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The ANU Japan Institute

Academic Staff

Economic

Asano, Dr Akihito
School of Economics
Corbett, Professor Jenny
The Japanese economy, particularly banking, macro-economic policy and corporate governance. Banking and financial crisis.
Drysdale, Emeritus Professor Peter
International trade and economic policy; Australia's economic relations with East Asia and the Pacific; the East Asian and Japanese economy and economic policy
Onji, Dr Kazuki
Public Finance, Japenese Applied Econometrics
Sato, Meg
Corporate governance; applied micro-economics; economics of organisations
van der Eng, Dr Pierre
ANU College of Business & Economics

History

Li, Dr Narangoa
Dr Li is a historian specializing in the history of Northeast Asia, especially Japan's imperial half century (1895-1945) and the developement of Mongol national identities. Her research covers issues ranging from collaboration, the nature of borders and minority issues in China to religion, urban culture and traditional medicine.
McCormack, Emeritus Professor Gavan
Modern Japanese (and East Asian) political, intellectual and environmental history; changing views of nature in the course of modernisation in Japan and East Asia, especially in respect of rivers and water; regional environmental history; struggles over the definition of past (especially China and Pacific wars) and future (beyond capitalism and the Cold War) identities in Japan; North Korea as regional and global problem in early 21st century, with especial reference to the Japan-North Korean relationship.
Morris-Suzuki, Professor Tessa
The social history of Japanese technology; national identity and ethnic minorities in Japan; the history of indigenous peoples in Northeast Asia; modern Japanese historiography; globalisation processes (with particular reference to Northeast Asia).

Law

Anderson, Professor Kent
Comparative law, particularly with regards to Japan; private international law (ie, conflict of laws); commercial law, particularly insolvency; and Law & Film Studies.
Nasu, Dr Hitoshi
Public international law, migration law, international peace and security law, international humanitarian law, UN law

Linguistics and Language Learning

Gibeau, Dr Mark
Postwar Japanese literature.
Hendriks, Dr Peter
The history of Japanese language, the history of Japanese dialects, historical syntax and morphology, and acquisition of Japanese as a second language.
Ikeda, Mr Shun
Japanese language, education, culture and society. He also has research interests in comparative education in Asia and in socio-linguistics (language policy and planning).
Ishihara, Dr Shunichi
Experimental Phonetics, Speech & Language Processing
Lee, Dr Duck-Young
Japanese-Korean linguistics, Interface between grammar and interaction, Unique features of spoken language

Politics and Security

Akami, Dr Tomoko
How we construct the knowledge of the world, and explore the question of what is the knowledge, which would foster 'peace'.
Horiuchi, Dr Yusaku
Political Economy (Electoral Institutions, Party Competition, Voting Behavior, Economic Policy); Public Opinion (Cross-National Comparison of Political Attitudes and Opinions); Japanese Politics and Economy; Research Methodology (Applied Statistics, Experimental Methods)
Kersten, Professor Rikki
Political thought in modern Japan (especially democracy and fascism), debates over war apologies and war guilt in Japan, Japanese policy towards North Korea, and contemporary Japanese politics.

Society and Culture

Hayes, Dr Carol
Japanese modern literature; language teaching

Japanese-Language Library Resources

Mr Toshio Takagi
Manager, Japanese Language Resources, Menzies Library

Japan Area Group

An internal ANU email network for all those interested in Japan-related academic and other activities. Mr Toshio Takagi, Manager
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