DEPARTMENT OF JAPANESE STUDIES
| Researcher : Cave P |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Cave P., A new history of Japanese textbooks, South China Morning Post. Hong Kong, 2004, A11. |
| Cave P., Bukatsudo: The Educational Role of Japanese School Clubs, The Journal of Japanese Studies. Seattle, WA, The Society for Japanese Studies, 2004, 30: 2: pp.383-415. |
| Cave P., Gender Socialization and Gender Awareness in Japanese Primary Education., The First International Conference on Gender Equity Education in the Asia-Pacific Region.. National Taiwan University, Taipei., 2004. |
| Cave P., Gender Socialization and Gender Awareness in Japanese Primary Education, 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies. Chicago, 2005. |
| Cave P., Member of Editorial Board, Asian Anthropology. 2004. |
| Cave P., Member, Executive Committee, Hong Kong Anthropological Society. 2005. |
| Researcher : Chan CY |
| Project Title: | A history of Hong Kong and Japan relations |
| Investigator(s): | Chan CY, Yeung VWY |
| Department: | Japanese Studies |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Small Project Funding |
| Start Date: | 11/2004 |
| Abstract: |
| To make use of the massive data we collected in the previous years, we plan to work on a new book that probes into the nature and significance of Hong Kong-Japan relations. |
| Researcher : Chan YS |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Chu Y.K. and Chan Y.S., Marriage as a Business: The Bringing of Chinese to Japan by Repatriates, Social Transformations in Hong Kong and Asia: Crisis, Progress and Renewal. Hong Kong, Hong Kong Sociological Association, 2004. |
| Researcher : Lai EYW |
| Project Title: | Pronunciation - teaching pedagogy for native Cantonese teachers of second languages |
| Investigator(s): | Lai EYW |
| Department: | Japanese Studies |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Other Funding Scheme |
| Start Date: | 01/2002 |
| Abstract: |
| To promote general pronunciaton culture of Cantonese speakers; to help native Cantonese teachers of second languages develop effective pronunciation - teaching strategies. |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Lai E.Y.W., An Audio-visual Guide to Word Pronunciation and Sentence Intonation Volume 2. Hong Kong: Economic Times Publishing, 2004. |
| Lai E.Y.W., An Audio-visual Guide to Word Pronunciation and Sentence Intonation Volume 3. Hong Kong: Economic Times Publishing, 2004. |
| Researcher : Lai YW |
| Project Title: | Pronunciation - teaching pedagogy for native Cantonese teachers of second languages |
| Investigator(s): | Lai EYW |
| Department: | Japanese Studies |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Other Funding Scheme |
| Start Date: | 01/2002 |
| Abstract: |
| To promote general pronunciaton culture of Cantonese speakers; to help native Cantonese teachers of second languages develop effective pronunciation - teaching strategies. |
| Researcher : Murakami F |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Murakami F., Words for the Weak, 弱者救済のことば, In: Rita Takahashi, Yuko Miyazoe-Wong, Toshiyuki Yamaguchi and Maggie Leung, Global Networking in Japanese Studies and Japanese Language Education. 日本研究と日本語教育におけるグローバルネットワーク／日本研究及日本語教育的世界網絡, Hong Kong, Society of Japanese Language Education, Hong Kong, 2005, 1: 234-244. |
| Researcher : Nakano Y |
| Project Title: | Japanese products, Chinese intermediaries: from TV sets to TV programs |
| Investigator(s): | Nakano Y |
| Department: | Japanese Studies |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Seed Funding for New Staff |
| Start Date: | 07/2004 |
| Abstract: |
| To examine flow of Japanese television sets and television programs to Hong Kong and Mainland China. |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Nakano Y. and Wu Y.M., Aspirations for a Middle-Class Lifestyle: Japanese Pop Culture on Chinese Campuses [Puchi-buru no Kurashi kata: Chugoku no Daigakusei ga Mita Nihon no Drama] (in Japanese) , In: Kondoh Atsuko and Maruyama Chika, Abroad in Komaba, The University of Tokyo, For Advanced Learners of Japanese: Facets of Culture [Jyokyu Nihongo Kyokasho: Bunka he no Manazashi]. Tokyo, University of Tokyo Press, 2005, p. 122-136. |
| Nakano Y., Japanese Products, Chinese Intermediaries, Asian Desires: From Rice Cookers to Pop Culture, In: Marian Pastor Roces, Unequal Worlds: And the Roads Ahead, Asia Leadership Fellow Program 2003. Tokyo, International House of Japan and Japan Foundation, 2004, p. 22- 31. |
| Nakano Y., Japanese Products, Chinese Intermediaries, Asian Desires: From Rice Cookers to Pop Culture, United Nations University Global Seminar “Shonan Session”, “Living Together in Cultural Diversity”. Hayama, Japan, 2004. |
