Earl H. Kinmonth
(VITA)

WORK ADDRESS

Taisho University
3-20-1 Nishi-Sugamo
Toshima-ku
Tokyo 170-8470

>03-3918-7311 (operator)

CURRENT ACADEMIC POSITION

Professor of Sociology, Taisho University

PUBLISHED MONOGRAPHS

• Risshin shusse no shakai shi: samurai kara sarariiman made [ The social history of self-advancement: from samurai to salaryman] (Tamagawa daigaku shuppankai, 1995).

• The Self-Made Man in Meiji Japanese Thought: From Samurai to Salaryman (University of California Press, 1981).

PUBLISHED ARTICLES

• "Igirisu ni okeru kenkyû hyôka no mondaiten" [Problems With the Research Assessment Exercise in  England], Pp. 127-182 in Shin-jidai wo kirihiraku daigaku hyûka – Nihon to Igirisu , Edited by Yumiko Hata (Toshindo, 2005).
• "From Selection to Seduction: The Impact of Demographic Change on Private Higher Education in Japan," Pp. 106-135 in The 'Big Bang' in Japanese Higher Education: The 2004 Reforms and the Dynamics of Change , Edited by J. S. Eades, Roger Goodman, and Yumiko Hada (Trans Pacific Press, 2005).
• "Lifelong Learning in the United Kingdom: A Brief History and Discussion of Recent Trends Under 'New Labour'." Pp. 212-226 in Shin-shôgai gakushû gairon [A New Outline of Lifelong Learning], Edited by Hiruta Michiharu. (Tokyo, Nichijô shuppan, 2000).
• "The Mouse that Roared: Saitô Takao, Conservative Critic of Japan's 'Holy War' in China." Journal of Japanese Studies 25:2 (Summer, 1999): 331-360.
• "Fukuzawa Reconsidered: Gakumon no susume and its Audience." Journal of Asian Studies 37:4 (1978, August): 677-696. Reprinted in Meiji Japan: political, economic and social history, 1868-1912 , Edited by Peter Kornicki. (London: Routledge, 1998).
• "Nakamura Keiu and Samuel Smiles: A Victorian Confucian and a Confucian Victorian." The American Historical Review 85:3 (June, 1980): 535-556. Reprinted in Meiji Japan: political, economic and social history, 1868-1912 , Edited by Peter Kornicki. (London: Routledge, 1998).
• "Engineers and Economic Performance: Issues in Cross National Comparison." Occasional Papers: The London Office of Hosei University . No. 12 (1995): 67-90.
• "The Impact of Military Procurements on the Old Middle Classes in Japan, 1931-1941." Japan Forum . (October, 1992): 247-265.
• "Japanese Engineers and American Myth Makers." Pacific Affairs . 64:3 (Fall, 1991): 328-350.
• "Nihon no kôgaku kyôiku to sono hôshû" [Engineering Education and Its Rewards in Japan]. Pp. 207-238 in Hendô suru shakai no kyôiku seido [The Changing System of Social Education], Ed. Amano Ikuo and Iwaki Hideo. (Kyôiku kaihatsu kenkyûjo, 1990).
• "Business-University Links in Japan." Engineering Education . (May-June, 1989): 485-490.
• "Japanese Patents: Olympic Gold or Public Relations Brass." Pacific Affairs . 60:2 (Summer, 1987): 173-199.
• "Engineering Education and Its Rewards in the United States and Japan." Comparative Education Review . 30:3 (August, 1986): 396-416.
• "Can Japanese Squeeze Into One Middle Class or Not?" Japan Times (March 17, 1985): 12.
• "Kôgaku kyôiku to gijutsusha no Nichi-Bei hikaku" [Engineers and Their Education: the US and Japan Compared] IDE: Kôtô kyôiku [Institute for Democratic Education: Higher Education] 266 (October-November, 1985): 32-39.
• "Bibliofile: Humanizing the UNIX System," Computers and the Humanities. (1984): 71-85.
• "Nakamura Keiu and Samuel Smiles: A Victorian Confucian and a Confucian Victorian." The American Historical Review 85:3 (June, 1980): 535-556.
•   "Fukuzawa Reconsidered: Gakumon no susume and its Audience." Journal of Asian Studies 37:4 (1978, August): 677-696.

RESEARCH PROJECTS

• Militarism and the Middle Classes in Early Shôwa Japan: Plutocrats versus Technocrats, a study of the 1929 depression in Japan, its effects on the middle classes, and the relation of their discontent to the rise of militarism and fascism.
• The Impact of Demographic Change on Japanese Universities, a study of how the decline in the number of 18-year olds is changing the environment for Japanese universities in the public and private sectors.
• Quality Assessment in Higher Education in the US, the UK, and Japan, a study of recent trends and fads in ranking universities and their programmes.
• A Sourcebook in Prewar Japanese Social and Economic History, a computer collated and typeset selection of newspaper and magazine articles taken from English language newspapers published in prewar Japan.
• Using the Internet for Teaching About Japan in Japan.

Revised 08_04_20

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