Profile Information

Affiliation
Associate Professor, Global Business Course, University of Hyogo

J-GLOBAL ID
201901019829178697
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B000349953

Kathryn M. Tanaka (University of Chicago, PhD), associate professor at the University of Hyogo, is a Japanese literary scholar who works on the intersections of medicine, literature, and culture. Her work focuses primarily on Hansen’s disease and modern Japanese literature. In addition to work on children and gender in public sanatoria, she also has several articles about Hōjō Tamio, and has done translations of several of his stories. She has also published work on Amabie and Japanese culture in the COVID-19 pandemic. Other research interests include human rights education, medical humanities, active learning, translation, and culture in EFL and CLIL education in Japan.


Papers

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Books and Other Publications

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Presentations

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Research Projects

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Social Activities

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