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Name YABUKI-DiCorcia Rie
Official Title Associate Professor
Affiliation Sociology and Media Studies, Informatics
E-mail yabuki@tcu.ac.jp
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  1. http://www.risys.gl.tcu.ac.jp/Main.php?action=profile&type=detail&tchCd=7000121
Profile I’m an Associate Professor of Psychology in the Department of Sociology and Media Studies, at Tokyo City University. I earned a Bachelors degree in Sociology at Tokyo Women’s Christian University in Japan before spending 5 years working for the International Finance Department of the Industrial Bank of Japan and another 5 years working for the International Department at Senshu University as a Japanese teacher. I then attended the graduate school of Shirayuri College majoring in Life Span Development and Cultural Psychology gaining both a PhD degree and the qualification of Clinical Psychologist before starting an academic career in both teaching and research. I teach at Tokyo City University and Tokyo University of Science. My research has embraced Family Psychology in international marriages with a special emphasis on the couple’s relationship. I currently chair the Career Development Committee at Tokyo City University.

Skills and Qualifications:
• Licensed Clinical Psychologist (registration no. 12568)
• Certified Basic Industrial Counselor, Ministry of Health and Welfare
• Certified Japanese Language Teacher Qualification, Ministry of Education
• High School / Junior High School Teacher’s License (Social Studies)
• English Proficiency, United Nations Association Test of English (Grade A)
Research Field(Keyword & Summary)
  1. International Marriage Family, Family Psychology, Qualitative Research

    I’ve been doing research on Japanese wives and foreign husband families from a family psychological point of view for 25 years. My specialty is the psychology of the marital relationship between Japanese wives and American husbands who are living both in Japan and the United States.
    I have been conducting family psychological research on marital relationships among Japanese and American couples living in Japan and the U.S. using qualitative research methods based on interviews.
    In recent years, I have been focusing on divorce and marital conflicts among international married couples. In the future I’d like to develop a clinical psychological practice on marital relationships, working with international married couples.
Representative Papers
  1. • Rie Yabuki-DiCorcia (2020) .A Qualitative Study of Conflict Resolution over Religious Cultural Ptactice and Change in the Relationship of Japanese-American Couples. Vol.33 No.2. 99-114. Japanese Journal of Family Psychology.
  2. • YABUKI-DICORCIA Rie (2020).A Qualitative Study of Conflict Resolution over Religious Cultural Practice and the Wife’s Exploration of Independence in the Relationship of Japanese-American Couples. Vol.5. 131-152. HORISON OF STORY TELLING- Life Story Review. Journal of Japan Life Story Research Institute.
  3. • Rie Yabuki(2012). A Qualitative Comparative Study of the Conflict Management Process of Japanese-American and Japanese-Japanese Couples. 5 Vol.26.No.1. 54-68. Japanese Journal of Family Psychology.
  4. • Yabuki, Rie (2011). Family Psychology of Intercultural Marriage – the Case of American-Japanese Intercultural Marriage. Tokyo: Kazama Publishing Company.
  5. • Rie Yabuki (2009). How is Culture Determined in an International Family? – The Effect of Their Positioning in the Local Community-. The Journal of Environmental and Information Studies. Vol.10. 77-83. Musashi Institute of Technology.
  6. • Yabuki,Rie (2005) Cultural Identity Construction Strategy of Japanese Wives in Japanese-American Intermarriages: The Wife’s Choice of Maily Name Indicates a New Positioning as a “Stratégie”. Vol.16.No.3. 215-224.The Japanese Journal of Developmental Psychology.
  7. • Rie Yabuki(2004). Japanese Wives’ Identification with American Culture in Japanese-American Intercultural Marriages. Vol.3. No.3. 94-111. Japanese Journal of Qualitative Psychology.
Award Best Lecturer Award (2015). Tokyo City University.
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research Support: Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS) https://nrid.nii.ac.jp/en/search/?kw=Rie+Yabuki
Research Grants/Projects including subsidies, donations, grants, etc. Grants and Fellowships:　
• Scientific Research (B) (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, 2008 - 2010) 4,680,000 Yen
• Grant-in-Aid for Publication of Scientific Research Result (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, 2010 - 2011) 1,100,000 Yen
• Scientific Research (B) (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, 2011 - 2013) 3,510,000 Yen
• Scientific Research (B) (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, 2014-2018 ) 4,160,000 Yen
• Scientific Research (C) (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, 2019-2022 ) 4,420,000 Yen
• Scientific Research (C) (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, 2020-2023 ) 4,160,000 Yen
Affiliated academic society (Membership type) • Japan Society of Developmental Psychology, Member (Referee in 2011, 2019)
• Intercultural Education Society of Japan, Editorial Board Member
• Japanese Association of Family Psychology, Member
• Japanese Association of Qualitative Psychology, Member
• Japanese Society of Certified Clinical Psychologists, Member
• Tokyo Society of Certified Clinical Psychologists, Member
• Society for Intercultural Education Training and Research Japan, Member (Referee in 2016- )
Education Field (Undergraduate level) Sociology, International Relations
Education Field (Graduate level) Developmental, Family & Cultural Psychology

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