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Curriculum Vitae 2016-17 Yuki Miyamoto

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Yuki Miyamoto, Ph.D. Department of Religious Studies, DePaul University

2333 N. Racine Avenue, Chicago, IL 60614 [email protected]

EDUCATION: 2003 Doctor of Philosophy in Religious Ethics. The Divinity School, The University of Chicago. Chicago, IL. 1997 Master of Arts in Religious Studies. The Divinity School, The University of Chicago. Chicago, IL. 1990 Bachelor of Arts in English and International Relations. Kobe City University of Foreign Studies. Kobe, Japan. ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS: 2011-present Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies, DePaul University,

Chicago. IL. 2006-2011 Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies, DePaul University. Chicago, IL. 2003- 2006 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies, DePaul University. Chicago, IL. 2002-2003 Teaching Assistant, The University of Chicago. Chicago, IL. GRANT AND CONTRACTS: 2017 Fiscal Year 2017 Subsidy Grant for the Nagasaki Peace Project for the

“Nsagasaki-Hanford Project” April 2017 – March 2018. [300,000 Japanese yen] 2017-19 DePaul Humanities Center Faculty Fellowship for the project, “Translating Filth:

Disease, Discrimination, and Drama in the Atomic Age.” DePaul University. Fall 2017 – Spring 2019.

2016-17 University Research Council Paid Leave of Absence (Spring quarter) for the

research project, “Otherwise than This World: Minamata People’s Praxes.” DePaul University. Spring, 2017.

2016 DePaul University DePaul University Research Council Competitive Research

Grant for the book project, Otherwise than This World. Spring 2016 2014-16 DePaul University Wicklander Fellowship for the project, “Neither Victims nor

Executioners: Environmental Disaster and Citizens’ Responsibilities.” Summer 2014.

2013-14 DePaul University Quality of Instruction Council for the project, “Industrial

Diseases in Comparative Perspectives.” Fall 2013.


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2011-12 DePaul University Research Council Competitive Research Grant for the book project, Beyond the Mushroom Cloud: Commemoration, Religion, and Responsibility after Hiroshima. Spring 2011.

2010 Faculty Research and Development, Summer Research Grants for the research

project, “The World from the Beyond: Ethics of the Other World in Noh Play” DePaul University. Summer, 2010.

2009-10 University Research Council Paid Leave of Absence (Winter and Spring

quarters) for the research project, “The Ethics of Commemoration: The Convergence of Religion and Politics.” DePaul University. Winter and Spring, 2010.

2008-09 American Academy of Religion (AAR) Collaborative Research Grant for the

research project, “Ethics of Memory and Politics of Commemoration: The Case of Nanjing Massacre” (co-director). October 2008 – September 2009.

2008-09 DePaul Humanities Center Faculty Fellowship for the book project, “Beyond the Mushroom Cloud: Ethics of Remembering, Responsibility, and Reconciliation in Atomic Bomb Experiences.” DePaul University. Fall 2008 –

Spring 2009. 2008 Research Travel Grant by the Japan-United States Friendship Commission and

the Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies for Beyond the Mushroom Cloud. Summer, 2008.

2006-07 Vincentian Endowment Fund for the event Penetrating Radiation including a

film screening, Hibakusha—At the End of the World. DePaul University. Fall 2006 – Spring 2007.

2002-03 Center for East Asian Studies Dissertation Writing Fellowships. The University of Chicago. Fall 2002 – Spring 2003. 2002-03 Toyota Centennial Research Assistantships for Advanced Graduate Students in Japanese Studies. Fall 2002 – Spring 2003. 1995-2003 University of Chicago Divinity School Fellowship. Fall 1995 – Spring 2003. CREATIVE ACTIVITIES: Book 2011 Beyond the Mushroom Cloud: Remembering, Religious Interpretations, and Responsibility in Atomic Bomb Experiences. (New York: Fordham University

Press, 2011). Reviewed

Levi McLaughlin. Journal of Japanese Studies. Vol. 41, no. 1, 2015. 153-158.

Joseph S. O’Leary. Monumenta Nipponica. Vol. 68, no. 1, 2013. 147-150. Roger Chapman, “How to Start Remembering and Hate the Bomb” in H-

Net Reviews: in Humanities and Social Sciences. April, 2013; (http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=38017);

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Choice: Current Reviewers for Academic Libraries by M. D. Ericson, Vol. 49, no. 11 July (2012); Terry Maksymowych. Catholic Library World. Vol. 82, no. 4, June 2012;

Elizabeth McAlister, “A Lifetime haunted by the bomb” in National Catholic Reporters, March 2-15, 2012 http://ncronline.org/books/2012/09/lifetime-haunted-bomb

Chapters in Book 2017 “In the Light of Hiroshima: Banalizing Violence and Normalizing Experiences of the Atomic Bombing” revised from the one in Critical Military Studies Journal,

eds. by Robert Jacobs and Nico A.J. Taylor, On Hiroshima Becoming History (Routledge, October 2017).

2015 “Violence and Atonement in the Postindustrial Age: Minamata Patients, Hongan (submitted) no Kai, and the Carving of Jizō Statues” in Violence, Nonviolence, and Japanese

Religions: Past, Present, and Future, ed. by Michel Mohr (Honolulu; HI: University of Hawai‘i Press)

2015 “Indifference to Differences: Otherness, Discrimination, and Comparing the (submitted) Same” in Teaching Comparison: Pedagogical Perspectives as Comparative

Theory in Religious Studies, ed. by Jennifer Rapp (New York: Oxford University Press).

2015 “Inconceivable Anxiety: Representation, Disease, and Discrimination in Atomic Bomb Films” in The Atomic Bomb in Japanese Cinema: Critical Essay, ed. by

Matthew Edwards (Jefferson; NC: McFarland Publishing, 2015), 157-170.

2014 “Transgressing Boundaries: Teaching on Fukushima, the Nuclear Safety Myth, (submitted) and Ethics” in Between ‘Cool’ and 3.11: Implications for Teaching Japan Today,

ed. by Mahua Bhattacharya

2014 “Before Good and Evil: Minamata’s Spirituality and Giorgio Agamben’s Ethical Elements” in Spirituality in the 21st Century 3: Theory, Praxis and Pedagogy, eds. by Wim van Moer, Duysal Askun Celik, and John L. Hochheimer (Oxfordshire: Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2014), 55-65.

2010 “Fire and Femininity: Fox Imagery and the Ethical Imagination,” in Imagination

without Borders: Feminist Artists and Social Responsibility, ed. Laura Hein and Rebecca Jennison. (Ann Arbor; MI: The University of Michigan Press, 2010), 69-92.

2009 “Ethics of Commemoration: Religious Sentiments in Secular Society” in Culture,

Politics, Ethics: Interdisciplinary Perspectives 15, ed. Scott H. Boyd, Ana Cristina Gil, and Baldwin Wong (Oxfordshire: Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2009), 109-117.

Peer-reviewed Articles 2016 “Gendered Bodies in Tokusatsu: Reproduction and Representation of the Atomic

Bomb Victims” The Journal of Popular Culture, vol. 49 (5), 2016. 1086-1106. 2015 “Unbearable Light/ness of the Bombing: Normalizing Violence and

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Banalizing the Horror of the Atomic Bomb Experiences” for Critical Military Studies Journal, vol. 1, no. 2 (2015), 116-130.

