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Music, Musical Instruments, Fine Arts, Music History, Film studies, Digital Art, Action painting, Abstraction, Abstract Expressionism, Aesthetic, Angular, Architecture, Artifice, Arts and Crafts movement, Assemblage, Automatism, Baroque, Calligraphy, Art Conservation, Art education

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United States

Manhattan School of Music

Degree: Masters of Music

- Concentration: Piano Performance with Nina Svetlanova
- Relevant Courses: Piano Pedagogy with Dr. Marjean Olson
- Relevant Courses: Music Theory with Dr. Nils Vigeland

Manhattan School of Music

Degree: Bachelors of Music

- Concentration: Piano performance with Solomon Mikowsky
- Relevant Courses: Piano Pedagogy with Dr. Marjean Olson

Toho School Music

High School Diploma

- Piano performance with Yoriko Kojima
- Music Theory with Nobuyoshi Iinuma

12 years translation experience includes the following.

Collaboration with poet, Ezequiel Zaidenwerg for American Poetry Anthology.

Translation work for Angel’s Share Inc.

Assistance research work for Zen-on Music Publishing for Ravel Oeuvres Completès Pour Piano.

Some of his translated papers are as follows –

- Music training improves verbal memory
- Communication, music, and speech about music
- Performance analysis of root-MUSIC
- The social psychology of music.
- Community music therapy
- The rhythmic structure of music
- Music, gender, education
- Explaining music: Essays and explorations
- The importance of music to adolescents
- Emotions in strong experiences with music.
- Music and imagination
- Emotional expression in music.
Felician College

Music Department, Adjunct Professor

- Teach private piano lessons
- Preparing private students for solo recitals, accompanying concerts, auditions, and juries
- Build appropriate repertoire based on each student’s abilities and needs
- Develop technique plan fitted for each individual student
- Develop their technical, theoretical, and historical knowledge of music
- Build curriculum for Basic Piano II group class
- Teaching Basic Piano II class, a group class of individuals with variety of levels in piano skills
Beth Elohim after School Program

Instructor, piano

- Teach private classes for ages 5 to 13, for 15-20 students a trimester
- Organize one to two concerts per year
- Setting of curriculum for each student
- Preparing students towards recitals, school concert events, and auditions
- Hold parent-teacher conferences
Yuko Suzuki Piano Studio

Founder

- All levels, from ages 4 to 83, for 8-15 students a year
- Preparation ranging from solo recitals, auditions, school shows, and coaching prize-winning students for regional competitions
- Setting up curriculum for each individual students, with a goal of heightening of musical abilities, confidence, and poise in performance situation
- Organizing of two concerts a year, setting of itinerary, securing of location, preparation of students, and organizing of reception party
Manhattan School of Music Pre-college Division

Substitute instructor, chamber ensemble

Voluntary activities

WHCAP, a non-profit project for Arts Empowerment in Washington Heights

- Helping set up and organization of public events
Volunteer work for The Dome Project
- Assisting of completion of art installation

Performance and Awards
- Solo recital at National Opera Association of America.
- Various recitals and auditions as accompanist.
- Concentration on low-brass music, of about 25 a year.
- Solo Recital at Steinway Hall.
- Solo Recital at the Alliance Francaise.
- Performance at New York Historical Society.
- Southern Youth Music Festival.
- Young Artist Division, First Place.
- YKAA International Piano competition.

Humanities, Law

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USA

Joint Juris Doctor/Master of Environmental Management, Yale Law School, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, New Haven, CT
Bachelor of Arts, Japanese Language and Literature, Music Composition (summa cum laude), University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

Research Assistant, Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy, New Haven, CT
Teaching Fellow, Yale University Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, New Haven, CT
Summer Legal Intern, Natural Resources Defense Council, Santa Monica, CA
Summer Legal Intern, Interamerican Association for Environmental Defense (AIDA), Mexico City, Mexico

Disaster management, Environmental policy, Waste Management, Language and Linguistics, Literature, Performing Arts, Animal law/Animal rights, Civil Law, Civil procedure, Comparative Law, Constitutional law, Criminal Law, Environmental Law, General Law, Torts, Contracts, Corporate Law, International Law, Property Law, Tax Law

Anthropology of Religion, Theology/Religion, Buddhism, Bilingual Education, Modern History, Asian Studies, Japanese Literature, Humanities, Indian Religions, Theology, Music Theory, Religious Studies (Others), Asian History, Cultural Anthropology, Religious Education, Cultural History, Japanology (Japanese Studies), History of Religion

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Japan

- MA in Buddhist Studies. From Otani University Kyoto, Japan
- Completed 1.5 years Research Student Program.
- Completed Japanese Language Program from Stanford College’s Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies Yokohama, Japan.
- BA in East Asian Studies (Minor: Religion) from Oberlin College Ohio, USA.

