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April to May, 2026

Understanding Japan in a Global Context: Tradition, Society, Education, and AI

Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Open Academy Course (Conducted in English) Organizer and Lecturer. Please register via the link below.

Online, https://tufsoa.jp/course/detail/3417

19:30-21:00



March 28-29, 2026

The 39th Annual Conference of the Society for Language and Culture: Intercultural Understanding and Coexistence: Dialogue and Creation in a Time of Japanese Historical Transition (Conference Chair)

Panelist ｜Diversity and Intercultural Understanding

The University of Osaka, Suita Campus IC Hall or classrooms (Rooms 5–6), Center for International Education and Exchange

15:45〜17:30｜Day 2



February 25, 2026

Award: 19th Sumitomo Life Women Researchers Encouragement Prizes

Research Project | “Developing Educational Materials for Communicating Japanese Culture through Edo Picture Books: Toward Dialogue and Practice Connecting the Present and the World”

https://www.sumitomolife.co.jp/about/csr/community/mirai_child/women/2025/women07.html

Having a voice and a face is where everything begins.
I’m drawn to stories that move across language, culture, and time. Whether it’s studying history, understanding others, or sharing your own experience, real connection happens when we truly see and hear one another.
That’s where learning starts. That’s where meaning lives.

Having a voice and a face is where everything begins.
I’m drawn to stories that move across language, culture, and time.
Whether it’s studying history, understanding others, or sharing your own experience, real connection happens when we truly see and hear one another.
That’s where learning starts. That’s where meaning lives.

INTERCULTURAL STUDY

Philosophy

Teaching Philosophy

I believe learning happens when students feel seen, heard, and challenged in a meaningful way. Whether teaching university seminars or workshops for high school students, my focus is on connection: between languages, cultures, and most of all—between people. I design lessons that bring together storytelling, digital expression, and intercultural dialogue. In the classroom, students create, reflect, and share. They become not just learners of language or history, but voices in a global conversation.

Philosophy

Teaching Philosophy

I believe learning happens when students feel seen, heard, and challenged in a meaningful way. Whether teaching university seminars or workshops for high school students, my focus is on connection: between languages, cultures, and most of all—between people. I design lessons that bring together storytelling, digital expression, and intercultural dialogue. In the classroom, students create, reflect, and share. They become not just learners of language or history, but voices in a global conversation.

Philosophy

Teaching Philosophy

I believe learning happens when students feel seen, heard, and challenged in a meaningful way. Whether teaching university seminars or workshops for high school students, my focus is on connection: between languages, cultures, and most of all—between people. I design lessons that bring together storytelling, digital expression, and intercultural dialogue. In the classroom, students create, reflect, and share. They become not just learners of language or history, but voices in a global conversation.

Concept

Fundamental Concept

I believe we are all interwoven beings. We live across layers of language, time, society, and experience, constantly translating ourselves in connection with others. Through media like storytelling, picture books, or digital videos, we can unfold this complexity and make it shareable. This kind of “cultural translation” helps bridge past and present, self and other, the local and the global, one human story at a time.

Concept

Fundamental Concept

I believe we are all interwoven beings. We live across layers of language, time, society, and experience, constantly translating ourselves in connection with others. Through media like storytelling, picture books, or digital videos, we can unfold this complexity and make it shareable. This kind of “cultural translation” helps bridge past and present, self and other, the local and the global, one human story at a time.

Concept

Fundamental Concept

I believe we are all interwoven beings. We live across layers of language, time, society, and experience, constantly translating ourselves in connection with others. Through media like storytelling, picture books, or digital videos, we can unfold this complexity and make it shareable. This kind of “cultural translation” helps bridge past and present, self and other, the local and the global, one human story at a time.