2014 co-authored Introduction to Takahashi Tetsuya’s “What March 11 Means to Me:

Nuclear Power and the Sacrificial System” The Asia-Pacific Journal, vol. 12, Issue 19, number 1 (2014). http://japanfocus.org/-Takahashi-Tetsuya/4114/article.html

2012 “The Ethics of Commemoration: Religion and Politics in Nanjing, Hiroshima,

and Yasukuni” Journal of American Academy of Religion, vol. 80, number 1 (2012), 34-63.

2009 “Sacred Pariahs: Hagiographies of Alterity, Sexuality, and Salvation in Atomic

Bomb Literature” Japan Studies Review XIII (2009): 149-165.

2006 “Possessed and Possessing: Fox Possession and Discrimination against the Wealthy in the Modern Period in Japan,” Culture and Religion 7, no. 2 (2006): 139-154.

2005 “Rebirth in the Pure Land or God’s Sacrificial Lambs? Religious Interpretations

of the Atomic Bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki,” Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 32 no. 1 (2005): 131-159.

Other Publications (Not-Peer-Reviewed) 2015 “Debunking the Nuclear Myths: Penetrating the Radiation Illusions” Centerings,

Issue XLI, Fall (2015): 6-7. 2014 “Tamashii no ryouiki—‘Hongan no kai’ no shiso” (The Realm of Spirits—The

Thought of ‘Hongan no kai’) in Quarterly Tamashii Utsure, no. 58 (2014): 26-28. 2012 “Panic Over ‘The Panic Over Fukushima’ ”Atomic Age by The University of

Chicago website, August 26, 2012. (http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/atomicage/2012/08/26/panic-over-the-panic-over-fukushima/)

2011 “ ‘Kaku no jidai: Hiroshima kara gendai made’ o oete” (“After the symposium

‘The Atomic Age: From Hiroshima to Present’”) Josei tenbō (Women’s Perspective), no. 639 August 2011.

2011 “Disaster and the Rhetoric of Sacrifice” Sightings by The Martin Marty Center

for the Advanced Study of Religion, The University of Chicago Divinity School, March 24, 2011.

2010 Research brief: “The Ethics of Commemoration: Politics and Religion in the

Nanjing Massacre Narrative” Religious Studies News 25 no. 2 (2010). 2009 “A New Reality on Nuclear Weapons” Chicago Tribune, August 6, 2009. 2009 “Shikago to Hiroshima o tsunagu mono” (“What links Chicago to Hiroshima”)

Hiroshima Heiwa kinen shiryokan meiru magajin 67 (Hiroshima Peace Memorial


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Museum mail magazine) http://www.pcf.city.hiroshima.jp/virtual/cgi-bin/mm/peace_mm.cgi?m=user_backno_view&no=2009-02-02-14-30.dat). February 2, 2009.

2008 Message from a Survivor on the 63rd Anniversary of the Atomic Bombings (www.rememberinghiroshima.org). 2008 “A Melted Tile is Still in Hiroshima River: DePaul Students Encourage Daley to Join Mayors for Peace,” The Chicago Shimpo 5697, no. 24 (2008). Book Reviews 2016 Ran Zwigenberg, Hiroshima: The Origins of Global Memory Culture in The Journal of Japanese Studies, vol. 42, no. 1 (2016): 205-209. 2014 Ugo Dessi, Japanese Religions and Globalization in The Journal of Japanese Studies, vol. 40, no. 2 (2014): 483-487. 2001 Robert Kisala, Prophets of Peace: Pacifism and Cultural Identity in Japan’s New Religions in Journal of Religion, vol. 81 no. 4 (2001): 673-674. Academic Translations (from Japanese to English, otherwise specified) 2017 Co-translate “From Fukushima: To Despair Properly, To Find the Next Step” by

Norma Field [from English to Japanese], The Asia-Pacific Journal, vol. 14, Issue 17, number 3, 2016. The Japanese translation added/linked on June 1, 2017.

2017 Translate “Follow Up on Thyroid Cancer! Patient Group Voices Opposition to

Scaling Down the Fukushima Prefectural Health Survey” by Aihara Hiroko, The Asia-Pacific Journal, vol. 15, Issue 2, number 3, 2017.

2015 Translate “Reexamining the ‘Comfort Women’ Issue; An Interview with

Yoshimi Yoshiaki” The Asia-Pacific Journal, vol. 13, Issue 1, number 1, 2015. 2014 Co-translate Takahashi Tetsuya’s “What March 11 Means to Me: Nuclear

Power and the Sacrificial System” The Asia-Pacific Journal, vol. 12, Issue 19, number 1, 2014.

2012 Co-Translate/Interpret “The Sacrificial System: Ir/Responsibility of the

Nuclear Power Plant’s Accident in Fukushima” presented by Takahashi Tetsuya (Tokyo University) at What March 11 Means to Me: A Symposium in Honor of Norma Field at University of Chicago. Chicago, IL. March 10 – 11, 2012.

2009 Co-Translate “The Notion of ‘the Word that Speaks Truth’ in Merleau-Ponty and

Shinran” in Merleau-Ponty and Buddhism by Funaki Toru, ed. Jin Y. Park and Gereon Kopf (Lexington; MA: The Lexington Press, 2009). 113-132.

1996 Co-translate [to Japanese] Global Communication: A Challenge of New Media in New World Order by Howard H. Frederick, ed. Toshio Kobayashi et al. (Tokyo, Shohokusha and International Thompson Publishing Japan, 1996).

SCHOLARLY PAPERS PRESENTED:


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2017 “Fusion of Religion and Science: Formation of the Post-War Identity in the Atomic Age” at the Asian Conference on Ethics, Religion, and Philosophy. Kobe, Japan. March 22-25, 2017.

2017 “Splitting the Atom: Utopian Dreams and Dystopian Societies in Japanese

Popular Nuclear Discourse” as a panelist at Association of Asian Studies, Toronto, Canada. March 16-19, 2017.

2017 “Division of Gender: The Irradiated Body in Popular Accounts” at Souther Japan

Seminar, “Marginalization and Resistance in Global Japan” at Florida International University. March 10, 2017.

2016 “Coming to Our Senses: Disrupting the Silence and Voicing and Voicing the

Embodiment of Nuclear Disasters” as a discussant at Association of Asian Studies. Seattle, WA. April 3, 2016.

2015 “Hiroshima in America: Normalizing Violence of the Atomic Bombing” at Chu-

Shikoku American Studies Society. Hiroshima, Japan. November 28, 2015. 2015 “Teaching about Minamata after Fukushima” at Midwest Conference on Asian

Affairs at Washington University. St. Louis, MO. October 16, 2015. 2015 co-presenter with Dr. Nobuko Chikamatsu “Collaborative and Co-teaching of

Japanese Ethics and Language: A Japanese FLAC Course of Industrialization and Environment” at American Association of Teachers of Japanese Annual Conference. Chicago. March 26, 2015.

2015 “Literature of Dystopia: Nature, Place, and Genius Loci in Ishimure Michiko’s

Heaven of Lake” at Spirituality in the 21st Century: Theory, Praxis and Pedagogy at Lisbon, Portugal. March 18 – 20, 2015.

