Centre for Japanese Research, UBC

Centre for Japanese Research
1855 West Mall, UBC
Vancouver, B.C.
Canada V6T 1Z2
Fax: (604) 822-5207

CJR Members

David Barrett
Department of Wood Science

Stefania Burk
ArtsOne and Department of Asian Studies
Pre-modern Literature, Poetry and Salon Culture, and Women's Writing

Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien
Department of Educational Studies
Gender, Education, Citizenship, Multiculturalism, Human Rights, Transnational Social Movements, and Globalization

David Cohen
Faculty of Forestry
Globalization, Markets and Housing of Japan and China

Millie Creighton
Department of Anthropology/Sociology
Consumerism, Identity, Work/Leisure, and Minorities

Julian Dierkes, Associate Director
Keidanren Chair in Japanese Research
Institute of Asian Research
Sociology, Education, Organizations

W. Erwin Diewert
Department of Economics
Measuring Productivity of the Economies of Japan, Australia and New Zealand

David Edgington, Director
Department of Geography
Geography of Japan and the Pacific Rim

Shirin Eshghi
Asian Library

Steven Heine
Department of Psychology
Cultural Psychology

Caroline Hirasawa
Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory
Japanese Pre-Modern Sacred Art

Nam-Lin Hur
Department of Asian Studies
History of Japan and Religious Culture

Ishu Ishiyama
Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education
Multicultural Counselling and Healing Practices, Anti-racism and Multiculturalism, Japanese Morita Psychotherapy, Spirituality and Multidimensional Self-identity, Positive Psychology

Christina Laffin
Department of Asian Studies
Pre-modern Literature, Women's History, Gender Studies

Frank Lam
Department of Wood Science
Timber Engineering and Applied Mechanics

Darrin R. Lehman
Department of Psychology
Cultural Psychology, Self-Criticism among Japanese, Health Psychology

Hyung Gu Lynn
AECL/KEPCO Chair in Korean Research
Institute of Asian Research
Modern Japanese and Korean History

Shigenori Matsui
Director of Japanese Legal Studies
Faculty of Law
Japanese Law, Constitutional Law, Internet Law and Law and Medicine

Joshua Mostow
Department of Asian Studies
Pre-modern Literature, Gender Studies, Critical Theory

Masao Nakamura
Konwakai Japan Research Chair
Institute of Asian Research; Sauder School of Business
International Business, Technology Management and Transfer, Japanese Economy

Peter Nosco
Department of Asian Studies
Intellectual and social history of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Japan

Benjamin Nyblade
Department of Political Science
Japanese Politics, Comparative Political Institutions

Sharalyn Orbaugh
Department of Asian Studies
Modern Japanese Literature

John Ries
Sauder School of Business
Japanese Business, International Trade

Marc-David Seidel
Sauder School of Business
Discrimination and networks in the employment relationship, Social networks and organizational decision making, Community Form (C-Form) of organization

Yuko Shibata
Centre for Japanese Research
Japanese Canadians, Visible Minorities, Anthropology

Yves Tiberghien
Department of Political Science
Japanese Politics

Ilan Vertinsky
Institute of Asian Research; Sauder School of Business
Japanese and Korean Business Systems, Technology Management of the Forest Sector

George Wagner
School of Architecture
Architecture and Urbanism

William Wray
Department of History
Business History and the World Economy

Associate Members

R. Dore, Honorary Professor, Institute of Asian Research, UBC
T. Gonnami, UBC
T. Kakehi, UBC
T. Kawasaki, Simon Fraser University
M. Kohno, Waseda Univ
B. Lee
M. Matsumoto, UBC
C. Mosk, University of Victoria
K. Nagatani, Kobe University
P. Tsurumi, University of Victoria

Affiliated Graduate Students, 2007-2008

MA Students

Sara Badiei (Electrical Engineering)
Emma Buchtel (Cultural Psychology)
Christopher Craig (History)
Ilan Dar-nimrod (Psychology)
Jorge Duran (Forestry)
Masumi Abe El-khoury (Asian Studies)
Nicholas Hall (Asian Studies)
Michiyo Hayae (Education Studies)
Paul Hsu (MAPPS)
Koichiro Ito (Economics)
Woobinn Kim (Asian Studies)
Matthew Levine (Law and MAPPS)
Bonnie Liu (MAPPS)
Pascale Massot (MAPPS)
Kozue Matusmoto (Educational Studies)
Yuki Matsuyama (Education)
Eiji Okawa (Asian Studies)
Cyrus Huiyong Qiu (Asian Studies)
Kaori Takagi (Psychology)
Jayme Taylor (Anthropology)
Anna Turinov (Law)
Adam Wanke (Law)
Sandra Youssef (Anthropology)

PhD Students

Pavlos Alexiadis (Wood Science)
Tamara Barnett (Asian Studies)
Maiko Behr (Asian Studies)
Oleg Benesch (Asian Studies)
Philippe Bourbeau (Political Science)
Kyung Ho Chun (Anthropology and Sociology)
Nathen Clerici (Asian Studies)
Sanjay Coelho (Community and Regional Planning)
Tomokazu Fujitsuka (Educational Studies)
Gideon Fujiwara (Asian Studies)
Takeshi Hamamura (Psychology)
Hiroko Hara (Educational Studies)
Daisaku Higashi (Political Science)
Gakushi Ishimura (Resource Management and Environmental Studies)
Gergana Ivanova (Asian Studies)
Nao Kashiwagi (Law)
Kazuko Kameda-Madar (Art History)
Chiaki Konishi (Education)
Douglas Lanam (Asian Studies)
Wenping Eric Liu (Law)
Shiho Maeshima (Asian Studies)
Satoko Mizutani (Sociology)
Go Murakami (Political Science)
Mariko Nagoshi (Anthropology)
Yoko Namita (Curriculum Studies)
Jeff Newmark (Asian Studies)
Robin O'Day (Anthropology)
Maria Grazia Petrucci (History)
Rosa Sevy (Sociology)
Sean Somers (English)
Hanae Tsukada (Educational Studies)
Etsuko Yasui (Community and Regional Planning)
Kaori Yoshida ( Asian Studies)