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Roles: School of Finance and Management Senior Lecturer in International Business and Management (Japan) Japan Research Centre Academic Staff Food Studies Centre Member, SOAS Food Studies Centre
Department: School of Finance and Management
Qualifications: BA (Waikato) MA PhD (London)
Building: Russell Square: College Buildings
Office: 546
Email address: hm39@soas.ac.uk
Telephone number: 020 7898 4530

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Helen joined SOAS in 2002 and lectures on economic, business, labour and HRM issues in contemporary Japan (and within a broader East Asian context). Her research interests focus on a broad range of topics relating to gender issues, employment and sport in Japan.

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Japanese economic and social history
Japanese business and consumer history
Gender and Employment in Japan
Corporate history of sport in Japan

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Jenni Schofield	Accessible ‘workplaces’: Assistive technology, disability, and the changing working landscape in Japan
Ms Michiko Suzuki	History of Disaster, Recovery, and Humanitarianism: The Japanese Red Cross Society in the Modern World, 1877-1945

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Email: hm39@soas.ac.uk
Telephone: 020 7898 4530

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Dr Helen Macnaughtan

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Biography

Research interests

PhD Supervision

Publications

Authored Books Open

Women, Work and the Japanese Economic Miracle: the Case of the Cotton Textile Industry, 1945-1975

Articles Open

From the Witches of the Orient to the Blossoming Sevens: Volleyball and Rugby at the Tokyo Olympics

Is Abe’s womenomics working?

Womenomics for Japan: is the Abe policy for gendered employment viable in an era of precarity?

Abe's Womenomics needs to include men too

The Oriental Witches: Women, Volleyball and the 1964 Tokyo Olympics

The Life and Legacy of Kasai Masae: the Mother of Japanese Volleyball

An interview with Kasai Masae, captain of the Japanese women's volleyball team at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics

Edited book or Journal Volume Open

Handbook of Sport and Japan

Book Chapters Open

The Development and Popularity of Volleyball in Japan: The Impact of the "Witches of the Orient"

A Survey of Rugby in Japan: From Early Play in 1864 to Hosting the World Cup in 2019

Gendering Postwar Japan

Gender and the Workplace

Jōki no Chikara, Shōhisha no Chikara - Josei, Suihanki, Katei Yōhin no Shōhi

Building up Steam as Consumers: Women, Rice Cookers and the Consumption of Everyday Household Goods in Japan

Gender and the Global Textile Industry

National Histories of Textile Workers: Japan

From ‘Post-war’ to ‘Post-Bubble’: Contemporary Issues for Japanese Working Women

Managing Female Textile Workers: an industry in transition, 1945-1975

Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs Open

Japan, the Olympics and the COVID-19 pandemic

Other Open

Can Sporting Mega-Events bring change to Japan?

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