2014 “Violence and Atonement in the Postindustrial Age: Minamata Patients, Hongan

no kai, and the Carving Jizo Statues” at Violence, Nonviolence, and Japanese Religions: Past, Present, and Future at University of Hawai’i at Manoa. March 20-22, 2014.

2013 “Narrating the Nuclear: Debunking the Myths in the Atomic Age” at the Annual

Meeting for the American Anthropological Association. Chicago, IL. November 20-24, 2013.

2013 “Transgressing Boundaries: Teaching on Fukushima, the Nuclear Safety Myth,

and Ethics” at the 2nd Teaching Japan Conference: Between “Cool” and 3.11: Implications for Teaching Japan Today. Elizabethtown College. Elizabethtown, PA. April 27-28, 2013.

2013 “Before Good and Evil: Minamata’s Spirituality and Giorgio Agamben’s Ethical

Elements” at the 3rd Global Conference: Spirituality in the 21st Century: Theory, Praxis and Pedagogy. Lisbon, Portugal. March 7-9, 2013.


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2012 “Reuniting at Yasukuni: The Construciton of State-Religion and the Religiosity of the War Dead” on the panel of The Construction of Religion between China and Japan, 1860s – 1930s, at Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference. Toronto, Canada. March 15-18, 2012.

2011 “Beyond the Mushroom Cloud” at Wyatt Lecture Series at University of

Michigan-Flint. Flint, MI. December 2, 2011. 2010 “Sameness, Otherness, Difference: Discrimination through Indiscriminate

Weaponry.” Presidential panel: The Place of Others: Discrimination and Inequalities in Japan at Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs. Ohio State University. Columbus, OH. October 1-3, 2010.

2010 “Dis-orienting Japan’s Nationalism: Yoshimitsu Yoshihiko’s Modernity and

Mysticism.” Radical Religions in 1930s Japan panel. International Association for the History of Religions. University of Toronto. Toronto, Canada. August 15-21, 2010.


and Yasukuni.” East Asian Research Seminar. Northwestern University. Evanston, IL. April 27, 2010.


and Yasukuni.” Midwest Japan Seminar. Morningside College. Morningside, IA. April 17, 2010.

2010 “Why We Teach What We Teach.” Roundtable: The Atomic Bomb at 65—

Teaching the Cost of the Bomb in the US Classrooms and Communities. Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference. Philadelphia, PA. March 25-28, 2010.


and Yasukuni.” Ethics of Memory: Religious Commemoration and Myth Construction panel American Academy of Religion Annual Conference. Montreal, Canada. November 7-10, 2009.

2009 “The Ethics of Commemoration: The Convergence of Religion and Politics.”

The 1st Global Conference: Culture, Politics, Ethics. Salzburg, Austria. March 16 -18, 2009.

2009 “Beyond the Mushroom Cloud: Ethics of Remembering, Responsibility, and Reconciliation in Atomic Bomb Experiences.” The Religion and Violence

Colloquium. University of Puget Sound. Puget Sound, WA. February 25, 2009. 2008 “Book proposal,” “Dialogue with the Dead,” and “Representation and

Reproduction” from book manuscript Beyond the Mushroom Cloud. DePaul’s Humanities Center Fellows Colloquium. DePaul’s Humanities Center. Chicago, IL. November 17, 2008.


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2008 “Representation and Reproduction: The Post-Memory Ethics of Recent Japanese Atomic Bomb Films.” Film and History Conference: The Atomic Age. Chicago, IL. October 30-November 2, 2008.

2008 “Dialogue with the Dead: Deconstructing Boundaries in the Atomic Bomb Narratives.” The Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy Annual Conference. Asilomar, CA. June 8-11, 2008. 2008 “Sacred Pariahs: Hagiographies of Alterity, Sexuality, and Salvation in Atomic Bomb Literature.” Southern Japan Seminar. Florida International University. Miami, FL. March 1, 2008. 2007 “Sacred Pariahs: Hagiographies of Alterity, Sexuality, and Salvation in Atomic Bomb Literature.” American Academy of Religion Annual Conference. San

Diego, CA. November 17-20, 2007.

2007 “Striving for Recognition, Reconciliation, and Abolition: Teaching about the Atomic Bombs in American Universities.” Luther College. Decorah, IA. March 8, 2007.

2006 “Fire and Femininity: Fox Imagery in Japanese Folklore.” Tomiyama Taeko Exhibition. Dittmar Memorial Gallery of Northwestern University. Evanston, IL.

January 16, 2006. 2005 “Sacred Pariahs: Intimate ‘Others’ and Saintly Women in Narratives of the

Atomic Bombings,” Loyola University. Chicago, IL. April 19, 2005. 2005 “Women, Religious Experience, and the Atomic Bombing.” International

Association for the History of Religions. Tokyo, Japan. March 24-30, 2005. 2005 “Sacred Pariahs: Women Representations in the Atomic Bomb Literature.” The Hiroshima, Nagasaki Conference. Tufts University. Medford, MA. April 22-24, 2005. 2004 “Possessed and Possessing: Fox Possession and Discrimination against the Wealthy in Late Modern Japan.” American Academy of Religion Annual

Conference. San Antonio, TX. November 20-23, 2004. 2003 “Rebirth in the Pure Land or God’s Sacrificial Lambs? Religious Interpretations of the Atomic Bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.” American Academy of

Religion Annual Conference. Atlanta, GA. November 22-25, 2003. 2000 “Collective Memories: National Narratives within the Limits of

Representation―A Study of Interpretation, Historiography, and Atomic Bomb Discourse.” Graduate East Asian Studies Conference: Outcaste. University of Colorado. Boulder, CO. November 2-4, 2000.

2000 “Remembering ‘the Holes of Oblivion’: A Study of Memory, History and

Interpretations of Mass Death” The Graduate Ethics Conference. The Divinity School, the University of Chicago. Chicago, IL. April 8, 2000.


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2000 “Conflicting Histories on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.” Human Rights Workshop: Narrative and Interpretation in Writing History. The University of Chicago. Chicago, IL. March 31, 2000. AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS: Awards/Recognitions 2013-16 DePaul University Honors Distinguished Faculty 2013 DePaul University Distinguished Service Award 2012 nominated the monograph, Beyond the Mushroom Cloud: Commemoration,

Religion, and Responsibility after Hiroshima, for the AAR Awards for Excellence in the Study of Religion/Constructive-Reflective study.

2012 Wisconsin Bookwatch by James A. Cox. January 2012. Appointments 2011~ Hiroshima Peace Ambassador by the City of Hiroshima. Hiroshima, Japan. April 5, 2011. 2010~ Peace Correspondent for Nagasaki by the City of Nagasaki. Nagasaki, Japan.

December 15, 2010. Media Appearances 2017 RCC Hiroshima TV Station. May 12, 2017. 2016 Mainichi shimbun (Daily newspaper), Japan. December 20, 2016. 2016 Chūgoku shimbun (Daily newspaper), Japan. December 7, 2016. 2016 RCC Hiroshima TV Station. December 6, 2016. 2016 “Hiroshima-Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Exhibition in Chicago” The Chicago

Shimmpō, October 7, 2016. 2016 Hōdō Tokushū “Daitōryō no Hiroshima houmon: sono ura ni” (“US President’s

visit to Hiroshima: Behind the scenes”), TBS National TV station, May 27. 2016. 2016 “Hiroshima to Amerika” (“Hiroshima and America”) RCC Hiroshima TV station.

