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\n\t\tResearch\n\t<\/h2>\n

\n\t\tRecent Research Projects\n\t<\/h2>\n\t

All staff members are Japan experts with research expertise and training in disciplines like Applied Linguistics, Anthropology, Business Administration, Geography, History, and Political Science, as well Japanese Literature and Cultural Studies. Their research interests include literature and poetics, sociolinguistics, early modern history, traditional performance, marketing, cultural geography, film, comparative aging, tourism, gender studies, art history, work, popular culture, and Japanese cultural interactions with Southeast Asia.<\/p>\n\t

Recent Research Projects<\/h4>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Project Title<\/th>\nPrincipal Investigator\/Collaborator<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Acting Like a State: The Politics of Foreign Labor Admission in Japan and Taiwan<\/td>\nKonrad Kalicki<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The Nation that Never Was: The Politics of Historical Memory in East Asia and Europe<\/td>\nKonrad Kalicki<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Archiving Traditional Japanese Performance<\/td>\nLim Beng Choo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Home on the Dot: Podcasting as a Learning Tool<\/td>\nChris McMorran<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Last Resort: labor, tourism and identity in Japan<\/td>\nChris McMorran<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Assessing the impacts of Grade-free Learning<\/td>\nChris McMorran<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
On Text and Image: New Directions in Formal and Narrative Analysis of Manga and Comics<\/td>\nDeborah Shamoon<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
An intergenerational approach to sustainable inter-generational understanding<\/td>\nThang Leng Leng<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
How we care: Assisted Living Facilities (ALFs) as a model of care<\/td>\nThang Leng Leng<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
An indepth study of the new Regional Comprehensive Care System in Japan<\/td>\nThang Leng Leng<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
LGBT social movements in Japan and Singapore<\/td>\nYuen Shu Min<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Queer migration, transgender studies, medical tourism<\/td>\nYuen Shu Min<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\n\t\tUndergraduate Research\n\t<\/h2>\n\t

Current honours students conduct research in areas such as Japanese literature (including manga, anime and light novels), culture, media and art, politics, history, geography, and economics. The tables below list our recent honours students and their research topics. Students may also approach our faculty members if they are interested to assist with their ongoing research projects.<\/p>\n\t

Thesis Topics of Recent Honours Students (2015-2025)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Thesis Topic<\/th>\nStudent<\/th>\nYear of Graduation<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Redefining Feminity in Japanese Hip-hop: Gender, Agency and Identity in the Music of Awich and Chanmina<\/td>\nTan Rui Qi Rachel<\/td>\n2025<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Haiky\u016b!! & Mob Psycho 100: Negotiating Diverse Masculinities Within Sh\u014dnen Manga<\/td>\nMohamad Matin Bin Mohamad<\/td>\n2024<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Deciphering Otome: A Study Of The Otome Game Protagonist<\/td>\nBernice Tan Yi Lin<\/td>\n2023<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The Outcomes And Effects Of The Okinawa Sh\u016bgakuryok\u014d?: An Analysis Through The Tourist Gaze And Second Gaze<\/td>\nSng Sok Hing<\/td>\n2022<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Representing Girls and Romance in Sh\u014djo Manga Across Time and Genres<\/td>\nAmanda Goh Ting Li<\/td>\n2022<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
“Omae Dakega Ore No Mitometa Onna Dakara”: Hana Yori Dango, Munekyun And Women’s Everyday Use of Mass Media<\/td>\nAng Qing Hui Hanae@Miura Hanae<\/td>\n2022<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
An Emerging Local Actor: The Role of Higher Education Institutions in Japan’s Refugee Policy<\/td>\nDana Lee Si Min<\/td>\n2022<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Rise Of Artists From Japanese Online Music Scene: Opportunities, Perils and Co-Existence With Old Guards<\/td>\nLeong Ching May<\/td>\n2022<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Against And Beyond “Mishima”: Reading Counter-Productivity To Totalisation In Mishima Yukio’s Taiy\u014d To Tetsu<\/em> And Kinjiki<\/em><\/td>\nTan Wei Lin<\/td>\n2022<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Locating the Seiy\u016b: “Flatness” in Modern Japanese Voice Actors’ Performativity<\/td>\nGoh Tien Li, Zachary<\/td>\n2022<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Grassroots Diplomacy: The Effect and Effectiveness of the Jet Programme on the Singapore-Japan Relationship<\/td>\nShaun Tan Tao Guang<\/td>\n2022<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
