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Senior Lecturer in Anthropology

Dr Fabio Gygi

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

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Head of Department & Senior Lecturer in the Economy of Japan

Dr Satoshi Miyamura

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

Professor of Economics

Professor Ulrich Volz

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

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Senior Lecturer in International Business and Management (Japan)

Dr Helen Macnaughtan

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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Co-convenor, Arts of Japan & Korea module

Dr Monika Hinkel

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

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Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Japanese Literature (Education)

Dr Filippo Cervelli

Dr Filippo Cervelli's research explores representations of individual and social crises across modern and contemporary Japanese literature and popular culture.

Head of Department

Dr Alan Cummings

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.

Senior Lecturer in the History of Contemporary Japan

Dr Christopher Gerteis

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

Senior Lecturer in Japanese and Applied Linguistics (Education)

Dr Seiko Harumi

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

Co-ordinator, The Sir Peter Parker Awards for Spoken Business Japanese / Japanese Language Proficiency Test

Ms Yoshiko Jones

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

Reader in Contemporary Japanese Culture

Dr Griseldis Kirsch

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

Lecturer in Japanese and Language Acquistion (Education)

Dr Natsuko Shibata Perera

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

Reader in Applied Japanese Linguistics

Dr Barbara Pizziconi

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

Senior Lecturer in Japanese and Modern Japanese History (Education)

Dr Satona Suzuki

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

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Professor in Translation Studies

Professor Nana Sato-Rossberg

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.

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Lecturer in Music

Dr Yuiko Asaba

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

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Lecturer in Politics and International Relations

Dr Chris Deacon

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

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Numata Professor of Japanese Buddhism

Professor Lucia Dolce

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

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Professor Gina Barnes

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

Professor Stephen Dodd

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

Emeritus Professor of Japanese Studies

Professor Andrew Gerstle

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

Dr David W Hughes

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

Emeritus Professor of Economics

Professor Machiko Nissanke

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.

Emeritus Professor of the History of Art

Professor Timon Screech

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

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Research Associate

Dr Serena A. A. Ceniccola

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

Research Associate

Dr Marcos Centeno

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

Research Associate

Dr Takako Kawabata

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.

Post-Doctoral Research Associate

Dr Artour Mitski

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

Research Associate

Sarah Parsons

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.

Research Associate

Dr Maria Roemer

Homosocial Narrative in Heisei Literature and Visual Cultures.

Post-Doctoral Research Associate

Dr Akira Shah

Akira's postdoctoral research expands on a doctoral thesis titled International Baccalaureate Teacher Training in Japanese Higher Education: An Ethnography of Internationalist and Globalist Agendas.

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Visiting Scholar

Professor Junya Hamaaki

Junya Hamaaki is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Economics at Hosei University.

Special Visiting Professor and Course Director in Creativity through Art

Professor Masanao Kawakami

Masanao Kawakami majored in business at Kobe University of Commerce and received his PhD. He is currently a Professor of the School of Economics and Management at University of Hyogo in Japan.

Visiting Scholar

Professor Yasuyuki Komaki

Yasuyuki Komaki is currently a professor at Osaka University of Economics. He was the first in Japan to create and publish a real-time database of macroeconomic data. He uses this data to study the appropriateness of monetary and fiscal policies. He also conducts EBPM on the policy situation in areas where depopulation is progressing, and conducts policy evaluations.

Visiting Scholar

Professor Katsushi Tabata

Katsushi Tabata is currently Professor at the Faculty of Economics, Aichi University. He holds a PhD from Chiba University (2009), and a Master's from Waseda University (1987). He held positions such as a private sector economist and Professor at Nishogakusha University before becoming a professor at the Faculty of Economics, Aichi University in 2018.

Visiting Scholar

Professor Hideyuki Takamizawa

Hideyuki Takamizawa earned his PhD in Finance from University of Tsukuba in 2003. Prior to joining Chuo University in 2019, he held positions at Hitotsubashi University and University of Tsukuba.

Professorial Research Scholar

Professor Kentaro Yoshida

Kentaro Yoshida is a professor in the department of Economics at Komazawa University, Tokyo, Japan. He gained a doctorate in business administration from Saitama University in 2019, and a master in Law from University of Tsukuba in 2005.

26 May 2022

Walking the Sutra in Katsuragi, Japan: A Semiotic Theory of Pilgrimage

19 September 2023

Seized by Art: Grasping Untimely Art and Politics in the 1960s with Yoshio Nakajima

Examining the pivotal yet overlooked career of the “Japanese artist from Sweden,” Yoshio Nakajima, Marotti considers the relations of art, politics, and violence in the 1960s and the very possibilities of art.

30 October 2024

Fashioning Lesbianism: Seitō (1911-1916) and the global New Woman

Seitō (1911–1916) was a ‘proto-feminist’ magazine, published in Tokyo by a group of five women and was contributed to by over one hundred. Included among them were Hiratsuka Raichō and Otake Kōkichi—both no stranger to making their own way in life, despite what was expected of them.

Members of the Japan Research Centre

Centre Chair

Dr Fabio Gygi

SOAS Japan Research Centre Academic Members

Economics

Dr Satoshi Miyamura

Professor Ulrich Volz

Finance & Management

Dr Helen Macnaughtan

History of Art & Archaeology

Dr Monika Hinkel

East Asian Languages and Cultures

Dr Filippo Cervelli

Dr Alan Cummings

Dr Christopher Gerteis

Dr Seiko Harumi

Ms Yoshiko Jones

Dr Griseldis Kirsch

Dr Natsuko Shibata Perera

Dr Barbara Pizziconi

Dr Satona Suzuki

Linguistics

Professor Nana Sato-Rossberg

Music

Dr Yuiko Asaba

Politics & International Studies

Dr Chris Deacon

Religions & Philosophies

Professor Lucia Dolce

Senior Fellow

Emeritus Research Associates

Professor Gina Barnes

Professor Stephen Dodd

Professor Andrew Gerstle

Dr David W Hughes

Professor Machiko Nissanke

Professor Timon Screech

Research Associates

Dr Serena A. A. Ceniccola

Dr Marcos Centeno

Dr Takako Kawabata

Dr Artour Mitski

Sarah Parsons

Dr Maria Roemer

Dr Akira Shah

Visiting Scholars

Professor Junya Hamaaki

Professor Masanao Kawakami

Professor Yasuyuki Komaki

Professor Katsushi Tabata

Professor Hideyuki Takamizawa

Professor Kentaro Yoshida

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