About the Collections' Staff at the University of Hawaii

The Takazawa Collection is curated by Dr. Patricia Steinhoff, a professor of sociology and Japan specialist at the University of Hawaii. In the course of her research in Japan on the Japanese New Left, she met Takazawa Kōji and later collaborated with him on several projects. As Director of the Center for Japanese Studies from 1986-1994, she arranged for the donation of the Takazawa Collection to the University of Hawaii. Since then she has developed the bilingual database for the collection, raised grant funds to catalog the materials, and organized and supervised the cataloguing. She has also been producing bilingual annotated bibliographies, finding aids, and research tools for the collection in close cooperation with Takazawa Kōji. Her goal has been to preserve these valuable research materials for scholarly research, and to make them accessible to students and researchers who have learned Japanese as a second language.

Because she is not a trained librarian or archivist, Dr. Steinhoff has relied heavily on the staff of the University of Hawaii Libraries for professional advice. University Archivist James Cartwright has been an essential guide and teacher from the start of the project. He has taught the Takazawa Collection staff how to preserve and store archival materials, and has been readily available for consultation each time new issues arose. Japanese Cataloguer Hisami Springer has provided careful guidance in the development of the collection’s cataloguing database, and has cheerfully and competently answered questions about how to handle puzzling materials.

Japanese Librarian Tokiko Bazzell joined the University’s Japanese Collection long after the Takazawa Collection project was underway, but she quickly became an enthusiastic and knowledgeable supporter and an advisor on web site issues. The Library’s head of Preservation, Lynn Davis, has been most helpful in supervising the microfilming of fragile materials. Audio-visual technician Alexis Weatherl has supervised the preservation of the audio-visual materials in the collection, and has done some of the more specialized work herself.

Most of the actual work of cataloguing and archiving the Takazawa Collection materials has been carried out by a long list of University of Hawaii graduate students working part-time under Dr. Steinhoff’s direction. They are listed below in alphabetical order, along with their academic degree program at the time of their employment.

• Toshiko Arai, doctoral student in Sociology
• Christopher Bondy, MA student in Japanese Studies and doctoral student in Sociology
• Kazumi Higashikubo, doctoral student in Sociology
• Kazutoh Ishida, MA and doctoral student in Japanese Linguistics
• Nobuko Koizumi, Doshisha University exchange student and MA student in Sociology
• Shinji Kojima, doctoral student in Sociology
• Cindy Mansfield, MA student in Japanese Studies and doctoral student in Sociology
• Brenda McLaughlin, MA student in Japanese Studies
• Emi Murayama, doctoral student in Japanese Linguistics
• Akemi Nakamura, doctoral student in Sociology
• Renee Nakamura, MA student in Japanese Language and Literature
• Fumi Nawa,doctoral student in Sociology
• Reiko Nishikawa, doctoral student in Japanese Linguistics
• Yōko Okunishi, MA student in Library and Information Sciences
• Kimberley "Tee" Scott, MA student in Library and Information Sciences
• Momoyo Shimazu, MA student in Japanese Linguistics
• Kazuomi Shiozawa, doctoral student in Political Science
• Jane Yamashiro, doctoral student in Sociology
• Erica Zimmerman, doctoral student in Japanese Linguistics
• Yanfeng Li, doctoral student in Chinese Literature, is the project’s computer programmer for language conversion and web site development, and its digital photographer