My second book! (9/2008) "International Schools, an Introduction"

My first book!

"Biculturalism and the Japanese: Beyond English Linguistic Ability"

Kenji Kushida is a PhD student in the Department of Political Science at UC Berkeley, Graduate Researcher at the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (BRIE).

Raised in Tokyo, attended the American School in Japan, and went to Stanford for college and an MA.

Updates:

My second book, about international schools, was published in September, 2008.

Some of the main points from my first book are included in an article for The ASIJ Ambassador (Alumni magazine)

Gallery from a talk I gave at ASIJ in 2007.

Here's a letter to the editor for the Financial Times that got published -- basically the theme from my book.

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By the way, ever wonder why a country as rich as Japan has so many dirt athletic fields? Here's a first cut at a crackpot political economy explanation, that might be more true than you think.