Services to University and International / Professional Community

Departmental Level
As chair: Faculty Information Interface Committee, Research Committee, and Scholarship Committee
As member: Department Executive Committee, Curriculum Committee, Staff Recruitment and Selection Committee, Admission and Registration Committee, Academic Exchange Committee, External Affairs Committee, Library Committee, Staff-Student Consultative Committee, Students' Career Planning and Development Committee, T & LQA Committee, and Teaching Facilitation & Development Committee.

College Level
Department Representative and Coordinator, Shaw College
Member, Shaw College staff table tennis team

Faculty Level
Member, Faculty Information Interface Committee
Member, Research Center for Cross-Cultural Studies
Member, a special workforce to publish a book to introduce the Faculty of Arts to secondary school students
Member, Research Committee in the Research Institute for the Humanities, Faculty of Arts
Academic Supervisor, 2002, to supervise a student in International Studies Program to write a research paper

Community/Professional Service
1. Book reviewer, February 2004, to review a book in Comparative Sociology
2. Book reviewer, January 2004, to review a book in Pacific Affairs
3. External assessor, January 2004, to review the contact renewal of an assistant professor, City University of Hong Kong
4. Academic referee, July 2003, to review research application for Economic and Social Research Council in UK
5. Commentator, May 2003, interviewed by Radio Hong Kong to comment on SARS issues in Japan
6. Guest speaker, on 15 January 2003, gave a public lecture on "reconstruction and recovery of Japan after WW2" for the Education 7. Department of HK as a part of training for secondary school history teachers
8. Reviewer, 2001, to review an article contributed to History: Theory and Criticism
9. External examiner, 2001, to read a MA thesis submitted to the Japanese Studies Department at the National University of Singapore