Yoko M. McClain
Professor Emerita, East Asian Languages and Literatures
Phone: (541) 346-4041
Email: ymcclain@uoregon.edu
Yoko McClain is currently a Professor Emeritus at the University of Oregon. She is a native of Tokyo and came to Eugene, Oregon, to attend the University of Oregon in 1952 as a recipient of the GARIOA (Government Aid for Relief in Occupied Areas) grant, which is now called Fulbright. She taught Japanese language and literature since 1964 at the University of Oregon until her retirement in spring 1994. Some of her more recent publications include: Handbook of Modern Japanese Grammar, (1981, 2001); Japan and America: One Woman's View (1991, 2002); Families: Japan and America (1994, 2000); Taishokugo no jinsei o tanoshimu Amerikajin no chie [The Joy of Retirement: American Perceptions], (1997); and Nihongo-Eigo: Kotoba Kurabe [Cultural Differences reflected on American English and Japanese], (2001). She has published numerous essays on modern Japanese language and literature, and cultural differences between the US and Japan, both in English an Japanese. Professor McClain has also given many talks in Japan, the United States, and in several other countries (Australia, Poland, England, Thailand, Singapore, etc.) about various topics including the cultural differences between Japan and America, and the novelist Natsume Soseki, her maternal grandfather, whose portrait is currently featured on the Japan's 1,000-yen bill. In 2003, she was commended by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Japan for “promoting the mutual understanding between Japan and the United States of America.” In 2002, she received the Profiles of Achievement Award from the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Oregon.
Back to Faculty listing.