The Fall and Spring Tokyo programs are based at the IES Abroad Tokyo Center and supported by IES Abroad staff. Our Center is located within walking distance of public transportation, Kanda University of International Studies, a seaside park, a Japanese garden, and many public amenities.
Features of the IES Abroad Tokyo Center include:
High-speed Internet and printer access
Library and reading resources
Student lounge
Staff offices
Small classroom with projector and screen
The Summer program is based at the National Olympic Youth Center, near Yoyogi Park in downtown Tokyo. For more information on this facility, please see http://nyc.niye.go.jp/e/index.html[1].
Center staff:
Karl Friday IES Abroad Director
Karl Friday has been a student, and on-and-off resident, of Japan for more than 35 years, since braving his first Japanese language courses as a sophomore at the University of Kansas. He holds an MA and PhD in History from Stanford University and a BGS and MA in East Asian Languages and Cultures from the University of Kansas, and has also studied at Tsukuba University in Japan, and at Ewha University and Yonsei University in Korea. A specialist in premodern history, particularly the late classical and early medieval eras, he has authored four books and several dozen articles on samurai history and culture; and has been a professor, visiting professor or visiting researcher at the University of San Diego, the University of Hawaii, the University of Tokyo Historiographical Institutute, Tsukuba University, and the University of Georgia. Outside the office, he is an avid jazz drummer, scuba diver (and some-time scuba instructor), skier, and student of classical Japanese martial art.
Daiji Shin Associate Director
IES Abroad Staff
Mariko Ishikawa Field Placement Program Coordinator and Customized Programs Coordinator
Hyung-Hye Lee Student Affairs Coordinator
Natsuko Takahashi Center Administrative Assistant
Academic Year Faculty
John Clammer Social Anthropology
Doctor of Philosophy and Master of Studies, Oxford University
Meiko Okamoto Architecture
Master of Architecture, Yale University
Nana Okura Gagne Anthropology
Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University
Yuzo Sugimoto Economics
Doctor of Philosophy in Economics, Yokohama National University
Master of Business Administration in Finance, Pepperdine University
Noriko Tada Anthropology
Master of Arts in International and Intercultural Management, School of International Training
Colin Tyner History
Doctor of Philosophy Candidate, University of California, Santa Cruz
IES Abroad Tokyo
The Fall and Spring Tokyo programs are based at the IES Abroad Tokyo Center and supported by IES Abroad staff. Our Center is located within walking distance of public transportation, Kanda University of International Studies, a seaside park, a Japanese garden, and many public amenities.
Features of the IES Abroad Tokyo Center include:
The Summer program is based at the National Olympic Youth Center, near Yoyogi Park in downtown Tokyo. For more information on this facility, please see http://nyc.niye.go.jp/e/index.html [1].
Karl Friday
IES Abroad Director
Karl Friday has been a student, and on-and-off resident, of Japan for more than 35 years, since braving his first Japanese language courses as a sophomore at the University of Kansas. He holds an MA and PhD in History from Stanford University and a BGS and MA in East Asian Languages and Cultures from the University of Kansas, and has also studied at Tsukuba University in Japan, and at Ewha University and Yonsei University in Korea. A specialist in premodern history, particularly the late classical and early medieval eras, he has authored four books and several dozen articles on samurai history and culture; and has been a professor, visiting professor or visiting researcher at the University of San Diego, the University of Hawaii, the University of Tokyo Historiographical Institutute, Tsukuba University, and the University of Georgia. Outside the office, he is an avid jazz drummer, scuba diver (and some-time scuba instructor), skier, and student of classical Japanese martial art.
Daiji Shin
Associate Director
IES Abroad Staff
Mariko Ishikawa
Field Placement Program Coordinator and Customized Programs Coordinator
Hyung-Hye Lee
Student Affairs Coordinator
Natsuko Takahashi
Center Administrative Assistant
Academic Year Faculty
John Clammer
Social Anthropology
Doctor of Philosophy and Master of Studies, Oxford University
Meiko Okamoto
Architecture
Master of Architecture, Yale University
Nana Okura Gagne
Anthropology
Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University
Yuzo Sugimoto
Economics
Doctor of Philosophy in Economics, Yokohama National University
Master of Business Administration in Finance, Pepperdine University
Noriko Tada
Anthropology
Master of Arts in International and Intercultural Management, School of International Training
Colin Tyner
History
Doctor of Philosophy Candidate, University of California, Santa Cruz