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Center for Cultural Research and Studies


/ Atsunobu Sasaki / Professor
/ Janet R. Goodwin / Professor
/ A. K. M. H. Huq / Professor
/ Koichi Ota / Professor
/ Koji Gotoh / Associate Professor
/ Koichi Hasegawa / Associate Professor
/ Noriyuki Kikuchi / Associate Professor
/ Ken Nakazawa / Research Associate

The Center for Cultural Research and Studies (CRS) offers a broad-based educational and research program, in the humanities, social sciences, and physical education. Through this program, the Center is working to achieve the university's goals of internationalization, human development, and the promotion of regional industry, education, and culture.

The Center is composed of scholar-teachers in the following disciplines : educational philosophy, history, international relations, literature, psychology, physical education, and sociology. In addition to offering courses in their disciplines, Center members have invited students to participate in fieldwork and have involved students in special research projects. Students are welcome to use a growing collection of books and videotapes that the Center is developing. Programs to investigate the use of computers in the humanities and the social science disciplines are now underway at the university and will welcome student participation.

Computer science, the basic field of study at the University of Aizu, cannot by itself develop properly without proper attention to basic issues of ethics and human development. These issues are complex and are best explored through a variety of disciplines, several of which are represented at the Center. The Center blends these varieties to extend the frontiers of knowledge. Through the Center's program, the University of Aizu can prepare both researchers as well as students for work that benefits society as a whole, both in Japan and internationally. This is an unique feature of this Center.

Each of the faculty members in this Center has his/her own discipline and subject for studying and teaching.

Professor Janet R. Goodwin pursues studies in Japanese history. Her current research involves gender and marginality in medieval Japan.

Professor Koji Gotoh has studied modern Japanese literature and lectures on literature. His present research subject is Kunikida Doppo and other authors of those days.

Professor Koichi Hasegawa studies Kendo history and teaches physical education and physical training. His research theme is ``The systematization and construction of Kendo techniques''. He has been in Germany to teach Kendo for a half year, from last November to this May.

Professor A. K. M. Hedayetul Huq has worked on the theme ``Development through voluntary agencies in international cooperation and understanding''. His current research concerns the work of Japanese non-government organizations development in Bangladesh.

Professor Noriyuki Kikuchi researches psychology for adolescents and teaches educational psychology for adolescents and so on. His research theme is ``Career-choice in the adolescence''.

Mr. Ken Nakazawa studies physical psychology. His current theme is ``A study of personal tempo and life tempo''.

Professor Koichi Ota has made a study of educational thought in western countries. He teaches introduction to education and so on. His research concerns the educational thought of J. A. Comenius.

Professor Atsunobu Sasaki researches community empirically and teaches sociology. His current theme is ``Regional integration of medical care and social welfare in an aging society''.



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January 1996