Modern Japanese Studies Program Faculty

- Jonathan Bull
- Lecturer
- History: decolonisation, forced migration, settler colonialism, oral history. Mem…

- Emma Cook
- Associate Professor
- Japanese youth employment, gender, health and wellbeing, food and social life

- Takayuki Ito
- Associate Professor
- Modern Japanese language history, Japanese language education history

- Susanne Klien
- Associate Professor
- Rural Japan, lifestyle migration, transnational mobility, regional revitalization,…

- Shunsuke Nozawa
- Assistant Professor
- Ethnography of communication, semiotics of culture, politics of language, popular …

- Hironori Sasada
- Professor
- Political economy of Japan and East Asia, foreign policy, trade policy …

- Michael Schiltz
- Associate Professor
- Japanese history, economic / financial history, Asian history, digital humanities
Other Instructors who Teach on MJSP

- Michelle La Fay
- Associate Professor
- Religious Studies, Meiji Era Protestantism, Uchimura Kanzo

- Peter Firkola
- Associate Professor
- Japanese management, career development, HRM, recruitment practices

- Jeffry Gayman
- Professor
- Indigenous education, Indigenous peoples, Multiculturalism, Intercultural educatio…

- Paul Hansen
- Specially Appointed Associate Professor
- Animal-human-technology studies…

- Ko Hasegawa
- Former Executive Vice President (University Office),
Emeritus Professor and Visiting Fellow (School of Law) - Philosophy of Law

- Sachiko Ito
- Adjunct Lecturer
- Distribution, marketing, information society, consumers

- Sungmin Kim
- Associate Professor
- Media and Popular Culture in East Asia

- Satoshi Oku
- Professor
- Theoretical linguistics, comparative syntax, East Asian languages, ellipsis

- Takayoshi Yamamura
- Professor
- Contents tourism, Anime-induced tourism, pop culture and tourism…

- Anthony Backhouse
- Professor Emeritus
- Linguistics, Japanese

- John Bower
- Associate Professor
- Oceanography, cephalopod biology

- Noriyo Colley
- Assistant Professor
- Pediatric Nursing

- Jay Tanaka
- Specially Appointed Associate Professor
- Second Language Teaching, TESOL, Critical Thinking Instruction, …

- Paul Spicer
- Associate Professor
- Film Studies, Film History, Cultural Studies, Popular Music Theory and History

- Caitlin Coker
- Associate Professor
- Movement studies, Performance studies, Affect theory, Dance, Butoh, Pole Dance, …