Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

Name Department Areas of Specialization
Masanori Nagami Centre for Language Studies Second language learning and teaching
Masami Kimura Centre for Language Studies

Material development, Pronunciation, Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language, Second Language Aquisition

Kitai Saeko Centre for Language Studies Applied linguistics; koto music
Yukiko Saito Centre for Language Studies

Japanese language & culture teaching, Intercultural language teaching and learning,Teacher education

Izumi Walker Centre for Language Studies Japanese Applied Linguistics, Teaching Business Japanese
Tomoo Kikuchi Economics Economic Growth and Development, International Economics
Tatsushi Oka Economics Econometrics
Mie Hiramoto English Language & Literature Linguistic Anthropology (Language, gender & sexuality; Media discourse; Critical discourse analysis; Identity construction & immigration) and Sociolinguistics (Pidgins & creoles, Contact linguistics, Japanese spoken outside Japan, Singapore English)
Gregory K Clancey History History of modern Japan, particularly the cultural history of science and technology
Teow See Heng History History of Japan's relations with Singapore, Southeast Asia and China
Timothy Amos Japanese Studies Early modern/modern Japanese social history; Japanese intellectual history; minority issues; Burakumin
Simon Avenell Japanese Studies Modern and contemporary Japanese history; civic activism and civil society in Japan; political theory and thought
Scot Hislop Japanese Studies Japanese poetics and literary theories; premodern Japanese history, focusing on Edo period
Kam Thiam Huat Japanese Studies Japanese society and culture
Lim Beng Choo Japanese Studies Premodern Japanese literature, concentrating on noh; contemporary Japanese performing arts and film
Elizabeth MacLachlan Japanese Studies Japanese mass media and corporate anthropology; Okinawan culture
Christopher McMorran Japanese Studies Cultural geography of Japan; tourism; cultural identity; gender and labor
Hendrik Meyer-Ohle Japanese Studies Japanese management especially marketing and distribution
Emi Morita Japanese Studies Japanese discourse analysis, pragmatics, socio-linguistics functional linguistics and conversation analysis
Ryoko Nakano Japanese Studies

International relations, Japanese foreign policy, Japanese modern history

Itsuko Tanaka Japanese Studies Japanese food culture, manga , Japanese community in Singapore
Thang Leng Leng Japanese Studies Japanese culture and society; Japanese anthropology; social gerontology
Yoshinori Nishizaki Political Science Politics of Southeast Asia, especially Thailand
Chua Beng Huat Sociology Japanese television dramas, soft power in Asia

 

NUS Business School

Name Department Areas of Specialization
Andrew Delios Business Business/International Strategy
Takeshi Yamada Business Finance

 

School of Computing

Name Department Areas of Specialization
Kazunari Sugiyama School of Computing Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing
Takashi Matsumoto School of Computing Media Design, Innovation Design Management

 

School of Design and Environment

Name Department Areas of Specialization
Shinya Okuda Architecture Digital Fabrication in Architecture; Architectural Construction

 

Faculty of Engineering

Name Department Areas of Specialization
Jeffrey Lee Funk Division of Engineering and Technology Management Japanese management, business, and technology

 

Faculty of Law

Name Department Areas of Specialization
Daniel William Puchniak Law Japanese Corporate Law and Governance

 

Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy

Name Department Areas of Specialization
Heng Yee Kuang Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy

Japanese ‘soft' power: sources, assets, and strategies; Japan's New Growth Strategy as a global trouble-shooter; Japanese pop culture diplomacy; Japanese security and foreign policies

Takaaki Oiwa Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy Political economy of Southeast Asia and Official Development Assistance/International Cooperation

 

Faculty of Science

Name Department Areas of Specialization
Yusuke Toyama Biological Sciences Biophysics; Developmental biology; Mechanobiology
Yasuhiro Sawada Biological Sciences and Division of Bioengineering Biology; Medicine (Orthopaedic Surgery)

 

Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine

Name Department Areas of Specialization
Naoki Yamamoto Microbiology Virology and oncology
Nobuhiro Yuki Microbiology & Medicine Neuroimmunology  

 

Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music

Name Department Areas of Specialization
Hideaki Onishi Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music Music (Music Theory, Philippine Kulintang)