| Published Papers |
| No. | Ｔitle | Journal | Vol | No | Start Page | End Page | Publication date | DOI | Referee |
| 1 | Beyond differences in folk pedagogy lying between preschool and primary education practitioners | Japan Society of Research on Early Childhood Care and Education | 63 | 3 | 11 | 22 | Jan. 2026 | | Refereed |
| 2 | What's the narrative | Children's Culture | 57 | 10 | 13 | 19 | Oct. 2025 | | Not refereed |
| 3 | Methodological Foundations for a Visual Narrative Approach | Tokyo City University Bulletin of Human Life Sciences | 16 | | 17 | 27 | Mar. 2025 | | Not refereed |
| 4 | Catalysts for Situated Learning  | Qualitative Psychology Forum | 16 | | 79 | 82 | Oct. 2024 | https://doi.org/10.24525/shitsuforum.16.0_791 | Refereed |
| 5 | Agency as a "Responsibility" | | 56 | 8 | 10 | 17 | Aug. 1, 2024 | | Not refereed |
| 6 | Theoretical Perspectives on Education for Sustainable Development Practices in Early Childhood Education and Care: A Study Based on Nel Noddings’ Theory of Care | Japan Society of Research on Early Childhood Care and Education | 61 | 3 | 381 | 389 | Dec. 2023 | | Refereed |
| 7 | Research on the Connection from Early Childhood Play to Childhood Learning | | 52 | | 96 | 109 | 2023 | | Not refereed |
| 8 | Data Sampling and Interpretive Validity in Qualitative Research | Tokyo City University Bulletin of Human Life Sciences | 14 | | 59 | 71 | 2023 | | Not refereed |
| 9 | Visual Narrative Analysis of Childcare Workers' Pedagogical Perspectives | Research on Early Childhood Care and Education in Japan | 60 | 1 | 21 | 32 | Sep. 2022 | https://doi.org/10.20617/reccej.60.1_211 | Refereed |
| 10 | The scope of “two modes of thought” | Tokyo City University Bulletin of Human Life Sciences | 13 | | 69 | 78 | Mar. 2022 | | Not refereed |
| 11 | Current Conditions and Issues of Families with Elementary School-Aged Children During the Spread of COVID-19 | | 43 | | 13 | 25 | Feb. 2022 | https://doi.org/10.32279/jjhr.202243G021 | Refereed |
| 12 | Dialogical Expansion of Folk Pedagogy | Tokyo City University Bulletin of Human Life Sciences | 12 | | 43 | 53 | Mar. 2021 | | Not refereed |
| 13 | Visual-narrative Approach to Study How Childcare Worker's Belief Changes | Japan Society of Research on Early Childhood Care and Education | 58 | 2-3 | 155 | 166 | Dec. 2020 | https://doi.org/10.20617/reccej.58.2-3_1551 | Refereed |
| 14 | Theoretical Possibilities of Folk Pedagogy | Tokyo City University Bulletin of Human Life Sciences | 11 | | 53 | 62 | Mar. 2020 | | Not refereed |
| 15 | A Suggestion of ICAP framework | | 31 | | 93 | 96 | Mar. 2020 | | Not refereed |
| 16 | Narrative | Japanese Journal of Clinical Psychology | 19 | 4 | 491 | | Jul. 2019 | | Not refereed |
| 17 | A Way of Bruner: From "Acts of meaning" to "Meaning of acts" | Qualitative Psychology Forum | 10 | | 24 | 32 | Nov. 2018 | https://doi.org/10.24525/shitsuforum.10.0_241 | Refereed |
| 18 | "Acts of Meaning", What Is It?: Jerome Bruner and the Dynamism of Confusion and Restoration | Japanese Journal of Qualitative Psychology | | 17 | 205 | 225 | Mar. 2018 | https://doi.org/10.24525/jaqp.17.1_2051 | Refereed |
| 19 | J. S. Bruner and an Exploring Mind | Tokyo City University Bulletin of Human Life Sciences | 9 | | 11 | 23 | Jan. 2018 | | Not refereed |
| 20 | Folk Pedagogy as a Tool | | 2 | | 1 | 8 | Feb. 2017 | https://doi.org/10.19019/jiyu.2.1_11 | Refereed |
| 21 | Acts of meaning | Japanese Journal of Clinical Psychology | 16 | 6 | 758 | 759 | Nov. 2016 | | Not refereed |
| 22 | Perspectives on “Acts of Meaning” Postulated by Jerome Bruner: Dynamism of Confusion and Restoration. | Aoyama Gakuin University | 博士学位申請論文 | | 1 | 206 | Mar. 26, 2016 | https://doi.org/10.34321/189711 | Refereed |
| 23 | Jerome Bruner's Conceptualization of Cultural Psychology as Narrative | | | 14 | 90 | 109 | Mar. 2015 | https://doi.org/10.24525/jaqp.14.1_901 | Refereed |
| 24 | Dialogue: Reflection in Known, Creation in Un-Known | Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of Japan Society for Science Education | 38 | 0 | 123 | 126 | 2014 | https://doi.org/10.14935/jssep.37.0_1961 | Not refereed |
| 25 | Construction of Reality by "Narrative Ensemble" | Japanese Journal ob Qualitative Psychology | | 12 | 176 | 194 | Mar. 2013 | https://doi.org/10.24525/jaqp.12.1_1761 | Refereed |
