Writing

Documentation

• Command Line Teaching is a custom tool I wrote in Python to upload course materials to a learning management system. Documentation written in reStructuredText following the Diátaxis framework and created with Sphinx.
• Pykari is a custom static site generator that I wrote in Python. Documentation written in Markdown and created with Pykari.

Technical

• Plain text presentation slides is an overview of how I use Pandoc and Make to prepare PDF slide shows from Markdown files.
• Teaching in Plain Text discusses how to use open-source software to write plain text teaching materials and distribute them in a variety of formats.
• Some Notes on Configuring MeCab provides details about how to install and configure MeCab, a Japanese text tokenizer.
• How to Structure reStructuredText for Quick Updates explains how to use text substitutions to facilitate periodic updates to projects, with a syllabus as an example.
• A Single Source Syllabus is a guide to using Make to generate HTML and PDF teaching materials from a single Markdown source file.

Academic

• In my chapter in The Japanese Empire and Latin America (University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2023), I examine how trade and immigration policies shaped the expansion of Japanese shipping networks in Latin America between 1905 and 1941.
• My Ph.D. dissertation (Princeton University, 2019) examines Japan’s emergence as a global shipping power in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.