Akiko Hashimoto is Associate Professor of Sociology and Asian Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Sociology. She was educated at the University of Hamburg, London School of Economics, and Yale University. Prior to her appointment at the University of Pittsburgh, she was Research Associate at the United Nations University in Tokyo. Her publications include The Gift of Generations: Japanese and American Perspectives on Aging and the Social Contract (Cambridge University Press, 1996), and Family Support for the Elderly: The International Experience (Oxford University Press, 1992). An Abe Fellow in 1996-97, she is currently at work on a book-length study of cultural identity and national memory in post-World War II Japan, Germany, and the United States.

 

Selected recent publications:

"The Cultural Meanings of 'Security' in Aging Policies"

in Susan O. Long (ed.) Caring for the Elderly in Japan and the United States: Practices and Policies.

2000. London: Routledge, pp. 19-27

 

"Japanese and German Projects of Moral Recovery: Toward A New Understanding of War Memories in

Defeated Nations."  1999. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies Occasional Papers in Japanese Studies

No. 1999-01, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

 

"Designing Family Values: Cultural Assumptions of an Aging Society."

1997 Japan Quarterly, Vol 44 (4),  pp.59-65

 

The Gift of Generations: Japanese and American Perspectives on Aging and the Social Contract.

1996.  New York: Cambridge University Press

 

"'Seigi no sensō': Amerika ni okeru dainiji sekaitaisen no kioku." 1996. Hōsō Kenkyū to Chōsa,

Vol 46 (12), pp. 34-47 (with Ellis Krauss)

 

"Memories of the War: Media's Responsibility," in World Television Coverage of the 50th Anniversary of

the End of World War II, 1996. NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, Tokyo (with Ellis Krauss)

 

"Family Relations in Later Life: A Cross-Cultural Perspective."

1993. Generations Vol 17 (4)

 

Contact Address:

2419 Posvar Hall, Department of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260

tel:  (412) 648-7109     fax:  (412) 648-2799

                                         

 

E-mail Address:

ahash@pitt.edu

 

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