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Faculty

ELLIS KRAUSS, Director, Japanese Studies Program joined UCSD in 1995. He is a Professor of Japanese Politics and Policymaking with the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies. He recently published Broadcasting Politics in Japan: NHK and Television News (Cornell University Press, 2000)
Office: RBC 1413; Phone: 534-8175; Email: ekrauss@ucsd.edu

YASU-HIKO TOHSAKU, Director, Japanese Language Program. Professor Tohsaku joined the Japanese Studies Program in 1987 and is Professor of Pacific International Affairs for the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies. He wrote the the first communicative-oriented Japanese language textbooks published in the United States textbook, also used by the Japanese language program, Yookoso!: An Invitation to Contemporary Japanese and Yookoso!: Continuing with Contemporary Japanese.
Office: RBC 1309; Phone: 534-2302; Email: ytohsaku@ucsd.edu

YUMIKO FUKUSHIMA BLANFORD joined the Japanese Studies language lecturer team in 1998. She came to the U.S. by invitation to pioneer the teaching of Japanese at the University of Washington and has years of teaching experience since then. Her Ph.D. is in Classical Chinese Studies from the University of Washington, where she conducted seminal research on the transformation of Chinese texts and the writing system since 200 B.C., a topic with direct relevance to the adoption and subsequent development of kanji in Japan.
Office Hours: HSS 4051; Phone: 534-8921; Email: yfukushima@ucsd.edu

HISAE FUJIWARA Lecturer, Japanese Language
Office Hours: HSS 6063; Phone: 822-5108; Email: hfujiwar@ucsd.edu

TAKASHI FUJITANI joined the Japanese Studies faculty in 1992. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of History and is a specialist in Modern Japanese History. His most recent publication is Perilous Memories: The Asia-Pacific War(s). Co-edited with Lisa Yoneyama and Geoffrey M. White (Duke University Press, 2001).
Office Hours: HSS 3073; Phone: 534-7881; Email: tfujitani@ucsd.edu

TAKEO HOSHI joined UCSD in 1988. He is past director of the Program in Japanese Studies and is currently a Professor at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies. Hoshi and colleague, Anil Kashyap, recently published "The Japanese Banking Crisis: Where Does It Come From and How Will It End?" in NBER Economics Annual 1999 (MIT Press).
Office Hours: RBC 1319; Phone: 534-5018; Email: thoshi@ucsd.edu

GERMAINE A. HOSTON joined the Japanese Studies Program in 1992. She is Professor of Political Science and Adjunct Professor in the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies. Her most recent publication is The State, Identity, and the National Question in China and Japan (Princeton University Press, 1994). Professor Hoston is also a member of the Chinese Studies faculty.
Office: SSB 376; Phone: (888) 489-0882; Email: ghoston@ucsd.edu

HIFUMI ITO Lecturer, Japanese Language
Office Hours: HSS 3053; Phone: 534-8923; Email: hito@ucsd.edu

NORIKO KAMEDA, Lecturer, Japanese Language
Office Hours: HSS 4051; Phone: 534-8921; Email: nkameda@ucsd.edu

S-Y KURODA retired from UCSD in 1994. He is currently a Professor Emeritus and a Research Professor in Linguistics Department. His areas of research include linguistic theory and Japanese syntax, semantics and phonology. He published Japanese Syntax and Semantics: Collected Papers (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992).
Office: McGill Hall 3126G; Phone: 822-2656; Email: sykuroda@ucsd.edu

MAYUMI MOCHIZUKI MCKEE joined UCSD in 1996 and is a full time lecturer in the Japanese Studies program. She teaches second and fourth year Japanese language courses and her research interests include Japanese pedagogy and Japanese linguistics.
Office Hours: HSS 3057; Phone: 534-8924; Email: mmckee@ucsd.edu

MASAO MIYOSHI retired from UCSD in 2005 and is currently a Professor Emeritus in the Literuature Department. He was the Hajime Mori Professor of Japanese, English, and Comparative Literature. His expertise included Cultural Studies, Critical Theory, Modern Japanese Literature, and Victorian Literature. Professor Myoshi’s most recent publication is The Culture of Globalization, co-edited with Fredric Jameson. (Duke University Press, 1997).
Email: mmiyoshi@ucsd.edu