10 years translation experience includes the following.
Some of his translated research papers/manuscripts are as follows –
- Translation of articles on the “After Dante” paradox.
- Translation of articles on the observation of the Korean mentality.
- Translation of articles on the housing market situation during Japan's post-war control period.
- Translation of articles on political thought and religious studies.
- Translation of articles on building a support system for foreign doctors.
- Translation of articles on the political thought and religious policies in ancient Japan.
- Translation of articles regarding the examination of the Saikaid administrative system under the Ritsury Era Dazaifu.
- Translation of papers on creating an economy from non-economic factors.
- Translation of articles on analyzing differences in literary styles of Boys’ Manga using multivariate analyses.
- Translation of articles regarding building a support system for doctors by communicating with onomatopoeic expressions of pain.
- Translation of articles on study of choruses and the logic behind their use during the Asia-Pacific War.
- Translation of articles on the concept of “Remodeling the World”.
- Appointment of Confucian scholars in feudal domains: A case study of Tatsuno domain in the 17th and 18th centuries.
- Translation of articles on the political thought and religious policies in ancient Japan.
- Translation of articles regarding the examination of the Saikaid administrative system under the Ritsury Era Dazaifu.
- Translation of articles on political thought and religious studies.
- Translation of articles on the housing market situation during Japan's post-war control period.
- Translation of articles on study of choruses and the logic behind their use during the Asia-Pacific War.
- Translation of articles on the observation of the Korean mentality.
- Translation of articles on the “After Dante” paradox.

Book Review: Shinbori Kanno, Kindai Bukky kydan to goeika (Modern Buddhist institutions and Goeika).Japanese Religions.

Kindai bukky gainen wo meguru ichi ksatsu: ‘tetsugaku toshiteno bukky’ naru gensetsu no seisei to tenkai [The Modern Concept of Buddhism: The Formation and Development of the Buddhism as Philosophy Discourse]. Kindai bukky 21.

Shinkanshkai: Bonds of the Dead: Temples, Burial, and the Transformation of contemporary Japanese.

Buddhism by Mark Rowe. Kindai bukky Column Bukkykei shinbun, zasshi no naka no kkoku. In Kindai bukky sutadiizu, Kond Shuntar, tani Eiichi, and Yoshinaga Shin’ichi,

MEXT Scholarship Recipient

A highly competitive scholarship sponsored by the Japanese Government Ministry of Education, Cultural, Sports, Science and Technology. Provides tuition and a living stipend to attend graduate school in Japan.

Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad Scholarship Recipient

Administered by the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarships Board. Provided tuition assistance for his studies at Stanford’s Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies.

Associations –

Japan Association of Translators

Nihon Kindai Bukkyshi Kenky-kai

Cultural History, Linguistics, Diplomatic History, Literature, History of Economics, Urban Studies, World History, History of Religion, Language Education, Anthropology, Theology, Cultural History

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Japan

- PhD in Modern Japanese History from University of California, Berkeley.
Christian Culture and Military Rule: Assimilation and its Limits during the First Decade of Japan’s Colonial Rule in Korea, 1910-1919.
Examination Fields: Modern Japan, Colonial Studies, Historical Sociology.
- BA in Major: East Asian Languages and Cultures Indiana University at Bloomington.
- Visiting Scholar in Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea.
- Visiting Scholar in University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
- Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies, Yokohama.

9 years translation experience includes the following.

Translation of history and business-related documents, such as email correspondences and in-house documents, CSR-related presentations and documents, corporate brochures, etc.

Translation of books, most notable being one about a cultural history of Japanese cinema.

Translation of application guidebooks and information of schools for foreign students for various universities including Takushoku University and Tsukuba University.

Some of his translated papers/manuscripts are as follows –

- Meaning of kagezen and osonae in the literary imagination. -       Handicrafts as occupations for women in local communities. -       Japanese cultural scripts. -       Foreign nursing candidates and bilateral economic partnership agreements. -       Lecture and panel discussion of supply and demand in global energy. -       Social capital of welfare states and its significance for health of the population. -       Critical factors influencing customer satisfaction regarding e-government services.
Lecturer, University of California, San Diego, Department of History,

Historiographies of the State in Twentieth Century Japan.

Designed syllabus and led graduate seminar on the state in twentieth century Japan.

East Asia and the West, 1911-2010

Designed syllabus, organized and administered course for large survey course covering the twentieth century histories of China, Japan and Korea.

Directed four graduate Teaching Assistants.

East Asia and the West, 1279-1911,

Designed syllabus for large undergraduate survey course covering the histories of China, Japan and Korea between the Mongol invasions and the emergence of western imperialism.

Administered course and directed four graduate Teaching Assistants.

