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Togawa Taku / 外川　拓Togawa Taku

Faculty of Economics, Department of Management　Associate Professor
Research Interests
Taku Togawa received his Ph.D. in Marketing from Waseda University in 2018. He mainly conducts experimental studies in the area of consumer behavior. Specifically, his research focuses on how and when sensory inputs from marketing tools, including advertising, packaging, and in-store environments, influence consumers' perceptions, evaluations, and consumption behavior.
Dr. Togawa's research has appeared in top-tier journals such as the Journal of Consumer Psychology, Journal of Retailing, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Marketing Intelligence and Planning, Motivation Science, and Food Quality and Preference. He serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Marketing & Distribution, JSMD Review, and Japan Marketing Journal.
Dr. Togawa joined Sophia University, Department of Management as an Associate Professor in April 2020. He currently teaches marketing courses at the undergraduate program and supervises graduate student research.
  • GOOD HEALTH AND WELL-BEING
  • AFFORDABLE AND CLEAN ENERGY
  • INDUSTRY, INNOVATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE
  • RESPONSIBLE CONSUMPTION
  • CLIMATE ACTION
Faculty of Economics, Department of Management　Associate Professor

Hirao Keiko / 平尾 桂子Hirao Keiko

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.
  • NO POVERTY
  • GOOD HEALTH AND WELL-BEING
  • QUALITY EDUCATION
  • GENDER EQUALITY
  • REDUCED INEQUALITIES
  • RESPONSIBLE CONSUMPTION
  • PEACE, JUSTICE AND STRONG INSTITUTIONS
Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Master's (Doctoral) Program in Global Environmental Studies　Professor

Huang Guangwei / 黄　光偉 Huang Guangwei

Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Master's (Doctoral) Program in Global Environmental Studies　Professor
Research Interests
Specialized in watershed environmental science and sustainability studies. Sustainability has three pillars: the environment, economy, and society, and water is a nexus connecting the three pillars. Better water quantity and quality management is an indispensable key for achieving SDGs. Following this way of thinking, I have been conducting sustainability studies through the lens of water and using knowledge fusion approaches.
Research undertakings include wetland health monitoring, assessment and prediction; urban flood risk analysis and reduction; innovative water resources management and water culture as well.
My motto is that environmental problems cannot be truly solved without crossing various boundaries from academic, business to national. The journey towards SDFs requires a shift from interdisciplinary to transdisciplinary.
  • GOOD HEALTH AND WELL-BEING
  • QUALITY EDUCATION
  • CLEAN WATER AND SANITATION
  • SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND COMMUNITIES
  • LIFE BELOW WATER
  • PARTNERSHIPS FOR THE GOALS
Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Master's (Doctoral) Program in Global Environmental Studies　Professor

CAROLA HOMMERICHCAROLA HOMMERICH

Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Sociology　Professor
Research Interests
Carola Hommerich is a Professor at the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Human Sciences, and a core faculty member of the Sophia Program for Sustainable Futures (SPSF). Her research interest centres on the interrelation of social and subjective well-being. She specifically analyses how experiences of precarity, status anxiety and social exclusion relate to subjective well-being, and how different types of social capital mediate this relationship. Analysing Japanese society in comparative perspective, she has been working with different conceptualisations of well-being, utilizing standard measures of well-being as well as culture specific measures. Recently, she is also working on attitudes towards climate change, with a specific interest in how environmental attitudes and perceptions of individual efficacy translate into pro-environmental behaviour.
  • GOOD HEALTH AND WELL-BEING
  • GENDER EQUALITY
  • DECENT WORK AND ECONOMIC GROWTH
  • REDUCED INEQUALITIES
  • SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND COMMUNITIES
  • RESPONSIBLE CONSUMPTION
  • CLIMATE ACTION
Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Sociology　Professor

Maria ManzonMaria Manzon

Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Education　Associate Professor
Research Interests
Maria Manzon is an Associate Professor at the Department of Education of Sophia University. She is a core faculty of the Sophia Program for Sustainable Futures (SPSF). Her research interest lies at the intersection of comparative education, religions, and sustainability. For sustainability to be authentic and transformative, it is essential to study how core values and worldviews are formed. Concretely, Asia is the cradle of the world religions which have shaped its cultures and education systems.
She thus explores the potential of religions, in comparative perspective, for sustainability education in such areas as environmental education and women’s education in Asia. As a member of the Strategic Alliance of Catholic Research Universities’ (SACRU) Working Group 2, she undertakes collaborative research with SACRU scholars on the impact of Pope Francis’ Encyclical “Laudato si’: On care for our common home” on higher education.
She is also part of the Sophia-ESD project (2021-2024) which aims to research on the educational practices, policies, and theoretical significance of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). Her publications include Comparative Education: The Construction of a Field; Origins and Traditions in Comparative Education; and Equity in Excellence: Experiences of East Asian High-Performing Education Systems.
  • QUALITY EDUCATION
Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Education　Associate Professor

丸山 英樹 / Maruyama HidekiMaruyama Hideki

Faculty of Global Studies, Department of Global Studies　Professor
Research Interests
Hideki Maruyama is a Professor at the Department of Global Studies,Sophia University. He is the general coordinator of the Sophia Programfor Sustainable Futures (SPSF).
His research interest lies at the intersection of comparative and international education, lifelong learning, and sustainability. He has conducted a study of “Deep ESD”which covers holistic and transformative learning for learners themselves and others (2020-2025). He is also part of the Sophia-ESD project (2021-2024) which aims to research the educational practices, policies, and theoretical significance of ESD.
He has conducted field study visit with Sophia students to the Republic of Estonia and the Baltic Sea countries for sustainable futures. His recent publications include lifelong learning, non-formal education, well-being, and Sustainable Education.
  • QUALITY EDUCATION
Faculty of Global Studies, Department of Global Studies　Professor

MITSUTAKE Tomomi / 光武 智美MITSUTAKE Tomomi

Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Nursing　Assistant Professor
Research Interests
I wish for society to be a place where all children born would be raised with great care. In the past, when it was common for babies to be born at home, the process of a child’s birth and development was part of everyday home life, something close and familiar. It was an opportunity to experience and learn about “life” and “lifestyles” intimately.
I am conducting research on gradually incorporating learning related to “life” and “lifestyles” into the educational settings of elementary school students, junior high school students, high school students, and adolescents. This research would aid in the development of a mindset of caring for oneself and one’s surroundings as well as encouraging self-care and decision-making behavior toward the protection of mental and physical health among the present-day children, who have not had many direct experiences yet.
  • GOOD HEALTH AND WELL-BEING
  • QUALITY EDUCATION
Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Nursing　Assistant Professor