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Okawara Hiraike Mami

オオカワラ マミ | Okawara Hiraike Mami
Affiliation and department:
Job title: Professor Emerita
Research field  (4): Civil law ,  Criminal law ,  Social law ,  Linguistics
Research keywords  (9): East Asian Law and Society ,  Law and Psychology ,  Access to Justice ,  regional policy ,  American studies ,  law and language ,  sociology of law ,  Amish Studies ,  forensic linguistics
Research theme for competitive and other funds  (14):
  • 2015 - 2018 Explaining Important Civil Law Terms for Lay People
  • 2014 - 2015 A Study on Plain Civil Law Terms based on Lay Perception
  • 2012 - 2014 A Study on the Paraphrase of Civil Legal Terminology
  • 2011 - 2014 Environment and Regional Policy
  • 2012 - 2013 Linguistic Analysis of the Confession Statesments of the Fukawa Case
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Papers (60):
  • OKAWARA Mami Hiraike. Japanese Trademark Cases in Linguistic and Economic Contexts. International Journal for the Semiotics of Law. 2019. 32. 4. 849-873
  • OKAWARA Mami Hiraike, Hajime Nishiguchi. Lay Understanding of Civil Law Terminology in Japan. International Journal for the Semiotics of Law. 2019. 32. 4. 875-894
  • OKAWARA Mami Hiraike, Hajime Nishiguchi. Lay Understanding of Civil Law Terminology in Japan. Japanese Law & Society Review. 2019. 4. 65-88
  • OKAWARA Mami Hiraike. A Study on the Efforts to Protect Nature and Landscape of Upmarket Resort Towns: the Case of Martha's Vineyard Island for Reference of Future Karuizawa. Stuidies of Regional Policy. 2019. 21. 4. 1-12
  • OKAWARA Mami Hiraike. Glossary of Key Terms Used in the Japanese Civil Code. Studies of Regional Policy. 2018. 20. 4. 107-113
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MISC (45):
  • OKAWARA Mami Hiraike. Special Issue: Retrospecting the 20 years of Multilingual Studies in Japan's Academia. Language and Society. 2019. 21. 183-212
  • OKAWARA Mami Hiraike. Enigmatic Words of Law. Chinese Classic Classroom. 2019. 205
  • OKAWARA Mami Hiraike. Amish People. Lay Buddhists. 2015. 64. 760. 6-9
  • OKAWARA Mami Hiraike. Book Review: Translation from Forensic Linguistics (John Gibbons). Japanese Journal of Law and Psychology. 2014. 14. 1. 113-115
  • OKAWARA Mami Hiraike. Japanese Law School in Limbo. Weekly Law Times (Shukan Houritsu Shinbun). 2014. 2056
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Books (43):
  • Current Trends in the Global Economy from the Perspectives of Japanese and Polish Economists
    Publishing House of Wroclaw University of Economics and Business 2021
  • Modern Japanese Vocabulary
    Asakura Shoten 2019
  • 2019 Modern Language Basic Knowledge
    Jiyu Kokuminsha 2018
  • The Interdisciplinary Study of Law and Language: Forensic Linguistics in Japan
    Springer 2018
  • Amish from its Origin to Divisions over the issues of Meidung within American Hisotory
    Akashi Shoten Publisher 2018
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Lectures and oral presentations  (61):
  • A Resident Audit Request - Karuizawa's Endowed Chair and Collaboration with Shinshu University
    (Modern Law 2023)
  • An Analysis of Legal Terminology
    (Japan Plain Language and English Consortium International Conference 2022)
  • A Report on the 35 Years of Japanese Studies in Poznań and Kraków
    (Society for the Study of Japanese Modern Laws 2022)
  • Environmental Issues of an Upmarket Resort Town before and after the Pandemic - Karuizawa, Japan
    (The 10th Asia-Pacific International Conference: The Asia Pacific Region in the Post-Pandemic Reality 2021)
  • International Upmarket Resort Towns: Japan's Karuizawa and America's Martha's Vineyard Island with Some Remarks on Resident Type
    (The 2nd Joint Seminar of WUE and TCUE: New Trends in Network Economy Japan and Poland in the Global Context 2020)
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Education (8):
  • 2006 - 2006 Sydney University Department of Linguistics Forensic Linguistics
  • - 2005 The University of Sydney Graduate School, Division of Literature and Linguistics Forensic Linguistics
  • - 1985 University of Wisconsin
  • - 1985 The University of Wisconsin-Madison Graduate School, Division of Literature and Linguistics English Linguistics
  • - 1984 University of Wisconsin
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Professional career (3):
  • M.A.in English Linguistics (The University of Wisconsin-Madison)
  • M.A.in Japanese Linguistics (The University of Wisconsin-Madison)
  • PhD in Forensic Linguistics (The University of Sydney)
Work history (13):
  • 2020/04 - 現在 Takasaki City University of Economics Professor Emerita
  • 2018/04 - 2020/03 Takasaki City University of Economics
  • 1999/04 - 2020/03 School of Regional Policy, Takasaki City University of Economics Professor of Law and Language
  • 2017/04 - 2019/03 Dean of International Programs
  • 2015/04 - 2017/03 Society of Regional Policy President
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Committee career (68):
  • 2021/10 - 現在 Working Group for Karuizawa Environment Master Plan member
  • 2020/08 - 現在 Division of Karuizawa Nature Conservation Committee for Certification of Enterprises of Good Standing Division Member
  • 2020/05 - 現在 The Archives Management Committee of Gunma Prefecture Deputy Chairperson
  • 2020/01 - 現在 Karuizawa Nature Conservation Committee committee member
  • 2019/09 - 現在 群馬県県営住宅管理業務検討検証委員会 委員長
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Awards (2):
  • 2020/05 - Gunma Prefecture Comprehensive Award (Labor Relations)
  • 2016/06 - Maebashi Family Court Maebashi-Family-Court President Award
Association Membership(s) (10):
Asian Law and Society Association ,  Japanese Association of Law and Language ,  The Japanese Association of Regional Policy ,  Japanese Society for Law and Psychology ,  Japan Association of Access to Justice ,  国際法言語学会 ,  The Japanese Association For American Studies ,  アメリカ法社会学会 ,  THE JAPANESE ASSOCIATION OF SOCIOLOGY OF LAW ,  軽井沢別荘団体連合会
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