Fieldwork Phase 1
February - April 2007 Tokyo

Fieldwork Phase 2
May- July 2007 Tokyo

Final work and Start of writing up
Tokyo and Manchester, UK

May 2007, Application Abstract, 4th PhD Workshop EAJS (European Association for Japanese Studies), Oxford University, UK topic: Japanese Studies

June 2007 Paper Presentation, 11th ASCJ (Asian Studies Conference Japan) 2007, Tokyo, Japan topic: Asian and Japanese Studies
Panel: ’East Asian Urban Transition – manifold scales of contemporary spatial and cultural transformation’

July 2007 Application Abstract, 8th Annual Association of Pacific Rim Universities, Doctoral Student Conference, Tokyo, Japan, topic: Research in the Pacific Realm

August 2007 Application Abstract, 9th Asian Urbanization Conference, Korea,
topic: Asian Urbanization