Selected Staff Publications

Our faculty members are regularly published in journals and conference proceedings. Some have even penned essays for books and produced CD-ROM publications. Here is a collection of some of their selected publications.

Fujimura Yuko

  • Ledang Yama no Ohimesama (Cerita-Cerita Rakyat Malaysia) translated by Fujimura, Yuko and Thaiyibah Sulaiman, 15th April, 2003, The Daido Life Foundation, Osaka, Japan.
  • Reduplication in Standard Malay and Japanese, in Journal of Modern Languages (Jurnal Bahasa Moden), Vol 13, University Malaya Publishers, Kuala Lumpur, 2001.
  • A Contrastive Analysis of Malay and Japanese Idioms Denoting Human Feelings - A Study Based on Bilingual Compositions in Japanese and Malay Written by Native Speakers of Malay, in A bilingual Corpus in Japanese and Asian Languages: Its Application to contrastive Linguistics and Teaching Japanese as a Second Language, (B)-2R 176-188, The National Institute for Japanese Language, Tokyo, 2001.
  • Translating Malay Adjectives into Japanese, in AILA’99 Tokyo CD-ROM Publication, Tokyo 2001.

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Elizabeth MacLachlan

  • MacLachlan, E N M, Turning Seeing into Believing: Producing Credibility in the Television News Coverage of the Kobe Earthquake in Asian Media Productions, edited by Moeran, Brian. Honolulu, Hawaii: Curzon, 2001.

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Hendrik Carl Meyer-Ohle

  • Innovation and Dynamics in Japanese Retailing - From Techniques to Formats to Systems, Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2003.
  • The Crisis of Japanese Retailing at the Turn of the Millennium – A Crisis of Corporate Governance and Finance, International Review of Retail, Distribution and Consumer Research, 12, 1, (2002) pp. 13-28.
  • Meyer-Ohle, H C, Ein Blick auf die Wettbewerber: Internationale Marketingstrategien japanischer Unternehmem fuer Suedostasiatische Konsummaerkets (A View on the Competitor: International Marketing Strategies of Japanese Companies for Southeast Asian Consumer Markets) (In German). In Marketstragien Asien-Pazifik (Marketing Strategies for the Asia Pacific), edited by Karin Dietz, pp 13-19. Wiesbaden: Gabler, 2001.
  • Meyer-Ohle, H C, Product Supply or E-Commerce – Old and New Paradigms in the Role of General Trading Companies in Japanese Retailing. In 2001 AJBS Conference Best Paper Proceedings, edited by Ville-Pekka Makelainien, Helli Kitinoja, Tina Peltola, pp. 111-121. Seinajoki: Seinajoki Business School – Association of Japanese Business Studies, 2001. (Paper presented at Association of Japanese Business Studies, 14th Annual Conference, 11-13 June 2001, Seinajoki Business School, Seinajoki, Finland.
  • Meyer-Ohle, H C, The Crisis of Japanese Retailing at the Turn of the Millennium. In Conference Proceedings 1, 11th International Conference on Research in the Distributive Trades. Zotemer: EIM Business & Policy Research, 2001. (Paper presented at the 11th International Conference on Research in the Distributive Trades, 27-29 June 2001, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands).

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Saito Asato

  • Saito, A. (2003), Urban Development in a Global City: Waterfront Sub-centre Development in Tokyo. Urban Studies, 40(2), 283-308.
  • Saito, A. and Thornley, A. (2003), Shifts in Tokyo"s World City Status and the Urban Planning Response. Urban Studies, 40(4), 665-685.
  • Saito, A. (2003), London no Seichou to Senryakuteki Toshikeikaku [Economic Growth and the Strategic Planning of London], Chiili-Kaihatu [Area Development], 462, 39-43.

