Postgraduate research in Japanese Studies

Our postgraduate research students benefit from supervision across a range of fields, covering a broad range of Japanese research areas.

Our team's research interests include:

• History of gender in Japan
• History of science, technology and medicine in Japan
• Media discourse in Japan
• Contemporary Japanese society
• Religion in contemporary Japan
• East Asian cultural flows
• Social anthropology of Japan
• Education in modern and contemporary Japan
• Youth culture in Japan
• Gender and feminist studies in Japan
• Crime fiction
• Philosophy of language
• Japanese language and linguistics
• Translation theory

See our Japanese Studies staff list

• Karl Andersson - 'Disrupting desires and identities among fans of shota comics in Japan'
• Robert Hume - 'Language, identity, social policy and community-level language revival movements among indigenous ethnic groups in far eastern Russia and northern Japan'

• Aura Di Febo - ‘Japanese New Religious Movements' Welfare Activities. Rissho Koseikai as a Case-Study’
• Yumi Dunbar - 'History Education in Contemporary Japan: An Examination of Teaching and Learning about Imperialism and War'
• Mareike Hamann - ‘The Changing Grammatical Usage of Mimetics in Japanese’
• Paulina Kolata – ‘The Ongoing Problem of Religious Decline and the loss of Spiritual Identity - What is the Relationship between Religion, Region and Communal Identity in Japan Today?’
• Fabiana Marinaro - 'Japan's Precariat and the Renegotiation of Japanese Employment Law'
• Sally Marshall - 'The Epistemological Paradox of Translating Autobiography: A Comparison of Evidential Stance in Translated vs. Non-Translated Autobiographies'
• Anna Seabourne - 'Teaching and Learning in a Japanese koryū dōjō: A Classical Martial Art as a Community of Practice'