Research Strengths
Research strengths in the Japanese Studies department include:
- Contemporary social and political issues in Japan
- Modern Japanese history, particularly pre-1945 twentieth century social and political history
- Japanese intellectual history
- Political philosophy
- Modern Japanese poetry, comparative literature, and Australian literature
- Modern and contemporary Japanese fiction and literary theory
- Japanese cinema
- Japanese linguistics
- Language use in socio-cultural context
- Media and cultural studies: language and culture, language and gender, youth culture, popular culture in Japan
- Transnational media culture in Asia
- Chinese community in Australia and Japan
- Japan’s image among Chinese
- Japan-China relationships, comparative study of Asian societies; class, gender, ethnicity, community and globalization in Asian societies
- 14th and 15th-century Japanese urban history
- Premodern temple and residential architecture
- Spatial theory: “Spatial-Structural History”
- State-Monastic relations