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International Center, Hosei University,
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EDUCATION
MA in Japanese Studies (October 2006), National University of Singapore.
Thesis: The Political Opportunity Structure and the Enactment of Japan’s “New” Privacy Law. (abstract)

BA (2nd Upper) in Japanese Studies, English Language (Double Major,
December 2002), National University of Singapore.
Thesis: Studied Nonobservance as an Impediment towards Effective Privacy Legislation in Japan. (abstract)

PUBLICATIONS*
Academic and Professional
Tan, Joseph and Tomoko Hidaka, "Intra-psychic Imbalance and Social Isolation: The Loss of Privacy as a Determinant of the Hikikomori Phenomenon in Japan,” (manuscript under preparation).

Tan, Ban Chong, “Culturally Mediated Networked Individualism in Japan: A Survey of Mobile and PC Email Use in a High-Context Society,” under review at Telematics and Informatics.

Tan, Joseph and Ni Zhen (2009), “Chinese and Japanese Newspaper Reporting of the Yasukuni Shrine Controversy: A Comparative Analysis of Institutional Media Bias,” Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies, 15 April. Available at http://www.japanesestudies.org.uk/articles/2009/TanZhen.html. (abstract)

Tan, Ban Chong (2009), Online Data Protection in Japan: Studied Nonobservance as an Impediment towards Effective Privacy Legislation. Saarbrücken: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller. (summary｜order here)

Tan, Chee Kuan and Ban Chong Tan (2007), “Editorializing 9/11: A News Discourse Analysis of the Asahi Shimbun, the New Straits Times, and the New York Times,” Shingetsu Electronic Journal of Japanese-Islamic Relations, 1 (19 March). Available at http://www.shingetsuinstitute.com/Tan-Tan% 201F.pdf. (abstract)

Tan, Joseph (2006), “A Specialist Offers Advice: How Companies Are Reacting to Japan’s New Privacy Law,” SUCCESS STORIES: JAPAN Executive Newsletter, February, 5-8. (original manuscript)

タン、ジョセフ「平成16年度研究者・大学院生日本語研修８ヶ月コース論文・レポート集」『政治 的機会構造と日本の新しいプライバシー法(The Political Opportunity Structure and Japan's New Privacy Law)』37-44頁（国際交流基金関西国際センター編集・発 行、2005年5月） （原稿）

Williams, Jerome D., May O. Lwin, and Ban Chong Tan (2005), “Developments in Online Privacy Regulations and an Assessment of Privacy Practices in China and Japan,” in Lenard Huff and Scott M. Smith (eds.), Proceedings: 11th Cross Cultural Research Conference, Puerto Rico, December 11-14. Available at http://marketing.byu.edu/htmlpages/ccrs/proceedings05/williams-lwin-tan.doc. (abstract)

Tan, Ban Chong (2004), “Legal Informality and Japan’s “New” Privacy Law,” Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai Negotia, 49 (2), 121-126. Available at http://www.tbs.ubbcluj.ro/studia/articol_13_2_2004.pdf. (abstract)

Non-Academic
Woo, Sharon, Joseph Tan, and Edwin Chong (2009), “The Truth behind the Fiction of Japanese Animation’s Popularity in the U.S.,” Kyoto Journal, (forthcoming).

Tan, Joseph (2007), “Rite of the Steel Phallus,” Kansai Time Out, 361 (March), 34-35. (original manuscript)

Tan, Ban Chong (2004), “Japanese Would Never Profess a Love for Their Country,” Hiragana Times, 213 (July), 22-23.

Tan, Ban Chong (2004), “Why Does Raising the Imperial Flag Cause Such An Uproar,” Hiragana Times, 212 (June), 20-21.

Others
Williams, Jerome D., May O. Lwin, and Ban Chong Tan, “The Influence of Culture in the Development of Corporate Privacy Practices – A Comparison of U.S. and Japanese Website Policies.” (unpublished manuscript｜abstract)

Publication Committee, National University of Singapore of Singapore Japanese Studies 25th Anniversary International Symposium, 2006.

Publication Committee, Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Department of Japanese Studies (Souvenir Magazine), 2006.

Credited, Chris Rowthorn et al. (2003), Lonely Planet Japan 8th Edition. Melbourne: Lonely Planet Publications.

Credited for research assistance, Lwin, May and Jim Aitchison (2002), Clueless in Advertising. Singapore: Addison-Wesley.

TRANSLATION*
[From Chinese]
Xiaohua, Tu, Trans. Ban Chong Tan (2006), “A Japanese Feminist in Occupied Shanghai – Tamura Toshiko and the Magazine Nu Sheng,” Kyoto Journal, 64 (20 November), 93-95. (original manuscript)

CONFERENCE PAPER
Tan, Ban Chong (2004), “Studied Nonobservance and Privacy Legislation in Japan,” paper presented at the Asian Studies Conference Japan, Sophia University, Ichigaya Campus, Tokyo. 19-20 June. (slides)

ASCJ 2004