Research Mission 1

Interwoven Existence

Interwoven Existence refers to the idea that identity is not determined by a single attribute, but is formed through the overlapping layers of language, culture, historical time, and lived experience. Through the interplay of research and motherhood, life in a multicultural environment, and the daily realities of confronting difficulty, this interweaving has become for me not merely an abstract theory, but a lived and examined perspective. As an interpretive lens for understanding migration, border-crossing, and the transmission of memory, this concept offers a new axis for contemporary education, narrative practice, and historical understanding.

Research Mission 1

Interwoven Existence

Interwoven Existence refers to the idea that identity is not determined by a single attribute, but is formed through the overlapping layers of language, culture, historical time, and lived experience. Through the interplay of research and motherhood, life in a multicultural environment, and the daily realities of confronting difficulty, this interweaving has become for me not merely an abstract theory, but a lived and examined perspective. As an interpretive lens for understanding migration, border-crossing, and the transmission of memory, this concept offers a new axis for contemporary education, narrative practice, and historical understanding.

Research Mission 1

Interwoven Existence

Interwoven Existence refers to the idea that identity is not determined by a single attribute, but is formed through the overlapping layers of language, culture, historical time, and lived experience. Through the interplay of research and motherhood, life in a multicultural environment, and the daily realities of confronting difficulty, this interweaving has become for me not merely an abstract theory, but a lived and examined perspective. As an interpretive lens for understanding migration, border-crossing, and the transmission of memory, this concept offers a new axis for contemporary education, narrative practice, and historical understanding.

Research Mission 2

Intercultural Historical Competence

Intercultural Historical Competence (IHC) is an approach that helps learners see history not as facts to memorize, but as the lived experiences of people in the past. By exploring Edo-period kibyōshi and the perspectives of ordinary townspeople, students learn to imagine how people once thought, felt, and understood their world. In doing so, they develop the ability to recognize perspectives different from their own and connect the past to present and future societies.

Research Mission 2

Intercultural Historical Competence

Intercultural Historical Competence (IHC) is an approach that helps learners see history not as facts to memorize, but as the lived experiences of people in the past. By exploring Edo-period kibyōshi and the perspectives of ordinary townspeople, students learn to imagine how people once thought, felt, and understood their world. In doing so, they develop the ability to recognize perspectives different from their own and connect the past to present and future societies.

Research Mission 2

Intercultural Historical Competence

Intercultural Historical Competence (IHC) is an approach that helps learners see history not as facts to memorize, but as the lived experiences of people in the past. By exploring Edo-period kibyōshi and the perspectives of ordinary townspeople, students learn to imagine how people once thought, felt, and understood their world. In doing so, they develop the ability to recognize perspectives different from their own and connect the past to present and future societies.

Research Mission 3

Video-Based Intercultural Learning (iDMC Model)

Through short-form video production, we have developed an educational model that empowers students to communicate their own culture to the world. This approach simultaneously cultivates public speaking skills, intercultural communication competence, and digital literacy within a concise one-minute video format. The model has been implemented in high schools, universities, and adult education settings, and is gaining attention as a simple, adaptable, and globally applicable pedagogical framework.

Research Mission 3

Video-Based Intercultural Learning (iDMC Model)

Through short-form video production, we have developed an educational model that empowers students to communicate their own culture to the world. This approach simultaneously cultivates public speaking skills, intercultural communication competence, and digital literacy within a concise one-minute video format. The model has been implemented in high schools, universities, and adult education settings, and is gaining attention as a simple, adaptable, and globally applicable pedagogical framework.

Research Mission 3

Video-Based Intercultural Learning (iDMC Model)

Through short-form video production, we have developed an educational model that empowers students to communicate their own culture to the world. This approach simultaneously cultivates public speaking skills, intercultural communication competence, and digital literacy within a concise one-minute video format. The model has been implemented in high schools, universities, and adult education settings, and is gaining attention as a simple, adaptable, and globally applicable pedagogical framework.

