Modern Japanese Studies Program Faculty
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- Jonathan Bull
- Lecturer
- History: decolonisation, forced migration, settler colonialism, oral history. Mem…
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- Emma Cook
- Professor
- Japanese youth employment, gender, health and wellbeing, food and social life
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- Takayuki Ito
- Associate Professor
- Modern Japanese language history, Japanese language education history
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- Susanne Klien
- Professor
- Rural Japan, lifestyle migration, transnational mobility, regional revitalization,…
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- Shunsuke Nozawa
- Assistant Professor
- Ethnography of communication, semiotics of culture, politics of language, popular …
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- Hironori Sasada
- Professor
- Political economy of Japan and East Asia, foreign policy, trade policy …
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- Michael Schiltz
- Associate Professor
- Japanese history, economic / financial history, Asian history, digital humanities
Other Instructors who Teach on MJSP
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- Michelle La Fay
- Associate Professor
- Religious Studies, Meiji Era Protestantism, Uchimura Kanzo
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- Peter Firkola
- Associate Professor
- Japanese management, career development, HRM, recruitment practices
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- Jeffry Gayman
- Professor
- Indigenous education, Indigenous peoples, Multiculturalism, Intercultural educatio…
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- Paul Hansen
- Specially Appointed Associate Professor
- Animal-human-technology studies…
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- Ko Hasegawa
- Former Executive Vice President (University Office),
Emeritus Professor and Visiting Fellow (School of Law) - Philosophy of Law
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- Sachiko Ito
- Adjunct Lecturer
- Distribution, marketing, information society, consumers
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- Sungmin Kim
- Associate Professor
- Media and Popular Culture in East Asia
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- Satoshi Oku
- Professor
- Theoretical linguistics, comparative syntax, East Asian languages, ellipsis
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- Takayoshi Yamamura
- Professor
- Contents tourism, Anime-induced tourism, pop culture and tourism…
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- Anthony Backhouse
- Professor Emeritus
- Linguistics, Japanese
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- John Bower
- Associate Professor
- Oceanography, cephalopod biology
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- Noriyo Colley
- Assistant Professor
- Pediatric Nursing
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- Jay Tanaka
- Specially Appointed Associate Professor
- Second Language Teaching, TESOL, Critical Thinking Instruction, …
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- Paul Spicer
- Associate Professor
- Film Studies, Film History, Cultural Studies, Popular Music Theory and History
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- Caitlin Coker
- Associate Professor
- Movement studies, Performance studies, Affect theory, Dance, Butoh, Pole Dance, …