Court of Heian Period Literature, Criticism, Education · 2016. 6. 13. · 1. Study of an analytic invariant “Tjurina number” of plane curve singularities I study the analytic

Court of Heian Period Literature, Criticism, Education Name Amitani, Atsuko E-mail [email protected]

Status Professor

Affiliations JAPAN PEN CLUB,ＴｈｅａｓｓｏｃｉａｔｉｏｎｆｏｒｔｈｅｓｔｕｄｙＪａｐａｎｅｓｅＨｅｉａｎＬｉｔｅｒａｔｕｒｅ，ＴｈｅＪａｐａｎｗｒｉｔｅｒｓ‘Ａｓｓｏｃｉａｔｉｏｎ，ｅｔｃ．

Keywords A stoyy, Japanese modern poetry,National language education

Technical Support Skills

The study of Okinawa old song ・・

Research Contents Taketori story,Utsuho story,Criticism of Japanese modern poetry,The study on method of the national language education My book： (1)A monograph・・・Structure and interpretation of the Court of Heian Period literature(１９

９２) (2)Criticism・・・Japanese poetics(１９９９) Literature tanka of ibaraki(２００３) Ａ poetic language theory(2012) (３)A book of verse・・・・・・・・・Eight books, Rurikou(Go in azure)(２０１１) others

Available Facilities and Equipment

National Institute of Technology, Okinawa College at

Department of Integrated Arts and Science

Study on rings with Morita duality

Name Koike Kazutoshi E-mail [email protected] Status Professor

Affiliations Mathematical Society of Japan, Information Processing Society of Japan

Keywords Noncommutative rings, Morita duality, quasi-Frobenius rings


・ Theory of algebra (ring theory) ・ Public lectures on mathematics

Research Contents Study on rings with Morita duality I have been studying noncommutative ring theory. Recently I am interested in rings with Morita duality (self-duality). “Morita duality” is a duality (contravariant category equivalence) between certain categories of left R-modules and right S-modules, where R and S are two associative rings with identity. Most typical example of Morita duality is the usual vector space duality of finite dimensional vector spaces over a field. In case R=S such as the vector space duality, Morita duality is called “self-duality”. I study the problem whether certain kind of rings have self-duality.


National Institute of Technology, Okinawa College


On global properties of solutions to the Einstein equations

Name NARITA Makoto E-mail [email protected]

Status Professor

Affiliations Mathematical Society of Japan, Japan Physical Society, International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation

Keywords Gravity, Singularity, Black Hole, Cosmic Censorship, General Relativity,

Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations

Technical

Support Skills

・ Theoretical calculations based on Physics (relativity)

・ Public lectures on physics and mathematics

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・Research Contents On global properties of solutions to the Einstein equations

General relativity and partial differential equations

— Global solutions to the Einstein equations

— Initial singularity of the universe

— Formation of black holes



National Institute of Technology, Okinawa College�

Bioresources and Photochemistry

Name HAMADA Taisuke E-mail [email protected] Status Professor

Affiliations The Chemical Society of Japan, Japan Society of Coordination Chemistry, The Electrochemical Society of Japan, Japanese Society of Engineering Education

Keywords Photochemistry, Physical chemistry, Coordination chemistry


・ Measurement of photochemical property ・ Supercritical fluid extraction ・ Photo energy conversion

Research Contents

[Dye sensitized solar cell] Solar energy have attracted much attentions because it is clean, and it is called green energy. Solar cell is device to convert photo-energy to electric energy. We have been studied a solar cell, which is called the dye sensitized solar cell (DSSC).

We have made DSSCs and studied the effect of the dye on the efficiency under irradiation of sunlight (AM 1.5G) from the solar simulator (Fig. 1). In this study, we have evaluated the photochemical and photoelectrical properties of the dye. Therefore, we are able to measure and to evaluate the photochemical property of various compounds in order to clarify a photochemical ability. [Super critical fluid extraction] We have been trying to obtain the useful compound such as poly-methoxy flavonoid (PMF) by means of super critical CO2 extraction method. The merit of this method is that the temperature for the extraction is relatively low and CO2 dose not remain in an extract. Available Facilities and Equipment

Solar simulator (WACOM) Supercritical CO2 extraction apparatus (AKICO)



A Study of William Blake Translation of Ó Searcaigh’s works into Japanese

Name Eriko HOSHINO E-mail [email protected]

