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 Present Positions Vice Director, the Institute of Oriental Philosophy Senior Research Fellow, the Institute of Oriental Philosophy Professor, Soka University Fields of Research Buddhist Studies Chinese Buddhist Thought Memberships The International Association of Buddhist Studies The Japanese Association of Indian and Buddhist Studies Japanese Association for Religious Studies The Institute of Eastern Culture Nihon Buddhist Research Association Education The University of Tokyo, D.Litt., Buddhist Studies (1994) Main Publications (Books): ・法華玄 義を読む―天台思想入門 [Reading the Fahua xuanyi: Introduction to the Tiantai Thought] (Daizō Shuppan, April 2013), 408. ・南北 朝・隋代の中国仏教思想研究 [Study on Chinese Buddhist Thought of the North and South Dynasties and Sui Period] (Daizō Shuppan, February 2012), 614. ・“Saddharma and the One Buddha Vehicle in the Lotus Sūtra,” The Journal of Oriental Studies 22 (2012): 102-111. ・“The Bodhisattvas of the Earth in the Lotus Sūtra: Involvement in the Human Society,” The Journal of Oriental Studies 20 (2010): 108-128. ・“The Core of Śākyamuni Buddha’s Teachings and the Distinctive Features of the Lotus Sūtra” The Journal of Oriental Studies 19 (2009): 36-50. ・“On the Concept of ‘Slavic Impetus’ and ‘Stimulus and Response’ in the Early Period of Chinese Buddhism, Focusing on the Cases of Daosheng and Sengliang,” Buddhism and Culture in Honour of the Seventieth Birthday of Professor Dr. Kosho Tada (Tokyo: Sankibo Busshorin, November 2008): 51-74 [R]. ・“The Bodhisattva Way and Valuing the Real World in the Lotus Sūtra,” The Journal of Oriental Studies 17 (2007): 180-197. Read more  ・Saddharma
and the One Buddha Vehicle
in the Lotus Sutra (2012).・The
Bodhisattvas of the Earth in the Lotus Sūtra: Involvement in the
Human Society (2010).・The
Core of Śākyamuni Buddha's Teachings and the Distinctive Features
of the Lotus Sūtra (2009).・The
Bodhisattva Way and Valuing the
Real World in the Lotus Sūtra
(2007)・The
Lotus Sūtra and the Dialogue of Religions (2006)・From
the Symposium Cosponsored with
the Institute of World
Religions,Chinese Academy of Social
Sciences: Inclusivism and Religious Tolerance in the Lotus Sūtra (2005).・The
Modern Significance of the Lotus Sutra (2004).・Huisi's
Perspective on the Lotus Sutra as Seen Through the Meaning of
the Course of Ease and Bliss in the Lotus Sutra (2004).・The
Practice of Bodhisattva Never Disparaging in the Lotus Sutra and
Its Reception in China and Japan (2002).・The
Reception of Lotus Sutra Thought in China (2001).・The
Reception of the Lotus Sutra in
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| Toshie Kurihara |
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 Present Positions Senior Research Fellow, the Institute of Oriental Philosophy Adjunct Lecturer, Soka University Fields of Research Sociology of Religion Women’s Studies Memberships The Japan Sociological Society Japanese Association for Religious Studies The Japanese Association for the Study of Religion and Society Education Soka University, Ph.D. in Sociology (2003) Main Publications ・“Women in Japanese Buddhist History: Focusing on the Theory of Enlightenment of Women in Nichiren’s Teachings,” in The Challenge of Mahayana Buddhism, ed. The Institute of Oriental Philosophy (2006). ・“The 21st Century Is a Century of Women: Buddhism and Women,” The Journal of Oriental Studies 43, No. 2 (2004). ・Guidance to Happiness of Women (Tokyo: Daisanbunmeisha, 2003). ・To Live Wisely: Seminar of Humanity for Women 2 (Tokyo: Daisanbumeisha, 1999). ・Buddhism and Women: Soka Gakkai
International's Viewpoint (2009).・The
Concept of Equality in the Lotus Sutra: The SGI's Viewpoint (2009).・A
Vision of 21st Century Oriental Thought: From the Symposium
Cosponsored by the Daisaku Ikeda Research Society
of Beijing University: The 21st Century Is a Century of Women--Buddhism
and
Women (2005).・A History of Women in Japanese
Buddhism：Nichiren's Perspectives on the
Enlightenment of Women (2003). |
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| Masahiro Kobayashi | |||