“Illustrating the ‘Truth’ in Fiction”: The Continuity of Hokkaido’s Colonial Narratives in Golden Kamuy<\/td>\nSiti Umairah Bte Adnan<\/td>\n2022<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
“Problematic” Fans: Japanese and Western Discourses on Morality in Boy’s Love<\/td>\nTiffany Tan Li Ning<\/td>\n2022<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Promoting Inbound Regional Tourism to Japan: Case Studies of Japan Rail Caf\u00e9 in Singapore and Taipei<\/td>\nEndure Goh Wei Tong<\/td>\n2021<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Moe Kyara and Marketing: Spending and Database Consumption by Female Consumers<\/td>\nGrace Khoo Jiamin<\/td>\n2021<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Modern Prehistory: A Contemporary Presentation of Japanese Prehistory in J\u014dmonzine<\/td>\nAshley Tan Chuang Yue<\/td>\n2021<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The Development Narrative in Akiya Countermeasures<\/td>\nJyoti Vinod Vasnani<\/td>\n2021<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
A Rising Sun of Highly Skilled Immigration: The role of Japanese Policies in Attracting Highly Skilled Migrants<\/td>\nAng Kang Jie Ray<\/td>\n2020<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Like Moths To a Flame: A Nuanced Exploration of Women and Dangerous Love in Hirugao<\/td>\nAng Zi Han<\/td>\n2020<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bridge between Worlds – Contents Tourism in Japan<\/td>\nCelia Leo<\/td>\n2020<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Female Managers: The Kuroko of Japanese Sports – An Analysis of the Bestselling Book Moshi K\u00f4k\u00f4 Yaky\u00fb no Joshi Man\u00eaj\u00e2 ga Dorakk\u00e2 no Man\u00eajimento wo Yondara<\/td>\nGoh Wei Hao Benjamin<\/td>\n2020<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Towards a Society that Respects the Pride of the Ainu: Government Implementation of the 2019 Ainu Policy Promotion Act<\/td>\nLee Minjia<\/td>\n2020<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Commodifying History: Popular Culture, Collectivized Memory, New Narratives<\/td>\nPan Junxuan<\/td>\n2020<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Love in the Time of Hirahira: Visualizing Girls and Romance in Akatsuki no Yona<\/td>\nEmilia Tang Yan-Hui<\/td>\n2019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Under the Petticoat: Differing Perspectives on Mass Commercialisation and Commodification of Lolita Subculture<\/td>\nKok Xin Yun<\/td>\n2019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Abdication of Japan’s Symbol Emperor: A Synoptic and Cross-National Perspective<\/td>\nLee Sue Ling, Naomi Hashimoto<\/td>\n2019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
National Internationalisation<\/td>\nToh Jia Han<\/td>\n2019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jazz and Cultural Memory: Retrospective Depictions of Occupation Jazz Culture in Post-war Japan<\/td>\nVivian Goh Yit Min<\/td>\n2019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Imagined Boundaries: Grotesque and Liminality in Konjaku Monogatarishu<\/td>\nZhang Yue<\/td>\n2019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Underlying Antagonisms: The Overlooked Villain in Chikamatsu’s Sewamono<\/td>\nFransiska Widya Chandra<\/td>\n2018<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kikokushijo: Not All Who Leave Return Equal<\/td>\nIsmail Zainal<\/td>\n2018<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Criticisms of Patriarchy and Consumerism in Josei Manga: Examining the Genre Shaping Works of Okazaki Kyoko and Anno Moyoco<\/td>\nJoan Quah Mei Yin<\/td>\n2018<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ainu in Hokkaido and Tourism: To Provide an Understanding on how the Development of Tourism has Affected the Culture, Image and Preservation of Ainu in Hokkaido<\/td>\nKoh Jia Wei, Brenda<\/td>\n2018<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Identity and Ideology in Sakura Katakana Shimbun<\/td>\nKurohi Rei<\/td>\n2018<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Feminine Destinies: Gender and Sexuality in Torikaebaya Monogatari<\/td>\nLee Xiu Yi Eunice<\/td>\n2018<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Old Age in the Past, The Past in Old Age: Examining how the Media, State and Individual Coped with the Elderly and Aging in Early Meiji Japan (1872-1878)<\/td>\nTan Jia Min Sarah<\/td>\n2018<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Exporting Japan: Japanese Perceptions of Overseas Culture Markets<\/td>\nTan Shu Hui, Linnah<\/td>\n2018<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The Game Isekai Light Novel: A Manifesto for the Digital Age<\/td>\nYee Zhi Yan, Ian<\/td>\n2018<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Recovery After 3:11: (Dark) Tourism in the Tohoku Region<\/td>\nChen Mengying<\/td>\n2017<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