Status Professor

Affiliations Japan Ireland Society Yeats Society of Japan

Keywords William Blake, Cathal Ó Searcaigh, William Butler Yeats, Irish Language, Gnosticism

Research Contents Field of Study 1) Gnostic influence upon William Blake’s poetry 2) A fundamental difference between William Blake and W. B. Yeats 3) A study of Cathal Ó Searcaigh and translation his works into Japanese Recent Research Results ・Where has Blake’s ‘The Sick Rose’ Gone? (Annual Conference of Yeats Society of Japan, 2014) ・A Study of Cathal Ó Searcaigh---Writing Poems in Irish--- (Bulletin of Musashino Academia Musicae, 2012) ・Dreadful Contraries---Re-reading William Blake’s ‘The Mental Traveller’--- (Annual Conference of Yeats Society of Japan, 2012) ・Modern Irish Poetry: Máirtín Ó Direáin, Seán Ó Ríodáin, Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill and Cathal Ó Searcaigh (Symposium, Annual Conference of Irish Studies, 2011, Japan Ireland Society)




Philosophical study of “self-awareness”

Name AOKI Kumi E-mail [email protected] Status associate professor

Affiliations Japan Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies. Japanese Association for Comparative Philosophy

Keywords emptiness, dependent-arising, basho


・Buddhist study

・Narrative Therapy

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Research Contents

I have been studying Buddhist concept of emptiness and dependent-arising from the perspective of comparative

philosophy, and thus considering what self is and how its relationship with others should be. The comparative study

coves the logic of basho (Kitaro Nishida), Hegelian dialectic, phenomenology (Husserl), Nihilism (Nietzsche), language

game (Wittgenstein), deconstruction (Derrida) and integral philosophy (Wilber)




(1)The situations of modern performing arts in Japan (2)The relation between culture and society

Name SAWAI Manami E-mail [email protected] Status Associate Professor

Affiliations Japanese Society for Theater Research The Japanese Society for History of the Performing Arts Reserch

Keywords theater, performing arts, Japan, modern era , culture and society


extramural] lecture

Research Contents (1) I have been studying modern performing arts in

Japan. For example, the Edo-Tokyo Ningyo-joruri (the traditional puppet theater; had gone to ruin), the Biwa collaborating with various arts. (2) I give the lecture on the relation between culture and society . To activate Okinawa, I educate successful cases applying culture in industry, and stimulate our students to propose new ideas.(2012-2015)


Department of Integrated Arts and Science National Institute of Technology, Okinawa College

Name NAKAYAMA, Risa E-mail [email protected]

Status Associate Professor

Affiliations Society for Cinema and Media Studies, The Japan Society for Cinema Studies, Foreign Languages and Literature Society of Okinawa, etc.

Keywords Film studies, American Studies


・ Film studies ・ American Studies ・

Research Contents Areas of Interests：・Race and ethnicity in American film ・African American cinema ・Representation of women in film ・History of Hollywood cinema ・Documentary film ・Film and literature

・Propaganda film ・Okinawan film Publications： “Spectacle as the Resisting Site: Josephine Baker’s Dance and Song Scenes in ZouZou (1934) and

Princess Tam Tam (1935).” Cinema Studies, 2009. “Action Heroines in Blaxploitation Films: The Bodies of Pam Grier and Tamara Dobson.” Body

Theories of Cinema, Ed. Yukihiro Tsukada. Kyoto: Minerva Publishing, 2011. “Teahouse Democracy: Democratization in Vern Sneider’s The Teahouse of the August Moon.”

Southern Review, 2012. “Autonomy through Traditional Performing Arts: The Use of Okinawan and Japanese Music in the Screen

Version of The Teahouse of the August Moon.” Cinema Studies, 2014. etc.



Name Hiroshi Yamamoto E-mail [email protected]

Status Associate Professor

Affiliations The Mathematical Society of Japan

Keywords Riemann Surface, Teichmüller Space

Technical

Support Skills

・Riemann Surface

・Teichmüller Space

Research Contents

A compact Riemann surface of genus 2.


National Institute of Technology, Okinawa College(Department of Integrated Arts and Science)

Singularities of curves and related topics

Name Masahiro Watari E-mail [email protected] Status Associate Professor

Affiliations Mathematical Society of Japan Japan Society of Mathematical Education

Keywords Singularities of curves, Tjurina number ,Hilbert scheme


・ Mathematics ・

Research Contents Singularities of curves and related topics 1. Study of an analytic invariant “Tjurina number” of plane curve singularities I study the analytic invariant “Tjurina number” of plane curve singularities. 2. Study of Hilbert schems for curve singularities. I study Hilbert schems for curve singularities. In particular, I am interested in punctual Hilbert schemes which are supported the origin.




The Roles of Implicit and Explicit Language Knowledge in Second Language Acquisition

Name Iijima, Yoshie E-mail [email protected] Status Senior assistant professor

Affiliations JACET, JALT, Japan Second Language Association, ASTE

Keywords implicit knowledge, explicit knowledge, awareness, content-based learning


・Second language learning programme and syllabus designing ・Language teacher development / training ・Bilingual / Plurilingual education

Research Contents Her research interests lie in the following areas: Cognitive Linguistics / Psycholinguistics/ Second language acquisition (SLA) - Implicit and explicit language knowledge and learning in second language (L2) acquisition - Attention and awareness in L2 acquisition

- Individual differences in cognitive abilities - Interlanguage pragmatics Second Language Pedagogy

- Content-based language learning (CBL) - Task-based language learning (TBL) - Content Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) - Focus on Form

Language Testing

- Test development for measuring L2 implicit knowledge Her recent research topics：

L2 learners may have experienced that they acquired languages although they were not aware of it. Such knowledge known as implicit knowledge is considered as one of the influential factors in our linguistic knowledge (Williams, 2009). Indeed, implicit knowledge is considered as one of the important components of our whole linguistic knowledge both in first and second language acquisition (R. Ellis, 2005; Williams, 2009). Despite of the importance, it seems to be kept low key in SLA. However, the necessity for studies on implicit knowledge seems to be increasing since popularity in input-centered and content-based instructions is increasing. Therefore, her present research is an attempt to shed light on the existence of implicit knowledge in L2 learning. She explores the development of implicit knowledge of learners. In her research, tests which are designed to elicit implicit and explicit knowledge separately are administered in order to analyze the learner’s development and acquisition of implicit knowledge.


Department of Liberal Arts and Science, National Institute of Technology, Okinawa College

Determinacy of Infinite Game in Second Order Arithmetic

Name Keisuke Yoshii E-mail [email protected] Status Senior Assistant Professor

Affiliations Mathematical Society of Japan

Keywords Foundation of Mathematics, Determinacy of infinite Games


・ Open lectures ・・

Research Contents The main theme of my research is to reveal some properties of sets of reals by using determinacy of infinite games. The infinite game is a perfect information game played by two players and called Gale-Stewart games. Unlike games of Chess or Go, this is a mathematical game, and the goal is not to defeat the opponent players. It is known that if there is a winning strategy for this game then sets of reals with certain complexity are constructed by using the winning strategy. Formalizing this game in second order arithmetic, we can see that the complexity of constructed sets is much more complicated that the complexity of games. In my research, we try to analyze the properties of sets constructed by winning strategies of infinite games, such as properties of Baire, perfect sets, and so forth. In education, I believe that a mathematical way of thinking, such as making the complicated simple, is important for students. I also have a strong passion for education. It is my dream to contribute the education of Okinawa and Japan. To achieve this goal, I would like to keep learning how the education should be for Japanese industry.



English Education ・ English Speech & Presentation Skills

Name YOSHII, Risa E-mail [email protected] Status Senior Assistant Professor

Affiliations Society of English Language Teachers-Okinawa (SELT-Okinawa)

Keywords English Education, Educational Counseling, Teaching and Learning with Technology


・English Speech & Presentation Skills ・Oral Communication ・Motivational Learning

Research Contents Motivational Learning Research interests lie in the following areas:

My research is focused on the development of “Students’ Creative Confidence through teaching English as a tool for Global Communication.” Through my teaching experience, I have learned that students show higher motivation when they have opportunities to express themselves regardless of their English abilities. Therefore, I try to “Teach English in English (TEE) as much as possible while creating Student-Centered Communicative Classes.”


Department of Integrated Arts and Science, National Institute of Technology, Okinawa College

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Court of Heian Period Literature, Criticism, Education · 2016. 6. 13. · 1. Study of an analytic invariant “Tjurina number” of plane curve singularities I study the analytic