Staff within the Centre who lecture/carry out research in Japanese Studies

Professor Joshua Ka Ho Mok
Chair Professor in East Asian Studies, University of Bristol.
Unit Director of 'China and Japan in East Asia' Unit for MSc in East Asian Studies.
Research:
Expert on comparative public policy and comparative development in East Asia; have been involved with comparative university governance project with reference to Japan, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan and South Korea.
Links with Japanese Universities:
Has been involved in the private higher education research network in Japan, was appointed as international advisor for Osaka University in 2005 and 2006 for the ‘University Assessment and Internationalization' Project, working closely with colleagues from Research Institute of Higher Education, Hiroshima University.

Ray Forrest, Acting Director
Associate Director, Centre for East Asian Studies;Director of the MSc unit in social policy and social change; and co-lecturer U/G social policy in East Asia and Japan open unit
Research:
Expert on housing and urban studies - his recent research focuses on East Asia including Japan . His current research includes ‘housing assets and intergenerational dynamics in East Asian societies' with Misa Izuhara (ESRC) and Governance and the Housing Market with Professor Yosuke Hirayama, Kobe University) (Daiwa).

Yuko Hasegawa , Japanese Language Coordinator
Subject specialisation:
Second Language Acquisition, Evaluation and Development of Teaching / Learning Materials, Academic Japanese, Exam Writing and Assessing Language Skills and Textbook Writing. Yuko is also a Multimedia Resources Officer at the Language Centre where she develops teaching and learning language materials at the Self Access Centre.

Misa Izuhara , Research Fellow , Director of the open unit
Subject specialisation:
Understanding Japanese Society; also teaches a number of units with Japanese elements (e.g. Social policy and social change; social policy in East Asia)
Research:
She works extensively in the areas of ageing and intergenerational relations, housing and social change, comparative social policy. Her research has been funded by ESRC, The Nuffield Foundation, Help the Aged and various Japanese organizations

Maurizio Marinelli , Senior Lecturer
Subject specialisation:
He teaches modern history of Japan ; the relationship between Japan and Europe among other interests in the above MSc and U/G programmes.

Staff who lecture/carry out research in Japanese Studies but are not in the Centre

Patricia Kennett, Senior Lecturer at School for Policy Studies
Has taught comparative social policy in Pacific Rim
Her recent research includes homelessness in Japan ; and women and assets in Britain and Japan (with Misa Izuhara).

Related books and journals are available in the library but almost exclusively in English. More resources are required to bring the collection up-to-date and also reflect various topics offered in the courses.