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Barry Steben

  • "Rai Sanyo-"s Philosophy of History and the Ideal of Imperial Restoration," in East Asian History, No. 24 (December 2002; publication postponed to July 2003).
  • "Wang Yangming Learning as both Transnational and National Discourse." Introduction to adapted translation of Ogyu- Shigehiro"s, "The Construction of "Modern Yo-meigaku" in Meiji Japan and its Impact in China," in East Asian History, No. 20 (December 2000). Introduction, pp. 83–93; translation, pp. 94–120.
  • Four new chapters in Wm. Theodore de Bary and Marius Jansen, eds., Sources of Japanese Tradition, revised and expanded edition, Columbia University Press, 2001: (1) "Nakae To-ju and the Religion of Filial Piety" and "The Later Wang Yangming School in Japan"; (2) "The Confucian Debate over the Ako- Vendetta" and "The Hagakure"; (3) "Yamazaki Ansai and the Kimon School of Neo-Confucian Learning"; (4) Loyalist historiography: "The Mito Historio­graphical School" and "Rai Sanyo- and Late Tokugawa Loyalist Thought."
  • "The Transmission of Neo-Confucianism to the Ryukyu Islands and its Historical Signi­ficance: Ritual and the Rectification of Names in a Bipolar Authority Field," in Sino-Japanese Studies, Vol 11, No. 1 (October 1998), pp. 39–60.
  • "Nakae To-ju and the Birth of Wang Yang-ming Learning in Japan," in Alan Chan, ed., Monu­menta Serica, Vol. 46 (December 1998), pp. 249–294.

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Terada Takashi

  • "Keizai Kyoshitsu: FTA Senryaku-to Nihon, Higashi Ajia wakugumi-wo suishin" [FTA Strategy and Japan, Part III: Promoting East Asian Framework" Nihon Keizai Shimbun 25 July 2003.
  • "Constructing an East Asian Concept and Growing Regional Identity: From EAEC to ASEAN+3" Pacific Review, Vol. 16, No.2 2003, pp.251-277.
  • 'ASEAN-wo meguru Nihon Chugoku-no FTA-koubou" [Japan-China Competition and Cooperation over Free Trade Agreements with ASEAN], Monthly Report, Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Singapore, May 2003, pp.17-21.
  • "Keizai Kyoshitsu: Higashi Ajia Tougou-he Nittchu Kyoryoku" [Japan-China Cooperation towards East Asian Integration], Nihon Keizai Shimbun 18 February 2002.
  • "Nihon-no APEC seisaku-no kigen: Gaisho Miki Takeo-no Ajia Taiheiyo Seisaku-to Sono Kon-nichi-teki Igi" [The Origins of Japan"s APEC Policy: Foreign Ministet Takeo Miki"s Asia Pacific Policy and Current Implications], Review of Asia Pacific Studies, No 23, 2002 pp.77-96.
  • 'Nagano Shigeo: business leadership on the Asia Pacific and the formation of the Pacific Basic Economic Council' Australian Journal of Politics and History, Vol.47, No.4, 2001, pp.475-488.
  • "Directional Leadership in Institution-Building: Japan's approaches to ASEAN in the Establishment of PECC and APEC" Pacific Review, Vol. 14, No.2, 2001, pp.195-220.
  • "Implications for Diet Reforms in Japan: New Roles for Vice Ministers and the Policy-making System" in Lydia Yu-Jose and Rosalina Palanca-Tan (eds). (2001) Philippines and Japan: Directions and Challenges, Japanese Studies Program, Ateneo De Manila University, pp.113-128.
  • "ASEAN + 3-no kanousei-wo saguru: higashi ajia chiiki shugi-no seiritsu-ni mukete" [Possibility of ASEAN +3: Towards the Establishment of East Asian Regionalism], Gaiko Forum, July 2001, No. 156, pp.62-67.

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Thang Leng Leng

  • Thang, L.L., M. Kaplan and N. Henkin. (2003). Intergenerational Programming in Asia: Converging Diversities toward a Common Goal. Intergenerational Programming Quarterly, 1(1):49-69.
  • Thang, L.L. and S.K. Gan. (2003). De-Constructing "Japanization" – Reflections from the "Learn from Japan" Campaign in Singapore. New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies. 5 (1): 91-106.
  • Thang, L. L.(2003). Generational Re-Engagements: Changing Demographic Patterns and the Revival of Intergenerational Contact in Japan. In Demographic Change and the Family in Japan. Traphagan, J. and J. Knight eds. New York: State University of New York Press.
  • Icon representing a book Thang, L.L. Generations in Touch: Linking the old and young in a Tokyo Neighborhood. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 2001.
  • Icon representing a video Thang, L.L. (associate producer) Under Another Sun: Japanese Community in Singapore. (producer- David Plath, other associate producers: Elizabeth MacLachlan and Kay Ikeda) (video) joint production by Asian Educational Media Service, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Japanese Studies, National University of Singapore. 2001.

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