Tsukuda, Yoko Profile

Academic Background
B.A. in Intercultural Studies, Nagoya City University
M.A. in Ethnic Studies, San Francisco State University.
Currently Ph.D. student, Department of Area Studies (North America), Graduate School of Arts and Scieces, The University of Tokyo.

Research Field
I am currently studying construction of "immigrants" as a social category in the US from the case study of Japanese people's migration to the US by applying theories of cultural geography. My research area includes Torrance, a suburban city of Los Angeles and Texas.
For master's thesis, I studied interactions between English-speaking Nikkei (e.g. Sansei, who speak English as the primary language) and Japanese-speaking Nikkei (e.g. post-war Japanese immigrants and long-time resident Japanese, who speak Japanese as the primary language) in the Nikkei community of San Francisco's Japantown. I did fieldwork at the Northern California's Cherry Blossom Festival Committee, where the two groups are involved.

Studying Abroad
 San Francisco State University, Ethnic Studies (2000-2004)
Fieldwork
 San Francisco's Japantown 2000-2004
 Torrance (CA) September, 2006

Recent works
Journal Articles
  • "Nikkei community no shourai: nihonjin to nikkeijin no kouryuu wo tooshite." (Future of the Nikkei Community: Relationship between Japanese-speaking and English-speaking Nikkei) The Annual Reveiw of Migration Studies 11 (March, 2005): 81-98.
  • “Communities Created through the Production of Scale: Controversy over the Renaming of ‘Jap Road’ in Texas,” 49th Parallel 19 [online], November, 2006. full text

Chapter in Book
  • "Jap Road kaimei ronsou ni okeru scale no souzou: 'local' na kioku to 'national' na kioku no saiseisan." (Creation of the Scale in the case of the Renaming of Jap Road: Reproduction of 'Local' and 'National' Memories) In Tadamasa Murai, ed. Transnational Identity to Tabunka kyosei: Global jidai no nikkeijin(Trasnational Identity and Multiculturalism: Nikkei in the Global Era) (Tokyo: Akashi shoten, 2007), 197-222. link to contents of the book (in Japanese)

Others
  • "21seiki nihonjin no american dream: imin to hi-imin no aida" (American Dreams of Japanese people in the 21st century: between Immigrants and Non-immigrants) Ajia Yugau: Intriguing ASIA 104 (November, 2007): 72-80. link to contents of the journal (in Japanese)

Academic Presentations

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