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My second book! (2008)
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Kenji E. Kushida is a Graduate Researcher at the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (BRIE) and a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at University of California Berkeley. I was raised in Tokyo and attended the American School in Japan. For college, I attended Stanford, majoring in Economics (BA), East Asian Studies (BA), and International Relations (the interesting "secondary major" system). I also got an MA in East Asian Studies at Stanford, although I spent quite a bit of time on the soccer field. At the UC Berkeley political science department and at the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy, I am researching political economy issues. Topically, I am focusing on IT policy and markets, the IT-enabled transformation of service activities, and political effects of Foreign Direct Investment. Geographically, I am focusing mostly on Japan, Korea, and the US. I also wrote two books in Japanese unrelated to the PhD. The first, "Biculturalism and the Japanese: Beyond English Linguistic Capabilities" was published in 2006. It advocates thinking of bilingual as separate from bicultural, and contends that double-insider-outsider worldviews can be useful in the journey towards biculturalism. Some of the main points were picked up in the ASIJ Ambassador (alumni magazine) and in a letter to the editor in the Financial Times. The second, "International Schools, an Introduction" (2008) fills a glaring information gap in Japan; despite intense interest in international schools, very little substantial or useful information is available to the Japanese public. I offer a typology of different types of international schools operating in Japan. I illuminate critical structures, aspects of their educational systems, and explore sociocultural issues. To combat questionable fly-by-night international schools which exploit the lack of information generally available, I offer a set of parameters for parents to use in evaluating international schools.
------------------------- 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 (2003). It may be more true than you think. |
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