“Forgive but Never Forget”: Examining State Use of War Memories in Singapore and its Effects on Singapore-Japan Relations<\/td>\nChua Sze Yin Francesca<\/td>\n2017<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
A Study in Robosexism: The Gendered Japanese Robot<\/td>\nNg Ching Peng<\/td>\n2017<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The “Invisible” Homeless Women: A Feminist Perspective<\/td>\nTan Tong Hui Claudia<\/td>\n2017<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Chinese in the Yokohama Treaty Port: 1859-1878<\/td>\nZhou Jiajia<\/td>\n2017<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Obsession and Suppressed Emotions The Construction of Female Ghosts in Kaidan<\/td>\nKaren Ang Yunn Harn<\/td>\n2016<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Beautiful Girls in Frills: Lolita, Female Empowerment and Sexuality in Anime<\/td>\nLow Hsiang Hun Rebecca<\/td>\n2016<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Post-1989 Changes to Japan’s Security Policy – Shift Away from Anti-Militarism?<\/td>\nLuo Simei<\/td>\n2016<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Traditional Shopping: A Case Study of Kokai Shotengai’s Significance in the Twenty-First Century<\/td>\nTan Jing Ting<\/td>\n2016<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Japan’s “Hollow” Democracy Examining the Decision Making Process of the Abe Administration<\/td>\nTan Jing Yi Germaine<\/td>\n2016<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto and Meiji Migrant Women: In Search of a Transnational Identity<\/td>\nTan Li Yun Evelyn<\/td>\n2016<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
“Re-presentation” over “Representation”: Working Through Trauma in Oe Kenzaburo’s The Silent Cry<\/td>\nGan Wei Kiat, Vincent<\/td>\n2015<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Redefining and Recontextualizing Moe: A New Dimension to Sexualized Cuteness<\/td>\nJeremy Lim Hon Lee<\/td>\n2015<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Imagining the Ideal Working Woman in Japan: A Content Analysis of Nikkei Woman Magazine<\/td>\nYong Xin Lin Philine<\/td>\n2015<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\n\t\tGraduate Research\n\t<\/h2>\n\t

Current graduate students conduct research in areas such as Japanese literature, gender system, media and politics, environmentalism and religion, and trading companies. The tables below list our graduate students, both past and present, and their research topics.<\/p>\n\t

Thesis Topics and Supervisors of Graduate Students (AY2025-2026)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Student<\/th>\nThesis Topic<\/th>\nSupervisor<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Chan Hui Hsien (PhD)<\/td>\nUnderstanding the Need of Smartphones in Enhancing the Quality of Life of Older Japanese in a Super Aging Japan<\/td>\nA\/P Thang Leng Leng<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Robert St John Coulton Crawford (PhD)<\/td>\n19th Century Kagoshima – A Portrait of a Misunderstood Domain<\/td>\nA\/P Lim Beng Choo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Angela Louise Cruz Rosario (PhD)<\/td>\nMenstruation in Female Technology (Femtech) in Japan<\/td>\nDr Yuen Shu Min<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Foo Zhe Shi Clifton<\/td>\nDeriving Healing from Detail: The Healing Effect of “Hobby” Anime<\/td>\nA\/P Deborah Shamoon<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Goh Tien Li, Zachary<\/td>\nLocating the Seiy\u016b: “Flatness” in Modern Japanese Voice Actors’ Performativity<\/td>\nDr Yuen Shu Min<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Li Kexuan (PhD)<\/td>\nNavigating the River of Life: A Comparative Study on Youth Perceptions of the Social Clock in China and Japan<\/td>\nA\/P Thang Leng Leng<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Luo Lijia<\/td>\nKobayashi Issa’s Haiku<\/td>\nDr Scot Hislop<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Malavika Nataraj (PhD)<\/td>\nTBC<\/td>\nA\/P Lim Beng Choo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mei Yicong (PhD)<\/td>\nHow are the Ainu Language and Culture Restored and Revitalised in Contemporary Hokkaido?