Teachers’ Autonomy at Risk under Decentralization and Deregulation: Issues for Educational Reform in Defernce of Vulnerable Profession, Keynote Speech at the International Conference on Teaching and Teacher Education in the 21st Century, International Christian University, Tokyo
Eternal Revolution of Beginning: School Reform through Constructing Learning Community, Presented at COE International Symposium, Educational Attainment and School Reform: Policy, Evaluation and Classroom Practice, Center for Research of Core Academic Competences, Graduate School of Education, The University of Tokyo
Korea National University of Education. Cheongju. Korea, 2001
Eclipse of Childhood under Globarization: Dilemma of Educational Reform of the Post-Colonial Discourse in Japan. (Session 1 Keynote speech- Worlds of Childhood: Philosophical Issues on Childhood. 11th World Congress of Comparative Education. World Council of Comparative Education Societies.)