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Koetsu Fujiya. k.fujiya@m.tjk.ac.jp
Professor. History of the Far East, Foreign Cultural Studies (East Asia), Area Studies (East Asia), Cultural Friction. |
| Prof. Fujiya is a specialist in modern Chinese history, in particular the relationship between changes in folk culture and politics. Recently he has been doing research on these themes in the context of the 1911 Revolution and subsequent regime formation. He has edited and translated a number of books on Chinese history. Doctoral Program, Tsukuba University. |
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Hideyuki Ioh. ioh@m.tjk.ac.jp
Professor. Religion, Area Studies, Cultural Studies (Middle East and North Africa). |
| Prof. Ioh is a specialist on Islam in its formative period, including the life of the Prophet Muhammad, the process of formation of Islamic doctrine, the Qu’ran and Islamic law. As a student he studied in Tunisia, and after finishing graduate school he worked as an expert at the Japanese Embassy in Tunisia. His present concerns include the differences among monotheistic faiths and the differences between Japanese and Middle Eastern societies. Doctoral Program, Chuo University. |
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Nanasaya Ishigami. ishigami@m.tjk.ac.jp
Professor. Traditional Japanese Culture, Japanese Society and Culture, Intensive Japanese. |
| Dr. Ishigami, a folklorist, does research on Japanese identity from the classic ancient texts of the Manyoshu and The Tale of Genji through legends and folk tales handed down over the ages. He has published numerous books in Japanese in this area, including Legends of Water, Folk Customs of Cosmetics and Ancient Folk Literature. Ph.D., Chuo University. |
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Takao Kamibeppu.
Professor. International Development, Comparative and International Education, Volunteer Activities and Policy. |
| Dr. Kamibeppu, a Japanese native from Miyazaki, is a bureaucrat-turned-researcher trained in the United States. He spent 8 years working for the Japanese Ministry of Education. At UNESCO in Bangkok, he managed one of the Japanese Government’s education aid programs for Asia and the Pacific. His current research interests include government strategy on international education, resource mobilization for effective Japanese aid, and education delivery to students with roots outside Japan. Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park. |
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Chie Katoh. kato@m.tjk.ac.jp
Professor. Gender and Sociology, Leadership and Gender, Internship. |
| Prof. Katoh specializes in women’s studies and organizational science. Her current research is concerned with reproductive rights and domestic violence. She lectures on women’s studies for the University of the Air and local citizens’ groups. M.A., Keio University. |
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Hiromi Matsuki. matsuki@m.tjk.ac.jp
Professor. History of Japan, Arts and Culture (Asia), Japan’s Arts and Culture, History of Japanese Culture. |
| Prof. Matsuki is interested in the comparison and interflow between the ancient cultures of East Asia and Japan. Her particular interest is in comparing the Yakushi Buddhist and Kannon Boddhisatva faiths in China and Korea. Doctoral Program, Kokugakuin University. |
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James E. Nickum nickum@m.tjk.ac.jp
Department Chair, Professor.
International Relations, Environmental Sociology, Regional Sociology, Area Studies (South Asia, Southeast Asia, East Asia). |
| With a liberal arts undergraduate degree and graduate degrees in economics, Dr. Nickum brings a diverse portfolio to TJK College. Before coming to Japan in 1996, he taught Asian studies and economics at Cornell, led a program of academic exchange with China, and was a senior fellow on the environment at the East-West Center. He has been a visiting professor at Tokyo, Keio and Hosei Universities. His current research is on water governance in China, China’s environmental margins, international rivers, and the regional sociology of Honmoku (Yokohama) as a suburban palimpsest. Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley. |
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Akihiko Nishiyama. nishiyama@m.tjk.ac.jp
Professor. Career Management, Economic Policy, Business Literacy, Labor and Gender. |
| Dr. Nishiyama previously worked at a public utility company for some 30 years. He has also taught policy studies at the Graduate School of Social Studies, Hosei University as a Visiting Professor. He has published more than forty books in such areas as human resource management and corporate strategy. His current research interests include the role of company executives and assistance to the development of young workers. He belongs to three academic organizations and two associations for business incubation. Ph.D., Hosei University. |
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James E. Roberson. roberson@m.tjk.ac.jp
Professor. Cultural Anthropology, Comparative Cultures, Ethnicity and Identity. |
| Dr. Roberson has taught Cultural Anthropology and Japan Studies in the United States, Australia, England and Japan. He has conducted field research in Jamaica (for his M.A. thesis) and in Japan, and has published on the Japanese working class, masculinities in Japan, and Okinawan music. His current research focuses especially on music and identity in contemporary Okinawa. Ph.D., University of Hawaii. |
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Masayuki Takano. takano@m.tjk.ac.jp
Professor. Philosophy, Area Studies (Europe), European Culture. |
| Prof. Takano is expanding his interests from his original research in modern German philosophy--particularly Kant’s epistemology and the role of the Idee in theory and practice--to modern social philosophers such as Habermas. These philosophers have much to say to the problem of the conflict and coexistence of different values at individual and group levels in a globalizing world. Doctoral program, Hitotsubashi University. |
