People

Faculty

Lecturers

Librarian

Teaching Assistants

Staff

 

Faculty

CHRISTENA TURNER, Sociology
Director, Japanese Studies joined UCSD in 1987. 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 (University of California Press, 1995).
Email: chturner@ucsd.edu;Phone:(858) 534-0490; Office: SSB 486

YASU-HIKO TOHSAKU, IR/PS
Director, Japanese Language Program
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.
Email: ytohsaku@ucsd.edu; Phone: (858) 534-2302; Office: RBC 1309


 

TAKASHI FUJITANI, History 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).
Email: tfujitani@ucsd.edu; Phone: (858) 534-7881; Office: HSS 3073

JOSEPH HANKINS, Anthropology (Ph.D. Chicago 2009), joined the Japanese Studies Program in 2009. Currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology, his research focuses on social movements of labor and identity, multiculturalism, neoliberalism, and stigma, with particular attention to the semiotics and materiality of circulation, publics, and processes of recognition.
Email: jdhankins@ucsd.edu; Phone: (858) 534-2479; Office: SSB29

TAKEO HOSHI, IR/PS, 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.
Email: thoshi@ucsd.edu; Phone: (858) 534-5018; Office: RBC 1319

GERMAINE A. HOSTON, Political Scienc 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.
Email: ghoston@ucsd.edu; Phone: (858) 489-0882; Office: SSB 376

ELLIS KRAUSS, IR/PS 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 (Cornell University Press, 2000)
Email: ekrauss@ucsd.edu; Phone: (858) 534-8175; Office: RBC 1413

MEGUMI NAOI, Political Science
Email: mnaoi@ucsd.edu; Phone: (858) 534-0027; Office: SSB 373

ULRIKE SCHAEDE, IR/PS 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.
Email: uschaede@ucsd.edu; Phone: (858) 534-42357; Office: RBC 1317; Office Hours: by appointment

STEFAN TANAKA, History 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.
Email: stanaka@ucsd.edu ; Phone: (858) 534-3401; Office: HSS 4062

LISA YONEYAMA, Literature 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).
Email: lyoneyam@ucsd.edu; Phone: (858) 534-7324; Office: LIT 427; Office Hours: By appointment only

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Emeritus

JOJI YUASA, Music 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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Lecturers

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.
Email: yfukushima@ucsd.edu; Phone:(858) 534-8921; Office: HSS 4051; Office Hours [Winter 2010]: TTh 5:00-5:45pm

HISAE FUJIWARA Lecturer, Japanese Language
mail: hfujiwara@ucsd.edu; Phone: (858) 822-5108; ; Office: HSS 6063; Office Hours[Winter 2010]: TTh 11:00-11:30am & Th 3:30-4:30pm

HIFUMI ITO Lecturer, Japanese Language
Email: hito@ucsd.edu; Phone:(858) 534-8923; Office: HSS 3053; Office Hours[Winter 2010]: MF 11:00-12:00pm

NORIKO KAMEDA, Lecturer, Japanese Language
Email: nkameda@ucsd.edu; Phone: (858) 534-8921; Office: HSS 4051; Office Hours [Winter 2010]:TTh 11:00-11:50am

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.
Email: mmckee@ucsd.edu; Phone: (858) 534-8924; Office: HSS 3057; Office Hours[Winter 2010]: T 1:15-2:15pm & Th 1:00-2:00pm

MASATO NISHIMURA joined the Japanese Studies faculty in 1985. He is a lecturer of Japanese language and is currently teaching the first year Japanese and the Advanced Japanese.
Email: mnishimura@ucsd.edu; Phone: (858) 534-0616; Office: HSS 3029; Office Hours [Winter 2010]:TTh 2:00-3:00pm

KYOKO SATO, Lecturer, Japanese Language
Email: k1sato@ucsd.edu; Phone: (858) 822-1531; Office: HSS 4037; Office Hours [Winter 2010]: T 3:30-4:30pm & W 2:00-3:00pm

YUKO TIPTON, Lecturer, Japanese Language
Email: ytipton@ucsd.edu
Phone: (858) 822-5113; Office: HSS 1126; Office Hours [Winter 2010]: Th 10:00-10:40am

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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 1126 is 858-822-5113.

FUKUDA, SHIN
Email: shfukuda@ucsd.edu
; Phone: None
Office: APM 2432; Office Hours: [Winter 10]: F 1:00-2:20pm

FURUKAWA DISMUKES, SHINOBU
Email: sdismukes@ucsd.edu; Phone: 858-822-5113;
Office: HSS 1126; Office Hours: [Winter 10]: MW 4:00-5:00pm

HA, KYUNG HEE
Email: khha@ucsd.edu ; Phone: 858-822-5113;
Office: HSS 1126; Office Hours:[Winter 10]: T 10:40-11:40am

ITO,TOMOHIRO
Email: t2ito@ucsd.edu; Phone: 858-822-5113;
Office: HSS 1126; Office Hours: [Winter 10]:M 11:00-11:40am

KUWABARA, ASUKA
Email:akuwabara@ucsd.edu; Phone: 858-822-5113;
Office: HSS 1126; Office Hours:[Winter 10]: Th 2:30-3:10pm

MASUTOMO, TAKEHIRO
Email: tmasutomo@ucsd.edu; Phone: 858-822-5113;
Office: HSS 1126; Office Hours: [Winter 10]: T 10:40-11:20am

MAZUMI, YUSUKE
Email: ymazumi@ucsd.edu; Phone: None
Office: SSB 428; Office Hours:[Winter 10]:T 11:00-12:00pm

REED, KANAKO
Email:kkreed@ucsd.edu; Phone: 858-822-5113;
Office: HSS 1126; Office Hours: [Winter 10]: F 1:00-1:40pm

SAHARA, AYAKO
Email: asahara@ucsd.edu; Phone: None
Office: SSB 243; Office Hours: [Winter 10]:T 2:50-3:50pm

SUZUKI, ERI
Email: esuzuki@ucsd.edu; Phone: 858-822-5113;
Office: HSS 1126; Office Hours:[Winter 10]: F 3:00-4:00pm

TAGO, SAYAKA
Email: stago@ucsd.edu; Phone: 858-822-5113;
Office: HSS 1126; Office Hours:[Winter 10]: MW 2:00-4:00pm

YUMURA DALTON, MIWA
Email: mdalton@ucsd.edu; Phone: 858-822-5113;
Office: HSS 1126; Office Hours: [Winter 10]:W 9:00-9:40pm

URABE, HAYATO
Email: hurabe@ucsd.edu ; Phone: 858-822-5113;
Office: HSS 1126; Office Hours: [Winter 10]: F 2:20-3:00pm

YAMAOKA, SO
Email: syamaoka@ucsd.edu ; Phone: 858-822-5113;
Office: EBU-3 2230; Office Hours: [Winter 10]: T 2:00-3:00pm

ZHANG, CHARLES (CHENGHUAN)
Email: charles.zhang@rady.ucsd.edu; Phone: 858-822-5113;
Office: HSS 1126; Office Hours:[Winter 10]:By appointment

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Staff

KINUKO KANDA, Program Coordinator & Academic Advisor
Office: Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) 3024;
Hours: Monday-Friday 8:00am-12pm & 1pm-4:30pm
Email: japan@ucsd.edu; Phone: (858) 534-3598

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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: 4/6/09