I was trained in theoretical linguistics at the University of Michigan and taught linguistics and modern English (focusing on syntax-semantics) most of my career at the Univiersity of Illinois at Chicago from 1975 to 2007. However, since the early..
I was trained in theoretical linguistics at the University of Michigan and taught linguistics and modern English (focusing on syntax-semantics) most of my career at the Univiersity of Illinois at Chicago from 1975 to 2007. However, since the early 1980s, in my research, I have devoted myself to comparative cultural studies of Japanese and American societies. My work has resulted in two books and one book manuscript: "MacArthur's Japanese Constitution: A Linguistic and Cultural Study of Its Making" (University of Chicago Press, 1991), "Individual Dignity in Modern Japanese Thought: The Evolution of the Concept of Jinkaku in Moral and Educational Discourse" (Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 2001), and "A Missed Opportunity: John Dewey and Liberal Educators in Japan," coauthored with Richard B. Muller (2010, not yet in press). My interest in comparative studies of American and Japanese religious traditions--the nature and the role of religion in society--is one of the evolving themes that I have pursued and discussed from different perspectives in all three books in my thirty years of research thus far.
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Religion in Society
