Ms. Kathleen Krauth

History Teacher
The American School in Japan
Tokyo, Japan

Ms. Kathleen Krauth is a high school history teacher at The American School in Japan (ASIJ), located in Tokyo, where she has taught since 2000. At ASIJ she teaches a variety of classes including a senior honors seminar on Japanese history, which focuses on the relationship between the state and the individual in modern Japanese history through units on Okinawa, Yasukuni Shrine, Hiroshima and now Fukushima.

Kathleen is co-author of the curriculum publication, Japan 1945-1989: recreating a Modern Nation, published by the Social Science Education Consortium in 1995, and has written curriculum for several modules on Japan of MIT’s Visualizing Cultures project.

Prior to moving to Tokyo to teach at ASIJ, Kathy was a member of the staff of Teaching East Asia at the University of Colorado and has been a contributor to several of summer institutes, both as staff member and consultant. She holds a master’s in Japanese History. This year Kathy coordinated a two-week long program commemorating 3.11 including an exhibit.