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Japanese MA Theses

2020s

Yuika Inami (Prof. Mineharu Nakayama) 2025
On the Usage of Japanese Slang Nau

Risa Kageyama  (Professor Etsuyo Yuasa) 2024
Grammar Instruction of the Connective Shi in Japanese

Derek Reiman (Professor Etsuyo Yuasa) 2024
A Proposal for Performance-based Pedagogy Workshops Targeting Volunteer Language Instructors in Japan

Craigo, Christopher   (Prof. Charles Quinn) 2023
Making a Shore-Fire Success: The Art of Game Localization in the Global Age.

Mitsuhashi, Keitaro   (Prof. Mineharu Nakayama) 2023
Acquisition of the Resultative Use of V-te iru by L2 Learners of Japanese -Using a Refined Truth-Value Judgment Task-.

Steinhauer, Matthew   (Prof. Mari Noda) 2022
Immersive Virtual Experiences in Foreign Language Learning: The Potential of VR in Understanding Japanese Onomatopoeia.

Wakita, Saori   (Prof. Mineharu Nakayama) 2022
Orthographic Influence in Processing Katakana and Kanji Nouns in Japanese.

Cantrell, Alyssa  (Prof. Yuasa Etsuyo) 2021
Improving the Naturalness of Students' Facial Expressions: Using Zoom as a Tool in Synchronous Online Japanese Classes

2010s

Yusa, Mayuko  (Prof. Mineharu Nakayama) 2018
Acquisition of Japanese Null Arguments by Second Language Learners

Stirek, Lindsey (Prof. Naomi Fukumori) 2017
Adjectives as an Element of Style in the Izumi Shikibu nikki

Lea, Michael (Prof. Charles Quinn) 2013
Indexing Distance and Deference as Performed Culture:  A review module for politeness types introduced in Japanese: The Spoken Language, Part 1

Bryant, William (Prof. Naomi Fukumori) 2012
What Master Masafusa Said: An Analysis of the Content and Rhetoric of the Gōdanshō

Bowman, Frederick (Professor J. Marshall Unger) 2011
 
Yao, Kanako (Prof. Mari Noda) 2011
 
Fuse, Naoki (Prof. Charles Quinn) 2010
 
Ni, Yaohui (Prof. Shelley Quinn) 2010
 
Vorobiev, Artem (Prof. Richard Torrance) 2010
 

2000s 

Ondrake, Laura (Prof. Richard Torrance) 2009
 
Goss, Seth (Prof. Mineharu Nakayama) 2009
 
Masumoto, Ayaka (Prof. Mineharu Nakayama) 2008
 
Curtin, Karen (Prof. Charles Quinn) 2008
 
Oyama, Atsuko (Mari Noda) 2008
 
Shelton, Abigail (Prof. Etsuyo Yuasa) 2007 
 
Huang, Junliang (Prof. William Tyler) 2007 
 
Luft, Stephen (Prof. Mari Noda) 2007 
 
Kern, Chris (Prof. Naomi Fukumori) 2007 
 
Morioka, Hiroko (Prof. Etsuyo Yuasa) 2006
 
Leader-Hastorun, Francesca (Prof. William Tyler) 2006
 
Yu, Ying (Prof. Richard Torrance) 2005
 
Kashiwagi, Akiko (Prof. Mineharu Nakayama) 2003
 
Sisley, Etsuko (Prof. Mari Noda) 2003
 
Inamoto, Masako (Prof. Richard Torrance) 2002
 
Yamamoto, Hiroshi (Prof. Mari Noda) 2002
 
Li, Minggang (Prof. Richard Torrance) 2001
 
Sakurai, Yuki (Prof. Mari Noda) 2001
 
Kato, Michiko (Prof. Mari Noda) 2000
 

1990s 

Hobbs, Ayanna (Prof. Richard Torrance) 1999
 
Kumakura, Akihiko (Prof. Charles Quinn) 1999
 
Nagatomi, Ayumi (Prof. Mari Noda) 1999
 
Matsumura, Misako (Prof. William Tyler) 1998
 
Savas, Minae (Prof. Shelley Quinn) Autumn 1998
 
Angles, Jeffrey (Prof. William Tyler) 1997
 
Filler, Stephen (Prof. Richard Torrance) 1997
 
Onoe, Atsushi (Prof. Mineharu Nakayama) 1997
 
Shibata, Chihaya (Prof. Charles Quinn) 1997
 
Suzuki, Misako (Prof. Charles Quinn) 1997
 
Tangeman, Michael (Prof. William Tyler) 1997
 
Tsujimoto, Yoko (Prof. Charles Quinn) 1997
 
Yip, Shing Chi (Leo) (Prof. Shelley Quinn) 1997
 
Eda, Sanae (Prof. Mari Noda) 1996
 
Itomitsu, Masayuki (Prof. Mari Noda) 1996
 
Omori, Kyoko (Prof. William Tyler) 1996
 
Terashima, Misako (Prof. Mari Noda) 1996
 
Yamaguchi, Asako (Prof. Mari Noda) 1996
 
Arlauckas, Regina (Prof. Mari Noda) 1995
Guidelines for the Evaluation and Development of Computer Delivered Instruction for the Japanese Language
 
