Ph.D.
Modern Japanese Literature, Comparative Literature (India and Japan), Travel literature, travelogues on India, Folk Culture and Folklore in Japan and India, Literary Translation from Japanese to English
Fifteen years since January 2002
* Awarded Hojo Research Fellowship to visit Japan for fieldwork and material collection from October 20, 2009 to November 18, 2009.
* Awarded Short term Program for Foreign Teachers of the Japanese Language conducted by The Japan Foundation Japanese-Language Institute, Urawa from February1, 2006~March24, 2006.
* First Editor , M.V. Lakshmi, Hideo Hosokawa, P.A. George, Japanese Language Education” A Bridge between Language and culture, Northern Book Centre, 2012
* Co-authored ‘Sakura-Japanese for Class VIII, Textbook,Exercise Book, Teachers’ Manual, Japan Foundation, April 2009.
* Co-authored ‘Momo-Japanese for Class VII, Textbook, Exercise Book, Teachers’ Manual, Japan Foundation ,2008
* Co-authored ‘Ume-Japanese for Class VI’, Textbook, Exercise Book, Teachers’ Manual, Japan Foundation; Goyal Publishers, October 2006.
* “Translating Cultures: Impact of Texts on Learner Perception of a Target Culture”, in M.V.Lakshmi, Hideo Hosokawa, P.A. George (eds) Language Education: A bridge between Language and Culture: Northern Book Centre,Delhi ,2012
* The Home Front: Portrayal of women in sine wartime and postwar short stories in Japan, in Unita Sacchidanand, Fumiko Mizukawa (eds), The Pen and the Sword: War Literature in Asia, published by Indo-Japan Association for Literature and Culture, 2010
* ‘New Religious groups: Their role and significance in modern Korean and Japanese societies’, in Ravikesh Mishra (ed) India and Korea-Perspectives on Language, Literature and Culture, Manak Publications Pvt. Ltd. in association with CJKNEAS and Korea Foundation,Delhi, 2007.ISBN no. 81-7827-001-2