| 26 | From an "Explanation"/"Interpretation" Dualism to Pedagogy of Synthetic "Verisimilitude" | Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of Japan Society for Science Education | 37 | 0 | 196 | 199 | 2013 | https://doi.org/10.14935/jssep.37.0_1961 | Not refereed |
| 27 | "Narrative Ensemble" : a Methodology of Qualitative Data Analysis | | 4 | | 1 | 12 | Dec. 2012 | https://doi.org/10.34321/130571 | Refereed |
| 28 | Book Review: Vygotsky at work and play. Loir, Holzman. (2009). | | 4 | 4 | 49 | 52 | Dec. 2012 | https://doi.org/10.34321/130601 | Refereed |
| 29 | From “Learning by Teaching” to “Learning by Participation” | | | 2 | | | 2009 | | Not refereed |
| 30 | The Situated Nature of Autonomy/Independence | Educational inquiry | 52 | 0 | 177 | 209 | 2008 | https://doi.org/10.34321/112641 | Not refereed |
| 31 | The relational nature of autonomy/independence : not, from dependence to independence but, from independence to dependence | Aoyama Gakuin University | [修士論文] | | 2 | 136 | 2008 | | Not refereed |
| 32 | Autonomy as participation | Educational inquiry | 51 | 0 | 131 | 153 | 2007 | https://doi.org/10.34321/107711 | Not refereed |
| Conference Activities & Talks |
| No. | Ｔitle | Conference | Publication date | Promoter | Venue |
| 1 | Social Forces as Symbolic Influences | Possibilities for Qualitatively Exploring the Careers of International Students: Career Paths and Social Context | Dec. 21, 2025 | Maruyama Chika;Ozawa Ikumi | Rikkyo University |
| 2 | Phenomenological and Ethnomethodological Research Methods and Actor-Network Theory and Situated Learning Perspectives | The 22th annual meeting of Japanese Association of Qualitative Psychology | Oct. 19, 2025 | Japanese Association of Qualitative Psychology | Hiroshima University |
| 3 | What’s Visual Narrative? : New Perspectives in Qualitative Research | The 22th annual meeting of Japanese Association of Qualitative Psychology | Oct. 18, 2025 | Japanese Association of Qualitative Psychology | Hiroshima University |
| 4 | The Narrow Path of World-Making Toward the Limit of Acceptability（Whether discerning or ordinary, whether insightful or lacking insight, Walking through that time with inner conflict.） | The 22th annual meeting of Japanese Association of Qualitative Psychology | Oct. 18, 2025 | Japanese Association of Qualitative Psychology | Hiroshima University |
| 5 | Toward Reflection on Childcare with Feeling | The Annual Conference of Japan Society of Research on Early Childhood Care and Education | May. 10, 2025 | Japan Society of Research on Early Childhood Care and Education | |
| 6 | Communication and Poetic Reality（J. S. Bruner and narrative as an act of meaning） | The 36th Annual Meeting for the Japan Society of Developmental Psychology | Mar. 6, 2025 | Japan Society of Developmental Psychology | Meisei University |
| 7 | Encountering another culture, the familiar other. | The 36th Annual Meeting for the Japan Society of Developmental Psychology | Mar. 5, 2025 | Japan Society of Developmental Psychology | Meisei University |
| 8 | Developmental Realities: Between the interpretation of “facts” in childcare and the application of constructs in developmental psychology | The 36th Annual Meeting for the Japan Society of Developmental Psychology | Mar. 4, 2025 | Japan Society of Developmental Psychology | Meisei University |
| 9 | The Invention of Interactive Intercultural Understanding Classes Linking University Classes in China, Japan, and Korea: Exploring possible contexts for cross-cultural understanding | The 36th Annual Meeting for the Japan Society of Developmental Psychology | Mar. 4, 2025 | Japan Society of Developmental Psychology | Meisei University |
| 10 | Visual Narrative and the Power of Metaphors | The 21th Annual Conference of Japan Association of Qualitative Psychology | Oct. 20, 2024 | Japan Association of Qualitative Psychology | Seijyo University |
| 11 | Methodology for 'reassembling' special needs education | The 21th Annual Conference of Japan Association of Qualitative Psychology | Oct. 20, 2024 | Japan Association of Qualitative Psychology | Seijyo University |
