Stephen T. Franklin
Special Professor, Former President of TCU
Specialization: Theology and Philosophy
Course Titles: History of Western Civilization; Survey of Christian Doctrine; Systematic Theology I, II, and III; Standard English Grammar and Good Usage I, II, and III; Topics in History; Reformation and Evangelicalism I; Reformation and Evangelicalism II; Introduction to Western Philosophy I and II
Education: North Park College (B.A.); The University of Chicago, Division of the Humanities (M.A. Philosophy); The University of Chicago, Divinity School (M.A. Christian Theology); The University of Chicago, Joint Program in Theology and Philosophy (Ph.D.)
Church Affiliation: Ordained, Evangelical Covenant Church of America; Attending, College Church of the Nazarene.
Books and Academic Articles: More than 50 academic articles in journal and encyclopedias. Most recent: That Is A Good Education: A Whiteheadian Vision in Education and Mission. Edited by Gnanakan, Ken; Daniel, Sam; and Jonathan Lembright. Bangalore, India: International Council for Higher Education, 2007: 96-118.
Hisakazu Inagaki
Professor, Head of Kyoritsu Christian Institute
Specialization: Christian Philosophy, Public Philosophy
Course Titles: Christian Philosophy Survey; Science and Religion; Religious Philosophy; Religion and Public Philosophy
Education: Saitama University (B.Sc.); Tokyo Metropolitan University (D.Sc.); Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Scholar, Visiting Professor
Church Affiliation: Tokyo Oncho Church, The Reformed Church in Japan
Titles of Books and Academic Articles: Philosophical Theology and East-West Dialogue, Rodopi.
Akio Ito
Professor, Chief Librarian, Head of Dormitory Affairs
Specialization: New Testament Studies
Course Titles: New Testament Survey; Introduction to New Testament; Gospel Studies; Reading Greek; etc.
Education: Tokyo University (B.Lit.); Tokyo Christian Theological Seminary; Wycliffe Hall (Oxford) (Ph.D.)
Church Affiliation : Nerima Baptist Church, Baptist General Conference Japan (Regou)
Titles of Books and Academic Articles: Matthew’s Understanding of the Law with Special Reference to the Antitheses; The Authenticity of Jesus’ Ban on Swearing; the Pauline Rhetoric and Theology of the Law; etc.
Nobuyoshi Kiuchi
Professor, Head of Theology Division
Specialization: Old Testament
Course Titles: Pentateuch
Education: Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (BA); Tokyo Christian Theological Seminary; The Council for National Academic Awards (The College of St. Paul and St. Mary (Cheltenham) and Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies) (Ph.D.)
Church Affiliation: Fuchu-Nishihara Kirisuto Kyoukai, Presbyterian Church in Japan
Titles of Books and Academic Articles: The Purification Offering in the Priestly Literature (Sheffield, 1987); A Study of Hata’ and Hatta’t in Leviticus 4–5 (Tübingen, 2004); Leviticus (Nottingham/Downers Grove, 2007)
Takanori Kobayashi
Professor, Dean of Faculty
Specialization: New Testament Studies
Course Titles: Gospels; Pauline Epistles
Education: Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (B.A.); Tokyo Christian Theological Seminary; Calvin Theological Seminary (Th.M.); St. Mary's College, the University of St. Andrews (Ph.D.)
Church Affiliation: Kashiwa Shalom Church, Presbyterian Church in Japan
Books and Academic Articles: The Apocalyptic Eschatological Drama of Jesus in the Fourth Gospel (1998); "The Horizons of Hermeneutics and the Preaching from the New Testament"; "The Gospel and Society in the Zacchaeus Episode (Luke 19:1-10)"; "Recognitions and Theoxeny in the Fourth Gospel"; "The Anguish of Jesus as the Righteous Sufferer in John 12:27―With a Focus on Eschatological and Messianic Interpretation of the Righteous Sufferer."
Masanori Kurasawa
Professor, President
Specialization: Missiology
Course Titles:
Introduction to Missiology; History of Christian Mission; Evangelism, Mission in Biblical Perspective
Education: Chuo University (BA); Tokyo Christian Theological Seminary; Fuller Theological Seminary (Th.M.); Fuller Theological Seminary (D.Miss.)
Church Affiliation: Shonan Christ Church, Japan Alliance Christ Church
Titles of Books and Academic Articles: “An Evangelical Understanding of missio Dei in Contemporary Japan” Christ and the World (2003); “The Relevance of Evangelical Theology” in ATA Journal (2005)
Satoshi Miyawaki
Associate Professor
Specialization: Philippine Studies, Modern Southeast Asian History, International Relations
Course Titles:
Politics; International Relations; Southeast Asian Studies; Society and Religion (Southeast Asia); Filipino Language
Education: University of Tokyo (B.A., M.A, Ph.D., International Relations)
Church Affiliation: Todoroki Church, Japan Evangelical Alliance Church
Books (Japanese): Reynaldo Ileto, Pasyon and Revolution (Translation), Hosei University Press (2005). Articles (all in Japanese): "Catechetical Education in Catholic Church in the Philippines Today", Memoirs of the Institute of Oriental Culture (2003); "Contemporary 'Christian Philippine' Catholic Church, Its Social Views and Involvement: In Relation to Its Ecclesiology", Christ and the World (2003); "Catholic Church on 'EDSA' -- Ecclesial Context, National Strategy, and the Socio-Political Impact", Memoirs of the Institute of Oriental Culture (2005); "'Philippines' from the View of Philippine Catholic Church: Its Historical and Cultural Perspective", Christ and the World (2006); "Cardinal Sin and the Philippines: Preliminary Analyses", Memoirs of the Institute of Oriental Culture (2008); "Who are ‘Others’ for Catholic Church? - Preliminary Analyses", Christ and the World (2008).
