Experience

Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies (IUC)

• Japan
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Resident Director

  • Apr 2016 - Present

  The IUC is the premier American program for the teaching of advanced Japanese and has provided language training to more than 2000 individuals. First established in Tokyo in 1963, the IUC is now located in Yokohama with space, services, and various amenities provided by the municipal government. The program is administered by Stanford University and governed by an Inter-University Governing Board of scholars representing thirteen universities with strong, established graduate programs in Japanese Studies.Sponsored jointly by:Brigham Young UniversityColumbia UniversityHarvard UniversityPrinceton UniversityStanford UniversityUniversity of British ColumbiaUniversity of California, BerkeleyUniversity of California, Los AngelesUniversity of ChicagoUniversity of Hawai‘i at MānoaUniversity of MichiganUniversity of Southern CaliforniaUniversity of WashingtonYale UniversityIn Association With:University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignWashington University in St. Louis(from https://web.stanford.edu/dept/IUC/cgi-bin/about/index.php and https://web.stanford.edu/dept/IUC/cgi-bin/about/member-institutions.php)



Sophia University

• Japan
• Higher Education
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Book Review Editor, Monumenta Nipponica

  • Apr 2016 - Present

  Founded by Sophia University in 1938, Monumenta Nipponica is an English-language, peer-reviewed journal that publishes outstanding research and translations, as well as authoritative book reviews, in premodern and modern Japanese studies.(from http://dept.sophia.ac.jp/monumenta/) Founded by Sophia University in 1938, Monumenta Nipponica is an English-language, peer-reviewed journal that publishes outstanding research and translations, as well as authoritative book reviews, in premodern and modern Japanese studies.(from http://dept.sophia.ac.jp/monumenta/)



National Museum of Japanese History 国立歴史民俗博物館

• Steering Committee Member 運営会議委員

  • Apr 2020 - Present



Japan-America Society of Yokohama

• Director

  • Apr 2016 - Present



J.F.Oberlin University

• Japan
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Professor Emeritus

  • Apr 2019 - Present

• Professor

  • Apr 1989 - Mar 2019

  J. F. Oberlin University is a private university whose main campus is located in Machida, a suburb of Tokyo. Founded in 1946 by Reverend Yasuzo Shimizu, the university is comprised of a College of Arts and Sciences and five professional colleges, as well as a graduate division. With an enrollment of over 9,000 students, many of them from overseas, J. F. Oberlin University seeks to foster global citizens on the basis of Christian values.