Beyond Covid: Preparing Next Generation Librarians for the Future of Japanese Studies (2023)

Tsuyoshi HARADA, Japanese Studies Librarian and Liaison Librarian for Korean Studies, University of Iowa

Tsuyoshi Harada is the Japanese and Korean Studies Librarian at the University of Iowa. His involvement with the NCC has started in 2019 when he joined as a member of the Outreach Working Group and the ILL/DD Committee, which was renamed as the Resource Sharing Committee in 2022. He is currently the Chair of the Resource Sharing Committee (2022 to present), and a co-Chair of the Outreach Working Group (2021 to present). 

Satoshi KIKUTANI, Librarian, International Research Center for Japanese Studies

Satoshi Kikutani has been a librarian at Osaka University (2016-2020) and at International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken) (2020-present). He has been engaged in public services at both institutions, particularly in the field of peer support at the former.

Kiyonori NAGASAKI, Senior Fellow, International Institute for Digital Humanities (DHII)

Kiyonori Nagasaki, Ph.D., is a Senior Fellow at the International Institute for Digital Humanities in Tokyo. His main research interest is in the development of digital frameworks for collaboration in Buddhist studies. He is also engaging in investigation into the significance of digital methodology in Humanities and in promotion of DH activities in Japan. He has been participating in a number of Digital Humanities projects conducted at several institutions in Japan and abroad such as the University of Tokyo, Kyoto University, Osaka University, the National Diet Library, the National Museum of Ethnology, the National Institute of Japanese Language and Linguistics, the University of Tsukuba and the University of Hamburg. His activities also include postgraduate education in DH at the University of Tokyo as well as administrative tasks at several scholarly societies including Japanese Association for Digital Humanities, and the Japanese Association of Indian and Buddhist Studies. Over the years, he presented at a number of digital scholarship-related workshops offered by the NCC and is currently an Advisor to the CDDP. 

Setsuko NOGUCHI, Japanese Studies Librarian, Princeton University

Setsuko Noguchi has been the Japanese Studies Librarian at Princeton University since 2012. Before Princeton, she worked for University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign as the Japanese Studies Librarian for 10 years. In the past 20 years, she served in a variety of committees and working groups in the  Japanese librarian’s community such as  a member of CEAL CPT, CTS, Japanese officer of OCLC CJK user group, member of NCC DRC, CEAL CJM chair, NCC chair, ILL/DD chair, etc. Currently she is working for CJM subcommittee on Japanese Rare Books as a co-chair, co-chair of NCC LPDWG, a member of CDDP, and an advisor to the RSC.     

Fabiano ROCHA, Japan Studies Librarian, University of Toronto

Fabiano Rocha is the Japan Studies Librarian at the University of Toronto. His involvement with the NCC goes back to 2007 when he joined as a member of the Information Literacy Task Force. He has served as Chair of the Digital Resources Committee (2016-2019) and is currently the Chair of the Image Use Protocol Working Group (2010 to present), co-Chair of the Librarian Professional Development Working Group (2012 to present) and NCC Chair (2022 to present). 

Chiaki SAKAI, Japanese Studies Librarian, Columbia University

Chiaki Sakai has been the Japanese Studies Librarian at Columbia University since October 2019. She previously worked for the University of Iowa libraries for 12 years and at three different Japan Foundation libraries in Canada, Germany and Japan. She also has working experience as a library vendor with Toshokan Ryutsu Senta in Japan. 

Her NCC Involvement started as an ILL/DD Committee member in 2005, and since then, she has served as Co-Chair of the ILL/DD Committee (2007-2009), Chair and Co-Chair of the Digital Resources Committee (2011-2014), and CEAL Liaison as the CJM Chair (2020-2023). Other NCC activities she has participated and got involved with include Training the Trainers (T-3) Workshop and two of its outcome workshops, Information Literacy Resources Task Force, and Japanese Studies Media History Project. 

Shoji YAMADA, Professor, International Research Center for Japanese Studies

YAMADA Shōji has been a professor at International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken) since 2011. After acquiring a B.A. and a M. Med. Sci. at Tsukuba University, he worked for four years for IBM-Japan, then took a position as research assistant in the Department of Computer Science at Tsukuba College of Technology. He joined Nichibunken as an assistant professor in 1996 and earned a PhD from Kyoto University in 1998. His writings include "Pirate" Publishing: The Battle over Perpetual Copyright in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Nichibunken, 2012); Shots in the Dark: Japan, Zen, and the West (The University of Chicago Press, 2009). He spent nine months as a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge in 2002-03, one month as an invited professor at L’École des hautes études en sciences sociales in 2009, and one year as a visiting scholar at the Reischauer Institute, Harvard in 2012-13, and one month as a visiting scholar at Université Libre de Bruxelles.

After serving as NCC's Japan Liaison (2019-2022), Professor Yamada is currently an Advisor to the NCC Resource Sharing Committee. 

Kuniko YAMADA McVEY, Librarian for the Japanese Collection, Harvard-Yenching Library

This is her 33^rd year at Harvard. She worked for Harvard’s then newly established Documentation Center on Contemporary Japan as a librarian (1989-1999) prior to the current position. Before arriving at Boston in 1987, she was a librarian of the Museum of Modern Japanese Literature in Tokyo for seven years. Kuniko served as NCC Chair (2013-16) and is currently the Co-Chair of the Outreach Working Group

Keiji YANO, Professor, Ritsumeikan University (Visiting Scholar, Research Center for Geographic Analysis (CGA) at Harvard)

Keiji Yano (B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D. (D.Sc.)) has been Professor of Human Geography and Geographic Information Science at the Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan since April 2002. Before joining Ritsumeikan in 1992, he was at the Tokyo Metropolitan University as Assistant Professor of Geography, where he also earned his Master and PhD degrees in Geography. His professional roles include being Member of Science Council of Japan, The president of the Human Geographical Society of Japan, the Councilor of the Association of Japanese Geographers, and the past president of GIS Association of Japan.
His research interests are grouped around the use of Geographical Information Systems and quantitative methods in urban analysis. This includes information integration within GIS, geodemographics, geodesign, spatial interaction models, urban modelling, virtual cities, digital humanities, history of quantitative geography, and history of GIS.
https://keijiyanocom.wordpress.com/home/ 
(including Researcher's Database, CiNii, CiNii Book, Google Scholar, Kaken)

Keiko YOKOTA-CARTER, Japanese Studies Librarian, University of Michigan

Keiko Yokota-Carter has been a Japanese Studies Librarian at the University of Washington (1999-2012) and at the University of Michigan (2012-present).

As a subject librarian, she keeps up with how scholarly communication is practised in Japan, trends in publishing, vendors and academic organizations. She is well-connected with librarians and stakeholders in Japanese studies globally. She has been one of the primary negotiators making efforts to make Japanese commercial databases available in North American university libraries since 2000. She has served as Chair of the Committee on Japanese Materials of the Council on East Asian Libraries - CEAL (2005-2008), NCC Multi-Volume Set Grant Selection Committee (2002-2003), Digital Resources Committee (2008), NCC Chair (2010-2012), and Cooperative Collection Development Working Group (2012-present).

Ayako YOSHIMURA, Japanese Studies Librarian, University of Chicago

Ayako Yoshimura joined the University of Chicago Library in June of 2015 after completing a Ph.D. in folklore at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she also served for five years as Japanese studies bibliographer. Within NCC, she has chaired the Multi-Volume Sets Grant Committee and the Digital Resources Committee. Her presentation reflects on her recent work "Nikkei South Side: Japanese and Japanese Americans in Hyde Park and its Vicinity."