Visiting Scholars


Current Visiting Scholars


Yoshiaki Azuma, Visiting Scholar

Appointment Dates:08/25/2007-08/24/2008
Home Institution:Doshisha University
Field:Japanese Intellectual History
Research Topic:Economic Development and Growth, Japanese Economy

Naoaki Hiraishi, Visiting Scholar

Appointment Dates:09/18/2007-10/25/2007
Home Institution:Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo
Field:Japanese Intellectual History

Satoshi Kitayama, Visiting Scholar

Appointment Dates:08/01/2007-07/30/2008
Home Institution:Tokyo Keizai University
Field:Communications
Research Topic:Computer-Mediated Communication

Satoko Maekawa, Visiting Scholar

Appointment Dates:09/19/2007-09/18/2008
Home Institution:Kansai University
Field:Economics
Research Topic:Corporate and R&D investment in the United States

Tatsuyoshi Miyakoshi, Visiting Scholar

Appointment Dates:07/01/2007-09/15/2008
Home Institution:Tohoku University
Field:Economics
Research Topic:Financial deregulation in Japan

Tomokazu Onishi, Visiting Scholar

Appointment Dates:10/01/2007-09/20/2008
Home Institution:International University, Kagoshima
Field:Archaeology
Research Topic:Comparative research methods in archeology and museuology

Elizabeth Sharf, Visiting Scholar

Appointment Dates:11/25/2003-11/25/2007
Home Institution:Independent Scholar
Field:Asian Art History
Research Topic:Obaku Zen Portrait Painting

Former Visiting Scholars


Laura Allen, Research Associate

Appointment Dates:12/01/1999-12/01/2000
Home Institution:Freelance Researcher
Field:History of Art
Research Topic:Images of Women in 17th Century Japanese Visual Culture

Huei-chu Chu, Visiting Scholar

Appointment Dates:02/15/2004-05/24/2006
Home Institution:National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan
Field:Taiwanese Literature
Research Topic:The Traffic of People Between Colonial Taiwan and Yaeyama

Sandra Collins, Visiting Shcolar

Appointment Dates:09/01/2005-08/31/2006
Home Institution:University of Chicago
Field:Japanese History
Research Topic:The Missing Olympics: The 1940 Tokyo Games

Laurie Anne Freeman, Visiting Scholar

Appointment Dates:10/18/1999-12/20/1999
Home Institution:University of California, Santa Barbara
Field:Political Science
Research Topic:The Internet and Development of Civil Society in Japan

Sabine Fruhstuck, Visiting Scholar

Appointment Dates:09/01/2001-06/30/2002
Home Institution:University of California, Santa Barbara
Field:Modern Japanese Culture
Research Topic:Colonizing Sex: Sexology and Social Control in Modern Japan

Hiroshi Fukagawa, Visiting Scholar

Appointment Dates:04/10/1995-03/01/1997
Home Institution:Kyushu University, Japan
Field:Economics
Research Topic:Japan-Korea Agricultural Economics

Manji Gonda, Visiting Scholar

Appointment Dates:10/01/1999-03/31/2000
Home Institution:Senshu University
Field:Journalism
Research Topic:A Comparative Study of the Problems of Crime Reporting in Both America and Japan

Nobuyo Goto, Visiting Scholar

Appointment Dates:10/15/2004-09/30/2005
Home Institution:Fukushima Medical University
Field:Political Economy
Research Topic:Japanese Social Science in the 21st Century

Yasuo Goto, Visiting Scholar

Appointment Dates:10/15/2004-03/30/2005
Home Institution:Fukushima University
Field:Political Economy
Research Topic:Internet Revolution and Globalization in the Age of Post Cold-War

Shoichiro Hara, Visiting Scholar

Appointment Dates:07/02/1999-03/31/2000
Home Institution:National Institute of Japanese Literature
Field:Medical Science
Research Topic:Digital Library Systems for Japanese Classical Literature

Hiroaki Hayashi, Visiting Scholar

Appointment Dates:04/01/2005-03/31/2006
Home Institution:Kansai University
Field:Economics
Research Topic:Local Public Finance and Social Security System

Masayo Hayashi, Visiting Scholar

Appointment Dates:10/05/1999-09/30/2000
Home Institution:Nanzan University
Field:Education
Research Topic:The Comparative Study of the Making of the Concept of Juvenile Delinquency Between Japan and the US.

Young-eun Huh, Visiting Scholar

Appointment Dates:01/20/2006-02/28/2007
Home Institution:Daegu University
Field:Japanese Language and Literature
Research Topic:The Marital and Family System in Heian Era

Keisuke Iida, Visiting Scholar

Appointment Dates:04/01/2002-03/31/2003
Home Institution:Aoyama Gakuin University
Field:Political Science
Research Topic:Leadership at International Organizations

Kyoko Inoue, Visiting Scholar

Appointment Dates:08/20/2003-08/19/2004
Home Institution:Keio University
Field:Anthropology
Research Topic:North American, Japanese, and East Asian Ethnography and Linguistics: Cognitive Anthropology and Concepts of Categorization in Spatial Cognition; Nominal Classification Systems in Japanese.

