Japan Documents Handbook titles

Editors:

Ioannis Gaitanidis and Gregory S. Poole

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Ioannis Gaitanidis is an associate professor at the Graduate School of Global and Transdisciplinary Studies, Chiba University, Japan. Ioannis’ research focuses on contemporary crossings between therapy and religion. His monograph, Spirituality and Alternativity in Contemporary Japan: Beyond Religion? (2022) was published in Bloomsbury Advances in Religious Studies. Since 2013, he has been involved in managing the Japanese Studies curriculum at Chiba University. These efforts of thinking about Japanese Studies pedagogy from the ground up led to the publication of a co-edited/co-authored textbook, Kuritikaru Nihongaku: Kyōdō gakushū o tōshite Nihon no sutereotaipu o manabihogusu (Critical Japanese studies: Unlearning Japanese stereotypes through collaborative learning, 2020, Akashi Shoten).

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Gregory S. Poole is a professor of social anthropology at the Institute for the Liberal Arts, Doshisha University, Kyoto. Greg’s area of research focuses mostly on topics within the anthropology of education and his books include three co-edited volumes, Foreign Language Education in Japan: Exploring Qualitative Approaches (co-edited with Sachiko Horiguchi and Yuki Imoto, 2015, Springer), Reframing Diversity in the Anthropology of Japan (co-edited with John Ertl, John Mock, and John McCreery, 2015, Kanazawa University), and Higher Education in East Asia: Neoliberalism and the Professoriate (co-edited with Ya-chen Chen, 2009,  Brill), as well as a monograph, The Japanese Professor: An Ethnography of a University Faculty (2010, Brill).