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〜『武士道』そして五千円札の顔〜

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John F. Howes

John Howes is one of the world’s foremost authorities on the life and works of Inazo Nitobe. Dr. Howes is the editor of Nitobe Inazo: Japan's Bridge Across the Pacific (1995), which consists of twelve essays on Dr Nitobe written from varying perspectives by scholars from Japan, the United States and Canada. Professor emeritus at the University of British Columbia, where he taught Japanese history for three decades, Dr Howes is the author of a forthcoming critical biography of Kanzo Uchimura, a pacifist Christian thinker and a contemporary of Dr. Nitobe.

Akio Harada

Japan’s Chief Public Prosecutor, Akio Harada first took an interest in the life of Inazo Nitobe in 1992 while stationed in Morioka, Dr Nitobe’s birthplace. Since then Mr Harada has written and lectured widely on Dr Nitobe’s achievements as a diplomat and statesman. Prior to assuming his present post, Mr Harada served as Director General of the Criminal Affairs Bureau of the Ministry of Justice, Vice-Minister of Justice and Chief Prosecutor at the Tokyo High Court. From 1975 to 1978, Mr Harada was first secretary and legal attache at the Japanese Embassy in Washington.

Dr Okio Hino, M.D. Ph. D.

Dr Hino has had a long-standing interest in the life and works of Inazo Nitobe and has lectured widely in Japan on Dr Nitobe. One of Japan’s foremost cancer researchers, Dr Hino studied at the Cancer Institute at New York’s Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and at the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia. Dr Hino is head of the Department of Experimental Pathology at the Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research and teaches at the Department of Pathology at the Juntendo University School of Medicine. Dr Hino is the author of several collections of essays on medical research as well as on the legacy of Dr Nitobe.

Andrew　Horvat

The Japan representative of The Asia Foundation, a San Francisco-based non-profit organization which this year celebrates its 50th anniversary, Andrew Horvat studied Japanese language and history at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, Canada. Mr Horvat first became acquainted with the work of Inazo Nitobe thanks to the Nitobe Garden located on the UBC campus. Researching the early work of The Asia Foundation in Japan, Mr Horvat found that several of the foundation’s first group of grantees had studied under Dr Nitobe at various Japanese colleges and universities. Prior to joining The Asia Foundation in 1999, Mr. Horvat was a Tokyo-based journalist covering Japan and continental Asia for nearly 30 years.

Akiko Kuno

Akiko Kuno is executive director of the Japan-America Society of Tokyo. Author of several books on US-Japan educational exchanges, Ms Kuno has pursued historical research in the period in which Inazo Nitobe first became acquainted with the United States. Ms Kuno has written, Unexpected Destination ? the story of Vassar College’s first Japanese graduate, which follows the life of her own great-grandmother, sent to study in the United States in 1872. Dr Nitobe studied for three years at Johns Hopkins University in the 1880s. A graduate of Tokyo’s Keio University, Ms Kuno studied at Stanford as an exchange student and qualified as a teacher of English as a foreign language at the University of Michigan.

Katsuhide Kusahara

A prolific writer and frequent lecturer on Inazo Nitobe, Katsuhide Kusahara has had a life-long interest in Dr Nitobe’s legacy as educator, internationalist and statesman. Mr Kusahara is vice-president of Takushoku University, an institution where Dr Nitobe lectured. Mr Kusahara worked for several years at the headquarters of UNESCO. While serving as an undersecretary at the League of Nations, Dr Nitobe had been instrumental in founding UNESCO’s predecessor, the International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation. Mr Kusahara is a graduate of the University of Tokyo and has an MBA from Cornell University’s Graduate School of Business and Public Administration. Until 1997, Mr Kusahara worked for the Japanese Ministry of Education.

Dr. Akiko Minato

Dr Akiko Minato’s interest in Inazo Nitobe stemmed naturally from her curiosity about the history of her own alma mater, Tokyo Woman’s Christian University. Dr Nitobe was the university’s first president, the post which Dr Minato holds today. Dr Minato was among Japan’s first Fulbright scholars, completing a graduate degree at Wehaton College under the Fulbright exchange program. Dr Minato has been a visiting scholar at Harvard University and was for many years the host of a popular English educational program on Japan’s public broadcasting network, NHK. She is professor emeritus of Tokyo Christian University, a director of World Vision Japan, and author of many works including True Partnership, and A Great Educator and Pacifist, Inazo Nitobe. Dr Minato has recently carried out research on the life of Mrs. Mary Nitobe.

Toshiro Tatsuma

Concurrently director of the popular FM station “Inter-Wave” and managing director of ELEC (The English Language Education Council), Toshiro Tatsuma has had a career that has combined English study and journalism, two areas in which Inazo Nitobe excelled. Mr Tatsuma’s interest in Dr Nitobe stems from his own career in English-language journalism in Japan. Between 1989 and 2003 Mr Tatsuma was employed by The Japan Times, Japan’s oldest English-language daily, where he served as head of the advertising department and later as director. A graduate of Keio University, Mr Tatsuma worked for many years at the Mainichi Broadcasting System.