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ABOUT IGI

01.08.2022 Update

Mission

The Institute for Gender Innovations (IGI) was established in April 2022 within the Research Organization for the Promotion of Global Women’s Leadership, to serve as a hub that promotes research, innovation, and social communication based on gender perspectives. Under the organization, since 2015, the Institute for Global Leadership has worked toward fostering women leaders, and the Institute for Gender Studies has promoted interdisciplinary gender research. Joining these institutes, the IGI aims to produce innovations by reexamining knowledge based on analyses of sex/gender differences, namely, gendered innovations; facilitating industry–government–academia collaboration; and providing policy recommendations.

The IGI will help construct a society that can realize various forms of well-being through the activities of its three divisions: research, innovation, and public relations. The research division will examine various issues related to Gendered Innovations. The innovation division will create products and services that apply research results. The public relations division will disseminate information regarding these innovative creations.

To generate outstanding research results, policy proposals, and implementations of innovative creations from a gendered innovation perspective in Japan, the IGI will work with companies, universities, research institutions, and government agencies. Developing interdisciplinary approaches and education across the humanities and sciences is also essential. We look forward to cooperating with organizations across sectors and academic disciplines to realize gendered research, innovation, and the social dissemination of our achievements.

Masako Ishii-Kuntz, Ph.D.
Director
Institute for Gendered Innovations

Organization

Hub organization to create through Industry-academia collaborations and new policies.

Members

Position	Name	Research Field
Director	ISHII-KUNTZ Masako (Trustee and Vice President)	Family Sociology Gender Studies
Deputy Director (Public Relations Division)	KATO Misako (Trustee and Vice President)	Plant Physiology Functional Biochemistry
Deputy Director (Innovation Division)	OHTA Yuji (Vice President)	Welfare Engineering
Deputy Director (Research Division) Professor	SAITO Etsuko	Household Economics Family Resource Management
Associate Professor (Cross appointment from Ritsumeikan University)	YANAGIWARA Megumi	Gender Studies Women’s/Gender History
Project Associate Professor	TAKAMARU Rika	Gender Studies Career Education Oceanography
Project Associate Professor (Social Collaboration Program for AI Ethics)	KASHIWAGI Shiho	Gender Studies Social Welfare
Researcher	IIDA Kaoruko （Professor）	Nutrition and Metabolism in Chronic Diseases
	ITOH Takayuki (Professor)	Multimedia Database
	OMORI Mika (Professor)	Clinical Psychology
	TOTANI Yoko (Professor)	English Literary Society
	NAGASAWA Natsuko (Professor)	Architectural Planning Architectural Environment Dwelling Life
	MIZUMURA Mayumi (Professor)	Human movement studies and exercise science
	SATO Atsuko (Associate Professor)	Evolutionary Biology
	NIIMI Iho (Associate Professor)	Gender in Fashion Cross-Dressing
	FUJIYAMA Mamiko (Associate Professor)	Urban and Architectural Design
Visiting Associate Professor (Social Collaboration Program for AI Ethics)	INAKOSHI Hiroya (Research Director, AI Trust Research Centre, Fujitsu Research)	Information Science
	NITTA Izumi (Senior Research Manager, AI Trust Research Centre, Fujitsu Research)	Computer Science
Visiting Researcher	KAZUMI Tomoyo （Professor）	Business Administration
Affiliated Researcher	FUKUDA Tomomi	Diversity Business Management ESG Strategy
Research Administrator	YOSHIHARA Kumi	Race and Ethnic Studies
Academic Assistant	OOMOCHI Honoka
	SAITO Tomoko
	HAYASAKA Minako

ABOUT IGI