May 12, 2016. 2015 Chicago Tribune, “Cyclists note Nagasaki 70th anniversary in 7-mile ride around

'blast site'” (http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-global-zero-nuclear-protest-met-20150809-story.html) August 9. 2015.

2015 Chicago Sun-Times, “Bicyclists against bombs pedal 7 miles to protest nuclear

proliferation” (http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/7/71/864709/nuclear-protest-global-zero-nagasaki) August 9, 2015.

2014 Nagasaki shimbun (Daily newspaper in Nagasaki area) “Kaku haizetsu e no omoi

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-global-zero-nuclear-protest-met-20150809-story.html

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-global-zero-nuclear-protest-met-20150809-story.html

http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/7/71/864709/nuclear-protest-global-zero-nagasaki

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tsutaeau” (American and Japanese students share their hope to abolish nuclear arms http://www.nagasaki-np.co.jp/news/kennaitopix/2014/12/13091743015963.shtml) December 13, 2014.

2014 Nagasaki shimbun (Daily newspaper in Nagasaki area) “Beikoku no gakusei ga

Hiroshima Nagasaki e” (US Students Visit Hiroshima Nagasaki http://www.nagasaki-np.co.jp/news/kennaitopix/2014/12/12091539015955.shtml) December 12, 2014.

2013 “Profile: Interview with Yuki Miyamoto” in Honorable Mentions (DePaul

Honors Program News Letter), Spring 2013. 2012 Nagasaki shimbun (Daily newspaper in Nagasaki area). December 11, 2012. 2012 Nagasaki hōsō (local radio station). December 10, 2012

(http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/27626958) 2011 Chugoku shimbun (Daily newspaper in West Japan). April 5, 2011. 2011 National Post, “Stigmatized, by no fault of their own” by Sarah Boesveld,

Canada, March 17, 2011. 2011 The Daily Beast, “Blogs & Stories: How will Radiation Affect Unborn Babies in

Japan?” by Alizah Salario, March 15, 2011. 2010 Mainichi shimbun (Daily newspaper), Japan. December 20, 2010. 2010 Nagasaki shimbun (Daily newspaper in Nagasaki area), Japan. December 16,

2010. 2010 Nishinihon shimbun (Daily newspaper in Kyushu), Japan. December 16, 2010. 2010 The Yomiuri shimbun (Daily newspaper), Japan. December 16, 2010. 2010 NHK (National Public Broadcasting) Nagasaki. Japan. December 15, 2010. 2010 Nagasaki Culture TV. Japan. December 15, 2010. 2010 Hiroshima TV (TV station in Hiroshima). Japan. December 8, 2010. 2010 Chūgoku shimbun. Japan. December 7, 2010. 2010 ShinHiroshima TV (TV station in Hiroshima). Japan. December 6, 2010. 2010 “Marking the 65th Anniversary of the Decision to Use Atomic Weapons at the

End of World War Two.” The Public Radio Service of Western Kentucky University (WKYU-FM). Bowling Green, KY. August 30, 2010.

2009 “Kaku no nai sekai o mezashite” (Toward the Nuclear Free World), the program

features DePaul University students and alumni. NHK Hiroshima Radio. August 6 (West Japan), August 15 (national and international), and November 3

http://www.nagasaki-np.co.jp/news/kennaitopix/2014/12/13091743015963.shtml

http://www.nagasaki-np.co.jp/news/kennaitopix/2014/12/13091743015963.shtml


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(national) 2009. The program awarded with Galaxy Honors for Programs Recommended 2009.

2009 Asahi shimbun (Daily newspaper). Japan. August 1 (West Japan) and

August 2 (national), 2009. 2009 International Herald Tribune/The Asahi shimbun. Japan. July 30, 2009. 2009 Asahi shimbun. Japan. July 29, 2009. 2009 University Daily Kansas (University of Kansas’ student newspaper). Lawrence,

KS. March 9, 2009. 2009 Chugoku shimbun. Japan. February 19,

2009. 2008 NHK Hiroshima. Japan. December 4, 2008. 2008 WRCT Pittsburgh Radio. Pittsburgh, PA. October 6, 2008. 2008 WRCT Pittsburgh Radio Interview. Pittsburgh, PA. September 27, 2008. 2008 Pittsburgh Post—Gazette. Pittsburgh, PA. September 22, 2008. 2008 Pillbox (Carnegie Mellon University’s student newspaper) 103, issue 03.

Pittsburgh, PA. September 15, 2008. 2008 Luther College Radio Interview. Decorah, IA. September 14, 2008. 2008 NHK Hiroshima. Japan. May 9, 2008. 2008 NHK National. Japan. April 14, 2008. 2008 DePaul in the News. Chicago, IL. May 29, 2008. 2008 DePaul Magazine. Chicago, IL. Spring 2008. 2008 Peace Culture News Letter, no. 060. Japan. April 2008

http://www.pcf.city.hiroshima.jp/hpcf/heiwabunka/pce60/English/60_08E.html 2008 NHK Hiroshima. Japan. March 27, 2008. 2008 Atomic Mom (fund raising trailer for a documentary film)

http://www.atomicmom.org/ 2008 Springfield News-Sun, Springfield, OH. March 11, 2008. 2008 Channel 18 (WLFI). West Lafayette, IN. February 23, 2008. Streaming video:

http://tell.fll.purdue.edu/hiroshima/

http://www.pcf.city.hiroshima.jp/hpcf/heiwabunka/pce60/English/60_08E.html

http://www.atomicmom.org/

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2008 The Exponent (Purdue University’s Independent Daily Student Newspaper) 122, no. 34. West Lafayette, IN. February 22, 2008.

2008 The Exponent 122, no. 32. West Lafayette, IN. February 19, 2008. 2008 Newsline: A Publication for Faculty and Staff 42. No. 2. February 4, 2008. 2008 Chugoku shimbun. Japan. February 4, 2008. 2008 insights/DePaul 19, no.2. Chicago, IL. Winter 2008. 2008 Mainichi shimbun. Japan. January 31, 2008. 2008 The Chicago shimpo (Bilingual weekly newspaper in Chicago) 5697, no. 24.

Chicago, IL. January 25, 2008. 2008 Channel 41 Local News. Chicago, IL. January 14, 2008. 2008 The DePaulia 91, no.9. Chicago, IL. January 11, 2008. 2007 Chugoku shimbun. Japan. December 3, 2007. 2007 The Chicago shimpo 5687, no. 24. Chicago, IL. November 2, 2007. 2007 Time Out Chicago, no. 139. Chicago, IL. October 25-31, 2007. 2007 The Chicago shimpo 5675, no. 24. Chicago, IL. August 10, 2007. 2005 Chugoku shimbun. Japan, July 15, 2005. 2005 The Chicago shimpo 5564, no. 4. Chicago, IL. May 13, 2005. 2005 The DePaulia 83, no. 22. Chicago, IL. May 6, 2005. MEMBERSHIPS IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND OFFICIAL POSITIONS: American Academy of Religion

Co-chair: the Religion, Memory, History Consultation Association for Asian Studies European Association for Japanese Studies East Asian Research Seminar (consists of faculty members from Northwestern University,

Loyola University at Chicago, University of Illinois at Chicago, and DePaul University) Midwest Japan Seminar Chicago Himajin no kai (study group on Fukushima and nuclear issues at the University of

Chicago) SERVICE: University 2016 - 2017 Co-director: Short-Term Study Abroad Program “Kyoto, Hiroshima, Nagasaki”

Fall 2016-Winter 2017. 2011~ Member: Honors Program Committee


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2016 Organizer: Voices of Hiroshima with a Hiroshima survivor sponsored by the

cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki; the National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. October 28, 2016.