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Yoshimi Yamamoto. yamamoto@m.tjk.ac.jp
Professor. English, Arts and Culture III (USA), Introduction to American Literature. |
| Prof. Yamamoto has direct experience with the American women’s liberal arts college approach, having obtained her master’s degree at Bryn Mawr after graduating from Tsuda College. Her interest is in the 20th century literature of the American South, particularly in William Faulkner, how he pursued the possibilities of language and narration, and the world that he constructed. Specifically, she is researching how Faulkner dealt with the conflicts in the 1950s between his public presentations and his private writing as the racist Old South was crumbling. M. A., Bryn Mawr College. |
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Xuehua Bai. bai@m.tjk.ac.jp
Associate Professor. Japanese and Chinese languages |
| Prof. Bai, born in China of Korean descent and now a naturalized Japanese citizen, has been studying the culture of Japanese schools and classrooms and about what international mutual understanding should be. The main theme of her master’s thesis was "Japanese language education for foreigners and maintenance of their native tongues." At TJKC, she primarily teaches Japanese language to foreign students and Chinese language to Japanese students. She is now doing fieldwork on the issue of "The present condition for overseas students and how to improve it." M.A., University of Tokyo. |
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Ru-De Fu. furude@m.tjk.ac.jp
Associate Professor. Information Networks, Introductory Methods of Information Analysis, Applied Methods of Information Analysis, International Information. |
| Dr. Fu, from Hainan, China, specializes in computers and mathematics. He has taught classes at TJKC and Nihon University on a variety of topics in this area. Ph.D., University of Electro-Communications (Tokyo). |
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Hiroko Haenouchi. haenouti@m.tjk.ac.jp
Associate Professor. English, Linguistics, Communication. |
| Prof. Haenouchi, with an Ivy League degree, has taught English for over 10 years at a number of Japanese colleges and universities, including her alma mater, Tsuda College. Her current research is on applying "functional grammar," a new approach in applied linguistics, to study why people choose to say or write things the way they do. M.A., Columbia University. |
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Takeharu Igaki. igaki@m.tjk.ac.jp
Associate Professor. Research Methods of Psychology, Introduction to Psychology, Psychology of Education. |
| Dr. Igaki has two research areas in psychology. One is the experimental analysis of behavior based on operant conditioning procedures, and the other is the study of decision-making under conditions of uncertainty. He is currently conducting research on the persistence of behavior when a disrupting manipulation is introduced (often referred to as "resistance to change" in the field of behavior analysis). Furthermore, he is investigating the relationship between the persistence of behavior and decision making (for example, the study of the sunk cost effect). Ph.D., Keio University. |
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Hiroyuki Miyajima.
Associate Professor. Introductory Methods of Information Analysis, Applied Methods of Information Analysis, Introduction to Information Science, Computers for Social Science, Management Information Systems, Sociology of Information, Multimedia. |
| Dr. Miyajima specializes in space engineering and eco-engineering. He is engaged in research on conceptual design methods, knowledge discovery, machine learning, intelligent control, and advanced life support systems in manned space exploration. Ph.D., Nihon University. |
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Tetsushi Yamasato. yamasato@m.tjk.ac.jp
Associate Professor. Wellness Activities, Sport and Culture, Health and Sport. |
| Prof. Yamasato teaches about physical activity and its relationship to health. M..A., Chiba University. |
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Mika Hirai. hirai@m.tjk.ac.jp
Lecturer. Developmental psychology, Educational Psychology, Research@Methods of Psychology, Psychological testing, Psychology Practicum,@Introduction to Psychology |
| Dr. Hirai is a developmental psychologist, studying the life-span development of self and social relationships. Her research focuses on the "mental negotiations between selves and others" that is aimed to clarify how people keep a balance between autonomy and relatedness, two basic psychological needs of human beings. She is also interested in the relation of these to culture and health. Her approach primarily employs interviews using hypothetical dilemma situations. Participants in her research range in age from children in early childhood to the elderly. Ph.D., University of the Sacred Heart, Tokyo. |
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Masako Kurokawa. kurokawa@m.tjk.ac.jp
Lecturer. Introduction to Pedagogy, Education in Japan, Human Development and Education, History of Education. |
| Prof. Kurokawa has previously worked for 4 years as a high school teacher and 4 years for Japan Women’s University as a research assistant. Her research field is school management theory. She is particularly interested in the collaboration of school staff. Doctoral Program, Tsukuba University. |
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Jonathon Campbell
Adjunct Lecturer. English, Feedback, Curriculum Design. |
| Prof. Campbell has a B.A. in political science and is presently completing an M.A. in Online and Distance Education with the Open University. He has taught at several universities in Japan and has been teaching English as a foreign language for more than ten years. His current areas of interest are in educational applications of web 2.0 and mobile technologies. |
