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2009 Fulbright Grantees
2009~Japanese Grantees
Researchers(21) / Journalists(2) / Doctoral Dissertation Research Students(4) / Graduate Students(29) / Study of the U.S. Institutes for Foreign Secondary School Educators (ASSI)(4) / Fulbright Language Assistant Teachers(6)
Researchers
Name.Title |
Institution/Expertise/Theme |
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HARA, Tomoaki Associate Professor Fac. / Humanities and Social Sciences, Sociology, Shizuoka U. |
U. of Hawaii / Cultural Anthropology; A Case Study of the Continuity and Change of Okinawan Locality Clubs in Hawaii | |
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HORIE, Norichika Associate Professor Grad. Sch. / Arts, Dept. / History and Social Sciences, U. of the Sacred Heart |
U.C. Berkeley / Religion & Theology; Comparative Study of Spirituality in Japan and U.S.: Religion and Spirituality in the Context of Privatization and Globalization | |
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ITO, Fujie Professor Fac. / Human Sciences, Dept. / Social Services, Sophia U. |
Eastern Mennonite U. / Social Work & Social Welfare; How to Apply the Restorative Justice Approach to Help the Recovery of Crime Victims | |
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KONDO, Fumiyo Lecturer Grad. Sch. / Systems & Info. Engineering, Social Systems and Mgmt., U. of Tsukuba |
U.C. Los Angeles / Marketing; Research on Mobile Information Services Consumption Behavior in the U.S. | |
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MASUMOTO, Tomoko Associate Professor Dept. / Foreign Lang., Div. / Int'l Communication, Kanda U. of Int'l Stds. |
U. of New Mexico; Intercultural Communication; Application of Intercultural Communication to Health Communication | |
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MATSUMOTO, Hogara Associate Professor Fac. / Humanities, Dept. / English Literature, Sophia U. Law and Economics, Mie U. |
City U. of New York; English & American Literature; "The Post New Women": The Role of the Modern Girl in the Development of Modernism in the U.S. during the Interwar Years | |
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MURAO, Osamu Associate Professor U. of Tsukuba |
Harvard U. / Urban & Regional Planning; Comparative Study of the Policy and Urban Planning for Disaster Management in the U.S.A. and Japan | |
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NAKACHI, Sachi Professor Fac. / Literature, Dept. / English Tsuru U. |
New York U., U.C. Berkeley / American Literature; A Study of African American Japonisme: From W.E.B. Du Bois to Richard Wright | |
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NAKAMURA, Tsuyako Associate Professor Inst. for Language and Culture Doshisha U. |
Harvard U., Stanford U. / Sociology; Work / Life Balance: Corporate Daycare Center Study in Japan and the United States | |
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NOGUCHI, Keiko Professor Fac. / Liberal Arts, Dept. / English Tsuda Coll. |
U.C. Berkeley / American Literature; Women Writers and Literary Nationalism in Antebellum America | |
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OTA, Yoshinobu Professor Grad. Sch. / Social and Cultural Stds., Cultural Representaion Kyushu U. |
U. of Hawaii, Manoa / Cultural Anthropology; Affiliation as Value in Jean Charlot's Public Art Projects in the Pacific Region | |
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SAKAI, Aya Associate Professor Grad. Sch. / Engineering, Dept. / Socio-Envionmental Engineering Hokkaido U. |
Urban and Regional Planning; Management System of Privately Owned Public Spaces in New York City | |
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SEKI, Ayumi Associate Professor Fac. / Regional Sciences, Dept. / Regional Education Tottori U. |
Yale U. / Cognitive Psychology; A Study on Developmental Change of the Brain Function in the Acquisition of Reading Skills: A Cross-Linguistic Study between English and Japanese | |
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SHIGETA, Katsusuke Project Research Associate Ctr. for Research & Development of Higher Education U. of Tokyo |
U.C. Berkeley / Educational Technology; A Research of Effective Methods to Reuse and Reform Open Educational Resources in Higher Education | |
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SHIRAKAWA, Keiko Associate Professor Fac. / Letters, Dept. / English, Doshisha U. |
