VIA | Publications

The VIA community, including volunteers, participants, staff, and advisors, actively contribute to a wide range of fields as educators, researchers, and practitioners. If you are a member of the VIA community and would like to share your work on this list, please contact us.


	Eric Almquist – VIA Volunteer in Macau, 1969 The Elements of Value, Harvard Business Review The B2B Elements of Value, Harvard Business Review

	John Ambler – VIA Volunteer in Indonesia, 1975 Empowered Development in Poor Countries Irigsasi di indonesia: Dinamika Kelembagaan Petani. Jakarta: LP3ES. (Editor)

	Christopher Gerteis, PhD – VIA Volunteer in Japan, 1989 Japan Since 1945: From Postwar to Post-Bubble (Co-editor with Timothy George, PhD) Gender Struggles: Wage-Earning Women and Male-Dominated Unions in Postwar Japan

	Timothy George, PhD – VIA Volunteer in Japan, 1976, and China, 1980 Japan Since 1945: From Postwar to Post-Bubble (Co-editor with Christopher Gerteis, PhD) Minamata: Pollution and the Struggle for Democracy in Postwar Japan Japanese History and Culture from Ancient to Modern Times: Seven Basic Bibliographies (Second edition; Co-author with John W. Dower) Mikuriya Takashi and Nakamura Takafusa, Politics and Power in 20th-Century Japan: The Reminiscences of Miyazawa Kiichi (Director and editor of translation) Saitō Hisashi, Niigata Minamata Disease (Co-editor and co-translator) Harada Masazumi, Minamata Disease (Co-translator with Tsushima Sachie; editor of translation)

	June Gordon, PhD – VIA Volunteer in Taiwan, 1970 2008 Japan’s Outcaste Youth: Education for Liberation (Author) 2010 Challenges to Japanese Education: Economics, Reform, and Human Rights (Lead Editor) 2015 “Transformative Pedagogy in Preparing Teachers through the Study of Immigrant Experiences.” Chapter 3 in Kevin M. Larkin, Marta Kawka, Karen Noble, Henriette van Renssburg, Lyn Brodie, Patrick Alan Danaher (Editors), Empowering Educators: Proven Principles and Successful Strategies, New York: PalgraveMacmillan. 2015 “The Importance of Nonformal Education in the Success of Dowa Education.” Chapter 3 in Kaori H. Okano (Editor), Nonformal Education and Civil Society in Japan, (pp. 35-52). New York: Routledge. 2015 “Stand by Me: Empowerment of Immigrant Youth in Urban Japan.” Chapter 14 in Sheri Bastien and Halla B. Holmarsdottir (Editors) Youth ‘At the Margins’: Critical Perspectives and Experiences of Engaging Youth in Research Worldwide (pp. 277-298.), Rotterdam: Sense Publishers. 2014 “ A Global Concern: Creating a Diverse Teaching Force for Marginalised Communities – In Japan, the UK, the United States, China and Bhutan.” Chapter 2 in Marie-Pierre Moreau (Editor), Inequalities in the Teaching Profession: A Global Perspective, (pp.27-49). New York: PalgraveMacmillan. 2014 “Understanding the Cultural Legacy of Chinese Students.” Chapter 2 in Wen Ma and Chuang Wang (Co-Editors), Learner’s Privilege and Responsibility: A Critical Examination of Chinese Students’ Experiences and Perspectives, (pp. 13-29). Charlotte, N.C.: Information Age Publishing. 2013 “Nikkei and Japan’s Enduring Cultural Inequities.” Chapter 8 in G. DeKoker and C. Bjork (Editors), Japanese Education in an Era of Globalization: Culture, Politics, and Equity, (115-130). New York: Teachers College Press.

	Sandra Teresa Hyde, PhD, MPH – VIA Volunteer in China, 1983 Eating Spring Rice Postcolonial Disorders

	Kazutoh Ishida, PhD – American Language & Culture Program participant, 1991; VIA Executive Director Indexing stance in interaction with the Japanese desu/masu and plain forms. In N. Taguchi (Ed.), Pragmatic Competence (pp. 41-67)

	Takanori Kashino – Exploring Social Innovation Program participant, 2012, 2013; American Language & Culture Program participant, 2016; Educator Exchange participant 2020 地頭が劇的に良くなるスタンフォード式超ノート術

	Eric Larson, MD – VIA Volunteer in Hong Kong, 1968 Read an interview with Dr. Larson our blog. Enlightened Aging: Building Resilience for a Long, Active Life (Co-author with Joan DeClaire)

	Takayuki Oshimi, MD – *Advisor for VIA Medical Programs* Dr.押味のあなたの医学英語なんとかします!

	Frances Pordes – VIA *Volunteer in China, 1985* Fun, Fearless and Female: A Backpacker’s Odyssey between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn

	Isabel Stenzel Byrnes – VIA Volunteer in Japan, 1994 ミラクル・ツインズ!―難病を乗り越えた双子の絆 The Power of Two: A Twin Triumph over Cystic Fibrosis

	Joel Stratte-McClure – VIA Volunteer in Hong Kong, 1967 The Idiot and the Odyssey: Walking the Mediterranean The Idiot and the Odyssey II: Myth, Madness and Magic on the Mediterranean The Paris Metro 40th Anniversary Issue: The Book About Paris Yesterday

	Aiko Takeuchi-Demirci, PhD – American Culture & Society Program participant, 2001 Read an interview with Aiko on our blog. Contraceptive Diplomacy: Reproductive Politics and Imperial Ambitions in the United States and Japan

	James Thomas, MD – Advisor for VIA Medical Programs 医師のための医療面接の英語

	Takamasa Totsuka – American Language & Culture Program participant, 1993 世界のエリートはなぜ、「この基本」を大事にするのか？世界の一流３６人「仕事の基本」世界で活躍する日本人エリートのシンプル英語勉強法

	Sasha Welland – China Volunteer, 1992 A Thousand Miles of Dreams: The Journeys of Two Chinese Sisters (2006) Experimental Beijing: Gender and Globalization in Chinese Contemporary Art (2018)

	Martti Vallila – VIA Volunteer in the *Philippines, 1971* Read an interview with Martti on our blog. Bannana in Russia: Commercializing Transformational Technologies Bannana’s Near Death Experiences: Ode to Steve Jobs Bannana in the Legal Gulag: Exposing Trickery and Manipulation Bannana’s Crime and Punishment: Justice in Finland Bannana in Boston: Fortune After All Bannana Returns to Mindanao: Innovation Emerges out of Necessity Bannana as Gramps: Conversations with Charlotte and Winston