Professor, Faculty of Social and Information Studies, Gunma University
Yuichi Sunakawa
砂川 裕一
Professor Sunakawa is providing Japanese-language education abroad.
It seems that the time has passed that internationality was questioned in the cultural, political and economy fields, interdiscipline in academic and technical fields, inter-occupational relationship in various occupational fields, and inter-citizen relationship and inter-humanity among a diversity of people. This way of thinking is where the specialties and characteristics of each country, community and academic field and occupation are respected, while their endemism is utilized, and mutual understanding and mutual cooperation are required.
As for coexistence of various cultures in an international society, coexistence between people and nature, and multicultural coexistence in a community, their ways of thinking probably overlap.
When we go deep into the details of social systems, many items which require a variety of considerations accumulate to realize the "inter=symbiosis =coexistence". The difficult problem of social sharing of different languages or multiple languages is an urgent issue. I would like the students to become a workforce where their perceptiveness, judgment and ability to make decisions spread throughout broad intellectual and social viewpoints.
■Profile
Graduated from Physics, Faculty of Natural Science (at present, Physics), the College of Liberal Arts, International Christian University. Enrolled in Comparative Culture, Graduate School of Comparative Culture, International Christian University after stay in New Zealand for one year, and studied philosophy, history of scientific thought and Japanese teaching methods. After completing the master's program, taught "Japan affairs" to foreign students as a part-time professor at Osaka Prefecture University and Osaka University of Foreign Studies. About 20 years ago, assumed the head of teaching "Japanese and Japan affairs" at Faculty of Liberal Arts, Gunma University. When Faculty of Liberal Arts was abolished and Faculty of Social and Information Studies was established, moved to Faculty of Social and Information Studies as the head of teaching "Foundation of comparative culture" and continues up to today. Specialties (Not comfortable about being asked about his specialties) are philosophy, foundation of comparative culture, language culture education,
and Japanese and Japan affairs education, etc.