History: decolonisation, forced migration, settler colonialism, oral history. Memory studies: narrative, social memory formation, museums

Japanese youth employment, gender, health and wellbeing, food and social life

Modern Japanese language history, Japanese language education history

International Relations, International Politics, Japan’s Foreign and Security Policy, Security Studies, Asian Studies, Oceania Studies, New Zealand, Indo-Pacific

Rural Japan, lifestyle migration, transnational mobility, regional revitalization, new modes of working and living, intangible cultural property

Ethnography of communication, semiotics of culture, politics of language, popular culture, popular history, voice, contact, linguistic anthropology

Political economy of Japan and East Asia, foreign policy, agricultral policy, party politics

Japanese history, economic / financial history, Asian history, digital humanities

Arctic, north, Hokkaido, Japan, infrastructure, connectivity, governance, international collaboration

Religious Studies, Meiji Era Protestantism, Uchimura Kanzo

Japanese management, career development, HRM, recruitment practices

Distribution, marketing, information society, consumers

Movement studies, Performance studies, Affect theory, Dance, Butoh, Pole Dance, Art/Entertainment, Eroticism, Sensation and Imagination

Film Studies,Film History,Cultural Studies,Popular Music Theory and History

Music subcultures, Community building, Intergenerational relationships, Ethnography, Social theory, Pedagogy