| KATSUNO Hirofumi |  |
| Faculty of Social Studies Department of Media, Journalism and Communications | |
| Professor |
Last Updated :2025/05/27
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Profile
Research Interests
Research Areas
- Humanities & social sciences / Cultural anthropology and folklore
- Humanities & social sciences / Sociology
Research Experience
- Doshisha University, Faculty of Social Studies Department of Media, Journalism and Communication, Professor, 2024/04 - Today
- Doshisha University, Faculty of Social Studies, Department of Media, Journalism and Communications, 准教授, 2016/04 - 2024/03
- University of Cambridge, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, Visiting Scholar, 2021/04 - 2022/03
- Free University of Berlin, Dept. of History and Cultural Studies, Associate Researcher, 2017/08 - 2018/09
- Osaka University of Economics Faculty of Human Sciences Department of Human Sciences Associate Professor, 2014/04 - 2016/03
- Doshisha University School of Social Studies, Department of Media Studies Assistant Professor, 2010/04 - 2014/03
- University of Hawaii, 2009/07 - 2009/08
Education
- University of Hawaii, Manoa, (Anthropology), 1999/08 - 2010/05
- University of Hawai`i at Manoa and the East West Center, International Cultural Studies Graduate Certificate Program, 2001/08 - 2003/05
- University of Arizona, (Anthropology), 1997/08 - 1999/05
- Dokkyo University, Faculty of Foreign Language, Department of German, 1993/04 - 1997/03
Degree
- B.A., Dokkyo University
- B.A. (Anthropology), University of Arizona
- M.A. (Anthropology), University of Hawaii, Manoa
- Ph.D. (Anthropology), University of Hawaii, Manoa
Association Memberships
- The Robotics Society of Japan, Apr. 2025, 9999
- Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, Apr. 2018, 9999
- 日本メディア学会
- The American Anthropological Association
- 日本文化人類学会
- The Association for Asian Studies
- カルチュラル・スタディーズ学会
Committee Memberships
- Editorial Board Member, 2025/04 - Today, The Robotic Society of Japan, Society
- 企画委員会委員, 2023/09 - Today, 日本メディア学会, Society
- Special Interest Group on Law and Ethics of Robotics (member), 2020/04 - Today, The Robotics Society of Japan, Society
- （理論研究部会・幹事）, 2011 - , 日本マス・コミュニケーション学会, Society, 日本マス・コミュニケーション学会
Awards
Published Papers
- Artificial emotional intelligence beyond East and West.
Daniel White; Hirofumi Katsuno
Internet Policy Review, 11(1), Feb. 2022, Scientific journal - TOWARD AN AFFECTIVE SENSE OF LIFE: Artificial Intelligence, Animacy, and Amusement at a Robot Pet Memorial Service in Japan
Daniel White; Hirofumi Katsuno
Cultural Anthropology, 36(2) 225 - 251, May 2021, Scientific journal - Cultural Anthropology for Social Emotion Modeling: Principles of Application toward Diversified Social Signal Processing
Daniel White; Hirofumi Katsuno
Conference Proceedings, 8th International Conference on Affective Computing & Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2019), Aug. 2019, International conference proceedings - Robot Dreams: Play, Escape and Masculine-Romanticism in Japanese Techno-Culture.
Hirofumi Katsuno
PAN-JAPAN: The International Journal of Japanese Diaspora, 8(1) 104 - 127, 2013, Scientific journal - The robot's heart: Tinkering with humanity and intimacy in robot-building
Hirofumi Katsuno
Japanese Studies, 31(1) 93 - 109, May 2011, Scientific journal - Materializing dreams : humanity, masculinity, and the nation in contemporary Japanese robot culture
Hirofumi Katsuno
Doctoral Dissertation (University of Hawai'i at Manoa), May 2010, Doctoral thesis - Face-to-Face: Online Subjectivity in Contemporary Japan
Hirofumi Katsuno; Christine Yano
Asian Studies Review, 26 205 - 231, 2002, Scientific journal
MISC
- HandsOn Robots: Designing Touch in Japan.