2016 Co-organizer: The Atomic Age III Symposium sponsored by the Wicklander

Fellowship. April 15, 2016. 2016 Thesis reader: HON 395: “The Effects of Sexual Activity and Stress Relief” by

Ashleigh Krider. 2015 Instructor on site: Short-Term Study Abroad Program “Okinawa, Japan: Art,

Politics, and Economy” Winter interim, 2015. 2015 Thesis advisor: HON 395 “Profane Exploitation: Modern Japan’s Treatment of

Nature” by Elam Jones. 2015 - 2016 Global Engagement Strategy—Working Group on Objective 2 2015 - 2016 Member: President’s Diversity Council 2015 - 2016 President of Elevate: DePaul’s Asian/Asian-American Professional Community 2014 - 2015 Co-director: Short-Term Study Abroad Program “Kyoto, Hiroshima, Nagasaki”

Fall 2014-Winter 2015. 2015 Faculty Moderator for the Honors Thesis Panel, Religious Considerations, May

15, 2015. 2015 Interviewer: selection of applicants for the Long-Term Study abroad to Japan,

Kansai Gaidai and Ritsumeikan Universities, February 2015. 2013 - 2014 Vice President of Elevate: DePaul’s Asian/Asian-American Professional

Community. 2013 Member of subcommittee: Honors Program Student Conference. 2013 Organized “Japan Career Day” with guest speakers at DePaul University.

October 18, 2013. 2013 Speaker: the 25th Annual Distinguished Service Awards with Tyrone Matthews

(Community Resources in Student Affairs) and Janet Messmer (Theater School). May 17, 2013.

2013 Interviewer: Term-Long Study Abroad Japan applicants. February 28, 2013. 2012-2013 Co-director: Short-Term Study Abroad Program “Kyoto, Hiroshima, Nagasaki.”

Fall 2012-Winter 2013. 2012 Organizer: After Fukushima: How would you—how shall we—live it? Guest


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Speakers: Mr. Yastel (Yasuteru) Yamada, founder of the Skilled Veterans Corps for Fukushima; Dr. Norma Field, Robert S. Ingersoll Distinguished Service Professor Emerita of Japanese Studies at the University of Chicago; and Dr. Jeffrey Patterson, Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and past and incoming President Physicians for Social Responsibility. October 22, 2012.

2011 Organizer: Film screening, Into Eternity. October 1, 2011. 2011 Organizer: Radiation Exposure and Health: From Chernobyl to Japan

and Beyond with guest speakers (Jeff Peterson, past president, Physicians for Social Responsibility, USA, and Dave Kraft, director, Nuclear Energy Information Service, Chicago). April 26, 2011.

2011 Japan Relief Committee. March 2011 ~ 2010-2011 Co-director: Short-Term Study Abroad Program “Kyoto, Hiroshima, Nagasaki.”

Fall 2010-Winter 2011. 2009 Coordinator: the Internship program with Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation,

(the city of Hiroshima). June-August, 2009.

2009 Co-Organizer: Film screening “Atomic Mom” with the presence of the director, M.T. Silvia with the help of DePaul’s Humanity Center. DePaul University. Chicago, IL. June 8, 2009.

2009 Organizer: Lecture “Japanese Atrocities in the Asia-Pacific War: An Analysis of

Causes” by Dr. Yuki Tanaka, Research Professor at Hiroshima Peace Institute of Hiroshima City University in collaboration with the University of Chicago. DePaul University. Chicago, IL. February 2, 2009.

2008 Organizer: US premier film screening Yunagi City Sakura Country. DePaul

University. Chicago, IL. April 25, 2008. 2008 Coordinator: the TV appearance of two DePaul students on NHK at their New

York studio with American and Japanese politicians. July 26-27, 2008. 2008 Coordinator: Meeting with Mayor Daley of Chicago, IL, with students on

the Study Abroad Program to receive Mayor Daley’s signed form to join Mayors for Peace. March 12, 2008.

2008 Coordinator: Meeting with Mayor Morton of Evanston, IL, with students on

the Study Abroad Program to receive a signed form to join Mayors for Peace. January 25, 2008.

2008 Coordinator: Meeting with Mayor Daley of Chicago, IL, with students on

the Study Abroad Program, accompanied by Ambassador J.D. Bindenagel, Fr. James Halstead (Chair and co-director of the program), and Dr. Joe Kinsella, Associate Vice President, International Program. January 11, 2008.

2007-2008 Co-director: Short-Term Study Abroad Program “Kyoto, Hiroshima, Nagasaki.”


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Fall 2007- Winter 2008. 2007 Organizer: Reception for the Hiroshima/Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Exhibition at DePaul’s Student Center with Consul General of Japan and Deputy Chief of Staff

of Mayors Office in Chicago. DePaul University. October 25, 2007. 2007 Coordinator: Hiroshima/Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Exhibition at DePaul Cultural Center. DePaul University. October 15, 2007 through January 31, 2008. 2007 Coordinator: Cultural Expressions Program—Japan. DePaul Cultural Center. DePaul University. May 10, 2007. 2007 Organizer: “Penetrating Radiation” project: includes the film screening of

Hibakusha: At the End of the World with the director, Hitomi Kamanaka and class visits by her. DePaul University. April 18, 2007.

2005 Co-director: Short-Term Study Abroad Program “Kyoto, Hiroshima, Nagasaki.” Spring – Summer 2005. 2005 Coordinator: Lecture “A Deadly Serious Campaign to Eliminate the

Nuclear Threat” by Dr. Tadatoshi Akiba, Mayor of Hiroshima. DePaul University. April 27, 2005.

2004 Organizer: Lecture “A Deadly Serious Campaign: Vision 2020” by

Steven Leeper, US Representative of Mayors for Peace, in collaboration with the University of Chicago. DePaul University. April 14, 2004.

College 2013 ~ Co-director: The Japanese Studies Program 2013~ Member: LAS Internationalization Committee 2012~ Member: Global Asia Program 2017 Guest speaker: “Atom Bomb Discourse” for PSC 342: Arms, Security, and War,”

May 2, 2017. 2016 Guest speaker: “In the Light of Hiroshima” for JPN311/MOL 397: Advanced

Discussion and Reading I, October 26, 2016. 2016 Guest speaker: “Atom Bomb Discourse” for PSC 342: Arms, Security, and War,”

May 3, 2016. 2015 Judge for JPN 203 class session on “Debate on Comparative Education: US vs.

Japan” April 15, 2015. 2015 Organizer: Film screening, Tohoku Tomo, with the director Wesley Julian.

