Executive Committee


ASCJ Executive Committee

 New members can be proposed at the Business Meeting held on the Sunday morning of the conference.  All registered participants are qualified to attend and to vote. Dates in brackets indicate the committee member’s last date of reelection.


Bruce Batten, Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies, Environmental History and Ancient Japan

Tove Bjoerk, Saitama University, Early Modern Japanese Literature

Christopher Bondy, International Christian University, Japanese Society

Roger Brown, Saitama University, Modern Japanese History

Mark E. Caprio,
 Rikkyo University, Korean History

Edward Drott, Sophia University, Japanese Religions, Vice President

Robert Eskildsen, International Christian University, Japanese History, Treasurer

Karl Friday, Saitama University, Japanese History, CoC Representative

Curtis Gayle, Waseda University, Modern Japanese History

Bettina Gramlich-Oka, Sophia University, Japanese History

Christian Hess, Sophia University, Chinese History, Secretary

Hyangjin Lee, Rikkyo University, Asian Film Study

Lisa Yinghong Li, J.F. Oberlin University, Chinese Literature

Yoshie Moriki, International Christian University, Asian Anthropology, Treasurer

Lindsay Morrison, Musashi University

Noriko Murai, Sophia University, Art History

Sven Saaler, Sophia University, Modern Japanese History. Vice President

Matthew Strecher, Sophia University, Japanese Literature, President

Jae-Jung Suh, International Christian University,  International Relations

Yusuke Tanaka, Meiji Gakuin University, Japanese Intellectual History, Books/Displays

Alex Vesey, Meiji Gakuin University, Comparative Cultural History, Publicity/Web

Yamamoto Yoshitaka, National Institute of Japanese Literature, Edo Period Japanese Literature