He teaches a variety of courses, from Avant-Garde Cinema to Japanese National Cinema. He has a background in art history and has taught courses such as The Ugly and Contemporary Japanese Visual Culture. He has also a curated Collapsing Histories: time, space and memory at two venues in Tokyo in the summer of 2004, including the Daigo Fukuryu-maru (it will be exhibited at the University of Hawaii in fall 2006). The exhibition is composed of 15 international artists, including two of Japan�fs most important contemporary artists: Kenji Yanobe and Katsushige Nakahashi. See the Web site for further details: