Faculty & Research
Juha Saunavaara
Finland
Associate Professor
Research Keywords
Arctic, north, Hokkaido, Japan, infrastructure, connectivity, governance, international collaboration
Qualifications
MA: University of Oulu
PhD: University of Oulu
Title of Docent: University of Turku
PhD: University of Oulu
Title of Docent: University of Turku
Message
My MA and PhD focused on the modern political history of Japan, and my first postdoctoral projects examined Hokkaido’s postwar development. In early 2017, my career and research focus shifted significantly when I joined the Hokkaido University Arctic Research Center. Since then, my research has covered a wide range of topics, including Japan’s engagement with the Arctic; international collaboration among northern subnational governments (including Hokkaido); and issues such as submarine data cables, data centers, transport infrastructure development, and sustainable tourism.
Selected Publications and Further Information
researchmap: https://researchmap.jp/juha_saunavaara?lang=en
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Juha-Saunavaara
Modern Japanese Studies Program Faculty
Jonathan Bull
Lecturer
History: decolonisation, forced migration, settler colonialism, oral history. Memory studies: narrative, social memory formation, museums
Emma Cook
Professor
Japanese youth employment, gender, health and wellbeing, food and social life
Takayuki Ito
Professor
Modern Japanese language history, Japanese language education history
Tadashi Iwami
Lecturer
International Relations, International Politics, Japan’s Foreign and Security Policy, Security Studies, Asian Studies, Oceania Studies, New Zealand, Indo-Pacific
Susanne Klien
Professor
Rural Japan, lifestyle migration, transnational mobility, regional revitalization, new modes of working and living, intangible cultural property
Shunsuke Nozawa
Associate Professor
Ethnography of communication, semiotics of culture, politics of language, popular culture, popular history, voice, contact, linguistic anthropology
Hironori Sasada
Professor
Political economy of Japan and East Asia, foreign policy, agricultral policy, party politics
Michael Schiltz
Associate Professor
Japanese history, economic / financial history, Asian history, digital humanities
Other Instructors who Teach on MJSP
Michelle La Fay
Professor, Faculty of Humanities and Human Sciences
Religious Studies, Meiji Era Protestantism, Uchimura Kanzo
Peter Firkola
Part-time lecturer
Japanese management, career development, HRM, recruitment practices
Sachiko Ito
Associate Professor, Musashi women’s university
Distribution, marketing, information society, consumers
Caitlin Coker
Associate Professor, Faculty of Humanities and Human Sciences
Movement studies, Performance studies, Affect theory, Dance, Butoh, Pole Dance, Art/Entertainment, Eroticism, Sensation and Imagination
Paul Spicer
Specially Appointed Associate Professor, Research Faculty of Media and Communication
Film Studies,Film History,Cultural Studies,Popular Music Theory and History
James Letson
Associate Professor
Music subcultures, Community building, Intergenerational relationships, Ethnography, Social theory, Pedagogy