MASATO NISHIMURA joined the Japanese Studies faculty in 1985. He is a lecturer of Japanese language and is currently in charge of the first year Japanese.
Office Hours: HSS 3029; Phone: 534-0616; Email: mnishimu@ucsd.edu

KYOKO SATO, Lecturer, Japanese Language
Office Hours: HSS 4037; Phone: 822-1531; Email: k1sato@ucsd.edu

ULRIKE SCHAEDE joined UCSD in 1994 and is an Associate Professor for the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies. Her major areas of research have included the role of industry associations and antitrust policy in Japan, as well as the financial crisis of the 1990s and the role of the Ministry of Finance in Japan's regulatory and fiscal system. In 2000, she published Cooperative Capitalism: Self-Regulation, Trade Associations and the Antimonopoly Law in Japan.
Office: RBC 1317; Phone: 534-42357; Email: uschaede@ucsd.edu

STEFAN TANAKA joined the Japanese Studies faculty in 1994 and is a Professor for the Department of History. His research includes Modern Japanese History and the history of childhood.
Office: HSS 4062; Phone: 534-3401; Email: stanaka@ucsd.edu

CHRISTENA TURNER joined UCSD in 1987 and is past director of the Program in Japanese Studies. Professor Turner is an associate professor with the Department of Sociology and an adjunct associate professor at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies. Her areas of research and teaching include Chinese and Japanese Studies, culture, consciousness, labor relations and workplace cultures, everyday life, religion, and ethnography. She has published Japanese Workers in Protest: An Ethnography of Consciousness and Experience (University of California Press, 1995).
Office Hours: SSB 486, Phone: 534-0490; Email: chturner@ucsd.edu

LISA YONEYAMA joined the Japanese Studies Program in 1992 and is an Associate Professor of Cultural Studies and Japanese Studies in the Department of Literature. Her areas of research and teaching include Cultural Studies, Critical Gender Studies, Asian and Asian American Studies, and US-Japan relations. Professor Yoneyama recently published Violence, War, Redress: Politics of Multiculturalism (in Japanese, published from Iwanami Shoten, 2003). Her other publications include Hiroshima Traces: Time, Space, and the Dialectics of Memory (University of California Press, 1999) and Perilous Memories: The Asia-Pacific War(s). Co-edited with Takashi Fujitani and Geoffrey M. White (Duke University Press, 2001).
Office Hours: LIT 3127, Phone: 534-7324; Email: lyoneyam@ucsd.edu

JOJI YUASA retired from UCSD in 1994 and is currently a Professor Emeritus in the Music Department. He has been actively engaged in a wide range of musical composition, including orchestral, choral and chamber music, music for theatre, and intermedia, electronic and computer music.

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Japanese Studies Librarian

SANAE ISOZUMI
Office: 0514, IR/PS Library; Phone: 534-1224; Email: sisozumi@ucsd.edu

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Teaching Assistants

The phone number for the TA office in HSS 1121 is 858-822-5113.

MIWA DALTON
Email: mdalton@ucsd.edu

SHINOBU FURUKAWA DISMUKES
Email: sdismukes@ucsd.edu

RIKA HATAKEYAMA
Email: rhatakeyama@san.rr.com

MASAFUMI IINO
Email: miino@ucsd.edu

SACHIKO KATO
Email: sakato@ucsd.edu

YUICHIRO KAWAI
Email: ykawai@ucsd.edu

YUSUKE MAZUMI
Email: ymazumi@ucsd.edu

HIROKI MITSUHASHI
Email: hmitsuha@ucsd.edu

MAKIKO OHASHI
Email: ncolsey1@san.rr.com

AYAKO SAHARA
Email: asahara@ucsd.edu

ERI SUZUKI
Email: esuzuki@ucsd.edu

OKSIL YANG
Email: oyang@ucsd.edu

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Staff

KINUKO KANDA, Program Coordinator & Academic Advisor
Office: HSS 3024; Hours: M-F 8:00a-4:30p, Lunch 12:00p-1:00p
Phone: 534-3598, Email: japan@ucsd.edu

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Questions? Please contact the Japanese Studies Program
Humanities & Social Sciences Room 3024
ph (858) 534-3598, fax (858) 534-7283
9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, CA 92093-0104

Last Update: 11/08/07