This is my old CV left here for nostalgic reasons. :)
My updated CV can be found here.

Department of Japanese Studies, National University of Singapore
Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, AS4 Level 3, 9 Arts Link, Singapore 117570
Tel: (65) 6516 3728; Fax: (65) 6776 1409

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.

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

EMPLOYMENT
07/06 – 06/07 Teaching Assistant / Publication Committee Member, National University of
Singapore, Department of Japanese Studies
10/98 – 09/04 Research Assistant, National University of Singapore Business School.
07/03 – 12/03 Research Assistant, National University of Singapore, Department of Japanese
Studies.
12/01 Research Assistant, National University of Singapore, Department of English
Language.

SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS
08/07 – Research Scholarship (PhD), National University of Singapore.
08/07 – 08/08 President’s Graduate Fellowship, National University of Singapore.
08/03 – 02/06 Research Scholarship (MA), National University of Singapore.
10/04 – 05/05 Japanese Language Program for Researchers and Postgraduate
Students (8-Month Course), The Japan Foundation.
5/01 Hiroshima Internship Program, Hiroshima-Singapore Association.

PUBLICATIONS
Academic and Professional
Tan, Joseph and Ni Zhen (2007), “Rethinking the Media’s Role in the Creation of Nationalist Sentiment: A Discourse Analysis of Chinese and Japanese Newspaper Reporting on the Yasukuni Shrine Issue,” Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, 7 (1), (under review).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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)

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

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

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.

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.

TEACHING
JS2101: Approaches to Japanese Studies, (co-coordinator, 2006/2007, Semester 2)
JS1101E/GEK1002: Introduction to Japanese Studies, (2006/2007, Semesters 1 & 2)
GEK2022: Geisha, Samurai and Yakuza as Self/Other, (2005/2006 & 2006/2007, Semester 1)
JS3222: Japanese Business Management, (2003/2004, Semester 2)
JS2221: Organization of Japanese Business, (2003/2004, Semester 1)