Present Positions Senior Research Fellow Adjunct Lecturer, Soka University Fields of Research Japanese Buddhist History Nichiren Buddhism Memberships Japanese Association of Indian and Buddhist Studies Nihon Buddhist Research Association Japanese Association for Religious Studies Education Rissho University, Ph.D. in Literature, Buddhist Studies Main Publications ・Shumon mondai wo kangaeru (Daisan Bunmei-sha, 1991). ・Nichiren no shinjitsu (Daisan Bunmei-sha, 2003). ・Nihon Bukkyo no ayumi (Daisan Bunmei-sha, 2009). ・Nichiren Daishonin Godenki (decipherment) (USS-shuppan, 2012). ・Zuhyo de yomu Nichiren ibun (Daisan Bunmei-sha, 2012) |
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| Shuichi Yamamoto |
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 Present Positions Senior Research Fellow, the Institute of Oriental Philosophy Professor of Engineering, Soka University Researcher, Research Center for Natural Environment Visiting Professor, Higashi Nippon International University Fields of Research Organic Geochemistry Environmental Education Environmental Ethics Memberships The Geochemical Society of Japan The Japanese Association of Organic Geochemists The Oceanographic Society of Japan The Geochemical Society Japan Association of Religion and Ethics The Japanese Society of Environmental Education Education Tokyo Metropolitan University, Ph.D. in Science (1984) Main Publications ・Deep Ocean Circulation, Physical and Chemical Aspects, ed. T.Teramoto, (Elsevier Science Publishers, 1993) 235-252. ・Dynamics and Characterization of Marine Organic Matter, ed. Handa, N., Tanoue, E., Hama, and T., Kluwer (2000). ・Natural and Laboratory-Simulated Thermal Geochemical Processes, ed. Ikan R., (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003). ・Psychology and Buddhism, ed. Dockett, K.H., Dudley-Grant, G. R., and Bankart, (C. P., Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers (2003). ・Life
and Earth: Philosophical Remedy
for Environmental Problems (2011).・Sustainability
and Buddhism: How do
we measure quality of life and
degree of happiness? (2010).・The
Middle-way of Buddhism and Environmental Problems (2008).・Modern
Cosmology and Buddhism (2008)..・Buddhist
Perspective of Recent Advances in Science and Technology
(2007).・Symbiosis
with the Global
Environment: Buddhist Perspective of
Environmental Education (2006).・A
Vision of 21st Century Oriental Thought: From the Symposium
Cosponsored by the Daisaku Ikeda Research Society of Beijing University:Deforestation and
Civilization: A Buddhist Perspective (2005).・Environmental
Ethics in Mahayana
Buddhism: The Significance of Keeping
Precepts (sila-paramita) and Wisdom
(prajna-paramita) (2002).・Mahayana
Buddhism and Environmental
Ethics: From the Perspective of the
Consciousness-Only Doctrine (2001). |
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| Yutaka Ishigami |
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 Present Positions Senior Research Fellow, the Institute of Oriental Philosophy Professor, Soka University, Faculty of Letters Fields of Research Philosophy Ethics Education Tohoku University, Ph.D. in Literature Main Publications ・Hyūmanizumu towa Nani Ka [What Is Humanism? ] (Tokyo: Daisan Bunmeisha, 1998) ・Nishida Kitaro-Jikaku no Tetsugaku [Kitaro Nishida-Philosophy of Awakening] (Tokyo: Hokuju- shuppan2001) ・Rinrigaku--Kachi Souzou no Ningen Gaku [Ethics as a Study of man on Value Creation] (Tokyo: Sodai shuppan-kai, 2006) ・Chōwa to Seimei Songen no Shakai e [Toward a World of Harmony and Respect for Life] (Tokyo : Daisan Bunmeisha, 2008) ・Rinrigaku-Shinpan [A New Edition of Ethics] (Tokyo: Division of Correspondence Education, Soka University, 2013) |
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| Yumi Ninomiya | |||
 Present Position Research Fellow, the Institute of Oriental Philosophy Field of Research Bulgarian Culture and Language Membership The Japanese Association of Russian Scholars Education Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski,” Ph.D. in Philosophy (1993) Main Publications (Bulgarian) ・Опит за диалог между цивилизации – хармония между Бог и Човек при Исихасткото учение. (Experience of dialogue between civilizations – harmony of God and human at Hesychasm) сб. Манастирската култура на Балканите. 2004. (English) ・“The Image of the Mother in the Poetry of Daisaku Ikeda,” The Journal of Oriental Studies 18 (2008): 142-148. (Japanese) ・“St. Gregory Palamas’ Thoughts and its Development – St. Evtimiy Turnovski in Bulgarian," Global Civilization and Religion (Tokyo: The Institute of Oriental Philosophy, March 2013), 246-228 ・The