DePaul University. March 6. 2015. 2015 Peer reviewer: MOL 308/AAS 290 Gender and Politics in Japanese Women’s

Writings. February 24, 2015.


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2014 Guest speaker: “Representing the Nuclear Disaster: ‘Tokusatsu’ series and

Discrimination” for MOL 320: Special Topic in Modern Languages—Modern Japanese Literature in Translation. October 20, 2014.

2014 Guest speaker: “Fukushima, Harmful Rumor, and Discrimination” for JPN 303:

Advanced Japanese. June 2, 2014. 2013 Guest judge: Japan 203: Intermediate Japanese Language—Debate on Education

in the United States and Japan. April 17, 2013. 2012-2013 Member of the steering committee: Asian Business and Political Economy

program 2012-2013 Member: Vision 2018—Internationalization and Globalization Task Force

Committee (International Internship sub-committee) 2010-2013 Member: the LA & S Study Abroad Program committee. Fall 2010 - Spring

2013. 2012 Guest speaker: “Why Fukushima is our concern” for MOL 399/342: Earthquake,

Tsunami, and Nuclear Power Accident. DePaul University. October 3, 2012. 2012 Member: International Scholar Fund selection committee. April-May, 2012. 2012 Guest speaker: “Nuclear Age: 1950-70,” for MOL 320: Modern Japanese

Literature in Translation—Into the Ground. DePaul University. April 25, 2012.

2012 Translator: Guest speaker Sachiko Masuoka for LSP Focal Point, Japan and the Bomb. DePaul University. January 23, 2012.

2011 Guest speaker: “Disaster and Identities—‘Honey Pie’ by Haruki Murakami.”

AAS 290/ENG 389/LGQ 397/MLS 406/ MOL 325/ WGS 290 Queer Japan. April 20, 2011.

2011 Honors Senior Thesis Advisor: A thesis entitled “Nuclear Weapons and the 21st

Century” 2011 Member: Editorial board for Creating Knowledge: The LA & S Student Research

Journal. 2011 Judge: Debate on Japanese-American Internment Camp. JPN/AAS 343:

History of Japanese-Americans in Chicago. January 31, 2011. 2010 Chair: Pedagogical Challenges in Heterology and Historiography in the U.S.

Classroom panel. Teaching Japan: Pedagogical Possibilities in U.S. Higher Education. Japanese Studies Program. DePaul University. October 29-30, 2010.

2010 Guest speaker: “Differences and Discrimination: The Atomic Bombs and Its

Influence.” JPN 342 Advanced High Japanese: The Pacific War and Japanese. October 13, 2010.


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2009 Guest speaker: “Abolition or Proliferation? Revisiting the Atomic Bombing.”

JPN 342 Advanced High Japanese: The Pacific War and Japanese. October 14, 2009.

2008 Guest speaker: “Abolition or Proliferation? Revisiting the Atomic Bombing.”

JPN 342 Advanced High Japanese: The Pacific War and Japanese. October 27, 2008.

2008 Thesis advisor: MALS 499 Ecohumanism. Fall 2008. 2008 Member: Editorial board for Creating Knowledge: The LA & S Student Research

Journal. 2007 Guest speaker: “Yumechiyo: Victimization of Femininity or Feminization of Victims?” MOL 310 Japanese Culture—Geisha: Our Fantasy, Their

Reality. October 29, 2007. 2007 Guest speaker: “The Atom Bomb Discourse.” JPN 342 Advanced High

Japanese: The Pacific War and Japanese. October 8, 2007. 2007 Guest speaker: “Ethics and the Role of Interpreter.” JPN 344 Japanese

Literature and Translation. May 30, 2007. 2006 Guest speaker: “Yumechiyo: Geisha and Hibakusha.” MOL 310 Japanese Culture—Geisha: Our Fantasy, Their Reality. November 6, 2006. 2006 Guest speaker: “The Atom Bomb Discourse.” JPN 342: Advanced High

Japanese: The Pacific War and Japanese. October 16, 2006. 2005-2007 Member: Peace, Conflict, Resolution & Social Justice Committee. 2003-present Member: Japanese Studies Program. Department 2016-17 Member: Students Affairs Committee 2015-16 Member: Curriculum Committee 2012 - 15 Member: Personnel Committee (Chaired in 2014-15) 2015 Panelist: Secularism, Freedom and Religious Pluralism: Thoughts in the Wake of

Charlie Hebdo, organized by Center for Interreligiuos Engagement. DePaul University, March 10, 2015.

2012 - 14 Member: Student Affairs Committee (Chaired in 2013-14) 2012 Peer Review report submitted for Dr. Chernoh Sesay 2010 - 12 Member: Public Relations Committee


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2009 Panelist: “Memory of Violence Made Sacred: War, Nation, and Sacrifice.” Center for Inter-Religious Engagement panel “Sacrifice and the Sacred: Violence, Community, and Meaning.” February 11, 2009.

2009 Member: Public Relations Committee (Fall only due to research leave) 2008 Supervising Chris Tomke’s “The Ethics of Weapons of Mass Destruction” for

DePaul’s students journal, Creating Knowledge: The LA & S Student Research Journal 1 (2008): 15-16.

2008 Moderator: Center for Inter-Religious Engagement panel: Religion and War:

Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Perspectives on Iraq. February 20, 2008. 2008 Member: Rewriting the Department Identity and Mission Statement

Ad-Hoc Committee. Winter 2008. 2007 - 08 Member: Curriculum and Assessment Committee. 2007 - 08 Member: the Lecture, Workshop, and special Events Committee. 2005 Presenter: “Japan Trip 2005” for the Department Convivium with Dr. James

Halstead. October 28, 2005. 2003 - 04 Member: the Lecture, Workshop, and special Events Committee. SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY: Academic Community 2015 ~ Contributing Editor of Asia Pacific Journal: Japan Focus. 2016 Invited speaker: “Peace, War, and the Atomic Bombs: Divergence and

Unquestioning Pursuit between the US and Japan” at the Research Center for Nuclear Weapons Abolition (RECNA), Nagasaki University. Nagasaki, Japan. November 24, 2016.

2016 Guest speaker: “Death, Dharma, and Disaster” LITR 245-01: Asian Masterpieces

at Loyola University at Chicago. October 13, 2016. 2015 Thesis advisor for Marie Beasley at Georgetown University for her Doyle

Seminar hosted by the Berkley Center for Peace and Justice, entitled “Rev. Edmund A. Walsh and the Atomic Bombs in Japan”

2015 Referee: a book proposal, From Chinese Chan to Japanese Zen: A Remarkable

Century (1225-1325) of Transmission and Transformation submitted to Oxford University Press.

2015 Guest speaker: “Buddhism and Theodicy” at LITR 245: Asian Masterpieces.

Loyola University. September 29, 2015. 2015 Invited speaker: “Beyond the Mushroom Cloud—Religious Understandings of

the Atomic Bomb Experiences” at History 393: Approaches to History: The Atomic Bomb. Northwestern University. May 14, 2015.


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2015 Interviewed by Micah Wallen a junior in Ethics, History and Public Policy

Program at Carnegie Mellon University. May 6, 2015. 2011~14 Co-chair: the Religion, Memory, History Group at American Academy of

Religion. 2014 Invited Panelist: “What Makes Me an Effective Teacher” at the History

Pedagogy Alumni Teaching Panel at the University of Chicago. November 21, 2014.

