East Asia Center Faculty » JAPAN

MARIE ANCHORDOGUY anchor@u.washington.edu
Professor, Jackson School of International Studies
Chair, East Asia Program, Jackson School of International Studies
Areas of Interest: Political economy of postwar Japan; institutions in contemporary Japan; Japanese business and technology

PAUL ATKINS patkins@u.washington.edu
Assistant Professor, Department of Asian Languages and Literature
Areas of Interest: Classical Japanese literature

DAVINDER L. BHOWMIK dbhowmik@u.washington.edu
Assistant Professor, Department of Asian Languages and Literature
Areas of Interest: 19th and 20th century Japanese literature and criticism; atomic bomb literature; Okinawan literature; post-colonial theory

CYNTHEA BOGEL cjbogel@u.washington.edu
Assistant Professor, Division of Art History
Areas of Interest: Japanese art history, Buddhist arts of Asia

DONALD C. HELLMANN hellmann@u.washington.edu
Professor, Jackson School of International Studies and Department of Political Science
Director, Institute for International Policy
Areas of Interest: Japanese political economy and international relations; Pacific Rim relations; U.S. foreign policy; international institutions

AKIKO IWATA
Lecturer, Department of Asian Languages and Literature

MASASHI KATO mkato@tjp.washington.edu
Lecturer, Technical Japanese Program, College of Engineering
Areas of Interest: Technology-enhanced language learning and teaching; distance learning

EDWARD MACK tmack@u.washington.edu
Assistant Professor, Department of Asian Languages and Literature
Areas of Interest: Modern Japanese literature

LEILA MADGE leilam@u.washington.edu
Acting Assistant Professor, Jackson School of International Studies

IZUMI MATSUDA matsuda@u.washington.edu
Lecturer, Department of Asian Languages and Literature
Areas of Interest: Japanese pedagogy; elementary-advanced Japanese language

MIYAKO MCDAVID mimai@tjp.washington.edu
Teaching Associate, Department of Technical Communication
Areas of Interest: Japanese pedagogy

TOMOKO NAKAONE tnakaone@u.washington.edu
Teaching Associate, Department of Asian Languages and Literature
Areas of Interest: Japanese language

TOSHIYUKI OGIHARA ogihara@u.washington.edu
Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics
Areas of Interest: Formal semantics, syntax-semantics interface, structure of Japanese

JUDY OKADA
Lecturer, Department of Asian Languages and Literature.

AMY SNYDER OHTA aohta@u.washington.edu
Associate Professor, Department of Asian Languages and Literature
Areas of Interest: Japanese second language acquisition; sociolinguistics

KAORU OHTA kaoru@u.washington.edu
Senior Lecturer, Department of Asian Languages and Literature
Areas of Interest: Japanese linguistics; syntactic theory

KEN T OSHIMA koshima@u.washington.edu
Assistant Professor, Architecture

ROBERT PEKKANEN pekkanen@u.washington.edu
Assistant Professor, Jackson School of International Studies
Area of Interest: Non-profit organizations in Japanese society

SAADIA PEKKANEN smp1@u.washington.edu
Job and Gertrud Tamaki Professor of International Studies, Jackson School of International Studies
Areas of Interest: International law; International political economy; WTO law on Japan’s foreign trade diplomacy

SACHI SCHMIDT-HORI
Lecturer, Department of Asian Languages and Literature.

KENNETH B. PYLE kbp@u.washington.edu
Professor, Department of History and Jackson School of International Studies
Areas of Interest: Japanese history

TOSHIKO TAKENAKA toshiko@u.washington.edu
Associate Professor, Director, CASRIP and IP/Technology, LL.M. Program, School of Law
Areas of Interest: Patent and intellectual property law in East Asia

VERONICA TAYLOR vtaylor@u.washington.edu
Director, Asian Law LL.M. Program
Professor, School of Law
Areas of Interest: Japanese law and society; commercial law in Asia; contracts and international transactions

KYOKO TOKUNO tokuno@u.washington.edu
Assistant Professor, Jackson School of International Studies

MICHIO TSUTSUI mtsutsui@u.washington.edu
Director, Technical Japanese Program
Associate Professor, Department of Technical Communication
Donald E. Petersen Professor, College of Engineering
Areas of Interest: Technology-enhanced language learning; teaching Japanese for special purposes.



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