Dr Midori Kagawa-Fox

Biography/ Background

Midori Kagawa-Fox was born in Japan and grew up there. She is involved in Japanese Studies and is very interested in environmental ethics, and Japanese social and cultural issues. 

She is an accredited interpreter and has previously worked in that role for the SA Government and she taught the interpreting (diploma) course at TAFE SA.    

Qualifications

PhD (Adelaide), Masters (Flinders)

Teaching Interests

Asian Studies and language courses.

Research Interests

Her research interests include Japanese government policies that relate to global environmental issues, Japanese ethical consciousness, Japanese religious beliefs, and the analysis of the interaction among religious beliefs, philosophy and ecology. Her research also extends to the teaching of language.

Publications

Books

Kagawa-Fox, Midori (2012): The Ethics of Japan's Global Environmental Policy: The conflict between principles and practice (Routledge Contemporary Japan Series), Routledge, January 2012.

Published journal articles

Kagawa-Fox, M. (2010), "The environmental ethics of Japan's Whaling", Asian Currents, no. 69 August, Asian Studies Association of Australia, E-bulletin, pp. 4-5.

Kagawa-Fox, M. (2010), "Environmental ethics from the Japanese perspective", Ethics, Place and Environment, vol. 13,  no.1, March, pp. 57-73. 

Kagawa-Fox, M. (2009), "Japan's Whaling Triangle - The Power Behind the Whaling Policy", Japanese Studies, vol.29, no.3, December pp. 403-416.

Conference / Seminar papers 

Kagawa-Fox, M. (2010): Japan's Fishing disputes: Whales and Tuna (Languages, Cultures and Linguistics in the University of Canterbury, New Zealand)

Kagawa-Fox, M. (2010): Is the Tuna dispute Japan's next whaling war? (The 18th Biennial Conference of Asian Studies Association of Australia)

Kagawa-Fox, M. (2009): The question of whaling (Asian Studies Workshop Series, Thinking About Asia 7)

Kagawa-Fox, M. (2008): The comparative aspect of Japanese and Western environmental ethics (Asia Pacific Future Network Signature Event, The Globalizing Religion and Culture in the Asia-Pacific Conference at the University of Adelaide)

Kagawa-Fox, M. (2006): Japan's global enviornmental policy (Asia Pacific Week at the Australian National Univeristy)

Kagawa-Fox, M. (2005): Japan's environmental ethics (The 14th Biennial Conference of the Japanese Studies Association of Australia at the University of Adelaide)

Kagawa-Fox, M. (2003): Japan's nuclear power program policy (The 7th Annual Humanities Graduate Research Conference at the Curtain Univeristy, Western Australia) 

Non-published works (theses)

Kagawa-Fox, M. (2010): The Ethics of Japan's Global Environmental Policy, PhD thesis, the Centre for Asian Studies, The University of Adelaide, Australia

Kagawa-Fox, M. (2001): Japan's Dilemma, The cost of nuclear policy in a rich, but resource poor country, MA thesis, Flinders University, SA

Kagawa-Fox, M. (1999): Will the Sun rise again in Asia?, The renaissance of Japan's military / an examination of the implications of Japan's military strength in the light of its 'Peace Constitution' and foreign policy, Honours thesis, Flinders University, SA　 

Community Engagement

ABC Radio National, Breakfast, "Whaling Panel", 8:12am, 16 January 2012

SA Japanese Poetry Genres Group (Radio program), March 2011

Entry last updated: Wednesday, 22 Feb 2012