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I am currently living in Hannover, Germany.  I teach a course in Japanese (in German) at a community college in Hannover (Volkshochschule Hannover) and sometimes also teach sushi and other Japanese food at a cooking school (called Geschmacksverstaerker).   From 1996 to 2007 (1996-2001 as Assistant Professor, 2001-2007 as Associate Professor), I was a member of the Philosophy Department and Graduate Faculty at the Center for the Pacific Rim at the University of San Francisco.  I was born and raised  in Kamakura, Japan.  After my AFS high school exchange student year in 1980 in Del Mar, CA, I moved to the United States in 1982.   I received my B.A. and M.A. in Philosophy from San Diego State University and Ph.D. in Philosophy from University of California at Riverside in 1996.  During Fall 97 I was a CNRS research associate at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris.  My field of research and interest include modern Japanese philosophy, Chinese philosophy, 19th and 20th Century European philosophy (emphasis in  phenomenology), philosophy of consciousness, ethics, feminism, and political philosophy. Other activities I have participated in the past are:  a working group for phenomenology and the cognitive sciences and on the Advisory Board for the Association for Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences; the U.S.-Japan Sustainability Research Team, a collaborative project consisting of scholars, organizers of Environmental NGO's, and environmental engineers from Japan and the U.S.  In January 2003, I have also taught at Kobe University as an adjunct professor.

List of publications include:

The linked manuscripts are pdf files (requires Acrobat Reader--if you don't have it and would like to download the Reader directly from the Acrobat site, click here).  Please note that they are not identical to the published versions.

Courses taught at the University of San Francisco (some syllabi from the past):