Judge Carl Moor

Terasaki Center For Japanese Studies

Established in 1991, the UCLA Terasaki Center has been a platform for research on Japan. Our distinguished faculty, students, postdoctoral fellows, visiting scholars, and the board of advisors have been contributing to the field of Japanese studies for over 20 years.

Faculty Board of Advisors Chair in US-Japan Relations Postdoctoral Fellows Alumni

Students Visitors Staff Supporters Dr. Paul I. Terasaki

The Terasaki Center sponsors a vast array of events throughout the year. With its colloquium series, the Center brings academics from diverse fields to UCLA each year. Special workshops and annual conferences bring leading scholars to discuss topics relating to Japan.

Center News Annual Newsletter

Center Events Community Events Past Events

The Center is proud to support our faculty, current and prospective students, and the local community through a variety of grants and fellowships.

Internal Funding
Learn more and apply for Center funding here.

External Funding
Funding sources in this section are not administered by the Center.

Center programs were established with strong support from the local community to promote research and instruction in Japanese studies, with a recent focus on the profound transformations unfolding in contemporary Japanese society.

UCLA Japanese Studies
Programs by Faculty and Students

Global Japan Initiative
Understanding Japan/Japanese culture within a global context.

The Terasaki Center is actively expanding support for faculty and graduate students, building relationships with other universities as well as Japan and Japanese Studies related organizations, and enhancing its role in the community.

Mission & History
Digital Archive

Global Hub
The Center is dedicated to connecting Japanese communities around the world with those engaged in the study of Japan and the Japanese.

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global japan initiative Understanding Japan/Japanese
culture within a global context

Judge Carl Moor

Board Advisor

Carl H. Moor is an Associate Justice on the California Court of Appeal, Second District, Division Five, where he has served since April 2018, following his appointment by Governor Jerry Brown. He previously served as a Judge on the Los Angeles County Superior Court in the Criminal Division and the Family Law Division (2014-2018). Before joining the bench, Justice Moor spent over 25 years as a lawyer in Los Angeles. He was an associate, then partner at the law firm Munger, Tolles & Olson (2001-2014); he was a federal criminal prosecutor in the United States Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California (1994-1999 and 2000-2001); he worked as litigation counsel at NBC, Inc. (2001); he was a litigator at public interest law firm Hall & Phillips (1988-1994); and he served as a law clerk to the Honorable Mariana R. Pfaelzer on the United States District Court for the Central District of California (1988-1989). Justice Moor received his B.A. with High Honors in Political Science (major) and Economics (minor) from Swarthmore College (1983) and his J.D. from Yale Law School (1988). In 1986-87, he received a scholarship from the Henry Luce Foundation and spent ten months living in Tokyo, Japan where he worked in the constituent service and policy office of a group of members of the Lower and Upper Houses of the Japanese Diet.