| Nakano Y., Softening the Sharp Edges of ‘Japan’: Young Chinese who Grew up with Tojo, Doraemon, and Tokyo Love Story on TV, “Soft Power and Public Diplomacy” organized by the Social Science Research Council and Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership. 2005. |
| Nakano Y. and Wong H.W., Turning Japanese Electric Rice Cookers into Chinese: How National/Panasonic has sold 8 million sets in Hong Kong with the population of only 6.8 million [Onaji Kama no Meshi: National Suihanki wa Jinko 680man no Hong Kong de Naze 800man-dai Uretaka] (in Japanese). Tokyo, Heibon-sha, 2005, p. 280. |
| Researcher : Refsing K |
| Project Title: | Asian encounters with western missionaries: the case of the church missionary society in Japan 1869-1945 |
| Investigator(s): | Refsing K |
| Department: | Japanese Studies |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Competitive Earmarked Research Grants (CERG) |
| Start Date: | 09/2001 |
| Abstract: |
| To analyze the motives of the missionaries, the impact working in often harsh conditions had upon them and on their families, and the effect they had on the local communities in which they worked; to justify their missionary work, attract funding, and increase their own prestige often led them to present the indigenous populations among which they worked in a highly ideological manner. |
| Project Title: | Translation theories and strategies for Japanese |
| Investigator(s): | Refsing K, Chan CY, Hara T, Lita L. |
| Department: | Japanese Studies |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Small Project Funding |
| Start Date: | 11/2002 |
| Abstract: |
| To write a book in English about translation theories and strategies specially aimed at aiding translation from Japanese. The book will be written in a way that will make it possible for both students and teachers to use it as a basis for classroom work and self-study. |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Refsing K., "Boys be Ambitious", Review article on John Maki's 'A Yankee in Hokkaido: The Life of William Smith Clark' (Lexington Books 2002), In: Sugita, Yone review editor, H-US-Japan (webbased). USA, webbased, 2004, NA: 5 webpages. |
| Refsing K., Hakodate seikoukai no kenkyuu ryokou (Research trip to Hakodate Seikoukai), In: Hakodate Seikoukai, Hanamizuki. Hakodate Seikoukai, 2005, March Issue, 2005: 5. |
| Refsing K., The Ainu Bible, Third International Conference on Missionary Linguistics. 2005. |
| Refsing K., The Lost Europeans, In: Annette Skovsted Hansen et al, The Jutland Historian. Denmark, University of Aarhus, 2004, 106-07: 36-49. |
| Refsing K., The Text as a Unit in Translation: Implications for Teaching, IJET-16 in Chicago (International Japanese English Translation). 2005. |
| Researcher : Wong HW |
| Project Title: | Japan in Hong Kong consumer culture: analyzing reciprocal mediation |
| Investigator(s): | Wong HW, Ogawa M, Okano M, Nakano Y |
| Department: | Japanese Studies |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Incentive Award for RGC CERG Fundable But Not Funded Projects |
| Start Date: | 07/2003 |
| Abstract: |
| Mass consumption of Japanese cultural products is not happening in a vacuum. Our goal, therefore, is to undertstand and record this consumption as interactional processes between Japanese products and Hong Kong's socio-cultural needs over the last three decades. |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Nakano Y. and Wong H.W., Turning Japanese Electric Rice Cookers into Chinese: How National/Panasonic has sold 8 million sets in Hong Kong with the population of only 6.8 million [Onaji Kama no Meshi: National Suihanki wa Jinko 680man no Hong Kong de Naze 800man-dai Uretaka] (in Japanese). Tokyo, Heibon-sha, 2005, p. 280. |
| Wong H.W., "Hong Kong's guided tours: Contexts of tourism image construction before 1997", Taiwan Journal of Anthropology 2(2). 2004, 115-153 (a joint paper with M. Okano). |
| Wong H.W., 友情と私利―香港―日系スーパーの人類学的研究, 東京, 風響社, 2004. |
| Researcher : Yorozu M |
| Project Title: | A study on motivation and learning strategies |
| Investigator(s): | Yorozu M |
| Department: | Japanese Studies |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Other Funding Scheme |
| Start Date: | 04/2001 |
| Abstract: |
| To investigate how language learners' motivation (to learn) and their learning strategies influence each other; to explore implications in language learning acquisition process. |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Yorozu M., Book Review: "Beyond Methods: Macrostrategies for Language Teaching" by B. Kumaravadivelu. , Asian Journal of English Language Teaching. Hong Kong, Chinese U Press, 2004, 14: 163-167. |
| Yorozu M., Business Japanese--What Influences Impression?", Global Networling in Japanese Studies and Japanese Language Education. Hong Kong, Himawari, 2005, 2: 132-139. |