Dr Kayoko Hashimoto

Dr Kayoko Hashimoto

MA (Sophia), PhD (La Trobe)

• Intermediate and advanced Japanese (writing, grammar, and newspaper reading); Translating and Interpreting Studies (Cultural Studies Program).
• Honours Course Work

• Language policies and social changes
• Japanese education systems
• English language policy

• "The role of newspaper media in constructing public representations of 'monster parents'" as part of the project "Configurations of Conventional and Non-conventional 'Family' Arrangements in Japan" (the inaugural UWA-UQ Bilateral Research Collaboration Award 2010)
• Discourse for national agendas in Japanese government policies and newspaper media: the mechanism of collaboration and mutual dependency.
• Book project: the Politics of English in Japan: Nation, Citizens and Language Policy.

• "Cultivating ‘Japanese Who Can Use English’: Problems and Contradictions in Government Policy”, Asian Studies Review (2009), Vol. 33, pp. 21-42.
• “Power and Illusion: Old Words, New Expressions and Desire for Empowerment”, AMULA Special issue: Refereed Proceedings of the 2007 AULLA Conference: Cultural Interactions in the Old and New Worlds (2007), 105-15.
• “Japan’s Language Policy and the ‘Lost Decade’” in Language, Policy, Culture, and Identity in Asian Contexts edited by Tsui and Tollefson (2007) New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., Publishers, pp. 25-36.
• "Implications of the Recommendation that English Become the Second Official Language in Japan" in English in Asia: Communication, Identity, Power And Education, edited by A. Kirkpatrick (2002) Melbourne: Language Australia, pp. 63-74.
• "'Internatioanlisation' is 'Japanisation'", Journal of Intercultural Studies (2000), Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 39-51.

• Research Fellow (2010) Institute for Educational Research and Service, International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan
• UQ Promoting Women Fellows 2008
• Faculty Fellow 2007 of the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies

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