WORKS

I explore how individuals navigate layered identities through language, culture, and history. My key concepts: Interwoven Existence and Intercultural Historical Competence. How to bridge the past and present, encouraging students and readers to see culture not as fixed, but as something lived, shared, and translated.

Video

Journal Article

July 29, 2025

Before Manga, There Was This: Pregnant with Punchlines

Watch YouTube

July 17, 2025

Scrollstarter (2025)

Watch YouTube

June 17, 2025

Turning Ash into Gold : Edo Japan's Satire in Motion

Watch YouTube

Video

Journal Article

July 29, 2025

Before Manga, There Was This: Pregnant with Punchlines

Watch YouTube

July 17, 2025

Scrollstarter (2025)

Watch YouTube

June 17, 2025

Turning Ash into Gold : Edo Japan's Satire in Motion

Watch YouTube

More works

ABOUT ME

I’m Andrea Csendom, a researcher and educator from Hungary, currently based in Japan.
My work bridges cultures, languages, and eras,exploring how we express, understand, and share who we are.

I teach at Osaka University and run a bilingual YouTube channel where I explore Japanese culture and history.
But more than just explaining the past, I’m passionate about helping people communicate their culture clearly, confidently, and with their true voice.

For me, education is not only about learning.It’s about creating space for expression, connection, and mutual understanding.

I’m Andrea Csendom, a researcher and educator from Hungary, currently based in Japan.
My work bridges cultures, languages, and eras,exploring how we express, understand, and share who we are.

I teach at Osaka University and run a bilingual YouTube channel where I explore Japanese culture and history.
But more than just explaining the past, I’m passionate about helping people communicate their culture clearly, confidently, and with their true voice.

For me, education is not only about learning.
It’s about creating space for expression, connection, and mutual understanding.

Biography

Birth

Originally from Debrecen, Hungary

2015

Completed M.A. in Social Studies at Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo

2021

Received a Ph.D. in Japanese Cultural Studies from Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest

2023 to 2025

Visiting Scholar at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

Now

Assistant Professor at the Center for International Education and Exchange, The University of Osaka

Social Contribution Activities

July 2025–Present

Japanese Culture Research Group, Japanese Association for International Student Education, JAISE

July 2025–Present

Japanese Culture Research Group, Japanese Association for International Student Education, JAISE

September 2024 to March 2025

Guest lectures and outreach classes at high schools and civic organizations

September 2024 to March 2025

Guest lectures and outreach classes at high schools and civic organizations

April 2024–March 2025

Lecturer, JSPS “Science Dialogue” Program

April 2024–March 2025

Lecturer, JSPS “Science Dialogue” Program

August 2023 – March 2025

Foreign Resident Committee Member, Mitaka International Roundtable Conference

August 2023 – March 2025

Foreign Resident Committee Member, Mitaka International Roundtable Conference

Selected Awards

2026

19th Sumitomo Life Women Researchers Encouragement Prizes

2011

3rd Prize, National Scientific Students’ Conference (Hungary, Humanities – East Asian Studies): “Japan and Impressionism: The Effect of Ukiyo-e”

2010

Finalist, Takano Chōei Literary Award: “The Death of Csenge”

2009

2nd Prize, Japanese Language Speech Contest (Advanced category, Hungary): “Gratitude”

Professional Affiliations

EAJS (European Association for Japanese Studies)

JAISE (Japan Association for International Student Education)

World Council on Intercultural and Global Competence – Interdisciplinary Working Group Member

JALC (Japan Association for Language and Culture)

Early Modern Japanese Literature Association

JSA (Japan Studies Association – USA)

Publishing

2021

From the Dream of Kinkin Sensei to the Fight between Good and Bad Souls: Hungarian Translation of Three Kibyōshi from the End of the 18th Century

Ráció Publishing (ISBN: 9786155675522)

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Andrea's Edo Research

Andrea's Edo Research

Andrea Japán Akadémia

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@andrea.csendom

Andrea's Edo Research

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