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2006 Fulbright Grantees

2006~Japanese Grantees


Graduate Students / Doctoral Dissertation Research Students / Researchers / Journalist / Study of the U.S. Institutes for Foreign Secondary School Educators (ASSI) / Fulbright Scholar in Residence (FSIR)

Graduate Students

Name.Title
 
Institution/Expertise/Theme
HOSHINO, Noriaki
Doctoral Student, Language and Info. Sciences, U. of Tokyo
Cornell U. / History; A comparative study of racism and immigrant problems in Japan and the U.S. from the beginning of the 20th century to the World War
KAI, Yoshiaki
Doctoral Student, Art History, U. of Tokyo
City U. of New York / Art Histor;: Reconsideration of the activities and the works of Alfred Stieglitz who dedicated himself to establishing photographic art in America
KAJI, Hirofumi
Doctoral Student, Humanities, Hiroshima U.
Purdue U. / American Literature; The American heritage of Ezra Pound: what the poet has inherited from the American tradition and what influence he has had on subsequent generations
KAWASAKI, Chie
Received M.A. from U. of Newcastle upon Tyne
Columbia U. / Art Management; The relationship between museums and the construction of urban identity; a comparative study of New York and Tokyo

KUSUMOTO, Yoko
Resigned from Otsuka Jr. High School

U. of Hawaii / Teaching English as a Foreign Language; Research of TESOL method and theory and material development to construct communicative classes
MAEDA, Kentaro
Doctoral Student, Political Science, U. of Tokyo
M.I.T. / Political Science; A political study of risk regulation in Japan
MAZUMI, Yusuke
Doctoral Student, Comparative Social Science, Hitotsubashi U.
UC San Diego / Sociology; The adaptation of Mexican migrants in the rural Midwest in the U.S.: A focus on the influences of local characteristics of the New Destination
MINAGAWA, Yuka Resigned from Japan External Trade Org. Harvard U. / Area Studies; The charcter of US foreign policy towards the CIS, taking Georgia as a case study
MIYOSHI, Takanori Resigned from The Tokyo Star Bank U. of Pennsylvania / Business Management; Finance especially evaluating future profitability using actuarial methods to improve the efficiency of the investment and contribute to the society
ODA, Yuki
Doctoral Student, Area Studies, U. of Tokyo
Columbia U. / American History; U.S. Immigration Policy in the 1920s
OKA, Miori
Resigned from Association for Aid and Relief, Japan
Harvard U. / Education; Education dealing with childrean at risk and children with disabilities, such as domestically abused children and childrean with behavior disorders
OKADA, Aya
Doctoral Student, Study of Global Issues, Hitotsubashi U.
U. of Pittsburgh / Public Administration; "Domestic Activities" of Northern Development NGOs - its function of shaping the public attitude
SADAHIRO, Maki
Doctoral Student, English Language and Literature, U. of Tokyo
SUNY, Buffalo / American Literature; A study of the historical/religious imagination in Herman Melville's poetry
SAHARA, Ayako
Doctoral Student, Area Studies, U. of Tokyo
UC San Diego / History; The Collapse of South Vietnam: Vietnamese Exiles from Vietnam to America 1975-1995
SAKUMA, Yuri
Doctoral Student, Amercan Literature and Culture, Hitotsubashi U.
U. of Wisconshin / American Literature; Interdisciplinary apporaches to the 19th and 20th century America: Literary and cultural criticism American Renaissance and Harlem Renaissance
SUGIYAMA, Etsuko
Full-time Lecturer, Law, Hitotsubashi U.
Yale U. / Law; Protection of intellectual property in civil procedure
TAKAMURA, Tamon
Doctoral Student, Economic Theory and Statistics, Hitotsubashi U.
Ohio State U. / Economics; A study of monetary policy
TOMINAGA, Kozue Resigned from Trend Micro George Washigton U. / Psychology; Self-directed career development and increasing the learning capacity of individuals and organizations.
UCHIYAMA, Tomokazu
Citizenship Teacher, Tokyo Metopolitan Nagayama H.S.
U. of Washington / Education; The new ways to each citizenship in Japanese schools which are created by studying advanced methods, instruments, and systems of American education
YAMAMOTO, Shunsuke
Resigned from Save the Children
Harvard U. / Education; Applied statistics in developmental context: quantitative methods for research and evaluation to inform educational policies and government programs
YASUDA, Sachiko
Resined from Waseda U.
U. of Hawaii at Manoa / Linguistics, Theory; Research on teaching methodorogies to develop EFL (English as a Foreign Language) students' academic writing skills


