cultural policy and law), and Seminar in cultural management. (Click here for more information: https://www.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/eng/teacher/database/152.html)

Akira MATSUDA (Associate Professor)

Research fields:	heritage studies (ideology and social systems of heritage protection), public archaeology
Courses taught:	Introduction to cultural resources studies, cultural resources in Kanda area, Place and Memory, Issues in heritage and museum studies. https://www.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/eng/teacher/database/254.html

Ikki OHMUKAI (Associate Professor)

(Click here for more information: https://www.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/eng/teacher/database/9555.html)

Barbara GEILHORN (Specially Appointed Professor)

Research fields:	Relationship between gender and power in Japanese classical culture, Representation of Fukushima in culture after the Great East Japan Earthquake, Portrayal of contemporary society in Japanese theater, Regional theater and art festivals in Japan
Courses taught:	Courses include Special studies in cultural resources studies (Japanese classical theater: aesthetics, society, history) and Special studies in cultural resources studies (Gender and sexuality in Japanese culture and arts). (Click here for more information: https://www.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/eng/teacher/database/15332_00002.html)

Aiko KURATA (Assistant Professor)

Research fields:	Activities of painters/artists employed by the University of Tokyo and museums during the Meiji era
Courses taught:	Introduction to cultural resources studies. (Click here for more information: https://www.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/eng/teacher/database/14215.html)