White, Daniel; Hirofumi Katsuno
Theorizing the Contemporary, Fieldsights, December 1 (Cultural Anthropology)., 01 Dec. 2022, Report scientific journal - スポーツ観戦における臨場感の創出についての予備的考察②−触覚技術に注目して
勝野宏史
大阪経大論集, 72(6), Mar. 2022, Report research institution - スポーツ観戦における臨場感の創出についての予備的考察
勝野宏史
大阪経大論集, 71(1) 151 - 160, 2020, Report research institution - ハワイの『キカイダー』ブーム—ファンダム研究の視点から
勝野 宏史
人間科学研究, 大阪経済大学人間科学研究会, (8) 54 - 63, Mar. 2014 - (Book Review) Screening Enlightenment: Hollywood and the Cultural Reconstruction of Defeated Japan
Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 32 669 - 671, 2012 - (Book Review) Mono to Otoko no Sengoshi
Social Science Japan Journal, 12 301 - 303, 2009
Books etc
- How That Robot Made Me Feel
Daniel White; Hirofumi Katsuno Edited by Ericka Johnson
MIT Press, May 2025, Contributor, [Ch. 9] Mindful Machines: Buddhist Models of Emotion for Human-Robot Flourishing, Scholarly book - Imagining AI: How the World Sees Intelligent Machines
Stephen Cave; Kanta Dihal; Tomasz Hollanek; Hirofumi Katsuno; Yang Liu; Apolline Taillandier; Daniel White
Oxford University Press, May 2023, Contributor, [Ch.2] The Meanings of AI: a Cross-cultural Comparison - Imagining AI: How the World Sees Intelligent Machines
Hirofumi Katsuno; Daniel White; Edited by; Stephen Cave; Kanta Dihal
Oxford University Press, May 2023, Contributor, [Ch.19] Engineering Robots with Heart in Japan: The Politics of Cultural Difference in Artificial Emotional Intelligence, Scholarly book - Consumer Culture Theory in Asia: History and Contemporary Issues
Hirofumi Katsuno; Daniel White; Edited; by Minowa, Y; Belk, R
Routledge, Dec. 2021, Contributor, Haptic Creatures: Tactile Affect and Human–Robot Intimacy in Japan, Scholarly book - Encyclopedia of Media & Communication Studies
KATSUNO Hirofumi
Sekaishisosha, May 2019, Contributor, Media Experiences in the Age of Artificial Intelligence - Introducing Japanese Popular Culture
Hirofumi Katsuno; Edited by; Alisa Freedman; Toby Slade
Routledge, Jan. 2018, Contributor, The Grotesque Hero: Depictions of Justice in Tokusatsu Superhero Television Programs - Escaping Japan: Reflections on Estrangement and Exile in the Twenty-First Century
Hirofumi Katsuno; Edited by Blai Guarné; Paul Hansen
Routledge, Nov. 2017, Contributor, Robot dreams: play, escape and masculine-romanticism in Japanese techno-culture - Assembling Japan: Modernity, Technology and Global Culture
Hirofumi Katsuno; Edited by Dolores Martinez; Griseldis Kirsch; Merry White
Peter Lang, Dec. 2015, Contributor, Branding Humanoid Japan - Assembling Japan: Modernity, Technology and Global Culture
Griseldis Kirsch; Wolfram Manzenreiter; John Horne; Merry White; Hirofumi Katsuno; Dolores Martinez
Peter Lang, 2015, Contributor, Afterword: Reassembling after 3/11 - At Home and in the Field: Ethnographic Encounters in Asia and the Pacific Islands
Hirofumi Katsuno; Edited by Suzanne Finney; Guido Pigliasco; Mary Conran; Forrest Young
University of Hawaii Press, 2015, Contributor, The Cultural Power of Robot in Japan, Scholarly book - Television, Japan, and Globalization
Hirofumi Katsuno; Edited by; Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto; Eva. Tsai; JungBong Choi
Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 2010, Contributor, Becoming Kikaida: Japanese Television and Generational Identity in Hawai'i, Scholarly book - The Multilingual InternetLanguage, Culture, and Communication Online$ The Multilingual Internet: Language, Culture, and Communication Online
Edited by Brenda Danet; Susan Herring
Oxford University Press, 2007, Contributor, Kaomoji and Expressivity in a Japanese Housewives' Chartoom, Scholarly book - In Godzilla's Footsteps: Japanese Pop Culture Icons on the Global Stage
Hirofumi Katsuno; Edited by; W. Tsutsui; M. Ito