Kaoru Ishiguro, Visiting Scholar

Appointment Dates:04/01/2004-03/31/2005
Home Institution:Kobe University
Field:Economics
Research Topic:International Political Economy

Teruaki Izume, Visiting Scholar

Appointment Dates:07/01/2001-08/31/2001
Home Institution:Japan Industrial Economy Research Institute
Field:Business
Research Topic:California Energy Deregulation

Yoichi Kibata, Visiting Scholar

Appointment Dates:10/01/2001-03/31/2002
Home Institution:The University of Tokyo
Field:International Studies
Research Topic:Change in the Hegemonic Power from Britain to the USA in Asia-Pacific and the Indian Ocean in the 1950s and 1960s

Shinichi Kitasaka, Visiting Scholar

Appointment Dates:03/28/2006-03/27/2007
Home Institution:Doshisha University
Field:Economics
Research Topic:Japanese Economy

Yoshiaki Kobayashi, Visiting Scholar

Appointment Dates:08/21/1995-12/31/1996
Home Institution:Keio University
Field:Political Schience
Research Topic:Comparative Study of Electoral Politics of Japan and US

Annamari Konttinen, Visiting Shcolar

Appointment Dates:06/05/2006-08/04/2006
Home Institution:University of Turku
Field:Sociology
Research Topic:Environmental Movement and Citizenship in Japan

Morifumi Kuroki, Visiting Scholar

Appointment Dates:02/04/2000-05/03/2000
Home Institution:Fukuoka International University
Field:Law
Research Topic:Japan-US Relations in Meiji Era, American Government Attitude Towards Japan-China Peace Treaty in 1871

Lee, Mi Suk, Visiting Scholar

Appointment Dates:12/10/2000-01/31/2002
Home Institution:Myongji University
Field:Japanese Literature
Research Topic:A Cross-Linguistic Comparison of Aspetual System in English, Japanese, and Korean: An Effective Japanese teaching for Korean Speakers

Guirong Mao, Visiting Scholar

Appointment Dates:08/01/1999-08/31/2001
Home Institution:Meiji Gakuin University
Field:Political Science
Research Topic:Comparative Asian Government Studies

William McOmie, Visiting Scholar

Appointment Dates:08/27/2001-08/21/2002
Home Institution:Kanagawa University
Field:Comparative Culture
Research Topic:Japan's Foreign Relations in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Yumiko Mikanagi, Visiting Scholar

Appointment Dates:01/01/2005-05/30/2005
Home Institution:International Christian University
Field:Political Science
Research Topic:Gender and Foreign Policymaking in Japan

Gen Miyagaki, Visiting Scholar

Appointment Dates:09/01/2005-03/31/2006
Home Institution:Konan University
Field:Sociology
Research Topic:The Issues on Trust Based on Information Sharing in Human Service Organizations and the Social Survey on Social Network and NPOs/NGOs

Ayumi Miyazaki, Research Fellow

Appointment Dates:09/15/2004-09/14/2007
Home Institution:Harvard University
Field:Education
Research Topic:Shifting Gendered Discourse: An Ethnography of Girls' Resistance and Identity in a Japanese Junior High School Gakkyuu

Yuko Okubo, Research Fellow

Appointment Dates:09/01/2006-08/31/2007
Home Institution:University of California, Berkeley
Field:Anthropology
Research Topic:State Practices in Globalized Japan: Convergence and Divergence of the Subject-Making Processes in a Multiethnic Neighborhood

Jae Kwon Park, Visiting Scholar

Appointment Dates:08/21/2006-08/20/2007
Home Institution:Korea Military Academy
Field:Linguistics
Research Topic:Contrastive Study of Japanese/Korean Languages

Norio Naka, Visiting Scholar

Appointment Dates:09/01/1995-12/31/1996
Home Institution:--
Field:Political Science
Research Topic:A Multidimensional Approach to the US-Japan Structural Impediments Initiative

Patricia Nelson, Visiting Scholar

Appointment Dates:07/01/2003-08/31/2003
Home Institution:University of Edinburgh
Field:International Political Economy
Research Topic:The Evolution of the Japanese Photography Industry

Yosuke Nirei, Research Fellow

Appointment Dates:09/20/2004-09/20/2006
Home Institution:University of California, Berkeley
Field:History
Research Topic:The Ethics of Empire: Protestant Thought, Moral Culture, and Imperialism in Meiji Japan

Kaoru Ohara, Visiting Scholar

Appointment Dates:09/01/2000-03/31/2002
Home Institution:Kokugakuin University
Field:Law
Research Topic:Political Ideology of the Meiji Socialists and Christian Social Reformers

