**Name**
Setsuo NISHINO
**Affiliation**
Professor of Comparative Education, Department of Educational Sciences, School of Education and Human Development, Nagoya University
**Employment History**
Professor, School of Education , Nagoya University, 2000
Associate Professor, School of Education, Nagoya University, 1995
JICA Expert despached to Ministry of Education, Republic of Indonesia, 1992-1994
Research Associate, Faculty of Education, The University of Tokyo, 1984
**Educational History**
Ph.D., the University of Tokyo. 1988
Left Ph.D. program in Educational Research, the University of Tokyo, 1984
M.A. in Educational Research, the University of Tokyo, 1979
B.A. in Education, the University of Tokyo. 1976
**Research Interests**
Islamic Education in Southeast Asia
Education and Nation Building in Asia
Religious and Moral Education in Public School System
Anthropological Approach for Comparative Education
**Recent Main Publications**
Islamic Education in Indonesia, Keisou Shobou Pub., 1990, Tokyo
Educational Reform and Islamization Policy in Malaysia, Bulletin of The Japan Society for the Study of Education, Vol.64 No.3, 1997, pp.36-45
Public Education and Religion in Indonesia. in Ehara T.(Ed.) Public Education and Religion in the World, Toshindou Pub. 2003, Tokyo, pp.295-315