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
PUBLISHED ARTICLES
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"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).
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"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).
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"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).
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"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.
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"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).
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"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).
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"Engineers and Economic Performance: Issues in Cross National Comparison."
Occasional Papers: The London Office of Hosei University
. No. 12 (1995): 67-90.
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"The Impact of Military Procurements on the Old Middle Classes in Japan, 1931-1941."
Japan Forum
. (October, 1992): 247-265.
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"Japanese Engineers and American Myth Makers."
Pacific Affairs
. 64:3 (Fall, 1991): 328-350.
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"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).
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"Business-University Links in Japan."
Engineering Education
. (May-June, 1989): 485-490.
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"Japanese Patents: Olympic Gold or Public Relations Brass."
Pacific Affairs
. 60:2 (Summer, 1987): 173-199.
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"Engineering Education and Its Rewards in the United States and Japan."
Comparative Education Review
. 30:3 (August, 1986): 396-416.
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"Can Japanese Squeeze Into One Middle Class or Not?"
Japan Times
(March 17, 1985): 12.
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"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.
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"Bibliofile: Humanizing the UNIX System,"
Computers and the Humanities.
(1984): 71-85.
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"Nakamura Keiu and Samuel Smiles: A Victorian Confucian and a Confucian Victorian."
The American Historical Review
85:3 (June, 1980): 535-556.
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"Fukuzawa Reconsidered:
Gakumon no susume
and its Audience."
Journal of Asian Studies
37:4 (1978, August): 677-696.
RESEARCH PROJECTS
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Using the Internet for Teaching About Japan in Japan.
Revised 08_04_20
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