Jeremy Breaden is Associate Professor of Japanese Studies and Deputy Head of the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics, Faculty of Arts. His main research interests relate to higher education and employment in Japan, East Asia and transnationally. Before beginning his academic career in 2011, Jeremy worked as an international communications consultant to higher education institutions and private corporations in Japan.

Jeremy is currently pursuing an Australian Research Council Discovery Project on meritocracy and education reform in postwar Japan and West Germany (with Associate Professor Michael Hau) and is part of a multi-national team of researchers in a Toyota Foundation funded project on provision of support for migrant entrepreneurs in rural and regional Japan. He also has an emerging interest as both a researcher and practitioner in initiatives for virtual mobility. He is co-convenor of the Online Intercultural Exchange Research Cluster and coordinator of Monash University's flagship Collaborative Online International Learning program, Social Entrepreneurship Challenge in the Indo-Pacific. 

In addition, Jeremy currently serves Director of the Bachelor of Global Studies and chairs the Management Committee of the Monash Japanese Language Education Centre. 

Recent publications include:

(with R. Goodman) Family-Run Universities in Japan: Sources of Inbuilt Resilience in the Face of Demographic Pressure, 1992-2030, Oxford University Press, 2020 (also in Japanese translation: 日本の私立大学はなぜ生き残るのか-人口減少社会と同族経営:1992-2030, trans. A. Ishikawa, Chuokoron-shinsha, 2021)

(with T. Do, N. Normand-Marconnet, & L. Santos) Student empowerment for internationalisation at a distance: enacting the students as partners approach in virtual mobility, Higher Education Research & Development, 2023.

(with Y. Yonezawa) 大学教育における多文化をめぐる揺らぎ：オーストラリア, in 学士課程教育のグローバル・スタディーズ: 国際的視野への転換を展望する [Global Studies of Undergraduate Education: Exploring the Shift to International Perspectives], ed. A. Yonezawa, S. Shimauchi, & A. Yoshida, Akashi Shoten, 2022

Jeremy welcomes postgraduate and Honours students interested in contemporary Japanese society, East Asian education and employment systems, issues relating to the globalisation and internationalisation of social institutions in East Asia, and sociolegal issues in Japan.

Current/recent PhD supervisions include:

• Toward a theory of cultural translatability in Business Communication between English and Japanese
• Script reform and internationalisation in postwar Japan
• Japan-Thailand collaboration on responses to population ageing
• International legal discourse and territorial disputes in East Asia
• Experiences of Japanese language learners in the workplace 
• Creative non-fiction writing on recovery from the 3/11 Tohoku tsunami
• Perceptions of Australia-China university engagement and academic freedom
• Translation of controversial texts in Japan-Korea relations
• Intercultural communication in science and technology cooperation in Japan, China and Australia
• International law and child abduction to Japan
• Art museum translation in Japan
• Cultural and sensory approaches to contemporary Japanese textile design

Current/recent Honours supervisions include:

• Japan-Australia security cooperation
• Japanese news media coverage of the whaling debate
• Japanese high school wind bands
• meat-eating and culinary identity in Japan
• policy discourse on masculinity in contemporary Japan
• virtual dating games in Japan

Jeremy teaches in the Japanese Studies and Global Asia majors and directs the Bachelor of Global Studies in the Faculty of Arts. 

Units taught in 2023-2024 include:

• ATS3089 Social Institutions and Power in Asia
• ATS2648 Contemporary Japan
• ATS3170 Social Entrepreneurship Challenge in the Indo-Pacific