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The Japanese Professor

An Ethnography of a University Faculty



Foreword by Roger Goodman, University of Oxford

Gregory S. Poole



University of Tsukuba, Japan

This monograph is a substantial contribution to our knowledge of the internal 

workings of a Japanese university, focussing on the world view of the professor. In this 

anthropological case study of a private university in urban Tokyo conducted through 

extended participant observation, Gregory Poole, at once both an insider and outsider, 

tells an ethnographic story that explicates a professoriate’s working world. 

The author addresses one basic problem—how do Japanese professors confi gure their 

working world? In answering this research question, he demonstrates how the present 

climate of competition and restructuring means that faculty members in Japan are 

faced with the challenge of culturally translating largely western concepts of the 

university while steadfastly preserving their own local culture of higher education. This 

book describes the resulting cultural debates and competing discourses that surround 

the key concepts in the work-life of Japanese professors. It is of special interest to 

scholars in the fi elds of comparative education, Japanese Studies, and sociocultural 

anthropology as well as academic and administrative staff employed at universities in 

Japan and abroad.

“There have been few anthropological analyses of the lives and work of university 

professors in Japan, or for that matter, anywhere else. Poole is able to give satisfactory 

explanations perhaps for the fi rst time in the English literature as to why Japanese 

universities function in the ways that they do, ways that sometimes seem bizarre and 

counter-productive to the western observer.”

J.S. Eades, Professor of Anthropology and Dean of the School of Asia Pacifi c Studies, 

Ritsumeikan Asia Pacifi c University.

Gregory S. Poole is Professor of Anthropology in the Graduate School of Humanities 

and Social Sciences at the University of Tsukuba. His area of research includes the 

anthropology of education, language, and Japan and his publications include Higher 

Education in East Asia: Neoliberalism and the Professoriate (2009), co-edited with 

Ya-chen Chen, and “The Japanese University in Crisis” (2005), coauthored with Ikuo 

Amano (Higher Education).

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The Japanese Professor

An Ethnography of a University 

Faculty

Foreword by Roger Goodman, University of Oxford

Gregory S. Poole



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P u b l i s h e r s


THE JAPANESE PROFESSOR



The Japanese Professor

An Ethnography of a University Faculty

By

Gregory S. Poole



University of Tsukuba, Japan

SENSE PUBLISHERS

ROTTERDAM / BOSTON / TAIPEI



A C.I.P. record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.

ISBN 978-94-6091-154-5 (paperback)

ISBN 978-94-6091-165-1 (hardback)

ISBN 978-84-6091-166-8 (e-book)

Published by: Sense Publishers,

P.O. Box 21858, 3001 AW Rotterdam, The Netherlands

http://www.sensepublishers.com

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the work.





TABLE OF CONTENTS 

Foreword  

 

 

 



 

 

                            vii 



 

Preface 


        xi 

 

Introduction   



 

 

 



 

 

 



 

 1 

 

Chapter 1   



Japanese Tertiary Education   

 

 



             13

 

 



Chapter 2     Reform of Japanese Higher Education   

 

              45 



  

Chapter 3     Discourses of Reform and Tradition: The Multivocality                 69 

 of 

Daigaku 

 

 



Chapter 4  

Building Cultural Capital at Work: “Good” Sensei“Bad”  

 

Sensei  


 

 

 



 

 

            105 



 

Chapter 5    

Cultural Performance: Uchimuki and Sotomuki Career  

 

Paths 



 

 

 



 

 

           127



 

 

Chapter 6     Conclusion   



 

 

 



 

            137 

 

Appendix      EUC Organizational Chart 



 

 

 



            149 

 

Notes   



 

 

 



 

 

 



            151 

 

Glossary  



 

 

 



 

 

 



            157 

 

References 

 

 

 



 

 

 



            165 

 

Index   


 

 

 



 

 

 



            183


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