Education
Arakawa graduated from the Faculty of Letters at Kyoto University in 1995.
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Shintaro Arakawa
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Career
He stayed on for graduate studies at Kyoto University, from where he received his doctorate in Since 2003 he has been teaching at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, with the position of associate professor since 2007. Arakawa specialises in the study of the Tangut language, in particular Tangut phonology and the reconstruction of the pronunciation of Tangut characters. In 2006 he co-edited a Tangut-Russian-English-Chinese dictionary with Evgenij Ivanovich Kychanov, for which he provided the reconstructed Tangut readings.
He has also published a number of studies of bilingual Tangut-Tibetan texts.