Tetsutaro Okada, Visiting Scholar

Appointment Dates:04/01/2000-08/31/2001
Home Institution:Kagawa University
Field:Economics
Research Topic:Intergovernmental Relations and the Reform of Grants System

Ronan A. Pereira, Visiting Scholar

Appointment Dates:10/25/1999-10/24/2004
Home Institution:University of Brasilia
Field:Anthropology and Sociology
Research Topic:The Japanese Religions in Brazil, with Special Reference to the Soka Gakkai

Gregory Pflugfelder, Visiting Scholar

Appointment Dates:12/17/2001-08/31/2002
Home Institution:Columbia University
Field:East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Topic:Queer Archipelago: At the Margins of Japanese Gender and Sexuality, 1100-2000

Jean-Francois Sabouret, Visiting Scholar

Appointment Dates:08/21/1996-08/31/1998
Home Institution:Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Field:Sociology
Research Topic:Sociology of Japan - Educational System, Elites, and Educational Strategies

Taisuke Sakurai, Visiting Scholar

Appointment Dates:06/01/2006-08/01/2006
Home Institution:Government of Japan
Field:Environmental Policy
Research Topic:Environmental Policy in the United States from the Perspective of the Federal and State Government Relationship

Yamato Sato, Visiting Scholar

Appointment Dates:08/01/1999-07/31/2001
Home Institution:Keio University
Field:Business and Commerce
Research Topic:Quantitative Analysis of the Organizational Culture

Sudeshna Sen, Research Fellow

Appointment Dates:07/01/2002-06/20/2003
Home Institution:University of Oregon
Field:Classical Japanese Literature
Research Topic:Sarashina Nikki, the Performativity Subjecthood in the Writings of Female Courtiers

Takashi Shimizu, Visiting Scholar

Appointment Dates:08/25/2002-08/24/2003
Home Institution:Waseda University
Field:Management Accounting
Research Topic:Comparative Study of the Strategic Management System of Japaneses and American Companies

Yasuhisa Shimizu, Visiting Scholar

Appointment Dates:08/18/2005-09/30/2006
Home Institution:Kyushu University
Field:History of Political Thought
Research Topic:The Social Sciences in Modern Japan

Meryl Siegal, Research Associate

Appointment Dates:01/01/1996-01/15/1998
Home Institution:Holy Names College
Field:Anthropology
Research Topic:Ethnic Minorities in Japan

Donna Storey, Research Fellow

Appointment Dates:06/25/1997-08/31/2000
Home Institution:--
Field:Japanese Literature
Research Topic:A Study of the Representation of Mentally Ill Female Characters in the Works of Three Contemporary Japanese Authors

Toru Suzuki, Visiting Scholar

Appointment Dates:08/20/2003-08/19/2004
Home Institution:Keiko University
Field:Comparative Literature
Research Topic:The Historic Preservation of the Japanese-American Past and the Trans-Pacific Reconstruction of Collective Memory

Akira Tatehata, Visiting Scholar

Appointment Dates:01/20/2003-02/20/2003
Home Institution:Tama Art University
Field:Art Science
Research Topic:Study of Post World War Art History through Comparative and Social Context

Masanobu Ueda, Visiting Scholar

Appointment Dates:04/01/2005-03/31/2006
Home Institution:Fukuoka Jogakuin University Jr. College
Field:Linguistics
Research Topic:The Semantic Structures of Japanese and English Verbs with Special Reference to the Ditransitive Construction

Hirofumi Unoki, Visiting Scholar

Appointment Dates:05/01/1997-02/28/1998
Home Institution:Yatsushiro National College of Technology
Field:American Literature
Research Topic:The Reception of Mark Twain and His Works in Japan

Yoshiko Wada, Research Associate

Appointment Dates:10/25/1998-10/24/2000
Home Institution:--
Field:Textiles and Fiber Art
Research Topic:Meisen Textiles and Women Consumers in the First Half of the 20th Century Japan

Charles Weathers, Visiting Scholar

Appointment Dates:10/01/2001-3/30/2002
Home Institution:Osaka City University
Field:Political Economy
Research Topic:Historical-Institutional Analysis of the Development of Japanese Labor-Management Relations

Nobuyuki Yamada, Visiting Scholar

Appointment Dates:04/01/2006-08/31/2007
Home Institution:Komazawa University
Field:Sociology
Research Topic:Industrial Relations

Yoshihiko Yamamoto, Visiting Scholar

Appointment Dates:10/31/2006-01/30/2006
Home Institution:Shizuoka University
Field:Political Economy
Research Topic:Kiyoshi Kiyosawa's Thought and Management of Asian Research

Ryo Yoshida, Visiting Scholar

Appointment Dates:04/15/2005-07/15/2005
Home Institution:Doshisha University
Field:Humanities
Research Topic:Transnational Activities of Japanese Christian Churches in Northern California during the Period between WWI and WWII