From 2025 to 2028: Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Hildesheim, Germany, with the German Research Foundation Project: Philosophizing in a Globalized World.

https://www.uni-hildesheim.de/glophi/fellows/yoko-arisaka/

From September 2024 to March 2025:
Roche Chair, Nanzan University Institute for Religion and Culture Nagoya, Japan

Yoko Arisaka was born in Kamakura, Japan, and moved to the United States (Del Mar, California) when she was 18 as a high school exchange student with AFS.

She attended Mira Costa College in Oceanside (A.A. in Art), then San Diego State University (B.A. and M.A. in Philosophy). She completed her Ph.D. in Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside (1996).

She was an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Graduate Faculty at the Center for Asia Pacific Studies, both at the University of San Francisco (1996-2007). During the fall of 1997, she was a CNRS research associate at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris.

Since 2005, she has lived in Hannover, Germany. She was a Fellow at the Hannover Philosophy Research Institute (Forschungsinstitut für Philosophie Hannover, 2009-11). She has also been an adjunct faculty at the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Hildesheim, Germany (2010-2019). 

From 2019 to 2024, she was a research project member with the German Research Foundation Koselleck Project, “Histories of Philosophy in a Global Perspective,” at the University of Hildesheim.

In Japan, she has given courses at Kobe University, Tohoku University, and Kyoto University.

In Hannover she has also been teaching Japanese language courses at the Volkshochschule Hannover, a community college, since 2007. Occasionally, she has also offered cooking courses (sushi and other Japanese cuisine) at a cooking school Der Geschmacksverstärker and at the community college.

In her free time, she likes to cook, and take pictures of her surroundings with her mobile. Food included.

BOOKS

Tetsugaku Companion to Nishida Kitarō (edited with H. Matsumaru and L. Schultz), Cham: Springer, 2022.

If you would like a copy, send me an email. yokoarisaka@gmail.com

Histories of Philosophy and Thought in the Japanese Language from 1835 to 2021 (edited with Leon Krings and Tetsuri Kato), Hildesheim: Olms, 2022.

Open source.
 
Kitarō Nishida in der Philosophie des 20. Jahrhunderts (Kitarō Nishida in 20th Century Philosophy, edited with Rolf Elberfeld, Freiburg: Alber, 2014

Prophetischer Pragmatismus: Eine Einführung in das Denken von Cornel West (Prophetic Pragmatism: An Introduction to Cornel West, edited with Jürgen Manemann, Volker Drell and Anna Maria Hauk), Paderborn: Fink, 2012.  

Some of her other papers are also available on Academia.com