Image of the Mother in the Poetry of SGI President Ikeda (2008). |
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| Ken’ichi Maegawa | |||
 Present Position Research Fellow, the Institute of Oriental Philosophy Associate Professor, Graduate School of Letters, Soka University Field of Research History of Japanese Buddhist Doctrines Memberships Japanese Association for Religious Studies Japanese Association of Indian and Buddhist Studies The Japanese Society for Ethics Japan Association for Bioethics Association of Japanese Intellectual History Education The University of Tokyo, D.Litt. (2002) Main Publications ・Myōe no Shisōshi-teki Kenkyū: Shisō-kōzō to Sho-jissen no Tenkai [A Study on Myōe’s Thought in Historical Perspective: Structure of his Thought and Development of his Practices] (Kyoto: Hōzōkan, February 2012). ・Myōe
Shōnin Yume-no-ki Yakuchū [Annotated
Translation of
Myōe’s Dream Diary], ed. Isao Okuda,
Tae Hirano, and Ken’ichi Maegawa (Tokyo: Bensei Shuppan, February 2015) ・“Japanese Pure Land Buddhism: Some Minor Movements in the Pure Land Tradition,” in Northern Buddhism in History ed. Shanker Thapa (Kathmandu: Vajra Publication, July 2008), 137-149. ・Modern
Nichirenist Discourses on
Life and Jōsei Toda's Buddhist Thought in the Journal of Oriental Philosophy
20 (2010).・Inter-religious
Dialogue in Shūron, a Kyōgen Play in
the Journal of Oriental Philosophy 17 (2007). |
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| Mikio Matsuoka | |||
 Present Positions Research Fellow, the Institute of Oriental Philosophy Director, the Institute of Oriental Thought Professor, Higashi Nippon International University Fields of Research Social Philosophy Buddhist Philosophy Memberships Japanese Association for Religious Study Japanese Association of Indian and Buddhist Studies Education The University of Tokyo, Ph.D. in Social Science Studies (2004) Main Publications ・Nichiren Bukkyō no shakai shisōteki tenkai : kindai Nihon no shūkyōteki ideorogī (University of Tokyo Press, 2005 ) ・“The
Buddhist Concept of the Human
Being: From the Viewpoint of the Philosophy of the Soka Gakkai,” The
Journal of Oriental Studies 15 (2005): 50-65.・“Kitaro Nishida’s A Study of Good and Contemporary Environmental Ethics-Through a Comparison with Deep Ecology,” The Bulletin of the Institute of Oriental Philosophy 15 (1999): 45-67. ・A Vision of 21st Century Oriental Thought: From the Symposium Cosponsored by the Daisaku Ikeda Research Society of Beijing University: The Buddhist Concept of the Human Being: From the Viewpoint of the Philosophy of the Soka Gakkai (2005). |
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| Kyoko Oshima | |||
Present Positions Research Fellow, the Institute of Oriental Philosophy Field of Research International Studies Peace Studies Memberships International Peace Research Association The Japan Association of International Relations The Peace Studies Association of Japan Japanese Educational Research Association The Socio-Economic History Society Education Meijigakuin University, Master of Economics Meijigakuin University, Master of International Studies Main Publications ・“The research on social studies teachers of high schools in the U.S.” PRIME (The Journal of Peace Research Institute Meijigakuin) vol. 2 (1994). ・“Comparison between Japan and the U.S. : Atomic bombing described in the Historical Textbooks” Peace Studies (The Journal of the Peace Studies Association of Japan) vol. 21 (1996). ・The Historical Textbooks in The World－Comparison in Eleven Countries (co‐author Akashi shoten, 2002) ・“Peace Education and Nonviolence Education in the U.S.,” The Bulletin of the Institute of Oriental Philosophy 19 (2004). |
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| Katsuaki Onishi | |||
 Present Position Research Fellow, the Institute of Oriental Philosophy Field of Research Sociology of Religion Memberships The Japan Sociological Society Japanese Association for Religious Studies The Japanese Association for the Study of Religion and Society Education Toyo University, Ph.D. in Sociology Main Publications ・A sociological study of Honmon Butsuryuko and Soka Gakkai―religious exclusivism and practicality―(Ronso sha, 2009). ・“Genesis, expansion, and transfiguration of the vitalistic conception of salvation among Nichiren-affiliated New Religions ―Transformations in the Understanding of salvation of Soka Gakkai―,” Toyo University Oriental Study 47 (2010): 228-210. |