2014 Referee: an article, “Deity and its Demise: Buddhist and Christian Deities in

Japanese Children’s Literature about Hiroshima and Nagasaki” submitted to the Japanese Journal of Religious Studies.

2014 Invited speaker: “The Atomic Monstrosity from ‘Gojira’ (1954) to ‘Godzilla’

(2014)” at Nuclear Nightmares: Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Historical Context” at University of Notre Dame. September 15, 2014.

2013 Invited speaker: “Narrating the Nuclear: Debunking the Myths and

Discrimination in the Atomic Age” at Faculty Seminar at Research Center for Nuclear Weapons Abolition (RECNA), Nagasaki University. Nagasaki, Japan. December 11, 2013.

2013 Writing a self-study report for the AAR Group “Religion, Memory, History” to

request for renewal of the status [approved] October, 2013.

2013 Referee: an edited volume: Religion in Asia: Tradition and the Shaping of the Modern World (The Asia-Pacifice Journal: Japan Focus—The Reader), Summer 2013.

2013 Referee: an article, “The Most Modern City in the World: The Hiroshima Cenotaph and Osaka '70 Controversies” submitted to the Journal of Japanese Studies.

2013 Invited speaker: “Discrimination, Disaster, and Disease; Revisiting Hiroshima

and Minamata in the Wake of Fukushima” at Summer Teacher Institute at the University of Chicago. July 9-11, 2013.

2013 Member of dissertation committee on Ph. D. candidate Kay Fujiyoshi’s

“The Journey of an Urban Educator: Growing the Soul with Hope, Love, and Liberation” and attended the dissertation defense at University of Illinois at Chicago. June 18, 2013.

2009~2012 Member of the steering committee: the Religion, Memory, History Consultation

at American Academy of Religion. 2012 Contributor to a blurb for Prayer as Memory: Toward the Comparative Study of

Prayer as Apocalyptic Language and Thought by David L. Reinhart (Princeton Theological Monograph Series) (Eugene; OR: Pickwick Publications, 2012).


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2012 Co-organizer of the symposium The Atomic Age II: Fukushima at the University of Chicago. May 5, 2012.

2012 Scholarship committee on The Atomic Age II: Fukushima symposium at the

University of Chicago. March—April, 2012. 2012 ` Guest speaker: Japanese Poetry at Shimer College, Chicago IL. February 22,

2012. 2011 Presentation: “Ethics and The Atomic Bomb Discourse” at Summer Institute

sponsored by Japan Foundation. Arlington Heights, IL. August 1-4, 2011. 2011 Co-organizer of the symposium The Atomic Age: Hiroshima to the Present at the

University of Chicago. luchian.uchicago.edu/blogs/atomicage/ May 21, 2011. 2010~ Maintaining the website, The Atomic Age

(http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/atomicage/) 2010 Reviewer: the book proposal, Like Cats and Dogs: Contesting the Mu Kōan in

Zen Buddhism (Oxford University Press). October, 2010. 2009 Co-organizer: Ethics of Memory: Religious Commemorations and Myth

Construction panel, co-sponsored by Religion, Holocaust and Genocide Group and Religion, Memory, History Consultation. American Academy of Religion Annual Conference. Montreal, Canada. November 7-10, 2009.

2009 Reviewer: reviewed the book manuscript, Traditions and Teachers: An

Introduction to Comparative Religious Ethics (Saint Mary’s Press). October-November, 2009.

2009 Reviewer: reviewed the book proposal, Dōgen: Textual and Historical Studies

(Oxford University Press). June―July, 2009. General Community (Organizing lectures, giving talks, and receiving interviews) 2016-17 Advisor for a senior project, “Armenian Genocide” for a Walter Payton AP

capstone project. 2016 Coordinator and Speaker for the Opening Remarks at the Atomic Bomb

Exhibition at the Japanese Cultural Center, Chicago, IL. September 30, 2016. 2015 ~ Director at Large for CORE (Consequences of Radiation Exposure Museum and

Archives) consisted of scholars and artists in and out of the United States. 2015~ Member of Advisory Board for Peace Resource Center at Wilmington College,

OH. 2015 Invited speaker at Bike Around the Bomb, organized by DePaul Global Zero

students group. Oz Park. Chicago, IL. August 9, 2015.


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2015 Invited speaker: “After White Light” at the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima organized by Chicago Area Peace Action. DePaul University. Chicago, IL. August 6, 2015.

2013 ~ 15 Academic advisor: Hiroshima/Nagasaki 2015 project organized by Japanese

American Service Committee and Chicago Arts Partnership in Education. 2015 Judge: interviewing candidates for the JET program sponsored by the Ministry of

Internal Affairs and Communications, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Council of Local Authorities for International Relations of Japan. The Consulate of Japan at Chicago. Chicago, IL. February, 2015.

2014 Judge: interviewing candidates for the JET program sponsored by the Ministry of

Internal Affairs and Communications, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Council of Local Authorities for International Relations of Japan. The Consulate of Japan at Chicago. Chicago, IL. February, 2014.

2013 Attendee: National Cold War Monuments and Environmental Heritage Trail

Design Charrette, organized by The National Toxic Land/Labor Conservation Service at Champaign, IL, October 26. 2013.

2013 Invited speaker: “Debunking the Nuclear Myth: Toward the Nuclear-Free World”

at A Way Out of the Burning House: A World Free From Nuclear Weapons: A Forum sponsored by Soka Gakkai International-USA, Chicago, at the International House, the University of Chicago, September 8, 2013.


Internal Affairs and Communications, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Council of Local Authorities for International Relations of Japan. The Consulate of Japan at Chicago. Chicago, IL. February 20 and 22, 2013.

2012 Interpreter: Chicago-Osaka Social Service Exchange Program hosted by

Chicago-Osaka sister city office. Chicago, IL. October 14, 2012. 2011 Facilitator: Interreligious Ceremony in Solidarity with Suffering and Struggling

People in Japan: Finding the Emerging Light of Hope out of the Darkness of Sorrow at St. Therese Chinese Catholic Church. Chicago, IL. April 16, 2011.


Internal Affairs and Communications, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Council of Local Authorities for International Relations of Japan. The Consulate of Japan at Chicago. Chicago, IL. Winter, 2011.

2010 Invited Speaker: “Why Remembering Hiroshima?: Learn How the Past Affects

Our Future.” Remembering Hiroshima, Imagining Peace 2010 series. Carnegie Mellon University. Pittsburgh, PA. September 21, 2010.


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2010` Invited Speaker: “Teaching Japanese, Teaching the Atomic Bomb Discourse” Japanese Language Workshop. University of Wisconsin―Madison. Madison, WI. April 10, 2010.

2010 Guest Speaker: “Ethical Implications of Discussing the Atomic Bomb Discourse.”

History 202C: Hiroshima’s Shadow/s. Wittenberg University. Wittenberg, OH. April 6, 2010.

2010 Guest speaker: “Meanings and Implications of Reading The Tale of Genji Today,”

Japanese Literature: The Tale of Genji, at Shimer College. Chicago, IL. March 15, 2010.