| 12 | Exploring the practice of multicultural coexistence in preschool education for a society of coexistence | The 21th Annual Conference of Japan Association of Qualitative Psychology | Oct. 19, 2024 | Japan Association of Qualitative Psychologyoci | Seijyo University |
| 13 | The retrospective construction of narratives and semantic upset of social powers | The 3th Annual Conference of Japanese Association of TEA for Qualitative Inquiry | May. 25, 2024 | Japanese Association of TEA for Qualitative Inquiry | Musashino University |
| 14 | The Reality of Childcare as Topos | 77th Annual Conference of Japan Society of Research on Early Childhood Care and Education | May. 11, 2024 | Japan Society of Research on Early Childhood Care and Education | Kobe University（Online） |
| 15 | A Study of Transformation of Child Care Workers' Views on Practice through Visual Narratives | 77th Annual Conference of Japan Society of Research on Early Childhood Care and Education | May. 11, 2024 | Japan Society of Research on Early Childhood Care and Education | Kobe University（Online） |
| 16 | ExplorinCo-Existing Practices in Preschool Education in a Multicultural Society | 35th Annual Conference of Japan Society of Developmental Psychology | Mar. 8, 2024 | Japan Society of Developmental Psychology | |
| 17 | Image Maps of Life: Exploring Visual Narratives | 35th Annual Conference of Japan Society of Developmental Psychology | Mar. 7, 2024 | Japan Society of Developmental Psychology | |
| 18 | Clinical Pedagogical Perspectives on Narrative Learning | 35th Annual Conference of Japan Society of Developmental Psychology | Mar. 6, 2024 | Japan Society of Developmental Psychology | |
| 19 | Poetic Reality and Visual Narrative | Japanese Association of Qualitative Psychology 20th Annual Conference | Nov. 5, 2023 | Japanese Association of Qualitative Psychology | Ritsumeikan UniversityUn |
| 20 | Un-Learning Qualitative Research: From the Perspective of Education for Children with Disabilities | Japanese Association of Qualitative Psychology 20th Annual Conference | Nov. 4, 2023 | Japanese Association of Qualitative Psychology | Ritsumeikan University |
| 21 | KURAHASHI SOZO and Early Childhood Education in Japan | Lecture on the Integration of Family Education and School Education in an International Perspective | Aug. 1, 2023 | wonderland dongda kindergarden | China |
| 22 | Rethinking the Concept of "Social Forces": Some issues for understanding the relationship between the individual and society. | | Jun. 11, 2023 | | |
| 23 | Transview and Narrative in TEM/TEA; Thinking in terms of experiential aspects of Intra-, Inter-, and Trans-. | Japanese Association of TEA for Qualitative Inquiry | Jun. 10, 2023 | Japanese Association of TEA for Qualitative Inquiry | Ristumeikan University |
| 24 | Practical Development of Learning Stories: Multilayered visualization of children's development | | May. 14, 2023 | | |
| 25 | For the Living Word of Child Care: Generative Narratives | | May. 13, 2023 | | |
| 26 | J. S. Bruner and narrative as a methodology for the human sciences. | | Mar. 22, 2023 | | |
| 27 | "Furusato-Ebyobu" as Visual Narrative | The 34rd Annual Meeting for Japan Society of Developmental Psychology | Mar. 3, 2023 | Japan Society of Developmental Psychology | Ritsumeikan University |
| 28 | Perspectives and Possibilities in Narrative Learning | The 34rd Annual Meeting for Japan Society of Developmental Psychology | Mar. 3, 2023 | Japan Society of Developmental Psychology | Ritsumeikan University |
| 29 | Film and Visual Narratives | the 19th Conference of Japanese Association of Qualitative Psychology | Oct. 30, 2022 | Japanese Association of Qualitative Psychology | Aichi University |
| 30 | Narrative Practice for Research on Early Childhood Care and Education | The 75th Conference of Japan Society of Research on Early Childhood Care and Education. | May. 14, 2022 | Japan Society of Research on Early Childhood Care and Education | Seitoku University（online） |
| 31 | Re-thinking "Learning Stories" from "Acts of Meaning" | The 75th Conference of Japan Society of Research on Early Childhood Care and Education. | May. 14, 2022 | Japan Society of Research on Early Childhood Care and Education | Seitoku University |
