Dr. Kenneth Tanaka
Born in Yamaguchi Prefecture in 1947. In 1958, moved to the United States with Japanese American parents at the age of 10. Encountered Buddhism at a Buddhist temple there while attending a public school in Mountain View, California. After graduating from Stanford University in 1970 (major in cultural anthropology), he spent a year traveling the world. During that time, he practiced as a monk for several months at a Thai monastery. After that, he entered the Master’s program of the Institute of Buddhist Studies (IBS), which is a member of the GTU (Graduate Theological Union) in Berkeley, California, and was involved in Buddhist studies. After that, he obtained a master’s degree (Indian philosophy) from the University of Tokyo graduate school, and subsequently obtained a Jodo Shinshu monk. After returning to Japan, he received a PhD (Buddhist Studies) from the University of California, Berkeley. Work history started in 1984 at the…
Carrie Tanaka
[Educational background] Kunitachi College of Music (Music: Bachelor)Holy Names University, California, USA (Music: Master)Musashino University (Language Culture English: Master’s) [Specialized field]English phonetics, piano, music education [Characteristics of specialized fields] As for English, we use simple musical elements to visualize and teach invisible utterance sounds so that learners can speak with native pronunciation. This makes it easier for the learner to modify the utterance method based on his / her own self-confidence, and makes it possible to learn utterances that are closer to the native language more quickly. Guidance on the production of jazz chants on children’s English for school English. Teaching that emphasizes the pronunciation of English songs and Mother Goose. With regard to the piano, while incorporating technical guidance, we will give guidance that makes the piano fun from the bottom of the heart so that the learner’s piano performance will become a more expressive piano performance. Individual lessons…