Naoki Okamura
Professor, Dean of Academic Affairs
Specialization: Phenomenological Research Methods, Religious Education, Practical Theology
Course Titles: Contemporary Theology; Systematic Theology; Theology and Practice of Youth Ministry; Developmental Psychology of Elderly
Education: Columbia International University, Christian Theology (B.A.); Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Christian Philosophy (M.A.); Claremont Graduate School of Theology, Religious Education (Ph.D.); Visiting Scholar, Claremont School of Theology
Church Affiliation: Yokosuka Chuo Church, Japan Domei
Titles of Books and Academic Articles: "Intercultural Encounters as Religious Education: Japanese Students at a Christian University and their Religious Transformation," in Religious Education, Vol. 104:3 (2009): 289-302; "Study of Human Beings in Pastoral Ministry: A Phenomenological Approach," in Evangelical Theology, Vol. 39 (2008): 141-164; “Silent Among the Silent: A Phenomenological Study on the Spirituality of Elderly Japanese American Christian Women” (Ann Arbor, MI: UMI, 2005); “A Grounded Theory Research on a Group of Japanese Students at a Christian University in California and their Personal Religious Transformations” (Christ and the World, Tokyo Christian University, #18, 2008)
Noyuri Sugitani
Associate Professor, Head of Public Relations Division, Director of Student Counseling Service
Specialization: Educational Psychology, Religious Education
Course Titles: Christian Education; Psychology; Social Welfare; General Christianity
Education: Northwest Nazarene College (Church Music) (B.A.); Nazarene Theological University (Religious Education) (M.A.); University of Missouri-Kansas City (Educational Research and Psychology) (M.A); Seattle Pacific University, Doctoral Degree Program (currently enrolled)
Church Affiliation: Shouwa-machi Church of the Nazarene, Church of the Nazarene
Joseph W. Poulshock
Professor, Director of English Language Education
Specialization: English Linguistics and Intercultural Communication.
Course Titles: Linguistics; ESL; Expository Writing; Methods in TESOL; Philosophy of Music; Intercultural Communication
Education: Pacific Lutheran University (B.A., Spanish); Biola University (M.A., TESOL); University of Edinburgh (PhD, Linguistics).
Church Affiliation: Saint Paul's Lutheran Church, Tokyo.
Titles of Books and Academic Articles: Listed Online.
J. Randall Short Assistant Professor, ACTS-es Program Coordinator
Specialization: Old Testament Languages, Literature, and History of Interpretation
Course Titles: Old Testament Survey; The Pentateuch; The Prophets; The Writings; Elementary Hebrew; Elementary Greek
Education: University of Alabama (B.A.); Tokyo Christian Theological Seminary; Harvard University Divinity School (M.T.S., Th.D.)
Church Affiliation: Sakura Ojidai Chapel, Presbyterian Church in Japan
Titles of Books and Academic Articles: The Surprising Election and Confirmation of King David (Harvard Theological Studies, 2010); Contributor of numerous articles to the Archaeological Study Bible (Zondervan, 2005); Co-editor of, and contributor to, KIATS Theological Journal (Journal of the Korea Institute for Advanced Theological Studies).
Shohei Yamato
Associate Professor, Director of Church Ministry Program
Specialization: Buddhist Studies, Practical Theology
Course Titles: History of Japanese Arts and Aesthetics; Eastern Thought; Japanese Thought; Introduction to Practical Theology; Seminar in Preaching
Education: Kansai University (B.A.); Tokyo Christian Theological Seminary; Bukkyo University (M.A.)
Church Affiliation: Kyoto Bible Church, Japan Gospel Fellowship
Titles of Books and Academic Articles: Bokushi no yomitoku Hannyasinngyo no Nazo, Jitugyo-no-Nihonsha (2007); Eschatology in Indian and Japanese Buddhist Contexts, Ed. Jochen Eber, Hope Does Not Disappoint: Studies in Eschatology. Essays From Different contexts, World Evangelical Fellowship, Theological Book Trust, 2001; "Hannyasingyo Shoko," Kirisuto Shingaku (2006); "Fukansai Fabian Kenkyu (1)," Kirisuto Shingaku (2007).
Miwako YanagisawaAssociate Professor
Specialization: Sociolinguistics (discourse analysis, language socialization), applied linguistics (language teaching), Japanese pedagogy
Course Titles: Japanese Language (ACTS-es)
Education: Waseda University (B.A. in English Literature); Waseda University (MA in English Linguistics); Georgetown University (MS in Applied Linguistics); University of Hawaii (Ph.D.)
Church Affiliation: Tokyo Musashino Evangelical Free Church, Evangelical Free Church of Japan
Books and Academic Articles: Review of Pragmatics in Language Teaching, Electronic Journal of Foreign Language Teaching (2007) Vol. 4, Supplement 1:73-77; Exploring JSL-Learners’ “Language Socialization”, Electronic Journal of Foreign Language Teaching (2005) Vol. 2, No. 2: 36-44; How Japanese Immigrants Can be Christians: Analyzing Christian Testimonies by Japanese “New First Generation” in Hawaii (2001); Pragmatics in 2000: Selected papers from the 7th International Pragmatics Conference Vol. 2: 611-624. Antwerp, Belgium: International Pragmatics Association (IprA); Address Forms in Japanese: A Means of Keeping Social Distance (1995). The Georgetown Journal of Language and Linguistics 3 (2-4): 227-232. Washington D.C.: The Georgetown Journal.