| 32 | The significance of Narrative in Collavolative Imaginative Play | The 33rd Annual Meeting for Japan Society of Developmental Psychology | Mar. 6, 2022 | Japan Society of Developmental Psychology | |
| 33 | The theory for Visual Narrative: Image, Symbol, Visual Language. | The 33rd Annual Meeting for Japan Society of Developmental Psychology | Mar. 6, 2022 | Japan Society of Developmental Psychology | |
| 34 | Examining the differences between "visual description" and "language description" in visual narrative studies. | The First Trans-Asian Meeting on Psychological Methods | Oct. 24, 2021 | Japanese Association of Qualitative Psychology | Online |
| 35 | Visual Narrative: Diversity, Imagination and Possibilities. | The First Trans-Asian Meeting on Psychological Methods | Oct. 23, 2021 | Japanese Association of Qualitative Psychology | Online |
| 36 | What is "glocal" in childcare: The study of childcare practices for sustainability | The 74th Conference of Japan Society of Research on Early Childhood Care and Education. | May. 16, 2021 | Japan Society of Research on Early Childhood Care and Education | online |
| 37 | A study of childcare workers beliefs about childcare practices based visual-narrative | The 74th Conference of Japan Society of Research on Early Childhood Care and Education. | May. 16, 2021 | Japan Society of Research on Early Childhood Care and Education | online |
| 38 | Data analysis method for Visual Narrative | The 32st Annual Meeting for the Japan Society of Developmental Psychology | Mar. 29, 2021 | Japan Society of Developmental Psychology | |
| 39 | Beyond the "Real" and "Virtual" dichotomy | The 17th Annual Meeting of Japanese Association of Qualitative Psychology | Oct. 25, 2020 | Japanese Association of Qualitative Psychology | online |
| 40 | A study of folk pedagogy based on visual narrative | The 17th Annual Meeting of Japanese Association of Qualitative Psychology | Oct. 24, 2020 | Japanese Association of Qualitative Psychology | online |
| 41 | Visual Narrative Approach for Child Education and Care Practices | | May. 16, 2020 | | |
| 42 | Jerome Bruner & Reggio Emilia | | May. 16, 2020 | | |
| 43 | A Methodology of Bruner's Narrative Cultural Psychology | The 31st Annual Meeting for the Japan Society of Developmental Psychology | Mar. 4, 2020 | | |
| 44 | Visual Narrative Approach to Folk Pedagogy | The 31st Annual Meeting for the Japan Society of Developmental Psychology | Mar. 2, 2020 | | |
| 45 | Re-thinking Identity in the Community of Practice | Japanese Association of Qualitative Psychology | Sep. 22, 2019 | Japanese Association of Qualitative Psychology | Meiji Gakuin Universityg |
| 46 | Inquiring Folk Pedagogy through Visual Narrative | Japanese Association of Qualitative Psychology | Sep. 21, 2019 | Japanese Association of Qualitative Psychology | Meiji Gakuin University |
| 47 | TEMの描き方：ビジュアライゼーションの基本と促進的記号 | 2nd Transnational Meeting on TEA（Trajectory Equifinality Approach）N | Sep. 15, 2019 | | |
| 48 | How Child Carers are Changing Belifs on Their Own Practices: A study on Visual Narrative. | OMEP Asia Pacific Regional Conference 2019 in KYOTO | Sep. 6, 2019 | OMEP | KYOTO, Japan |
| 49 | Visual Narrative and Folk Belief on Social Practice | 30th Annual meeting of Japan Society of Developmental Psychology | Mar. 18, 2019 | | |
| 50 | Research on meaning-making and meaning using | 30th Annual meeting of Japan Society of Developmental Psychology | Mar. 18, 2019 | | |
| 51 | "Acts of meaning" what is it ?: A legacy of J. S. Bruner | The 17th Biennial Conference of ISTP: The international Society for Theoretical Psychology | Aug. 21, 2017 | | |
| 52 | Not, provide meaning. But, acts of meaning | | Mar. 21, 2015 | | |
| 53 | Jerome Bruner and aim of "Acts of meaning" | | Mar. 21, 2015 | | |
| 54 | Jerome Bruner & Aim of "Acts of meaning" | | Feb. 22, 2015 | | |
| 55 | Dialogue: Reflection in known, Creation in un-known | | Sep. 13, 2014 | | |
| 56 | From an “Explanation”/“Interpretation” Dualism to Pedagogy of Synthetic “Verisimilitude” | Japan society for science education | Sep. 8, 2013 | | |
| 57 | Narrative Ensemble: A Possibility of Dual Landscape | | Aug. 31, 2013 | | |
| 58 | Creating a cultural practice mediated Narrative Ensemble | | Mar. 31, 2013 | | |
