上智大学 SDGs&サステナビリティ

Center for Global Education and Discovery　Professor

Faculty of Foreign Studies, Department of English Studies　Professor

Research Interests: Applied linguist. Mitsuyo Sakamoto specializes in bilingualism and bilingual education, in particular heritage language maintenance. Since 2007, she has been conducting fieldwork in and around the city of Sao Paulo to investigate Japanese language learning and maintenance among Japanese-Brazilians.
In 2018, she worked together with international scholars to compile Salzburg Statement for a Multilingual World.
She has been exploring why multilingual society is, while deemed desirable, not easily achieved, as well as critically examining the privileged status of English as an international language.

Faculty of Theology, Department of Theology　Professor

Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Information and Communication Sciences　Professor

Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Sociology　Assistant Professor

Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Psychology　Associate Professor

Research Interests: Atsuko Saito specializes in developmental psychology, evolutionary psychology, and comparative cognitive science.
Her research focuses on the relationship between humans and cats as companion animals, and human parenting from the perspective of humans as an animal species. Humans are a species of mammals and primates, but unlike the majority in these taxonomic groups, we are not capable of raising children by mothers alone. However, in Japan today, the burden of child-rearing is disproportionately placed on the mother/parent. She considers what can be done to achieve child-rearing within society.

Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Master's (Doctoral) Program in Global Environmental Studies　Professor

Research Interests: Dr. Keiko Hirao is a Professor at the Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies. Her research interest includes social sustainability, the construction of environmental issues, intergenerational relations, and gender and environment.
She is the author of Child Rearing War Front (Chobunsha 1991), chapters in Women's Working Lives in East Asia (Stanford University Press 2001), Political Economy of Japan's Low Fertility (Stanford University Press, 2006), Working and Mothering: Images, Ideologies, and Identities (NIAS Press,2007).
Her recent book, Invisible Hands and Invisible Heart (Sophia University Press 2015), discusses the structural undervaluation of care work vis-à-vis pecuniary activities. She also co-authored Families, Family Policies, and Sustainable Development Goals (UNICEF 2019), a policy tool that evaluates family policies worldwide across the six Sustainable Development Goals.