User:Fumio Watanabe/Fumio Watanabe

Fumio Watanabe (1948- ) is a Japanese psychologist and professor emeritus at Sophia University. His major fields of study are intercultural psychology and intercultural education

Education and career
Born in Koriyama City, Fukushima Prefecture, he graduated from Fukushima Prefectural Aska High School in 1967, received his B.A. from the Faculty of Letters, Sophia University in 1972, and his M.A. from the Graduate School of Letters, Sophia University in 1975, Ph.D. in Psychology from Sophia University in 1994 for "A Study of Cognitive Strategies in Cross-Cultural Contact: A Case Study of Technology Transfer to Developing Countries and its Application to Cross-Cultural Education". During this period, he was a Research Fellow at the East-West Center Institute for Cultural Learning, Director of the Intercultural Relations Division of the Philippine Institute for Psychological Research and Training, Senior Lecturer at the University of the Philippines Graduate School, and Research Fellow at the Institute of Developing Economies. He had been conducting research studies on cognitive strategies for cross-cultural contact and developing and practicing methods to develop the competence to implement them in Japanese and foreign global companies and JICA training center for about 40 years since the late 1970s.

Publications(Single Author)

 * Japanese in Different Cultures: Can Japanese Be a Bridge to the World. Tankosha, 1991 ISBN4473012042
 * Psychology for Interaction with Different Cultures: For Living in the Age of Globalization. Science, Inc. 2002 ISBN4781910076
 * Relationship Precedes Essence: New Training Methods for Fostering Integrative Relationship Management Skills in Intercultural and Uncertain Situations in General. 2005. (http://digital-archives.sophia.ac.jp/repository/view/repository/00000005127)

Publications(Editor and Author)

 * Strategy for Different Cultures; The Age of Globalization and Mutual Development Junichi Takahashi, Osamu Nakayama, Kiyoshi Midooka, Fumio Watanabe (Eds.), Kawashima Shoten, 1991 ISBN4761004630
 * How to Comprehend the Age of Global Society: Challenges and Possibilities of Human Science. Fumio Watanabe & Junichi Takahashi (Eds.), Nakanishiya Shuppan, 1992. ISBN4888481814
 * Psychological Perspectives on Medicine. Fumio Watanabe, Kumiko Yamazaki & Mitsuru Hisata (Eds.), Nakanishiya Shuppan, 1994. ISBN4888482373
 * Psychology of Intercultural Contact; Situations in the Fields and Theories. Fumio Watanabe(Ed.) Kawashima Shoten, 1995. ISBN4761005610
 * Handbook of Human Science Research Methods. Junichi Takahashi, Fumio Watanabe & Kenichi Ohbuchi (Eds.), Nakanishiya Shuppan, 1998. ISBN4761005610
 * Handbook of Comprehensive Strategic Theory. Ukeru Magosaki, Yoshihiro Oto & Fumio Watanabe (Eds.), Nakanishiya Shuppan, 2012. ISBN9784779506789
 * The Study of Intercultural Competence: Case Studies in Different Culrual Systems. Gen Nakao & Fumio Watanabe (Eds.) Shinyosha, 2023. ISBN9784788518025