Welcome to my students' page!
This page is specially constructed to help my students, and those who are thinking of studying with me. I'm still putting it together, so let me know if you have any suggestions or requests.
Japan Society for Promotion of Science [and the JSPS Washington office]
(Don't be put off by the term "science." In Japanese it's "gakujutsu," literally "scholarship.")
Association for International Education, Japan [AIEJ]
The University of Tokyo International Center
The Ministry of Education [Monbusho]
and their exchange programs
Japanese can try the Japan Association for Study Abroad
The Fulbright Program (and their Japanese office) are for Americans who want to study in Japan, and Japanese who want to study in the United States.
Write me! We might be able to get some money from the University here.
First: two questions:
1. Why study Japan?
and
2. Why study it in Hirosaki?[Click here for the answers!]
Hirosaki University (This is the university's homepage. Keep checking back for updates.)
Hirosaki University information (This is from the Association for International Education, Japan [AIEJ] where you can also find more information about studying in Japan.)
Information about studying agriculture in Hirosaki.
Information about my classes, and links to more information about the subjects I teach.
I teach history part-time at the Minnesota State University branch campus in Akita, whenever enough students preregister for my courses. If you are an MSU student and thinking of taking a class with me, it is important that you preregister. If enough students do not preregister the class will not be offered. I found a desperate student outside my door at the beginning of one quarter. He needed my class but had not preregistered, and the class had been canceled.
I taught survey U.S. history at a U.S. university level (much more demanding than what I teach in Hirosaki) for a total of 6 quarters (the equivalent of 2 years). Now I am teaching World History. The first quarter is to 1500 and the second quarter is from 1500.
World History:
before 1500
American History (whenever there is enough demand)
[until now] History and dialects of English 
[but soon] Folk Ballads of the English Language
BONUS: