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Takuya Tsunoda

Takuya Tsunoda

Assistant Professor of Japanese Film and Media

Office: 416 Kent Hall
Office Hours: On leave for fall 2025
Phone: (212) 854-5040
Email: tt2101@columbia.edu

Educational Background

BA: Waseda University (’02), Columbia University (’05)
MA: Columbia University (’08)
PhD: Yale University (’15)

Classes Taught

EAAS UN3322 East Asian Cinema
EAAS UN3343 Japanese Contemporary Cinema and Media Culture
EAAS GU4122 Japanese New Wave and Cinematic Modernism
EAAS GU4123 Japanese Documentary Films
EAAS GR6400 Critical Approaches to East Asian Studies: Literary and Cultural Theory
EAAS GR8070 Graduate Seminar in Japanese Cinema and Visual Culture

Research Interests

Japanese cinema and media, educational and science film, industrial cinema, history and theory of audio-visual pedagogy, media archaeology, cinematic modernism, new cinemas of the 1960s, television

Takuya Tsunoda’s primary research centers on the interplay between institutions and media, technologies and socio-cultural practices, science and material culture, and representation and knowledge formations. He is currently at work on a book project about Iwanami Productions, which evolved from a major provider of sponsored educational, science and public relations films into a key player in the new cinemas of the 1960s in Japan. Grounding his research in archival materials, he highlights the historical and theoretical intersection between media-based governmental and civic activities, cross-medial articulation of postwar academicism in Japan, and a postwar struggle over the legacy and meaning of cinematic modernism. Looking beyond the activist logic of political radicalism, his book argues that the crucial root of new cinemas in Japan resided in institutionalized audio-visual pedagogy and image-making practice. This project works towards new transnational parameters that relate the cinematic New Wave to a range of epistemic transformations and changing mediascapes occurring in the period. His recent research interests extend to such topics as various modes of reflexivity, children and media, the emergence of alpine photography and insect ecology, television documentaries as well as the relationship between diegesis and contemporary media cultures.

Prior to joining the Columbia faculty, he taught at Colgate University and the University of Chicago.

Selected Publications
“Taxonomy of Techniques: Visions of Industrial Cinema in Postwar Japan,” in Films That Work Harder: The Circulations of Industrial Cinema (Amsterdam, forthcoming)
“Hani Susumu, Nouvelle Vague in Japan and Processive Cinema,” in A Companion to Japanese Cinema (Blackwell, 2022), pp. 612-638.
“The Living Sea: Okinawa, 1958 and the postwar media Dispositif.” Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema 13:2 (Nov. 2021), pp. 99-117.
“Iwanami Photo Library and Natori Yōnosuke on Photography,” in Mediology in the Transformative Period: Reconfiguration of Art and Media in 1950s Japan (Shinwasha, 2019, in Japanese)“Index and Deixis: Jinba Isao and Polluted Water Karte,” in Images of Postwar Japan: Pollution, Youth Rebellion, and the Osaka Exhibition (Univ. of Tokyo, 2018, in Japanese)

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Toshiko Omori

Toshiko Omori

ADJUNCT LECTURER IN JAPANESE

Office: Kent 520
Office hours: R 4:00 – 5:00
Teaching hours: TR 5:40 – 6:45
Phone: (212) 854-5500
Email: to2274@columbia.edu

 

Educational Background

MA: Teaching and Learning, New York University (’99)
BA: Seisen Women’s University  (’79)

Classes Taught

JPNS UN1001 Introductory Japanese A
JPNS UN1002 Introductory Japanese B

Research Interests

Japanese Language Pedagogy
Second Language Acquisition

Toshiko Omori has much experience teaching English in Japan and teaching Japanese in the United States and is currently an adjunct Japanese language instructor at Columbia University, New York University, and The New School. She is interested in developing classroom activities at the collegiate level.

MA Requirements

MA Program Overview and Degree Requirements

The MA Program Requirements for Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Tibetan Studies, and Chinese Pedagogy are special to the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures (EALAC) and must be read in conjunction with the general requirements of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS).

Students in the Free-Standing MA Program in East Asian Languages and Cultures may study Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, or Tibetan history, literature or film. The MA Program is intended for students who show academic promise but have not yet acquired the language skills or background in East Asian studies to qualify for a PhD program. It is also intended for those who have the language skills in East Asian studies but need advanced academic training in the chosen discipline.

This section links the requirements for the MA program, which is overseen by the Director of Graduate Studies (DGS) and the MA Program Director. The primary contact regarding all questions related to the requirements listed below is the MA Program Director.

Note: For students who matriculated prior to September 2014, please follow the requirements in place during your first semester of enrollment, found here. For questions, please contact your MA Program Director.

The student who is a candidate for the Master of Arts degree in East Asian Languages and Cultures must earn a minimum of 32 credits in order to receive the degree. The student must also fulfill the residence units and language requirements described in the attachment.