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Toshihiko Hayashi

Professor Hayashi is Professor of Economics at the University of the Air in Japan and Former Chairman of the Board of the Stanford Japan Center. After completing his B.A. and M.A. degrees in economics at Kyoto University and Osaka University, respectively, he completed his PhD in economics at Stanford University. He has taught at Kobe University of Commerce, University of California at Davis, and Osaka University. He was the first Dean of the School of International Public Policy at Osaka University. From 2001-2006, he served as Director of Stanford Japan Center-Research and Chair of the SJC-Board. He has taught economics at SCTI since 2004.

Professor Hayashi is a specialist in telecommunication policy and the governance of advanced information societies. He has served on major advisory commissions of the Japanese government in these fields.

Among his many publications are:

• Information-Based Economic Systems;
• American in the Great Depression;
• The Governance of the Advanced Information Society (co-editor);
• Japan’s Financial Institutions in Turmoil (co-editor);
• Introduction to Heart and Mind Economics

Professor Hayashi is a resident of Kobe and has been deeply involved in the evolution of the agenda for the city’s reconstruction after the 1995 earthquake

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Bettina Langner-Teramoto

Professor Langner-Teramoto is a professional architect and university lecturer in architectural design and Japanese culture. She is a graduate of the architectural department of Aachen Technical University (Germany) and did her graduate studies at Dusseldorf Academy of Fine Arts and at Aachen Technical University, where she was certified as First Class Architect. After serving as an architect in the Office of Engineering and Architecture in Tilke, she came to Japan to study at Ryukoku University in Kyoto. Subsequently, she has been a practicing architect in Kyoto and Osaka and in 2002 founded ARCHITEKTURRAEUME Design Office.

She has taught at Aachen Technical University, Kyoto Women’s University, Ritsumeikan University and the Kyoto Center for Japanese Studies. Professor Langner-Teramoto has published widely in Japanese and European journals in the fields of housing, ecology and architecture and is the creator of a number of major architectural projects in Japan and Europe. In 1998, she won First Prize in the International Competition for the Future Vision of Kyoto.

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Terry MacDougall

Terry MacDougall is Consulting Professor at Stanford University and has been the Director of the Stanford Center for Technology and Innovation since 1992. He also served as Director of the Kyoto Center for Japanese Studies between 1992 and 2006. After graduating from Oberlin College in 1963 with a B.A. in history, Professor MacDougall spent three years in Japan studying Japanese and teaching at Doshisha High School in Kyoto. He completed his masters and PhD degrees in political science at Yale University. He taught at the University of Virginia, Harvard University, and Boston University before coming to Stanford University in 1992.

Professor MacDougall’s academic specialties include Japanese and comparative politics and the international relations of East Asia.

Among his publications are:

• Political Leadership in Contemporary Japan (editor);
• The Internationalization of Japanese Regional Cities (co-author, in Japanese);
• Perspectives on Japan from a New Generation of American Scholars (editor)

and a wide range of articles in English and Japanese on comparative urban politics, political leadership and political opposition, and Japan in international affairs. His current research focuses on the civil and political rights of foreign residents in Japan and the Western democracies, a field in which he has co-organized a number of international symposia. Professor MacDougall has also served in advisory roles to local and national governments in the US and Japan.

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Japanese Language Instructors

Toshiko Fujiwara

Fujiwara-sensei has taught at KCJS/SCTI since 1991-92. She did her B.A. in English literature at Kobe University of Foreign Studies and also studied at the National Institute of Japanese Language. Fujiwara-sensei headed the English language program at the Kyoto YMCA and taught at the American Exchange Program in Seattle, University of Sheffield in England, and Ritsumeikan University before coming to the Stanford Japan Center. Currently, she is in charge of the Japanese 17K course in SCTI.

Mariko Uemiya

Uemiya-sensei has taught at KCJS/SCTI since 1991-92. She received her B.A. in English literature from Kobe College and M.A. in second language teaching from Temple University. She also studied Japanese syntax as a research student at Osaka University. Before coming to the Stanford Japan Center, she taught English at Kinran Senri High School and Japanese at a Japanese school in Taiwan the Illinois Center at Konan University, and Kyoto Foreign Language University. She has also been an instructor at Stanford University(s summer session. Currently, she teaches Japanese 129K at SCTI.

Orie Yamada

Yamada-sensei joined the Japanese language programs at KCJS and SCTI in 2006-07. She received her B.A. in Western philosophy from Ritsumeikan University and M.A. in Asian studies from the University of Illinois. She has taught at Columbia University, UCLA and the Inter-University Center for Japanese Studies in Yokohama. She is co-author of Shauman’s Outline of Japanese Vocabulary. At SCTI, she teaches Japanese 9K.

Chihiro Yamaoka

Yamaoka-sensei is Director of the SCTI Japanese Language Program and has taught at both SCTI and KCJS since their founding in 1989-90. He received his B.A. in German literature (and a teaching certificate in English) from Chuo University in Tokyo and his M.A. in linguistics from Ohio University. As a graduate student at Ohio University, he founded the university’s Japanese language program. Upon returning to Japan, he taught at Osaka University of Foreign Studies and Konan University in Kobe before coming to the Stanford Japan Center. Yamaoka-sensei is co-author of a series of Japanese language textbooks, Workbooks of Japanese Grammar for Upper-Elementary Level I, II, II and IV. Currently, he co-teaches Japanese 9K and 19K in SCTI, as well as directing the language program.

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