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 Staff within the Department of Applied East Asian Languages - New post of Lecturer in Japanese (Undergraduate studies) to be appointed in May 07
- Ms Atsuko Niki (Teaching Fellow in Japanese - Postgraduate studies)
- Mr Rossa Ó Muireartaigh (Temporary Teaching Fellow in Japanese -2006-7 only)
- 2 Part-time Teaching Assistants in Japanese language
Staff who lecture/carry out research in Japanese Studies but are not within the AEAL Dr James Babb, Senior Lecturer in Japanese Politics
  • Researches Japanese politics, including political history and political thought, Japan's political parties and elections, and Japanese politicians and corruption. Also comparative politics, especially in the areas of party politics, political extremism, political business and methods.
  • Teaches modern Japanese history and East Asian political thought, contributes to Japanese film module, and supervises undergraduates writing dissertations on Japan.

    • Dr David Murakami Wood, Lecturer in the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape and researcher in the Global Urban Research Unit (GURU)
  • Researches surveillance cameras and the monitoring of society, and change in Asian cities, especially Tokyo, where in 2006 he was an Exchange Visiting Fellow in the School of Social Sciences at Waseda University.

    • Dr Joanne Smith Finley, Lecturer in Chinese
  • Module leader and designer of, and contributes to, Japanese film module.

    • Dr Naomi Standen, Senior Lecturer in Chinese History
  • Contributes to teaching of modern Japanese history module and supervises History undergraduates writing dissertations on Japan.

    • Dr Elayne Chaplin, was Lecturer in Film Studies, University of Northumbria at Newcastle
  • Researched horror films and also anime.
  • Contributes to Japanese film module.

    • Library and Information Resources The University has substantial Japanese-language holdings, both in the main collection and in the Library of Japanese Science and Technology, and this can be supplemented by Durham University’s collection (which they intend to retain) when necessary via a reciprocal agreement giving borrowing rights to staff and postgraduates. Our knowledge of the future plans of East Asian librarians indicates that it is unlikely that new Japanese paper-based library holdings will be created. Instead they will ‘skip’ such a strategy and put effort into building electronic resources. For example, in Japan, most of the printed material of the Meiji period (1868-1910) is available free online from the Japanese Diet Library. Newcastle’s University Library has a well-considered strategy to take advantage of the possibilities of electronic resources.
    The University has a substantial secondary literature collection essential to undergraduate teaching and postgraduate research, with a large amount of previous funding initiatives ploughed into building a strong research collection.

    There is a collection of Japanese language-learning materials in the Open Access Centre attached to the School of Modern Languages, which students of Japanese language have access to. Assistance has been received from the Japan Foundation.
    Address Old Library Building
    Newcastle University
    Newcastle upon Tyne
    NE1 7RU     Telephone 0191 222 7441 Fax 0191 222 5442 School E-mail address marion.burn@ncl.ac.uk Website http://www.ncl.ac.uk/sml/