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Tomoko teaches Japanese language. She is a co-author of the Japanese textbook, Living Japanese: A Practical Course Book 1, 2006, Kuroshio Shuppan, Tokyo.
Her main research interests encompass issues of gender and ethnic relations in contemporary Japan. Key Research and Expertisegender relations in Japan, migration, marriage, citizenship, and the family. Current ProjectsGender and the family grave in Japan Future ResearchJapan's multicultural policy and its rhetoric Funding ReceivedUWA research grants, 2003 & 2007 PublicationsChapter in an edited book:
2005 "Unpaid Domestic Work: Gender, State Policy and the Labour Market in Japan", In Asian Women as Transnational Domestic Workers, eds. Shirlena Huang, Brenda S.A. Yeoh and Noor Abdul Rahman, Marshall Cavendish International, Singapore, ch.13. pp.364-379
2005, "Complex Power and Diverse Responses: Transnational Marriage Migration and Women's Agency", In The Agency of Women in Asia, ed. Lyn Parker, Marshall Cavendish International, Singapore, ch.5. pp.158-181
2003, "International Marriage Through Introduction Agencies: Social and Legal Realities of 'Asian' Wives of Japanese Men", In Wife or Worker? Asian Women and Migration, eds. Nicola Piper & Mina Roces, Rowman & Littlefield, ch.4. pp.181-201
Referred journal article:
2005 Faces of "Asian brides": Gender, Race, and Class in the Representations of Immigrant Women in Japan, Women's Studies International Forum, Vol. 28, no.5, pp 405-417
1994, "Housewives" and Part-Time Work in the 1970s and 1980s: Political and Social Implications, Bulletin of the Japanese Studies Association of Australia, vol.14, no.1, pp. 87-104
Article in a monograph:
1995, '"Part-Timers" in the Public Sphere: Married Women, Part-Time and Activism', in Feminism and the State in Modern Japan, V. Mackie (ed.), Japanese Studies Centre, Melbourne, pp. 75-87. (Reprinted version of the above article with some changes.)
Textbook(language), co-authored:
(2006), Living Japanese- A Practical Course Book 1, Kuroshio Shuppan, Tokyo LanguagesJapanese
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