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| Hideyuki Matsumori | |||
 Present Positions Research Fellow, the Institute of Oriental Philosophy Field of Research Buddhist Studies (Chinese Buddhism) Memberships Japanese Association of Indian and Buddhist Studies Japanese Association for Religious Studies Education Renmin University of China, Ph.D. in Philosophy (2012) Soka University, Ph.D. in Humanities (2013) Main Publications ・A Study on Tiantai school's thought on the Lotus Sutra in Tang dynasty: A Study on Zhanran's Subcommentaries on Zhiyi's Commentaries on the Lotus Sutra (Kyoto: Hozokan, 2016) ・“On Zhidu and his Tiantai fahua shu yizuan (The supplement to the meaning of Tiantai’s commentaries on the Lotus Sutra)” in the ZHONG RI HAN TIANTAI XUESHU DUIHUA (Beijing: People’s publishing house, 2011), 93-97. ・“Analysis of the Criticism of the Fahua wenju ji in Zhidu’s Tiantai fahua shu yizuan” The journal of Indian and Buddhist Studies 59, No.2 (March 2011): 559-564. |
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| Takao Ito | |||
 Present Positions Research Fellow, the Institute of Oriental Philosophy Professor, Soka University Fields of Research Philosophy History of Thought Memberships The Philosophical Association of Japan Japan Society of Existential Thought Japanische Kant-Gesellschaft Japan Schopenhauer-Association John Dewey Society of Japan Japan Society for the Study of Pestalozzi and Froebel Education Soka University, Ph.D. in Humanities Main Publications Books: ・Schopenhauer's Social Philosophy―Wars, Laws, and States, Kyoto: Kyoto Shobo, 2014 Papers: ・"Social Philosophy of the Principle of Reason―Hegel and Schopenhauer," Journal No. 18, Japanische Hegel-Gesellschaft, 2002. ・"Observation of the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime" as the Starting Point of Kant's Cosmopolitanism," Contemporary Study of Kant Vol. 12. The Japanese Study group of Immanuel Kant, 2012. ・”Fichte's Receptivity to Pestalozzi," Journal No. 22, The Japanese Society of the Study of Pestalozzi and Froebel, 2010. ・"Reading Resistance: The Record of Tsunesaburo Makiguchi's Interrogation by Wartime Japan's "Thought Police," Educational Studies, Vol. 45, April (2009) Translations: ・Correspondence Between Schiller and Goethe, Ushio Shuppan, Japan, 2016. ・Complete Works of Hermann Hesse, Series II: Essays, Vol. 8: The Political Essays, Rinsen Shoten, Japan, 2010. ・Complete Works of Hermann Hesse, Series I: Novels, Vol. 4: Beneath the Wheel, Risen Shoten, Japan, 2005. |
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| Masahiro Yaginuma | |||
 Present Positions Research Fellow, the Institute of Oriental Philosophy Part-time Instructor, Soka University’s Division of Correspondence Education Fields of Research History of Western Thought Membership Japan Society for Medieval European Studies The Japanese Society for Renaissance Studies Education Soka University, Ph.D. in Humanities Main Publications ・“Erasmian Quotation from St. Jerome in Antibarbarorum liber” ἔκφρασις 2 (Waseda University, 2012). ・“Introduction and Translation of ‘FESTINA LENTE’ from Adages of Erasmus” Jinbun-Ronshu 22 (Soka University, 2010). |
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| Ryo
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 Present Positions Research Fellow, the Institute of Oriental Philosophy Part-time Lecturer, Soka University Fields of Research Philosophy, Ethics Membership The Philosophical Association of Japan Philosophy of Science Society, Japan Japan Association for the Contemporary and Applied Philosophy Japanese Society for British Philosophy Education Soka University, B.A. in Humanities Bristol University, M.A. in Philosophy Cardiff University, Ph.D. in Philosophy Main Publications ・ "In Defending the Epistemic Account of Moral Progress” Ravenshaw Journal of Philosophy, vol. 1, 2015. ・ "On the Recent Debates Concerning Moral Particularism” Contemporary and Applied Philosophy, vol. 6, 2015. ・ "Tsunesaburo Makiguchi’s Naturalistic Theory of Value” The Journal of the Institute of Oriental Philosophy, vol. 31, 2015. ・ "Two Versions of the Explanationist Argument for Naturalistic Moral Realism” Law and Philosophy, vol. 6, 2016. |