Doctoral Dissertation Research Students

Name.Title
 
Institution/Expertise/Theme
FUKA, Toyoyuki
Doctoral Student, American Studies, Doshisha U.
Cal State U. Sacramento / American History; Building an "agricultural empire" for "Desirable Citizens": A Visionary's reasoning for the Japanese exclusion movement in California during the early decades of the twentieth century.
HASUO, Ikuyo
Doctoral Student, Law Applied Studies Course, Hitotsubashi U.
Columbia U. / International Relations;"Verifying the Effectiveness of the Oversight System of the United Nations, #8211; Case Study from the UN Iraq Oil for Food Program"
MISONO, Ryoko
Doctoral Student, Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies, U. of Tokyo
New York U. / Area Studies; The influence of globalism and Americanism in the 1920-30s Japanese melodorama films : Modernity, women and mass media in Japan
SATO, Kenichi
Doctoral Student, Literature and Linguistics, U. of Tsukuba
George Washington U. / American Literature; Fiction as a form of Knowlede: Epistemological framework and the formation of fiction in the early American literature
TERASAKI, Yoko
Doctoral Student, Inst. for Study of Global Issues, Hitotsubashi U.
Stanford U. / Anthropology; American environmental movements and its influence on Asian countries


Researchers

Name.Title
 
Institution/Expertise/Theme
HIRAGA, Masako
Professor, Rikkyo U.
UC Berkeley / Linguistics, Theory: The Interplay of Metaphor and Iconicity in the Evolution of Kanji:A Cognitive Approach
HIRAO, Keiko
Professor, Sophia U.
Harvard U./ Sociology: Educational strategies of families and maternal employment: U.S.-Japan comparison
KARUBE, Masaru
Associate Professor
Hitotsubashi U.
U. of Pennsylvania / Business management: Diversification and Complexity: A comparative study of strategy, structure and performance of diversified firms between Japan and the U.S.
KATO, Shuichi
Professor, Meiji Gakuin U.
New York U. / Sociology: A research in the relation between the new reproductive technologies for the "eugenic"screening and people's views on the value of life
KAYANO, Yoshiko
Associate Professor
Meisei U.
U. of New Mexico / American Literature: Exploring intersections between literature and social movements in the American Southwest and the South
NAKAI, Asako
Associate Professor
Hitotsubashi U.
UC Berkeley / Literature Migration and hybridity: The construction of - cultural identity in South Asian Diaspora literature in the U.S.
TAKAYAMA, Tomoko
Section Head
NationalCancerCenter

George Mason U. / Communication: Personal and organizational strategies to improve health literacy and alleviate anxiety related to society’s abundance of health-related information.



Journalist

Name.Title
 
Institution/Expertise/Theme
JIBU, Renge
Staff Writer, Nikkei Business Associe Nikkei Business Publications, Inc.

U. of Michigan - Ann Arbor / Sociology; What motivates the attitude of cooperation that men show towards sharing household responsibilities

KONISHI, Hiromi
Staff Writer, Toban Office, The Kobe Shimbun
Georgetown U. / Political Science; Political cooperation between U.S.A. and Japan, also in the Pacific after the War of Iraq.
OKAZAKI, Tetsu
Staff Writer, Political News Dept. The Yomiuri Shimbun
U. of Michigan - Ann Arbor / Political Science; The welfare policy that the American government adopted to introduce a service animal designed for physically.
SATO, Noriko
Journalist, News Division RKB Mainichi Broad Casting
U. of Southern California / Sociology; Current situation of medicaliteracy in digitalized television society in U.S.


ASSI

Name.Title
 
Institution
HARADA, Susumu
Teacher of English
Hokkaido Tomakomai Minami Sr. H.S.
Institute for Training and Development, Amherst , MA
KATO, Masahiko
Teaher of English
Chiba Municipal Inage Sr. H.S.
U. of Illinois, Chicago, Chicago, IL
KURIHARA, Noriko
Teacher of English
Hyogo Pref. Himeji Minami Sr. H.S.
Institute for Training and Development, Amherst , MA
NIIZATO, Hiromi
Teacher of English
Okinawa Pref. Koyo Sr. H.S.
Institute for Training and Development, Amherst , MA
SUZUKI, Makoto
Teacher of English
Saitama Pref. Soka Minami Sr. H.S.
U. of Illinois, Chicago, Chicago, IL
SUZUKI, Masato
Teacher of Social Studies
Hokkaido Sapporo Kaisei Sr. H.S.
Institute for Training and Development, Amherst , MA
TSUDO, Norihide
Teacher of English
Hokkaido Sapporo Hiragishi Sr. H.S.
U. of Illinois, Chicago, Chicago, IL
TSUJIMOTO, Chizuko
Teacher of English
Tokyo Metropolitan Mita Sr. H.S.
U. of Illinois, Chicago, Chicago, IL


Fulbright Scholar in Residence (FSIR)

Name.Title
 
Institution/Expertise/Theme
TAKUBO, Yukinori
Professor, Kyoto U.
Caleton College, St. Olaf Colleger / Linguistics; To teach Japanese linguistics
TSUDA, Yukio
Professor, Foreign Language Center, U. of Tsukuba
San Mateo College / Intercultural Communication; to teach how language, identity and mass media information influence the ways people interact in intercultural communication