Director

Obirin University Center for International Affairs

3758 Tokiwa-machi
Machida-shi, Tokyo 194-02

TEL: (0427) 97-2661
FAX: (0427) 97-0790
E-MAIL: bruce@ppp.bekkoame.or.jp

CAN BE INTERVIEWED FOR: Print, Radio, TV

INTERVIEW LANGUAGES: English, Japanese

SPECIALIZATIONS:

• EDUCATION
  bilateral educational and cultural relations; comparative educational systems; education and society; foreign language instruction in Japan; international educational exchange programs; Japanese language instruction in US; pre-collegiate education; students; US academic institutions in Japan
• HISTORY
  institutional history; political and diplomatic history
• SOCIETY, CULTURE AND PSYCHOLOGY
  academic achievement; contemporary society

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Obirin University, 1989-present; Director, Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies, 1991-95; Resident Director, Cooperative Japanese Business and Society Program, Council for International Educational Exchange, 1986-89; Visiting Scholar, Kyushu University, 1983-85.

IN JAPAN: 1979-81, 1986-present - employment; 1983-85 - Fulbright, research.

MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:

"Needed: More American Experts in Japan," JAMA Forum (July, 1995); "Provincial Administration in Early Japan: From Ritsuryo kokka to Ocho kokka," Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies (1993); "Why was the Dazaifu Established," Shin shiten: Nihon no rekishi, vol. 3 (Shinjinbutsu Oraisha, 1993); "Foreign Crisis and Domestic Reform: The Emergence of the Ritsuryo State," Monumenta Nipponica (Summer 1986).