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Phone: (413) 585-3551
Office: 8
College Lane, #203; Hours: W 9-11:30
E-mail: dyasutom@smith.edu
Dennis
T. Yasutomo is Professor of Government and East Asian Studies at Smith College.
He received his undergraduate degree from San Francisco State University, studied
at the International Division of Waseda University in Tokyo, and received his doctorate
in Political Science from Columbia University, where he also received the Certificate
of the East Asian Institute. Professor Yasutomo's specialized field of research is
contemporary Japanese foreign policy, and he is the author of numerous books and
articles on Japanese politics and diplomacy. His books include The New Multilateralism
in Japan's Foreign Policy (St. Martin's Press, 1995), The Manner of Giving:
Strategic Aid and Japanese Foreign Policy (Lexington Books, 1986), and Japan
and the Asian Development Bank (Praeger, 1983). The Manner of Giving was
translated into Japanese as Senryaku Enjo to Nihon Gaiko (Dobunkan Shuppan,
1989).
As a two-time Fulbright
Scholar, Professor Yasutomo affiliated in Japan with the Institute of Developing
Economies of the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry and the Institute of Fiscal
and Monetary Policy of the Ministry of Finance. He was appointed as a Visiting Researcher
in the Faculty of Law at Doshisha University in Kyoto , and he serves on the Board
of Governors of Temple University Japan. Recently, Professor Yasutomo was appointed
to visiting researcher positions at the Policy Research Institute of the Ministry
of Finance in Tokyo, and at the German Council on Foreign Relations in Berlin.
At
Smith College, Professor Yasutomo served as Director of the Program in East Asian
Studies. He is active in study abroad activities and had served during the 2000-01
academic year as the Resident Director of the Associated Kyoto Program, Smith's consortium
study abroad program in Japan . He teaches courses on Japanese domestic politics
and foreign policy, U.S.-Japan relations, and the international relations of East
and Southeast Asia in both the Department of Government and the Program in East Asian
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