Faculty in Japanese Studies

(in alphabetical order)

Robert Z. Aliber -- Professor, Graduate School of Business

Bruce Cumings -- Professor, Department of History and the College

Norman and Edna Freehling Professor of International History and East Asian Political Economy.
He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1975 and has since taught at Swarthmore College, University of Washington, Northwestern University, and the University of Chicago. He is the author or co-author of eight books, including a 2-volume study of Origins of the Korean War (Princeton Univ. Press, 1981, 1990), War and Television (Verso, 1992), and Parallax Visions: American-East Asian Relations at Century's End (Duke, 1999). He also served as the Principal Historical Consultant for Thames Television/PBS 6-hour documentary, Korea: The Unknown War.

Norma Field -- Professor and Chair, Department of East Asian Languages & Civilizations

Anil Kashyap -- Associate Professor, Graduate School of Business

Research interests include: Empirical implications of capital market imperfections; the impact of institutions and regulation in Japanese capital markets; monetary policy and economic fluctuations.
He is currently serving on the Advisory Council Member for Japanese External Trade Organization's survey on "Actual Conditions Regarding Access to Japan," 1995-present. And he is the Founder of Case Net, 1995-present. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1989.
For more information, visit his website at: http://gsbwww.uchicago.edu/fac/anil.kashyap/index.html

James Ketelaar -- Professor, Department of History and the College

Harumi Lory -- Senior Lecturer, Department of East Asian Languages & Civilizations

After receiving her B.A. from Sophia University in Tokyo, she completed specialized training and obtained certification for Japanese language instruction from the Asahi Cultural Center, the National Language Research Institute, and the Tokyo Y.M.C.A. College of English. She taught in Japan from 1981 to 1990 before coming to the University of Chicago where she has been since 1992. She teaches elementary, intermediate, and advanced Japanese. She is the co-author of Express Japanese (Hakusuisha, 1987) and Intermediate Japanese for University Students: Teacher's Guide (Sotakusha, 1993). Her future plans include offering a reading course in Japanese focusing on novels, short stories, and essays by Kenzaburo Oe, Shuusaku Endo, and others.

James McCawley -- Professor, Departments of Linguistics and East Asian Languages & Civilizations

Tetsuo Najita -- Professor, Departments of History and East Asian Languages & Civilizations and the College

Robert S. Ingersoll Distinguished Service Professor of Japanese History.
Focusing on Early Modern and Modern Japanese history; Intellectual history of politics and culture.
Recent publication: Tokugawa Political Writings -- Cambridge Texts in Political Thought (Cambridge University Press, 1998.)

Hiroyoshi Noto -- Senior Lecturer, Department of East Asian Languages & Civilizations

Joined the University of Chicago in 1984 after teaching advanced students for a decade at the Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies in Tokyo (currently in Yokohama).
Publications include: Communicating in Japanese (Elementary Japanese language textbook, 1992, Sotakusha) and Intermediate Japanese for University Students (1995, Tokyo, Taishukan). (These are also the textbooks that are currently being used for the first 8 quarters at this university.)

William Sibley -- Associate Professor, Department of East Asian Languages & Civilizations

Bernard Silberman -- Professor, Department of Political Science and the College

Yoshiko Uchida -- Lecturer, Department of East Asian Languages & Civilizations

Having received her M.A. from Ohio State University in East Asian Studies focusing on the Japanese Linguistics (syntax), she has been teaching Japanese at major universities in North America for 8 years. She is also currently teaching at the summer school at Middlebury College. Research interests include developing computer assisted programs for learning Japanese grammar.

Kazuo Yamaguchi -- Professor, Department of Sociology and the College

Alwyn Young -- Professor, Graduate School of Business

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