The Hakubi Project

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Short Introduction

Originally from California, Aaron played American football and basketball in high school. He first came to Japan on the JET Programme, teaching English in Mima (pop. 5,000), Ehime, later writing a book about his experiences entitled, Walking with Sasaki. From 2005 to 2009 he was an M.A. and Ph.D. student in the Institute of Socio-cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford. During this time, he studied education as a Ministry of Education (Monbukagakusho) Research Student at the University of Tokyo and advanced Japanese at Stanford University’s Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies. After receiving his Ph.D. in October 2009, Aaron returned to Japan to work at Waseda University’s Center for International Education. Since first arriving to Mima in 2002, he has cultivated an insatiable interest in Japanese sports, culture and education. Now broadening his knowledge beyond Japanese studies, Aaron’s Hakubi project investigates the idea of education in modern Japanese and American sports.

Latest News

• Jul. 5, 2021

  Dr. Aaron MILLER (1st batch, now California State University East Bay and Saint Mary's College of California Lecturer) published a book, Discourses of Discipline: An Anthropology of Corporal Punishment in Japan's Schools and Sports (editorialrepublica).

• Mar. 5, 2012

  Single-authored Encyclopedia Entry: “Sports”, In Cultural Sociology of the Middle East, Africa and Asia: Volume III

• Dec. 29, 2011

  “Taibatsu: From educational solution to social problem to marginalized non-issue” In Goodman, Roger, Imoto, Yuki and Tuukka Toivonen (eds.). A Sociology of Japanese Youth: From Returnees to NEETs. (Routledge, London)

• Oct. 25, 2011

  "From Bushido to Science: A New Pedagogy of Japanese Sports Coaching" Published in Japanese Forum

• Mar. 25, 2011

  Beyond the Four Walls: 'Real' and 'Imagined' Change in Japanese Sports and Education

• Feb. 9, 2011

  “To Discipline or Accommodate? On the Rehabilitation of Japanese ‘Problem Youth’”, with Tuukka Toivonen, Japan Focus: The Asia-Pacific Journal