Professor Tanaka presenting a gift of stationery to a charity school in Egypt.
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BA in Comparative Religions (Kyushu University, 1978);

MA in Sociology (Kyushu University, 1980).

Professor Tetsuya Tanaka has a great interest in Islamic culture and has visited Egypt several times. He recently returned from a one-year sabbatical in the country where he worked as the director of the Cairo Center of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (see pictures below).

Middle Eastern and Islamic Culture: focusing on religion and modern history

Photographs of Egypt (click for a larger picture):

Cairo University's main building	Professor Tanaka at Cairo University	Professor Tanaka with the Cairo University professor who is the special advisor to the Egyptian Ministry of Education
Female students at Cairo University	Students on campus at Cairo University	Female students in an Egyptian country town