2010 Interviewed by Marty Muzik (7th grade at Shepard Junior Highschool, Deerfield

IL) for the school project: World Global Issues―Atomic Bombs and Nuclear Weaponry. February 13, 2010.


Internal Affairs and Communications, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Council of Local Authorities for International Relations of Japan. The Consulate of Japan at Chicago. Chicago, IL. Winter, 2010.

2009 Guest speaker: “Teaching about the Atomic Bombing: Its Purpose and Problems.”

University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Education. Chicago, IL. November 2, 2009.

2009 Coordinator: the Atomic Bomb Exhibition and its Opening Reception hosted by

the city of Hiroshima and Loyola University. Loyola University Museum of Art. Chicago, IL. November 1, 2009.

2009 Invited speaker: “On the 64th Anniversary: A New Reality on Nuclear Weapons.”

The 64th Anniversary of the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Arthur Foise Memorial Summer Forum series 2009. Unitarian Church of Staten Island. Staten Island, NY. August 9, 2009.

2009 Invited panelist: “Abolition of Nuclear Arms against the Spirit of Abstraction:

Response to Daisaku Ikeda’s 2009 Peace Proposal.” Toward Humanitarian Competition: A New Current in History panel. the University of Chicago Peace Symposium. The University of Chicago. Chicago, IL. May 30, 2009.

2009 Guest scholar: the Dissertation Colloquy “Intercontextual Reading of Theologia

Crucis: Toward Theology of Wisdom.” Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. Chicago, IL. April 17, 2009.

2009 Invited speaker: “A World Free from Nuclear Weapons is Possible?” The

Hiroshima-Nagasaki Memorial Exhibit. the University of Kansas and Ecumenical Christian Ministries and the Lawrence (Kansas) Coalition for Peace and Justice. Lawrence, KS. March 8, 2009.

2009 Organizer: Lecture “Sense and Sensitivity in Cross-Cultural Learning Networks.”

by Professor Toshio Kobayashi, Professor at National Institute of Multimedia


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Education (NIME) and adjunct Professor at Department of Cyber Culture and Society, School of Culture and Social Studies, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies. Japan Information Center. Chicago, IL, February 4, 2009.

2009 Judge: interviewed candidates for the JET program sponsored by the Ministry of

Internal Affairs and Communications, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Council of Local Authorities for International Relations of Japan. The Consulate of Japan at Chicago. Chicago, IL. Winter 2009.

2008 Invited speaker: “Sadako and the Thousand Cranes.” St. Alphonsus Academy.

Chicago, IL. November 20, 2008. 2008 Invited speaker: “Abolition or Proliferation? Nuclear Arms Now and Then.” Manchester College. North Manchester, IN. October 10, 2008. 2008 Invited speaker: “Why Now? Why Us?: Nuclear Weaponry Now and Then.”

Japan Lecture Series 2008-2009. Lyon College. Batesville, AK. October 3, 2008.

2008 Invited speaker: “Remembering Hiroshima, Imagining Peace.” Remembering

Hiroshima, Imagining Peace. ArtUp and United Electronical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America. Carnegie Mellon University. Pittsburgh, PA. September 26, 2008.

2008 Invited speaker: “Why Now? Why Us?: The Atomic Bombings in 1945.” Luther

College. Decorah, IA. September 12, 2008.

2008 Guest speaker: “Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Beyond.” Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Beyond. EALC 27605/Human Rights 25400 The University of Chicago. May 20, 2008.

2008 Interlocutor for an undergraduate student at the University of Chicago, writing a research paper for the course, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Beyond, Chicago, IL. Spring 2008. 2008 Invited speaker: “The Challenge of Peace: The Challenge of Disarmament.”

The Challenge of Peace panel. Peace and Social Justice Ministry of the Catholic Diocese of Joilet in Illinois. St. Charles Pastoral Center. Romeoville, IL. May 3, 2008.

2008 Invited speaker: “Under the Mushroom Cloud: Reflecting on the Atomic

Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.” Under the Mushroom Cloud: Reflecting on the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Wittenberg University. Springfield, OH. March 14, 2008.

2008 Presenter: “Study Abroad Program: Atom Bomb Discourse.” Bridging Projects

among Learning Communities to Promote Awareness of Cultural Diversity panel. Asian Studies Development Program National Conference. Chicago, IL. March 6-9, 2008.


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2008 Invited speaker: “Hiroshima and the Holocaust” with Dr. Oren Stier, Director of Graduate in the Department of Religious Studies at Florida International University. Florida International University. Miami, FL. February 29, 2008.

2008 Invited speaker; “Striving for Abolition of Nuclear Weaponry: Survivors’ Ethics”

Hiroshima-Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Exhibition. Purdue University. West Lafayette, IN. February 23, 2008.

2008 Invited speaker: “Japanese Religions: Shinto.” The Francis W. Parker School.

Chicago, IL. March 27, 2008. 2008 Judge: interviewed candidates for the JET program sponsored by the Ministry of

Internal Affairs and Communications, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Council of Local Authorities for International Relations of Japan. The Consulate of Japan at Chicago. Chicago, IL. Winter 2008.

2007 Invited speaker: “Teaching about the Atomic Bombing in the U.S. Educational

Scenes.” Illinois Association of Teachers of Japanese, Fall Professional Development Workshop. Elk Grove High School. Elk Grove, IL. September 15, 2007.

2007 “The Ethics of Neither ‘Us” nor “Them”: Learning from the Atomic Bomb

Survivors.” Think Peace Take Action. SGI-USA Chicago Culture Center. Chicago, IL. September 8, 2007.

2007 Invited panelist: Public program—Film screening: “White Light Black Rain: The

Destruction on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.” The Chicago Council on Global Affiars. The Gene Siskel Film Center. July 31, 2007.

2007 Invited speaker: “Surviving the Bomb, Striving for Peace: Speaking about the

Experience of the Atomic Bombing to American Students.” Middlebury College. Middlebury, VT. July 26, 2007.

2007 Guest speaker: “Mizuko Kuyo as a Model for Ethics and Dialogue.” Tradition, Ethics and Dialogue. University of Notre Dame Graduate Seminar. May 1, 2007.

2007 Invited speaker: “The Impact of the Atomic Bombings 61 Years Later.” Striving

for Peace: The Impact of One. The 19th Annual Nobel Peace Prize Forum. Augustana College. Sioux Falls, SD. March 9-10, 2007.

2007 Guest speaker: “Longing for the Shadow in Kokinshū: A Collection of Poems Ancient and Modern.” Japanese Poetry. Shimer College. Chicago, IL. February 28, 2007.

2007 Judge: interviewed candidates for JET program sponsored by the

Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Council of Local Authorities for International Relations of Japan. The Consulate of Japan at Chicago. Chicago, IL. Winter 2007


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2006 Guest speaker: “Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Beyond.” Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and

Beyond. EALC 27605/Human Rights 25400 The University of Chicago. May 16, 2006.

2006 “The Role of Religion in the 20th Century.” Moraine Valley Community

College: Japan Seminar—Eyes on Asia: Japan. Moraine Valley Community College. Palos Hills, IL. April 28, 2006.

2005 Guest speaker: “Ota Yoko and Hiroshima.” Modern Japanese Fiction and Film:

Canon Formation and Translation in Postwar Japan. Grinnell College. Grinnell, IA. November 29, 2005.

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