Jeremy Breaden

Jeremy Breaden lectures in Japanese and Asian Studies in the Faculty of Arts. He is interested in globalisation, education and employment systems in East Asia. Jeremy previously worked as an international communications consultant to higher education institutions and private corporations in Japan. He is currently the Convenor of the undergraduate major in Japanese Studies. 

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:

• 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
• 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, International Studies, and Global Asia majors in the Faculty of Arts. He has been the convenor of the Japanese Studies program since 2017. He also coordinated the Honours program in the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics from 2015 to 2017.

Units taught in 2018-2020 include:

• ATS3089 Social Institutions and Power in Asia
• ATS2648 Contemporary Japan
• ATS3978 Japanese Communication in Professional Settings
• ATS1319 Global Asia