The Asian Institute welcomes Professor Mami Iwakami as a Visiting Scholar for the 2010-11 academic year.Professor Iwakami teaches Sociology at the University of the Sacred Heart in Tokyo, Japan, and her major research area is the Modern Japanese Family. She has organized various funded research projects, including: The Relationships between Young Adults and Their Middle Aged Parents in Low Fertility/Aging Society (2001-2004), International Comparison on Gender based Differences in The Process of Youth’s Career Formation (2006-2008), and International Comparative Research on The Support Systems for Youth’s Career Formation (2009-present). View her complete bio at http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/ai/DirectoryDetail.aspx?CID=30542