<\/td>\nA\/P Lim Beng Choo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nur Amirah Binte Amirrudin<\/td>\nRituals in Japan: A Case Study of Touken Ranbu in Mixed Media and the Objectification of Subjects<\/td>\nA\/P Lim Beng Choo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Lalasa T.<\/td>\nDeconstructing Dichotomous Discourses on Sex Work: An Ethnographic Study of the Sex Industry in Japan<\/td>\nDr Yuen Shu Min<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tjin Anna (PhD)<\/td>\nAccess, Barriers, and Facilitators of Dementia Care: A Mixed-Methods Study of Population-Level Patterns and First-Hand Experiences of People with Dementia and Their Primary Care Partners<\/td>\nA\/P Thang Leng Leng<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Zhou Yichen (PhD)<\/td>\nSpeaking into an App or not? Exploring the Relationship between LINE Use and Intergenerational Communication Within Family Context in Aging Urban Japan<\/td>\nA\/P Thang Leng Leng<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\t\t\t\t\tThesis Topics of Recent Graduates (2010 – 2024)<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tExpand<\/i><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Student<\/th>\nThesis Topic<\/th>\nYear of Degree Conferment<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Ryan Lim Dao Wei<\/td>\nUnseeing Okinawa: Form, Sense-making And Social Space In Okinawan Nonimperial Aesthetics<\/td>\n2024<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Lie Kim Ai Natalie<\/td>\nMobilising “Queer” Japanese Cinema: Films, Festivals, And The Construction Of Queer Film History And Historiography In Contemporary LGBT+ Discourse<\/td>\n2024<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Siti Umairah Binte Adnan<\/td>\nFascinatingly Familiar: Examining Representations Of Ainu Girls Across Manga Genres<\/td>\n2024<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Li Chongjing<\/td>\nTarento Activism: From Spectacular Commodity To Mediators For Change<\/td>\n2024<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Zhang Yue<\/td>\nLepers, Rebels, And Wandering Performers: Representation Of Marginalised Bodies In Konjaku Monogatarishu<\/em><\/td>\n2024<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Shweta Arora (PhD)<\/td>\nRecovering Yosano Akiko’s Prose Fiction: Female Consciousness And Identity In Five Short Stories From Her Anthology Kumo No Iroiro<\/em> (1912)<\/td>\n2024<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Malavika Nataraj<\/td>\nReligion And Intellectual Thought In Tokugawa Literature: A Discussion Of Ueda Akinari’s Ugetsu Monogatari<\/em><\/td>\n2024<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Satoshi Inuzuka (PhD)<\/td>\nTransportation in the Development of Retail Formats from Department Stores to Shopping Malls: A Comparative History of Shopping Goods Retailers in Postwar Japan<\/td>\n2023<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Goh Wei Hao Benjamin<\/td>\nGlobal Education in Overseas Japanese Schools: A Case Study of Singapore’s Waseda Shibuya Senior High<\/td>\n2023<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Eve Loh Kazuhara (PhD)<\/td>\nTanaka Isson and Postwar Nihonga: Landscapes of Liminality and Isolation<\/td>\n2022<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tan Jia Min Sarah<\/td>\nThe Making of Middleclass Working Culture: The Vicissitudes of Salaryman Life and Identity in Early 20th Century Japan<\/td>\n2021<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Chan Hui Hsien<\/td>\nSh\u016bkatsu – The Planning for Later Life and Afterlife in an Aging Japanese Society<\/td>\n2021<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fransiska Widya Chandra<\/td>\nFrom Text to Performance: Examining the Functions of the Tsukurimono During Noh Performance<\/td>\n2021<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kim Mi Jin<\/td>\nSad and Angry for Moe: Examining the Gendered Affective Labour of the Otaku Industry<\/td>\n2021<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Robert St John Coulton Crawford<\/td>\nThe Path to War: Kagoshima and the Seinan War 1868-1877<\/td>\n2020<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Gao Ming (PhD)<\/td>\nThe Profitability of the Japanese Opium Trade in Northeast Asia, 1905-1945<\/td>\n2020<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Lu Zihui, Amethy (PhD)<\/td>\nJapanese 2.5-Dimensional Theater: Presentation and Perception of Popular Theater in Contemporary Japan<\/td>\n2020<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wong Miu Shan, Shanell<\/td>\nThe Role of Intermediary Institutions in Japan’s Technical Intern Training Program<\/td>\n2019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Karen Ang Yunn Harn<\/td>\nThe Performativity of Class and Status: A Study of Gender in Ugetsu Monogatari<\/td>\n2019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Maria