Faculty

Faculty members have PhDs from top universities around the world. The Department is supported by a dedicated team of administrative staff.

Academic Staff

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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


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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


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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


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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


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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


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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


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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


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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


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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


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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


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Teaching Assistant
Amazaki Osamu
MA BA Univ. of Tsukiba

Contact
E-mail: jpsao@nus.edu.sg
Tel: 6874-4036


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Part-Time Tutor
Ms Tomoko Nishioka
MA BA ICU, MA Univ. of Virginia

Contact
E-mail: jpsv3@nus.edu.sg
Tel: 6874-6093

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Non-Academic Staff

Secretary
Mr Tan Kay Hoe

Administrative Officer
Ms Boo Chui Ngoh

Management Support Officers
Ms Lee Bee Ling

Management Support Officers
Ms Tang Sheila

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