JAPANESE STUDIES IN CANADA DIRECTORY OF JAPAN SPECIALISTS AND JAPANESE STUDIES INSTITUTIONS IN CANADA Japanese Studies Series XXXXI 2013 THE JAPAN FOUNDATION • Tokyo Canadian volume.indb 1 4/13/2013 3:00:00 PM © 2013 The Japan Foundation 4-4-1 Yotsuya Shinjuku-ku Tokyo 160-0004 Japan All rights reserved. Written permission must be secured fronm the publisher and copyright holder to use or reproduce any part of this book. Canadian volume.indb 2 4/13/2013 3:00:00 PM CONTENTS Preface The Japan Foundation ................................................................................... v Editor’s Introduction Julian Dierkes .......................................................................vii PART 1 The Current State of Japanese Studies in Canada ..................................................... 1 PART 2 Japan Specialists in Canada........................................................................................... 9 Doctoral Candidates in Japanese Studies ................................................................... 89 Academic Institutions with Japanese Studies Programs .......................................... 93 Other Academic Institutions with Japan Specialist Staff ....................................... 153 Non-Academic Institutions with Japanese Studies Programs ................................ 155 Other Non-Academic Institutions with Japanese Studies Staff ..............................161 PART 3 Name Index ...................................................................................................................165 Institution Index ...........................................................................................................167 Canadian volume.indb 3 4/13/2013 3:00:00 PM Canadian volume.indb 4 4/13/2013 3:00:00 PM PREFACE The Japan Foundation, since its establishment in 1972, has been supporting Japanese studies all over the world, and has implemented surveys on the state of Japanese studies in main countries. In cooperation with the Association for Asian Studies, the Japanese Studies Association of Canada, and later the University of Hawaii, surveys were conducted for North America in 1989, 1995 and 2005. The results were published as multi-volume sets; Directory of Japanese Studies in the United States and Canada, which was published in three editions, Japanese Studies in the United States: the 1990s, Japanese Studies in Canada: the 1990s, and Japanese Studies in the United States and Canada: Continuities and Opportunities. In 2010, the Japan Foundation once again initiated a survey on the state of Japanese studies in the United States and Canada which would succeed the above surveys. With cooperation from the University of Hawaii again, the survey is now complete. Unlike the previous volumes, the survey results, data, and information are only available online. You may find them at http:// japandirectory.socialsciences.hawaii.edu/. Since the publication of the last survey, domestic and international circumstances in Japan have dramatically changed. In March 2011, northeastern Japan was devastated by the massive earthquake and tsunami disaster, while the financial crisis continues to put stress on the world’s economy. These changes should also have no little impact on scholars and institutions of Japanese studies. Therefore, we believe that this new survey, in the midst of such change in Japan as well as the world will provide not only a picture of the current state of Japanese studies but also as a marker or landmark for the future of Japanese studies. It is our hope that it will be useful in promoting collaborative efforts and networking among those who are engaged in activities related in Japan, not only in North America, but the rest of the world. We wish to extend our deepest gratitude to Professor Patricia G. Steinhoff of the Univer- sity of Hawaii, whose devotion and diligence directed the entirety of this project. Our sincere thanks also go to Professor Julian Dierkes of the University of British Columbia for his con- stant cooperation and dedication to the project. We finally wish to acknowledge the Univer- sity of Hawaii for undertaking the planning, data-gathering, and compilation of this project. Eiji Taguchi Executive Vice-President The Japan Foundation January 2013 v Canadian volume.indb 5 4/13/2013 3:00:00 PM Canadian volume.indb 6 4/13/2013 3:00:00 PM INTRODUCTION While the number of institutions and specialists on Japan in Canada is much smaller than in the United States, the present effort builds on four previous surveys in an important way to provide a snapshot of Japan studies in Canada. The collection of this data largely follows the methodology of the data presented in the United States volume in that it relied on a combination of previously collected data, collabora- tion with established organizations that group specialists on Japan, as well as some additional detective work to locate additional program and specialists. The two central professional associations for Japan specialists in Canada are the U.S.- based Association for Asian Studies and the Japan Studies Association of Canada (JSAC). While the Canadian Asian Studies Association (CASA) also includes an East Asian Council for CASA members who focus on Japan among other countries in East Asia, JSAC’s estab- lishment in the late 1980s has made this the dominant professional association for Japan specialists in Canada. JSAC’s leadership under current president Ken Coates (University of Saskatchewan) actively cooperated with the data collection efforts for this volume. Invitations to participate were distributed widely to JSAC members. A second crucial institution of Japan studies that is focused exclusively on Canada is the Japan Foundation’s office in Toronto under the leadership of Mr. Masayuki Suzuki until 2011 and the leadership of Mr. Takashi Ishida since then. The offices of the Japan Foundation supported data collection through a comparison of their mailing lists with lists of Canadian participants to flag any institutions that might have been missed. Finally, the relatively smaller numbers of individuals and institutions in Canada made it possible for the editor to search for Japan-related pages on the webpages of Canadian institu- tions of higher education to ensure that as few institutions with Japan programs or specialists would be missed as possible. Of course, these efforts cannot be entirely comprehensive and the editor apologizes to any individuals or institutions that may have been missed. In addition to the institutions mentioned above, the greatest debt of gratitude that is owed for the existence of the Canada data is to Pat Steinhoff and her team at the University of Hawai‘i. Without their tireless efforts, this entire project and thus the existence of extensive information on Japan libraries, specialists and programs in Canada would not have been pos- sible. François Lachapelle, a graduate student in Sociology at the University of British Co- lumbia, was instrumental in making the data analysis of the Canadian information possible. vii Front Matter.indd 7 5/23/2013 8:27:17 PM Canadian volume.indb 8 4/13/2013 3:00:00 PM PART 1 The Current State of Japanese Studies in Canada Canadian volume.indb 9 4/13/2013 3:00:00 PM Canadian volume.indb 10 4/13/2013 3:00:00 PM The Big Picture for Japanese Studies in Canada The most noticeable feature of research on Japan in Canada is its overall stable presence and relative concentration at a few institutions. As in most population figures, the difference between the U.S. and Canada is one order of magnitude. This is reflected in the overall num- bers associated with research on Japan. While the field is significantly smaller over all in Canada, some of its central academic institutions are on par with U.S. institutions leading to a much greater concentration of library and human resources. The University of British Columbia thus hosts by far the largest number of Japan spe- cialists. This institution thus accounts for roughly 20 percent of the specialists throughout the country and is twice as large as even the next-largest institution. Such a concentration is, of course, unimaginable in the context of a generally larger field in the U.S. or elsewhere. Not coincidentally, even in a Canadian context, the two largest centres of Japan specialists are also among the three largest Canadian universities by enrolment numbers in general. They are located in the largest and third-largest metropolitan regions and are also among the inter- nationally most visible universities. Their library holdings are the most extensive within Canada and a comparison of these holdings to U.S. universities places them among the most visible centres of research on Japan for North America. The present survey indicates that these centres of concentration of research on Japan are stable in the resources that are dedicated to this research. While research on Japan thus initially appears concentrated in a small number of centres in Canada, the field is also represented all across the country. Japan specialists’ presence at roughly a third of all universities nationwide suggests that the field continues to be well-rep- resented as an academic specialization in Canada. The total number of specialists responding to the survey remains virtually unchanged from 2006 (156 now versus 159 in the last round). This stability in the overall number of specialists is important to note in light of the noticeable drop that the last version of this survey (2006) reported in comparing