Thaemar Camanag Tana (PhD)<\/td>\nAid, Peace-Building, and Human Security: Japan’s Engagement in Cambodia, Iraq, and South Sudan, 1992-2017<\/td>\n2019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Gao Yang (PhD)<\/td>\nReception of Japanese Theatre Troupes Touring the United States and Europe from 1899 to 1931<\/td>\n2019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Lim Hon Lee Jeremy<\/td>\nReexamining and Reevaluating Otaku Consumption: A Poststructuralist Approach to Slice-of-Life Anime<\/td>\n2019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ku Ka Leung<\/td>\nPost-Disaster Reconstruction: Rebuilding Communities in Otsuchi Town, Iwate Prefecture after the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami on 11th March 2011<\/td>\n2018<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Normalis Amzah (PhD)<\/td>\nCorporations as Environmentalists – Leading the Ecological Discourse in Japan through Green Advertisements<\/td>\n2017<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Eve Loh Kazuhara<\/td>\nTaisho Nihonga Art Collectives<\/td>\n2016<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tobias Fong Chun Wai<\/td>\nYokai in Kusazoshi Caricatures and Classes<\/td>\n2016<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tong Koon Fung<\/td>\nEnka as a Marker of Social Difference: Understanding “Tradition” as “Taste”<\/td>\n2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Yao Huijun<\/td>\nA Postcolonial Analysis of Cultural Practices of Ainu Museums in Hokkaido<\/td>\n2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Yosuke Watanabe (PhD)<\/td>\nDon’t Forget to Fight!: Singapore’s History Education and War Commemoration, 1945-2005<\/td>\n2013<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nguyen Ha Nguyen<\/td>\nThe 1871 Kaihorei: Discourse, Outcastes and The Politics Of Making Modern Japan<\/td>\n2012<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ken Takiguchi (PhD)<\/td>\nThe History Of The Theatre Exchange Between Japan and Southeast Asia<\/td>\n2012<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Junko Sakomoto<\/td>\nNormalizing Unnaturalness: Indexing “Foreignness” in Japanese-Dubbed Versions of American Movies and TV Drama<\/td>\n2012<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tan Bee Kee<\/td>\nUnauthorized Romances: Female Fans and Weiss Kreuz Internet Yaoi Fanfiction<\/td>\n2011<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Alexander Wollenberg (PhD)<\/td>\nEfficiency of Japanese High-Tech Companies’ Technology Transfer in China<\/td>\n2011<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pang Carolyn<\/td>\nSpirit Servant: Narratives of Shikigami and Onmy\u014dd\u014d Developments<\/td>\n2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\t\t\t\t\tThesis Topics of Graduates (2000 – 2009)<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tExpand<\/i><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Student<\/th>\nThesis Topic<\/th>\nYear of Degree Conferment<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Kam Thiam Huat<\/td>\nThe Common Sense that Makes the “Otaku”: Rules for Consuming Popular Culture in Contemporary Japan<\/td>\n2009<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Yuen Shu Min<\/td>\nPop-Idol Concerts in Contemporary Japan – Queering Gender, Sexuality and Ethnicity<\/td>\n2008<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Zheng Hong<\/td>\nAnimosity of Preference, Chinese Consumer’s Attitudes Towards Japanese Products<\/td>\n2008<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Lim Yin Chum<\/td>\nA Study of Country-based Differences in Project Manager’s Practices in Project Management Implementation: Japan and Singapore<\/td>\n2007<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ni Yuliya<\/td>\nJapan’s FTA Policy: The Origins, Development and Nature<\/td>\n2007<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sho Shibamoto<\/td>\nProblems and Future Prospects of a Japan-China FTA<\/td>\n2007<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Xie Qiaoguang<\/td>\nA Study of the Role of Guanxi in Sino-Japanese Distribution Channel Relationships in China<\/td>\n2007<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Yu Jie<\/td>\nWorking for Japanese Companies: An Empirical Study of the Conflicts of Japanese Management in China from the Perspective of Chinese Employees<\/td>\n2007<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sasuya John Wilfred Maligsay<\/td>\nSustainable Development: Evaluation of the Rhetoric and Realities of Japanese Economic Assistance to the Philippines<\/td>\n2006<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Soong Lai Yee, Juliana<\/td>\nOnline Social Support for Single Mothers in Japan<\/td>\n2006<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tan