Bruce Stronach
Before joining TUJ, Bruce Stronach was President of Yokohama City University (YCU) from 2005 to 2008. He was the first non-Japanese person to be appointed to head one of Japan's public universities. As a result of the government's educational reform laws YCU was one of the first Japanese public universities to become an independent administrative institution. As President, he was in charge of administration and responsible for the day-to-day operation of the university including the International College of Arts and Science, the Medical School, two hospitals and several biomedical and life-science research institutes.
Prior to YCU he served at Becker College, Worcester, Massachusetts, from 1998 to 2004, where his positions included Acting President, Provost and Chief Operating Officer. He also served in 1997-98 as a Visiting Professor at the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia.
Since his graduate student days, Dr. Stronach has lived and worked in Japan many times. From 1994 to 1997 he was Dean and Professor of Japanese Studies for the Graduate School of International Relations, International University of Japan (Kokusai Daigaku), and Associate Professor of Japanese Studies from 1990 to 1994. His long association with Keio University, Japan’s premier private university and the oldest university in Japan, includes stints as Visiting Researcher, Visiting Scholar, Research Associate and Lecturer.
Dr. Stronach holds a BA in history from Keene State College in Keene, New Hampshire and he did his graduate work at the Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy from which he holds an MA, MALD and PhD in International Relations.
Books, articles and monographs he has published include Beyond the Rising Sun: Nationalism in Contemporary Japan (Westport: Praeger, 1995), Politics East and West: A Comparison of Japanese and British Political Culture (with Curtis Martin) (New York: M.E. Sharpe, 1992), and Popular Culture in Japan and America (Tokyo: Seibido Publishing Co., 1991).
Since 2003, Dr. Stronach has served as an advisor to the Education Expert’s Committee on Foreign Education Evaluation of the Beijing Municipal Education Commission.