Assistant Professor of Economics at Kwansei Gakuin University. His research interests lie in the areas of political economy, labor economics, and economic development under globalization.

Professor of Economic History and African Studies at Kansai University. His research focuses on Asian interactions with Africa with emphasis on Japan’s relations with Africa from a development, economic, historical and diplomatic perspective. 

Research Fellow at the Department of Interdisciplinary African Studies, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany.  His wide-ranging research interests include international political economy and comparative Asian and African studies.

Professor at the Collage of International Relations, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto.His research interests include social and economic development in Asian countries, international cooperation, and peace-building of Afghanistan.

Professor Emeritus,at Kansai University, Osaka and Visiting Professor at Open University, Chiba. His research interests include economic history of Africa and Japan’s relations with Africa in historical perspective.

Research professor at the Institute of African Studies in the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, South Korea and the executive director of the Seoul Africa Festival in South Korea. Her research interests are in coffee tourism in Ethiopia and in Asia-Africa interrelations. Visiting professor at Kyoto University’s Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies until 2018.

Professor at the Graduate School of Global Studies, Doshisha University, Kyoto, and Visiting Fellow at the JICA Research Institute. His research interests include human security, development and African political economy.

​Appointed Researcher at the Institute of Economic and Political Studies, Kansai University, Osaka. Her research interests include the economic history of South Africa, with an emphasis on industrialization theory and labour history.