Ban Chong<\/td>\nThe Political Opportunity Structure and the Enactment of Japan’s “New” Privacy Law<\/td>\n2006<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wang Hongyu<\/td>\nFantastic Elements, Special Families and Feminine Power in Healing – A Study of Yoshimoto Banana’s Novels<\/td>\n2006<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Karl Ian Uy Cheng Chua<\/td>\nThe Stories They Tell: Komik Strips during the Japanese Occupation of the Philippines, 1942-45<\/td>\n2005<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ng Suan Khee, Judy<\/td>\nShinto and Christian Festivals: An Analysis of the Japanese Religious Policy in Wartime Singapore<\/td>\n2005<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tan Chee Kuan<\/td>\nEditorializing September 11: A News Discourse Analysis of the Asahi Shimbun, the New Straits Times and the New York Times<\/td>\n2005<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tan Chyn Ngian<\/td>\nA Study on the Error of Extra Particlel \/No\/ by Singaporean Secondary School Students<\/td>\n2005<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Posadas Baryon Tensor Santiago<\/td>\nMemory, Mirrors and Missing Women: Metafictive Narrative Strategies and the Doppelganger Motif in the Fictions of Abe Kobo and Murakami Haruki<\/td>\n2004<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Zheng Yu<\/td>\nCenters of Excellence?: Localization of Sogo Shosha in China<\/td>\n2004<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Guo Jun Hai (PhD)<\/td>\nMotivations and Attitudes of Singapore’s Japanese Language Learners: A Socio-linguistic Study<\/td>\n2002<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Chua Geok Lian<\/td>\nWatching Japanese Television Dramas in Singapore: Relevance, Cultural Proximity and Asian Modernity<\/td>\n2002<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Lee Chee Keng<\/td>\nNegotiating “Culture”, Re-presenting “New Asia” A Case Study of Japan Foundation Asia Centers Production of Lear<\/td>\n2002<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Lim Mui Leng, Jasmine<\/td>\nRecreation in Singapore Under the Japanese Occupation 1942-45<\/td>\n2002<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tam Wai Lok<\/td>\nJapanese Video Games in Hong Kong: A Study of Subordinate Males as Consumers<\/td>\n2002<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ikeda Yuko<\/td>\nPerception of Japanese Accent and Features of Pronunciation by Singaporean Learners of Japanese<\/td>\n2002<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Miyazaki Yumiko<\/td>\nPolite Expressions in Japanese at the Japanese Overseas Operating Companies: The Study of Japanese Companies in Singapore<\/td>\n2002<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Michiko Goto<\/td>\nAn Analysis of Learners’ Verbs based on Lexical Categories of Verbs (Kudo 1995)<\/td>\n2001<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Hu Yi-ling<\/td>\nIkebana in Singapore: Changes and Continuity<\/td>\n2001<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Lim Tai Wei<\/td>\nThe Political Economy of Information Technology (IT) in Japan and Singapore: A Comparative Study<\/td>\n2001<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Loo Tze May<\/td>\nThe Radicalisation of Protest: Kotokushisui and Anarchism in Late Meiji Japan<\/td>\n2000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tan Shih Ming<\/td>\nThe Asian Monroe Doctrine: Tokutomi Soho’s Concept of a New Asian Order<\/td>\n2000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wu Xiao Jin<\/td>\nThe Boom of Karamono Adoration in Muromachi Japan: A Study of Development of Kanga<\/td>\n2000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\t\t\t\t\tThesis Topics of Graduates (1985 – 2000)<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tExpand<\/i><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Ng Mien Woon<\/td>\nPrice Destruction and Its Implications for the Japanese Economy<\/td>\n1997<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Chong Hoi Kiew, Kris<\/td>\nA Study of Ugetsu Monogatari – From the Viewpoint of Honan Shosetsu<\/td>\n1995<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Toh Chia Wey, Jane<\/td>\nThe Element of Perceptive Skills in Literary Translation<\/td>\n1995<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thang Leng Leng<\/td>\nIkigai among Elderly in Okinawa<\/td>\n1992<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Lim Beng Choo<\/td>\nWriter on the Merbius Truck – A Study of Abe Kobo’s Novels<\/td>\n1989<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Neo Chuan Choo<\/td>\nAkutagawa Ryunosuke: The Inner Strength<\/td>\n1988<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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