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GRADUATE STUDENTS

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.

Thesis Topics and Supervisors of Graduate Students (AY2008-9)
Student
Thesis Topic
Supervisor
Nur Hafizah Bte Ismail Power Structures: A Study of Muslims in Japan
Dr Scot Hislop
Nguyen Ha Nguyen The Voice in Silence: The Challenges of Buraku in Modern Society of Japan
Dr Timothy Amos
Pang Carolyn
Spirit Servant: Narratives of Shikigami and Onmyōdō Developments
Dr Scot Hislop
Rowsalind Purnomo Modern Japan and Western Culture: Its Impact on Women and Women's Role in Modern Japanese Society
Dr Elizabeth MacLachlan
Ken Takiguchi
Japanese Cultural Diplomacy and the Issue of the War - A Study of the Theatrical Collaborations between Japan and Southeast Asia (PhD)
A/P Lim Beng Choo
Tan Bee Kee
Unauthorized Romances: Female Fans and Weiss Kreuz Internet Yaoi Fanfiction
A/P Thang Leng Leng
Tadasuke Tanimura
Transnational Japanese Community in Thailand (PhD) A/P Thang Leng Leng
Yosuke Watanabe
War Memories of Japan and Singapore (PhD)
Dr Simon Avenell
Alexander Wollenberg
Efficiency of Japanese High-Tech Companies' Technology Transfer in China (PhD)
A/P Hendrik Meyer-Ohle
Daisuke Yuasa
Representing War Histories: Historical Memories, Museums and Discourse of Internationalism (PhD)
Dr Timothy Amos

Thesis Topics of Recent Graduates (2000 - 2009)
Student
Thesis Topic
Year of Degree Conferment
Kam Thiam Huat
The Common Sense that Makes the "Otaku": Rules for Consuming Popular Culture in Contemporary Japan
2009
Yuen Shu Min
Pop-Idol Concerts in Contemporary Japan - Queering Gender, Sexuality and Ethnicity
2008
Zheng Hong
Animosity of Preference, Chinese Consumer's Attitudes Towards Japanese Products
2008
Lim Yin Chum
A Study of Country-based Differences in Project Manager's Practices in Project Management Implementation: Japan and Singapore 2007
Ni Yuliya
Japan's FTA Policy: The Origins, Development and Nature 2007
Sho Shibamoto
Problems and Future Prospects of a Japan-China FTA 2007
Xie Qiaoguang
A Study of the Role of Guanxi in Sino-Japanese Distribution Channel Relationships in China
2007
Yu Jie
Working for Japanese Companies: An Empirical Study of the Conflicts of Japanese Management in China from the Perspective of Chinese Employees
2007
Sasuya John Wilfred Maligsay
Sustainable Development: Evaluation of the Rhetoric and Realities of Japanese Economic Assistance to the Philippines
2006
Soong Lai Yee, Juliana
Online Social Support for Single Mothers in Japan
2006
Tan Ban Chong
The Political Opportunity Structure and the Enactment of Japan's "New" Privacy Law
2006
Wang Hongyu
Fantastic Elements, Special Families and Feminine Power in Healing - A Study of Yoshimoto Banana's Novels
2006
Karl Ian Uy Cheng Chua
The Stories They Tell: Komik Strips during the Japanese Occupation of the Philippines, 1942-45
2005
Ng Suan Khee, Judy
Shinto and Christian Festivals: An Analysis of the Japanese Religious Policy in Wartime Singapore
2005
Tan Chee Kuan
Editorializing September 11: A News Discourse Analysis of the Asahi Shimbun, the New Straits Times and the New York Times
2005
Tan Chyn Ngian
A Study on the Error of Extra Particlel /No/ by Singaporean Secondary School Students
2005
Posadas Baryon Tensor Santiago
Memory, Mirrors and Missing Women: Metafictive Narrative Strategies and the Doppelganger Motif in the Fictions of Abe Kobo and Murakami Haruki
2004
Zheng Yu
Centers of Excellence?: Localization of Sogo Shosha in China
2004
Guo Jun Hai (PhD)
Motivations and Attitudes of Singapore's Japanese Language Learners: A Socio-linguistic Study
2002
Chua Geok Lian
Watching Japanese Television Dramas in Singapore: Relevance, Cultural Proximity and Asian Modernity
2002
Lee Chee Keng
Negotiating "Culture", Re-presenting "New Asia" A Case Study of Japan Foundation Asia Centers Production of Lear
2002
Lim Mui Leng, Jasmine
Recreation in Singapore Under the Japanese Occupation 1942-45
2002
Tam Wai Lok
Japanese Video Games in Hong Kong: A Study of Subordinate Males as Consumers
2002
Ikeda Yuko
Perception of Japanese Accent and Features of Pronunciation by Singaporean Learners of Japanese
2002
Miyazaki Yumiko
Polite Expressions in Japanese at the Japanese Overseas Operating Companies: The Study of Japanese Companies in Singapore
2002
Michiko Goto
An Analysis of Learners' Verbs based on Lexical Categories of Verbs (Kudo 1995)
2001
Hu Yi-ling
Ikebana in Singapore: Changes and Continuity
2001
Lim Tai Wei
The Political Economy of Information Technology (IT) in Japan and Singapore: A Comparative Study
2001
Loo Tze May
The Radicalisation of Protest: Kotokushisui and Anarchism in Late Meiji Japan
2000
Tan Shih Ming
The Asian Monroe Doctrine: Tokutomi Soho's Concept of a New Asian Order
2000
Wu Xiao Jin
The Boom of Karamono Adoration in Muromachi Japan: A Study of Development of Kanga
2000

 

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