Society and Culture of Twentieth Century Japan: Youth in Modern Japanese History

Designed syllabus, organized and administered course for large upper division course on the experience of youth in modern Japanese history, 1868-2011.

Directed two graduate Teaching Assistants.

History of Japan: Mid-Nineteenth Century to the U.S. Occupation,

Designed syllabus, organized and administered course for large upper division course on modern Japanese history, 1868-1945.

Directed two graduate Teaching Assistants.

The Meiji Period in Japan as Historiography

Designed syllabus and led graduate seminar on the historiographical uses of Japan’s Meiji period (1868-1912) as a metaphor for Japanese modernity.

Lecturer, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Department of History,

Christianity in East Asia.

Conducted undergraduate seminar examining how Christianity has shaped the modern and early modern histories of Japan, Korea and China.

Redesigned syllabus as an upper-division lecture course for the spring session.

Modern East Asian History- from 1600 to the present,

Designed course syllabus, organized and administered course.

Directed graduate Teaching Assistant.

His selected publications are as follows –

Christian Culture and Military Rule: Assimilation and its Limits during the First Decade of Japan’s Colonial Rule in Korea, 1910-19. Ph.D. dissertation. University of California, Berkeley.

“Constructing the Divine Nation: Empire and Providence in the Thought of Ebina Danj,” in Social Science Japan.

“Nihon teikoku no shihaika ni okeru ch'sen kirisutoky seinenkai to seishinteki kyiku no senryaku” (The Korean Young Men’s Christian Association under Japanese Colonial Rule and Strategies of Spiritual Education), Kankokugaku no furonteiaa (Frontiers of Korean Studies, (Japanese-language article)

“Mission Vitalisatrice: Tokutomi Soh and Maeil Sinbo during the First Decade of Japan’s Colonial Rule in Korea, 1910-19”

Research

Postdoctoral Fellow, Doshisha University, Department of Sociology, Kyoto, Japan,

Lecturer, University of Texas, Austin, Department of Asian Studies,

Introduction to Japan: Archipelago, State and Culture,

-       Designed syllabus, organized and administered lower division introduction course to Japanese history, 7th c.-present
-       Directed graduate Teaching Assistant

Imperial Japan: 1868-1945,

- Designed syllabus, organized and administered course on modern Japanese history, 1868-1945.
-       Directed graduate Teaching Assistant.

Christianity in Modern Asia,

-       Designed syllabus and administered undergraduate senior seminar on the early modern and modern encounters between Christianity and several Asian countries, including China, Korea, Japan, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Indonesia.

Religion, Culture and History in Modern Japan,

-       Designed syllabus and led graduate seminar examining the intersection between religion and culture in modern Japanese history.
Speaker

Chair, Organizer and Panelist for “Global Christianity and Imperial J

- F. Hilary Conroy Award, Association for Asian Studies.
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Postdoctoral Fellowship.
- Dissertation Write-up Fellowship, Department of History, UC Berkeley.
- Dean’s Normative Time Fellowship, Graduate Division, UC Berkeley.
- IIE Fulbright Research Felllowship to South Korea.
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Short-term Researcher Fellowship.
- Japan Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship.
- Foreign Languages and Area Studies Academic Year Fellowship for Korean Language.
- Foreign Languages and Area Studies Summer Fellowship for Korean Language.
- UC Berkeley, Center for Japanese Studies Fellowship.
- Foreign Languages and Area Studies Summer Fellowship for Korean Language.
- Foreign Languages and Areas Studies Academic Year Fellowship for Japanese Language.
- Certificate for Passing First Level of Japanese Language Proficiency Examination.
Associations
- Association for Asian Studies.
- American Historical Association.

Education Language, Education Elementary Education, Sinology (Chinese Studies), Secondary Education, Language Acquisition, Higher Education, Contracts, Mastery Learning, Creative Writing, Cooperative Learning, Literature, Bilingual Education, Children's Literature

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New Zealand

University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

Bachelor of Arts with First Class Honours (Japanese)
- Research interests included lexical borrowing, translation studies and pre-modern Japanese language and society

Bachelor of Arts with First Class Honours (Chinese)
- Research interests included Chinese sociolinguistics, lexical borrowing and Classical Chinese

Bachelor of Arts (double major: Japanese and Chinese)

Appen Pty. Ltd., Sydney, Australia

Transcriber
He worked on the Verdant ANZ English project,

China-Hong Kong English School, Zhongshan, Guangdong, China

Translator
He was responsible for providing translating and quality control of all English-language documentation issued by the office.

China Hong Kong English School, Zhongshan, Guangdong, China

Translator
This position provided him with the opportunity to develop cross-cultural communication skills and sensitivity as well as Chinese language skills. He was in charge of language skills for the translation of office documentation as well as interpersonal liaison between local and international staff.