Mannion, Patrick (Prof. Richard Torrance) 1995
A Quest for Spiritual Fulfillment by a Modern Japanese Writer/Playwright: Kurata Hyakuzo and Japanese Religion
 
Rice, Martha (Prof. Richard Torrance) 1995
Murakami Haruki: The Problem of Genre
 
Takahashi, Sonoko (Prof. Mineharu Nakayama) 1995
On the Interrogative Marker KA in Japanese
 
Williams, Junko Ikezu (Prof. William Tyler) 1994
Aeroplanes, Bodhisattvas, and Boys: Fragments from the Modernist Prose of Inagaki Taruho
 
Morii, Azusa (Prof. Mineharu Nakayama) 1993
The Acquisition of NI by Japanese Children
 
Wright, Margaret Zollinger (Prof. Richard Torrance) 1993
Nagai Kafu Discovers America
 
Yoon, Kyungah (Prof. Mari Noda) 1993
Japanese and Korean Donatory Verbs: A Functional Analysis for Teaching Japanese to Korean Students
 
Zheng, Guohe (Prof. Shelley Quinn) 1993
Source Material for a Noh Play: Zeami's Theory and Practice
 
Kawabe, Jun (Prof. Mari Noda) 1992
Listener's Role and Conversational Strategies in Japanese Discourse: An Analysis of Repetition
 
Langton, Scott Charles (Prof. Richard Torrance) 1992
The Works of Nakajima Atsushi: War is War and Literature is Literature
 
Okutsu, Yuko (Prof. Yoshiko Matsumoto) 1992
Functions of Yahari/Yappari
 
Sadakane, Kumi Joy (Prof. Mineharu Nakayama) 1992
On the Nature of NI
 
Hitchcock, Lori (Prof. James Morita) 1991
The Works of Akutagawa Ryunosuki: Lectures on Poe and Their Applications
 
Hoshino, Takane (Prof. Mari Noda) 1991
An Analysis of HOSII in Modern Spoken Japanese
 
Inden, Kumiko (Prof. James Morita) 1991
Tanizaki Jun'Ichiro's Search for Mother
 
Kagaya, Shinko (Prof. Shelley Quinn) 1991
The Creation of the Central Image in the Course of a No Performance
 
Koizumi, Masatoshi (Prof. Shigeru Miyagawa) 1991
Syntax of Adjuncts and the Phrase Structure of Japanese
 
Minami, Aiko (Prof. Richard Torrance) 1991
MURO SAISEI The Evolution of a Lyrical Poet
 
Takahashi, Kenji (Prof. Richard Torrance) 1991
The Development of Takahama Kyoshi's Sketch-from-Life Prose
 
Uchida, Yoshiko (Prof. Mineharu Nakayama) 1991
Verbal Noun Constructions in Japanese
 
Horii, Kasumi (Prof. Mineharu Nakayama) 1990
GA/NO Conversion and Japanese Sentence Processing
 
Kawamura, Madoka (Prof. James Morita) 1990
Japanese Influence on American Children's Literature: 1880-1989
 
Ogino, Megumi (Prof. Mineharu Nakayama) 1990
 
Reider, Noriko (Prof. Shelley Quinn) 1990
 

1980s 

Butler, Hiroko (Prof. Shigeru Miyagawa) 1989
 
Kataoka, Yukio (Prof. Charles Quinn) 1989
 
Nishimura-Valentine, Naomi (Prof. Leon Serafim) 1989
 
Okada, Hisami (Prof. Mineharu Nakayama) 1989
 
Ray, Yuko (Prof. Charles Quinn) 1989
 
Tokashiki, Kyoko (Prof. Mineharu Nakayama) 1989
 
Fujita, Naoya (Prof. Shigeru Miyagawa) 1988
 
Fukuda, Akira (Prof. Charles Quinn) 1988
 
Ogawa, Takashi (Prof. Gary Ebersole) 1988
 
Osawa, Yumiko (Prof. Leon Serafim) 1988
 
Takeda, Fumiko (Prof. Gary Ebersole) 1988
Utamakura in the Narrow Road to the Deep North
 
Moore, Sara (Prof. James Morita) 1987
 
Nakamura, Mari (Prof. Shigeru Miyagawa) 1987
 
Nemoto, Naoko (Prof. Shigeru Miyagawa) 1987
 
Oshiro, Tokiko (Prof. Serafim Leon) 1987
 
Scherzer, Caroline (Prof. Yung Hee Kwon) 1987
 
Tanouchi, Aki (Prof. Gary Ebersole) 1987
 
Yoshida, Tomoyuki (Prof. Shigeru Miyagawa) 1986
 
Zenno, Yasushi (Prof. Shigeru Miyagawa) 1985
 
Smith, Akiko (Prof. Miles McElrath) 1984
 
Talcroft, Colin (Prof. James Morita) 1984
 
Kato, Miyoko (Prof. James Morita) 1983
 
Aikawa, Takako (Prof. Shigeru Miyagawa) 1982
 

1970's 

LaCure, Jon (Prof. James Morita) 1977