Executive Director

US-Japan Center of Utah

1645 E. Campus Center Drive
Salt Lake City, UT 84112

TEL: (801) 585-3651
FAX: (801) 585-3351
E-MAIL: asia@business.utah.edu

CAN BE INTERVIEWED FOR: Print, Radio, TV

INTERVIEW LANGUAGES: English, Japanese

SPECIALIZATIONS:

• SOCIETY AND CULTURE
  comparative and cross-cultural studies; Japanese Rastafarianism; national identity; social issues; social structure

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Director, Utah Asian Studies Consortium (UCON); Director, Global Business Development Center at University of Utah; Director, Asian Studies, Weber State University, 1987-present; Director, US-Japan Industry and Technology Management Training Center, Utah Asian Consortium, 1987-present; Visiting Professor, American, International and Cultural Studies, University of Tokyo and Tsuda College, 1986-87; Assistant Professor and Chair, Sociology Department, MacMurray College, 1980-86; Lecturer, Sociology of Education and Sociology, University of the West Indies/College of the Bahamas, 1977-79.

IN JAPAN: 1986-87 - Fulbright, visiting scholar; 1968-71 - church representative; repeated brief trips.

MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:

Japan and the Pacific Rim, 5th Edition (1999); Japan and the Pacific Rim (revised) (The Dushkin Publishing Group, 1995); Japan and the Pacific Rim (The Dushkin Publishing Group, 1991); A Cultural Understanding of Japan (Utah Office of Education, 1991).