Some of his Japanese translated research papers/manuscripts are as follows
-History, Chinese nationalism and the emerging Sino'Japanese conflict
-Interpreting history in Sino-Japanese relations: a case-study in political decision making
-Recent Japanese Studies of Modern Chinese History
-Obsessions with the Sino-Japanese polarity in Japanese literature
-10 The Sino-Japanese War of 1894-95 and its cultural effects in Japan
-China, Japan and regional leadership in East Asia
-Learning Chinese, turning Chinese: Challenges to becoming sinophone in a globalised world
-Stirring samurai, disapproving dragon: Japan's growing security activity and Sino-Japan relations
-Sino-Japanese relations: China's perspective
-Remembering and Forgetting the War: Elite Mythmaking, Mass Reaction, and Sino-Japanese Relations.
-The security dimension of Sino-Japanese relations: warily watching one another
-Sinophiles and sinophobes in Tokugawa Japan: Politics, classicism, and medicine during the eighteenth century
-Nationalism and economic exchange: Evidence from shocks to sino-japanese relations
-The Sino-Japanese Treaty of 1978: The Senkaku Incident Prelude
-Identity and recognition: remembering and forgetting the post-war in Sino-Japanese relations China-Hong Kong English School, Zhongshan, Guangdong, China

Assistant to the General Principal; Translator

-Provided clerical assistance to the senior management.
-Recruitment and integration of international staff, including communication and payroll duties. China Hong Kong English School, Zhongshan, Guangdong, China

Oral English Teacher, Primary; Translator

-Develops cross-cultural communication skills and sensitivity as well as Chinese language skills. Hagley Community College, Christchurch, New Zealand

Technician, Home Economics Department

-Provided technical assistance to a team of educators, including purchasing and ordering, resource management and liaison with external companies and community groups.
-Behavior management in the classroom when required. University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

Peer Tutor, Te Puna Manawa and Pacific Tutorials programmes

-Provided tutoring and mentorship to firstand second-year university students from indigenous and Pacific Islands backgrounds.
-Provided cross-cultural communication and sensitivity. Department of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education-Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia

Research Assistant

-He provided support to a team of researchers working on a research project, including the use of databases and text-analysis software and writing transcriptions, as well as general clerical duties. Spagalimi's Ltd, Upper Riccarton, Christchurch

Front-of-House Restaurant Staff

-Used client-focused approach to customer care. It also provided me with valuable experience working to tight deadlines and developing strategies to flourish in a fast-paced frontline environment. Wanaka New World Supermarket, Wanaka

Produce Assistant and Assistant Produce Manager

-Produce Manager for a small team of retail staff.
-Trained a number of new staff members, including future managers.
-Display and sale of fresh produce and handling customer service enquiries, as well as liaison with external companies.
-As the only Japanese-speaking member of staff, he was frequently called to assist other departments with customer liaison for the many Japanese visitors to the area.

Royalty on the Run - The Legend of Princes Oke and Woke Reconstructed.New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies.

College of Arts Scholarship
Barbara Mito Reed Award

Humanities, Philosophy, Social Sciences

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japan

Japanese Language Proficiency Test: N1
Published academic author and translator
Monbukagakusho Research Student Scholarship
Japan Studies Association of Australia Conference Postgraduate Scholarship
Australian Postgraduate Award for Higher Degree Research
Member, Golden Key International Honor Society
Member, Japan Foundation, Sydney
Member, Japanese Studies Association of Australia
Member, Asian Studies Association of Australia
Member, Association for Asian Studies

PhD School of History and Politics, University of Wollongong, Australia
BA (Science, Technology, and Society), first class honors, University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia
Advanced Japanese Course, Japan Foundation, Sydney, Australia
Advanced Japanese Language Class, Oasis Japanese Language School, Shiki City, Saitama Prefecture, Japan

Published an article in Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific and another article is currently in press.
Presented papers at the Biennial Japan Studies Association of Australia, Asian Studies Conference in Japan, and Association for Asian Studies/International Convention of Asian Scholars Joint Conference on topics such as contemporary protest culture and globalization in Japan.

Other professional experience:
Research Assistant to a renowned professor at the University of Wollongong, Australia
Worked as an English teacher at AEON Shiki School
Disability Support Worker, Edmen Community Staffing Solutions, Australia
Administrative Support Officer, Australian Register of Homoeopaths Ltd., Wollongong, Australia
Administrative Assistant, Illawarra/South-east Sydney Area Health Service, Wollongong, Australia

Translation experience:

Translation and checking for International Journal of Japanese Sociology
Japanese-English translations, Asia-Japan Women's Research Center

Social Epidemiology, Public Health, Political Science, Public Policy, Social Work, History, Public Administration