Isau Ebihara, D Phil.

Part-time Instructor in Japanese

Isao Ebihara was born in Tokyo, Japan, where he received his B.A., and an M.A in English Literature from Tamagawa University. After coming to Canada, he obtained a Master of Theological Studies in Counselling and a Master of Divinity from Trinity Western University (ACTS). He then completed a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Oxford Graduate School, Dayton, TN. He has been teaching introductory Japanese courses at TWU since September 2002, as well as doing directed studies in Intermediate Japanese. An expert in the use of computer technology in the classroom, he is planning to publish a multimedia CD based on the textbook Genki: An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese I & II in the near future. He has recently published All the World is Anime: Religion, Myths,and Spiritual Metaphors in the World of Japanimation and Manga (Post-Gutenberg Books, 2010).