Staff



Robert Dujarric
ICAS Director
ICAS Director Robert Dujarric first lived in Tokyo in 1986-87. He moved back to the city in 2004 as a Council on Foreign Relations (Hitachi) International Affairs Fellow. During his fellowship, he was stationed at the Research Institute of Economy Trade and Industry (RIETI) of the Ministry of Economy Trade and Industry (METI) prior to joining the Japan Institute of International Affairs in Tokyo (2005-7) as a visiting research fellow. He took his current position at TUJ in 2007.

Robert was raised in Paris and New York, worked in banking in the United States, Japan, and Europe prior to joining a think tank in Washington in 1993. He is a graduate of Harvard College and holds an MBA from Yale University.

Besides directing the Institute, Robert is a frequent contributor to the public debate on Japanese affairs and international political and economic issues, writing op-eds, giving talks, and organizing TUJ events in New York City.

Robert has published several books and numerous articles. He has also contributed articles to Asahi Shimbun, The Financial Times, The Christian Science Monitor, Real Clear Politics, The Oriental Economist, Nikkei Weekly, Le Figaro, Le Monde, The Korea Herald, and other publications, and is often quoted in the press. He can be reached at icas@tuj.ac.jp.



Kyle Cleveland
ICAS Associate Director
Kyle Cleveland (Ph.D., Temple University, Sociology) is the Associate Director of TUJ's Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies, and is Associate Professor of Sociology at TUJ. As the founding Director of the university’s Institute of Contemporary Japan Studies (now ICAS), he organized TUJ's Pacific Rim Lecture series, and was the founding director of the Nextframe International Film Festival. Dr. Cleveland is the Director of TUJ's Summer Institute in Studies of Japanese Popular Culture, and through the Wakai Project, organizes a series of events and symposia in which students from various universities, scholars, activists, and media collaborate to address how globalization is affecting youth culture in Japan.

At TUJ, he has been the Director of the Office of International Students, the Study Abroad Advisor, Director of Student Activities, Manager of the Office of Student Services, and is the faculty advisor to the university's Student Government. His areas of specialty include Japanese Popular Culture, Political Sociology, Youth subcultures, Race/Ethnicity and Globalization.
Eriko Kawaguchi
ICAS Coordinator
Eriko Kawaguchi joined Temple University, Japan Campus as Public Relations in 2002. She was appointed as Coordinator of ICAS as of July 1, 2010. Before she joined TUJ, she worked in the area of communications/public relations in both the private and public sectors in Japan and US.
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