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Profile

v Areas of specialization: Sociology, modern history of Japan

v Research topics: Ainu-Japanese relations in modern Japan. It is a crossover of both sociology and history. My research interest is based on emergence and changes of ethnic-related problems accompanied by development. I also have broad interests in the majority/minority relations in modern nation-states, relations between migration and multiculturalism, effects and representations of development and modernization in the post-war period, etc.

v Publications

http://www.gsid.nagoya-u.ac.jp/global/faculty/members/dicos/higashimura-en.html

What I am doing at GSID (education)

v Seminar for doctoral students (together with Prof. Takahashi): (will be updated)

Ø May 13, 2011: Intangible cultural heritage in Indonesia

v Overseas Fieldwork (OFW): We will visit Yogyakarta, Indonesia in September 2011.

Ø Preliminary visit (in February 2011)

v Seminar for Master’s students

v Lectures: “Multi-ethnic Society” (spring semester), “Reinterpreting Society” (fall semester)

Contact:

Please email: higashimura[at]gsid.nagoya-u.ac.jp (replace [at] with @).