

Faculty members have PhDs from top universities around the world. The Department is supported by a dedicated team of administrative staff.
Head of Department
Tsu Yun Hui, Timothy
PhD MA Princeton, BA ICU
Areas of interest
Study of Chinese communities in Japan; Japanese occupation of Taiwan; Japanese and Chinese folk religion
Contact
E-mail: jpstsut@nus.edu.sg
Tel: 6874-3818
Deputy Head of Department
Thang Leng Leng
PhD Illinois, MA BA NUS
Areas of interest
Japanese culture and society; Japanese anthropology; social gerontology
Contact
E-mail: jpstll@nus.edu.sg
Tel: 6874-6091
Assistant Professor
Simon Andrew Avenell
PhD MA UC Berkeley, BA ICU, BComm Univ. of Queensland
Areas of interest
Postwar history focusing on citizens' movements and civil society; environment and environmentalism; social movement theory
Contact
E-mail: jpssaa@nus.edu.sg
Tel: 6874-5962
Assistant Professor
Fujimura Yuko
PhD Univ. of Malaya, MA Sophia, BA Madrid, BA Seisen
Areas of interest
Contrastive analysis between Malay and Japanese adjectives based on translation technique; research on adjectives appearing in Spanish literary works
Contact
E-mail: jpsyf@nus.edu.sg
Tel: 6874-3705
Assistant Professor
Lim Beng Choo
PhD MA Cornell, MA BA, NUS
Areas of interest
Premodern Japanese literature, concentrating on noh; contemporary Japanese performing arts and film
Contact
E-mail: jpslimbc@nus.edu.sg
Tel: 6874-5012
Assistant Professor
Elizabeth MacLachlan
PhD MPhil MA Columbia, BA Cornell Univ.
Areas of interest
Japanese mass media and corporate anthropology; Okinawan culture
Contact
E-mail: jpsmenm@nus.edu.sg
Tel: 6874-6646
Assistant Professor
Hendrik Carl Meyer-Ohle
PhD MA Marburg
Areas of interest
Japanese management esp. marketing and distribution
Contact
E-mail: jpsmohc@nus.edu.sg
Tel: 6874-8942
Assistant Professor
Saito Asato
PhD LSE, MA Newcastle-upon-Tyne, BA Rikkyo
Areas of interest
Urban and regional development of Japan, focusing on the role of global economy and the state policy
Contact
E-mail: jpsas@nus.edu.sg
Tel: 6874-8943
Assistant Professor
Barry D. Steben
PhD MA BA University of Toronto
Areas of interest
Japanese intellectual history; Japanese art and aesthetics; history of Confucian and Buddhist thought
Contact
E-mail: jpsbs@nus.edu.sg
Tel: 6874-6641
Assistant Professor
Terada Takashi
PhD MA ANU, LLB Doshisha
Areas of interest
International relations in the Asia-Pacific region, Japanese politics (especially policy-making system) and foreign policy, and empirical and theoretical studies on regionalism
Contact
E-mail: jpstt@nus.edu.sg
Tel: 6874-6094
Teaching Assistant
Amazaki Osamu
MA BA Univ. of Tsukiba
Contact
E-mail: jpsao@nus.edu.sg
Tel: 6874-4036
Part-Time Tutor
Ms Tomoko Nishioka
MA BA ICU, MA Univ. of Virginia
Contact
E-mail: jpsv3@nus.edu.sg
Tel: 6874-6093
Secretary
Mr Tan Kay Hoe
Administrative Officer
Ms Boo Chui Ngoh
Management Support Officers
Ms Lee Bee Ling
Management Support Officers
Ms Tang Sheila