Palgrave, 2006, Contributor, Kikaida for Life: Cult Fandom in a Japanese Live-action TV show in Hawai'i, Scholarly book - Pikachu's Global Adventure: The Rise and Fall of Pokémon
Edited by Joseph Tobin
Duke University Press, 2004, Contributor, Localizing the Pokémon TV series for the American Market, Scholarly book
Presentations
- 「弱いロボット展」トークセッション（［１］〈弱いロボット〉は、どこから来たの？＆［２］「共棲ロボット」研究開発の現在
「弱いロボット展」, Feb. 2025, 01 Feb. 2025, 02 Feb. 2025, Public discourse - 文化的現象としてのAI /ロボット
勝野宏史
日本刑法学会（第102回大会）ワークショップ：AIと刑事法, 02 Jun. 2024, Nominated symposium - 感情認識技術を介した人と機械との関係性
勝野宏史
「新ビジネス」フォーラム（同志社大学）ー飛躍的に進化する人工知能・AIとヒトとの関わり, 08 Mar. 2023, Public discourse, - 「熱」Passion-AI時代、モノにうつる作り手の熱はどこにいくのか
勝野宏史; 平林克己
「うつす展」特別講演（トヨタ産業技術記念館）, 04 Dec. 2022, Others, - 「文化」をめぐるロボット工学と人文知との接合の可能性
勝野宏史
第40回日本ロボット学会学術講演会, 06 Sep. 2022, Oral presentation - To Touch a Headless Cat: The Rise of Haptic Creatures in Japanese Robot Culture.
Hirofumi Katsuno; Daniel White
East Asian Seminar Series, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge., Feb. 2022, Public discourse - Animating Amusement: The Seriousness of Robot Play in Contemporary Japan.
Daniel White; Hirofumi Katsuno
Japan Research Centre Research Programme (SOAS, UK)., Feb. 2022, Public discourse - 多元化する時代における人とロボットとの関係性 ー文化人類学の視点からー
勝野宏史
第38回日本ロボット学会学術講演会, 09 Oct. 2020, Keynote oral presentation - From Social Presence to Social Agent: Tactile and Affective Affordances of Companion Robots in Japan
KATSUNO Hirofumi
American Anthropological Association annual meeting (Vancouver Convention Center), 21 Nov. 2019, Oral presentation - The Robotic Touch: Tactile Affects and the formation of Intimacy in the Human-Robot Interaction.
KATSUNO Hirofumi
Society of East Asian Anthropology annual conference (Waseda University), Aug. 2019, Oral presentation - ロボットをめぐるナショナリズムの変容
カルチュラルタイフーン2018, Jun. 2018, Oral presentation - First Encounters in Human Robot Interaction: Exploring Technical Methods for Affective Anthropology
with Daniel White
Robots and Artificial Intelligence in Contemporary Japanese Society Symposium, Sophia University (Tokyo, Japan), Jun. 2018, Nominated symposium - Time with the Robot: Production of Sociality and Intimacy in Human-Robot Interaction in Contemporary Japan
Sense of Time Conference, Doshisha University, May 2018, Public symposium - Material Dreams : Techno-Utopic Visions in Japan’s 1960s and 1970s Plastic Model Culture
AAS-In-ASIA (Association for Asian Studies) conference, Doshisha University, Kyoto., Jun. 2016, Oral presentation - Between Human and Machine: The Rise of Social Robots and the Formation of Robotic Presence in Contemporary Japan
The Labor of Animation Conference, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, Jun. 2016, Nominated symposium - "Residues of Technological Utopia: Formation of Ruinophilia in Post-Industrial Japan"
Japan Anthropology Workshop, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey, 2015, Oral presentation - Chasing Paradise Lost: the Formation of Ruinophilia in Contemporary Japan
The Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, 2014, Oral presentation, Philadelphia, PA, USA - Chasing Paradise Lost: Formation of Ruinophilia in Post-Industrial Japan
The Annual Conference of the American Anthropological Association, 2014, Oral presentation - Chasing Paradise Lost: the Boom of Modern Ruins in Contemporary Japan
The Annual Conference of the American Anthropological Association, 2013, Oral presentation, Chicago, IL, USA - The Robot's Heart: The Enchantment of Artificial Life in Contemporary Japan
Culture as Critical Theory Conference, 2012, Oral presentation, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society, Taiwan - Between Human and the Machine: Humanoid Robots as a Companion Species in Contemporary Japan
The Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, 2012, Oral presentation, Toronto, Canada - 世界の再魔術化ーメディア論の視点から
日本マス・コミュニケーション学会・秋期研究大会-理論研究部会ワークショップ-, 2011, Public symposium - Materializing Dreams: Masculinity and Technology In Japanese "Robophilia" [Session Organized, "Mind in Matter: the Enchantment of Things in Contemporary Japan"]
The Annual Conference of the American Anthropological Association, 2011, Oral presentation, Montreal, Canada - Escaping to the "Future"? : Japan's Techno-Romanticism in Humanoid Robots
The Annual Conferene of the American Anthropological Association, 2010, Oral presentation, New Orleans, LA, USA - Robotic Intimacy: Recuperation of selfhood in contemporary Japan
The Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, 2009, Oral presentation, Chicago, IL, USA - Robotic Humanity: Identity and Materiality in Robot -building in Contemporary Japan
The Annual Conference of the American Anthropological Association, 2009, Oral presentation, Philadelphia, PA, USA - Romanticizing Technology: Power and Pleasure in Robot-building in Contemporary Japan [Session Organized, "Technology, Masculinity, and Modernity in Contemporary Japan"]
The Annual Conference of the American Anthropological Association, 2008, Oral presentation, San Francisco, CA, USA - Robot Dreams: Formation of Self and Masculine Identity in Japanese Techno-Culture
Japan Anthropology Workshop, 2007, Oral presentation, University of Oslo, Norway - Nationalizing Technology: Production and Consumption of Humanoid Robots in Contemporary Japan
The Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, 2007, Oral presentation, Boston, MA, USA - Materializing Dreams: Technology, Humanity and the Post-modern Tension in Contemporary Japanese Robotics
The Annual Conference of the American Anthropological Association, 2007, Oral presentation, Washington D.C., USA - ハワイにおける日本の７０年代特撮ヒーロー番組のリバイバル：世代アイデンティティの商品化とその消費
日本文化人類学会研究大会, 2005, Oral presentation, 北海道大学 - Marketing a Japanese Live-Action TV Program in Hawai'i
In Godzilla's Footsteps: Japanese Pop Culture Icons on the Global Stage, 2004, Oral presentation, University of Kansas - Kikaida is Our Hero!: Local Nostalgia for a Japanese-Live-Action T.V. Show in Hawai'i
The Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, 2003, Oral presentation, New York, USA - Face-Off: On-Line Embodiment in Contemporary Japan
Media in Transition 2, 2002, Oral presentation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, USA - Localizing Pokemon: Comparing Japanese and English Versions of the T.V. show
Nintentionality, or Pikachu's Global Adventure, 2000, Oral presentation, University of Hawaii, Manoa / The East-West Center, Honolulu, HI, USA
Research Projects
- 「共棲ロボット」との親密な関係形成におけるELSIに関する越境型文理融合研究
稲谷龍彦; 浅田稔; 岡田美智男; 上出寛子; 阿部修士; 上田祥行; 勝野宏史
科学技術振興機構(JST), 科学技術の倫理的・法制度的・社会的課題（ELSI）への包括的実践研究開発プログラム, 2023/10 -2027/03, Coinvestigator - ---
勝野 宏史
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), 2022/04 -2025/03, Principal investigator, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Doshisha University - マルチ・スピーシーズ社会における法的責任分配原理
稲谷龍彦, 浅田稔, 阿部修士, 上田祥行, 勝野宏史
科学技術振興機構(JST)/社会技術研究開発センター(RISTEX), 人と情報のエコシステム（HITE）, 2020/01 -2023/09, Coinvestigator - Emotional Machines: The Technological Transformation of Intimacy in Japan
欧州学術会議, Starting Grant, 2017/08 -2018/09, Coinvestigator, Competitive research funding - 高度経済成長期における少年文化の形成―プラモデル製作ブームを中心に
勝野宏史
日本学術振興会, 科学研究費助成事業, 2014/04 -2017/03, Principal investigator, Competitive research funding, 基盤研究（C） - 日本のロボット文化の形成に関する文化人類学的研究
2005 -2010, Competitive research funding - Living through Characters: fetishism or identity formation in contemporary consumer culture in Japan
松下幸之助記念財団, 研究助成, 2004 -2005, Principal investigator