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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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
NOGUCHI, Keiko
Professor
Fac. / Liberal Arts, Dept. / English
Tsuda Coll.
U.C. Berkeley / American Literature; Women Writers and Literary Nationalism in Antebellum America
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
TSUNOGAYA, Noriyuki
Associate Professor
Fac. / Economics, Kyushu U.
U. of Washington / Accounting; Measurement, Convergence and Japanese Accounting Thoughts
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
ASAO, Yoshihiko
Doctoral Student, Grad.Sch. / Letters
Linguistics, Kyoto U.
SUNY, Buffalo / Linguistics Theory; Formal Theory of the Usage-Based Model of Language
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
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
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
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
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
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
Doctoral Student,
Grad. Sch. / Arts and Sciences
Area Studies, U. of Tokyo

U. of Oklahoma / American Literature; Male Sentimentality in 19th American Realism Literature
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
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
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
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
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
MOTEGI, Kaiji
Master's Student
Grad. Sch. / Economics, Applied Economics, Waseda U.
U. of North Carolina / Econometrics; Econometric Analysis of the International Macroeconomy
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

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
SERA, Anna
Counselor for Foreign Children
Owari Regional Office, Aichi Board of Education
Stanford U. / International Education; Teacher Education for Multicultiral Education in Brazil
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
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
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
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
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
FUJII, Dai
Teacher of English
Chiba Municipal Inage Sr. H.S.
Amherst Coll.
KITA, Yoko
Teacher
Naruto Daiichi Jr. H.S.
U. of Illinois, Chicago
TSUKAZAKI, Kaori
Associate Professor, Liberal Arts / English
Kagoshima Nat'l Coll. of Technology
Amherst Coll.
YASUI, Makoto
Teacher of English
Miyazaki Pref. Nobeoka Seiun Sr. H.S.
U. of Illinois, Chicago


Fulbright Language Teaching Assistant Program

Name.Title
 
Institution
HINOHARA, Kei
Doctoral Student
Grad. Sch./ Literature, English and American Literature
Aoyama Gakuin U.
U. of Scranton
IKARIGAWA, Yuki
Master's Student
Grad. Sch. / Education, English Education
Naruto U. of Education
Carleton Coll.
SATO, Aya
Teacher
Kitakyushu Children's Village Jr. High
Wittenberg U.
SATO, Yumi
Teacher
Shukutoku High School
Colorado Coll.
SUZUKI, Yasuhito
Rec'd M.A. in March, 2009
Grad. Sch. / Int'l Cultural Stds.
English Literature, Tohoku U.
Casper Coll.
YANAGIDA, Yuki
Teacher,
Honjo Kita Izumi Elementary Sch.
Lincoln U.