Brandeis U. / American Literature; The Myth of the American Revolution and the Cultural Dissemination of Antebellum Subversive Narratives | |
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TAKIGAWA, Toshiaki Professor Sch. / Law, Competition Law and Int'l Econ. Law Kansai U. |
George Washington U. / Law; Research on How to Achieve Global Harmonization of Competition Laws | |
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TATSUMI, Takayuki Professor Fac. / Letters, Dept. / English, Keio U. |
Stanford U. / American Literature; Research on Transpacific Literary and Cultural Negotiations between Victorian America and Modern Japan | |
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TSUNOGAYA, Noriyuki Associate Professor Fac. / Economics, Kyushu U. |
U. of Washington / Accounting; Measurement, Convergence and Japanese Accounting Thoughts | |
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USHIDA, Chizuru Professor Fac./ Foreign Studies, Spanish and Latin-American Studies, Nanzan U. |
Princeton U. / Area Studies; The Relationship Between Ethnic Identity and Acadmic Performance Among Latin American Immigrant Children in the United States | |
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WATANABE, Tetsuya Professor Grad. Sch. / Law |
New York U. / Taxation; Research on Neutral Tax Rules for Triangular Type Reorganizations, which would not Preclude Economic Iinvestments or Corporate Transactions | |
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YAMADA, Atsushi Professor Grad. Sch. / Int'l and Public Policy, Int'l Relations Hitotsubashi U. |
U.C. Berkeley / International Relations; Reconsidering the Immigration Policy Toward Highly Skilled Workers (e.g. engineers): What can Japan Learn from Silicon Valley? |
Journalists
Name.Title |
Institution/Expertise/Theme |
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OMORI, Aki Staff Writer Life Style & Culture Section The Yomiuri Shimbun, Tokyo |
Cornell U. / Social Sciences; Consumer Involvement in Developing Food Policy in the United States: A Cross-Cultural Study on Consumer Perceptions of Food Risk | |
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UENO, Hiromitsu Staff Writer Editorial Office, Sasebo Bureau The Nishinippon Shimbun |
U.C. San Diego / International Relations; A Comparative Study of the U.S. Base Issue in Japan and the U.S.A.: Peace Maintenance and Local Economic Activities for the Future |
Doctoral Dissertation Research Students
Name.Title |
Institution/Expertise/Theme |
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HIRASAWA, Emi Doctoral Student Sch. / Social Welfare Nihon Fukushi U. |
New York U. / Social Work & Social Welfare; A Comparative Research of the U.S.Veteran's Benefit and Its Role in the U.S. Welfare State System in the 20th Century | |
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KOTAKI, Yo Doctoral Student, Grad. Schl. / Social Sciences Hitotsubashi U. |
U.C.Berkeley / Geography; Socio-Political (Re)construction of Urban Environment: Neighborhood Transformation of U.S. Cities in the Context of Neo-liberalist Urban Governance | |
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NAGANO, Mayumi Doctoral Student, Head of English Dept. Grad. Schl. / Humanities / English Dept. Education, Kansai U. / Higashi Osaka Sr. H. Sch. |
California State U. / Special Education; Analysis of Recent Special Education Case Laws in the United States: Meeting the Special Needs of Children with Disabilities | |
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ZAMMA, Hideki Associate Professor, Foreign Studies English Studies, Kobe City U. of Foreign Studies |
Stanford U. / Linguistics, Theory; Partial Orderings of Constraints and Stress / Morphological Variation Among English Suffixes: a Theoretical Study With a Numerical Analysis |
Graduate Students
Name.Title |
Institution/Expertise/Theme |
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ASAO, Yoshihiko Doctoral Student, Grad.Sch. / Letters Linguistics, Kyoto U. |
SUNY, Buffalo / Linguistics Theory; Formal Theory of the Usage-Based Model of Language | |
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BEPPU, Mayumi Staff, Planning Dept. Strategic Coordination Office, JETRO |
Tufts U. / Economics ; Research on the Barriers Against Global Diffusion of Japanese Technologies and the Best Way to Diffuse Them | |
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FUNAKOSHI, Kenshi
Master's Student, Grad. Sch. / Language and Culture Dept. / Language and Culture, Osaka U. |
