Members of the Japan Research Centre

Japanese society, material culture, medical anthropology, science and technology studies, cultural history

Theory of banking and finance, History of economic thought, Japanese financial system.

Development economics, Labour economics, Institutional economics, Labour-management bargaining, Research methods in economics.

International Finance, Open Economy Macroeconomics, Financial Market Development and Stability, Development and Transition Economics, Global Economic Governance, East Asian Financial Markets

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.

Japanese woodblock prints, Contemporary reworkings and interpretations of Ukiyo-e, Meiji nostalgia

Alan has been teaching at SOAS since 2000 in a broad range of areas ranging from East Asian cultural history, pre-modern Japanese language and literature, Japanese classical theatre, and translation.

Modern and Contemporary Japanese history. Social and cultural history of the 20th century, especially the intersection of consumer capitalism and historical memory.

Classroom discourse; classroom silence; pragmatics; translanguaging; conversation analysis; learner-centred reflective approaches in second language learning and language pedagogy

Ms Jones coordinates The Sir Peter Parker Awards for Spoken Business Japanese and Japanese Language Proficiency Test at the SOAS Japan Research Centre.

Contemporary Japanese culture, with particular interest in Japanese media and popular culture, representations of 'Otherness', social phenomena and war memory.

Japanese language pedagogy and second language acquisition, especially interested in applied drama and sociocultural approach; bilingualism and translanguaging.

Japanese applied linguistics; language teaching methodology; second language acquisition with emphasis on pragmatic aspects; linguistic politeness

Modern Japanese history; modernity, imperialism and militarism. Social and political issues of contemporary Japan.

Professor Nana Sato-Rossberg is the Chair of the Centre for Translation Studies. Her research interests include history of translation studies in Japan, intergeneric translations (manga to film), translation of oral narratives or orality, cultural translation, and the relationship between translation and power.

Popular Music of/in Argentina, Japan and China; Argentine Tango Performance

International politics of memory and identity, IR theory (constructivism, poststructuralism), foreign policy, ontological security, discourse analysis, East Asia (Japan, South Korea, North Korea)

Japanese religious history, especially the medieval period; Japanese Tantric Buddhism and the esotericisation of religious practice; Millenarian writings and prophecy; Kami-Buddhas associations

State formation; agricultural transition; urbanisation; landscape archaeology; geoarchaeology, tectonic archaeology; East Asian archaeology especially Japanese archaeology and prehistory/protohistory

Modern Japanese literature, with particular interest in gender/sexuality, Modernism and translation studies

Japanese literature, drama and thought, primarily of the Tokugawa period, with particular interest in Bunraku and Kabuki theatre and the plays of Chikamatsu

Ethnomusicology; music of East Asia especially Japan; Japanese folk and theatre music; music and linguistics; Indonesian gamelan and Javanese street music

International Economics (trade and finance), Finance and Development, North-South economic relations and South-South Economic Cooperation, Comparative Development experience in Asia and Africa, Globalisation, inequality and poverty.

History of Japanese art; Edo painting; contacts between Japan and Europe in the 18th century; history of science in Japan; the theory of art history

Analysis of functional multilingualism and cosmetic monolingualism in the publication and translation of Japanese and Finnish multilingual literary works.

Japanese Cinema particularly non-fiction formats, representation of minorities, Ainu people, transnationality, memory, film theory and postwar avant-garde.

Language and society, language and culture, language and political economy, language policy, English in the Asian region, English around the world, teaching Japanese as a foreign language, and globalisation. 

Japanese Bangkok and Bangkok’s Japanese: the structures and practices of transnational belonging in a global city.

Sarah has been a Senior Teaching Fellow within the School of Finance and Management for 6 years, specialising in Business and Management in East Asia, and is currently an Associate Tutor within the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy on the MA Global Diplomacy (online).

Homosocial Narrative in Heisei Literature and Visual Cultures.

Anthropologies of Globalization, Education, Language, Imperialism, Minorities, Transnationality, Digitality, Japan.

Research Area: Gender impact on social integration of immigrants/refugees in Japan.
Date of Appointment: April 2024 - March 2025

Research Area: Japanese popular music culture during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Date of Appointment: April 2024 - August 2024

Research Area: Value Capture driven Business Model Innovation.

Research Area: Japanese Language Education, Applied Linguistics and Phonology.
Date of Appointment: March 2024 - March 2025

Research Area: Macroeconomics, disaster risk, and financial markets.
Date of Appointment: September 2022 - August 2024

Research Area: The Globalization of Japanese Entrepreneur and Local for Global Innovation.
Date of Appointment: April 2023 - March 2025