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1995 - 1999 | 2010 - 2019 | 2020 - Current
2000
Morifumi Kuroki, Visiting Scholar
Appointment dates: 02/04/2000–05/03/2000
Home Institution: Fukuoka International University
Field: Political History
Research topic: Japan-US Relations in Meiji Era, American Government Attitude Towards Japan-China Peace Treaty in 1871
Mi Suk Lee, 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
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
2001
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
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
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
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
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
2002
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
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
2003
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.
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
Elizabeth Sharf, Visiting Scholar
Appointment dates: 11/24/2003–11/25/2020
Home Institution: Independent Scholar
Field: Asian Art History
Research topic: Obaku Zen Portrait Painting
Hiroko Shoji, Visiting Scholar
Appointment dates: 04/01/2019–03/31/2020
Home Institution: Seikei University
Field: Literature
Research topic: Urban Gothicism in the Post-Diaspora Era: Toward a Transnational Literary Historiography
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
2004
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
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
Kaoru Ishiguro, Visiting Scholar
Appointment dates: 04/01/2004–03/31/2005
Home Institution: Kobe University
Field: Economics
Research topic: International Political Economy
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
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
2005
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
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
Sandra Collins, Visiting Scholar
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
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
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
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
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
2006
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
Shinichi Kitasaka, Visiting Scholar
Appointment dates: 03/28/2006–03/27/2007
Home Institution: Doshisha University
Field: Economics
Research topic: Japanese Economy
Annamari Konttinen, Visiting Scholar
Appointment dates: 06/05/2006–08/04/2006
Home Institution: University of Turku
Field: Sociology
Research topic: Environmental Movement and Citizenship in Japan
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
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
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
2007
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
Kenzo Yoshida, Visiting Scholar
Appointment dates: 08/10/2007–08/31/2008
Home Institution: Matsuyama University
Field: Economics
Research topic: The reconstruction of the welfare regimes in Japan and the United States
2008
Shuichi Kakuta, Visiting Scholar
Appointment dates: 03/29/2008–09/19/2008
Home Institution: Ritsumeikan University
Field: Economics
Research topic: Comparative study of the Hegelian and Marxian traditions in the social science and political economy of Japan and the United States
Hiroshi Sasaki, Visiting Scholar
Appointment dates: 08/12/2008–08/12/2009
Home Institution: Niigata University
Field: Political Science
Research topic: The formation of an "Atomic Regime" in Japan
Teruo Shiina, Visiting Scholar
Appointment dates: 07/16/2008–04/01/2010
Home Institution: Independent Scholar
Field: Architecture
Research topic: Reconstruction of the Japanese Tea House in the Japanese Tea Garden of SF Golden Gate Park
2009
Norichika Horie, Visiting Scholar
Appointment dates: 08/01/2009–03/31/2010
Home Institution: University of Sacred Heart
Field: Religious Studies
Research topic: Comparative study of spirituality in Japan and the United States
Masatsugu Ito, Visiting Scholar
Appointment dates: 04/01/2009–03/30/2010
Home Institution: Tokyo Metropolitan University
Field: Law and Political Science
Research topic: The study of the relationship between regulatory reform and government organization reform in the 1990's and their impact on present regulatory politics in Japan
Yuko Oki, Visiting Scholar
Appointment dates: 09/01/2009–08/31/2010
Home Institution: Kyoto Sangyo University
Field: Business Administration
Research topic: Comparative study of modern business models (for art management) used by cultural patrons in Japan and the United States
Kensuke Sumii, Visiting Scholar
Appointment dates: 10/29/2009–08/31/2016
Home Institution: Independent Scholar
Field: Anthropology
Research topic: Neo-liberal political economy and an invention of traditional medicine in an era of globalization
Jun Watanabe, Visiting Scholar
Appointment dates: 04/01/2009–03/31/2011
Home Institution: Meiji Gakuin University
Field: Political Science
Research topic: Comparative studies of constitutional politics in Japan and the United States