U. of Maryland / Linguistics Theory; Study of the Displacement Property of the Human Language under the Framework of Generative Grammer, Based on English and Japanese data | |
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HARA, Seigo
Researcher Health Policy Institute, Japan |
Stanford U. / Business Management; Rebuilding Trust in Healthcare: How to Create a Sustainable Model to Fill the Information Gap between Medical Professionals and Citizens | |
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HIGASHIJIMA, Masaaki Doctoral Student, Grand. Sch. / Political Science Political Science, Waseda U. |
Michigan State U. / Comparative Politics; The Combined Effect of Globalization and Ethnic Diversity of Regime Change and the Civil War: Statistical Analysis and Case Studies in the Developing World | |
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HIRAMATSU, Ayako Doctoral Student, Grad. Sch. / Law and Politics Legal and Political Science, U. of Tokyo |
Johns Hopkins U. / Political Science; Analysis of Congressional Party Caucuses and Transformation of Political Parties in the Post-1995 House of Representatives | |
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HISANO, Ai Doctoral Student, Grad. Sch./ Arts and Sciences Arrea Studies, U. of Tokyo |
U. of Delaware / American Studies; The Relations Between Food Marketing and Gender Issues in the Twentieth-century America | |
IKOMA, Kumi |
U. of Oklahoma / American Literature; Male Sentimentality in 19th American Realism Literature | |
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IMANISHI, Yusuke Master's Student, Grad. Sch. / Letters Enlish Linguistics, Osaka U. |
MIT / Linguistics Theory; The Compartive Study of Enlish and Japanese With Special Reference to Syntax and Phonology | |
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IWATSUKI, Taku
Doctoral Student, Grad. Sch. / Information Science Sysytems and Social Informatics, Nagoya U. |
U. of Pittsburgh / Philosophy; Pholosophical Investigation into the Methodological Foundations of Social Survey from the Perspective of the Epistemic Goal of Science | |
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KACHi, Naoko Staff Food and Health R&D Laboratories Product Research Dept., Meijiseika Corp. |
California State U., LA / Health Sciences; Investigation of Effective Practice of Nutrition Support Team in the U.S. and Its Implementation to Medical Treatment in Japan | |
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KISHITANI, Takashi Doctoral Student Grad. Sch. / Letters Contemporary Philosophy, Kyoto U. |
U.C. Davis / Latin American History; Study on the 19th Century Reorgatnization of the Transpacific Trading Network: From the Imperial Spanish Network to That of Britain and the United States | |
| MATSUBARA, Mihoko | Johns Hopkins U. / International Relations; North Korea Diplomatic and Military Strategies for the Nuclear/Missile Development and Proliferation, and the Six-Party Talks Members' Approaches | |
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MATSUMOTO, Naka Senior Visiting Researcher Keio Research Institute at SFC |
U. of Maryland / Urban & Regional Planning; Building Community's Cooperativeness Throught the Process of Reconfiguring 'Common' Space | |
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MOTEGI, Kaiji Master's Student Grad. Sch. / Economics, Applied Economics, Waseda U. |
U. of North Carolina / Econometrics; Econometric Analysis of the International Macroeconomy | |
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MURAOKA, Hideya Loan Officer Int'l Finance Dept., Japan Bannk for Int'l Cooperation |
U. of Pennsylvania / Banking & Finance; The Study of the History and Contributions of Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) in the U.S. to Seek the Expected Roles of SRI in Japan |
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NAKAGAWA, Kei Doctoral Student, Grad. Sch. / Social Science Hitotsubashi U. |
New School for Social Research / Political Sociology; The Mobility of Knowledge in the 1960's New Left Movement: Case Study of Japan-U.S. Connection of Social Thoughts | |
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NAKAI, Yu Doctoral Student, Grad. Sch. / Arts and Sciences Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies, U. of Tokyo |
New York U. / Musicology; The Electronic Music Works of David Tudor | |
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NAKAMURA, Aya Attorney-at-Law, City-Yuwa Partners |
Columbia U. / Comparison of Legal Systems; Current State of and Prospects for the Environmental Laws and Regulations in the U.S. and Japan Especially New Approach to Global Environmental Issues | |
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NAKATANI, Sanae Doctoral Student, Grad. Sch. / Arts and Sciences Area Studies, U. of Tokyo |
U. of Hawaii, Manoa / American Studies; The Making of American Dietary Culture: from Immigrant Perspectives | |
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OGITA, Satoshi
Senior Consultant, PADECO Co., Ltd. |
Harvard U. / Public Administration & Policy; A Study on Public Policy for Transport Infrastructure Development Focusing on Financing, and Regulation | |
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OKUHIRO, Keita Doctoral Student, Grad. Sch. / Arts and Sciences Area Studies, U. of Tokyo |
SUNY Albany / American Studies; U.S. Presidential Powers in an Emergency Period from the Great Depression to World War II | |
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SATO, Marie Doctoral Student, Grad. Sch. / Arts and Sciences Area Studies, U. of Tokyo |
UCLA / Sociology; Globalization and Health Behavior: Dietary Changes in Diasporic Communities | |
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SERA, Anna Counselor for Foreign Children Owari Regional Office, Aichi Board of Education |
Stanford U. / International Education; Teacher Education for Multicultiral Education in Brazil | |
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SHIGEMOTO, Akiko Resigned from Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission, Financial Services Agency |
Rutgers U. / Business Management; Research for Unethical Behavior by Employees and the Multinational Corporations | |
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TAMAKI, Nobuhiko Doctoral Student, Int'l Politics, U. of Tokyo |
Boston U. / International Relations; Japan Hands: The Crisis of 1968 and the Transformation of U.S.-Japan Relations | |
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TANAKA, Shingo Doctoral Student, Grad. Sch. / Int'l Public Policy Int'l Public Policy, Osaka U. |
New York U. / International Relations; Japan's Policy Making and Coordination between Atomic Energy and Nuclear Weapons: Perspectives from the Safeguard and Extended Deterrence in 1945-1977 | |
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TSUJI, Hiroshi Doctoral Student, Grad. Sch. / Social Medicine Public Health, Osaka Medical Coll. |
Harvard U. / Public Health & Community Health; The Impact of Gobalization on Worker's Health in Japan and the U.S. and its Implications for Health Care Policy | |
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WATANABE, Kazuhiro Doctoral Student, Grad. Sch. / Letters Philosophy, Kyoto U. |
U. of Nebraska / Philosophy; Causality and Probability in Economics: An Enquiry from Philosophical Perspectives |
ASSI
Name.Title |
Institution |
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FUJII, Dai Teacher of English Chiba Municipal Inage Sr. H.S. |
Amherst Coll. | |
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KITA, Yoko Teacher Naruto Daiichi Jr. H.S. |
U. of Illinois, Chicago | |
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TSUKAZAKI, Kaori Associate Professor, Liberal Arts / English Kagoshima Nat'l Coll. of Technology |
Amherst Coll. | |
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YASUI, Makoto Teacher of English Miyazaki Pref. Nobeoka Seiun Sr. H.S. |
U. of Illinois, Chicago |
Fulbright Language Teaching Assistant Program
Name.Title |
Institution |
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HINOHARA, Kei Doctoral Student Grad. Sch./ Literature, English and American Literature Aoyama Gakuin U. |
U. of Scranton | |
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IKARIGAWA, Yuki Master's Student Grad. Sch. / Education, English Education Naruto U. of Education |
Carleton Coll. | |
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SATO, Aya Teacher Kitakyushu Children's Village Jr. High |
Wittenberg U. | |
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SATO, Yumi Teacher Shukutoku High School |
Colorado Coll. | |
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SUZUKI, Yasuhito Rec'd M.A. in March, 2009 Grad. Sch. / Int'l Cultural Stds. English Literature, Tohoku U. |
Casper Coll. | |
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YANAGIDA, Yuki Teacher, Honjo Kita Izumi Elementary Sch. |
Lincoln U. |

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