A variety of researches conducted by the members of MGJ

• Exploring the storytelling and factual genres of Japanese

• Dealing with Suicide in the News: A comparison and contrast of Japanese and Foreign account of group suicide in Japan

• Exploring the Textual Metafunction in Japanese

• Linguistic Exploration of persuasion in Japanese

• Meaning-making Strategies of Persuasion in English and Japanese: Categorisation beyond the Distinction of Genres

• Exploring the features of Japanese persuasive writing in the HSC Japanese Examination

• Evaluation in Japanese media genres

• A study of written administrative Directives in the Japanese and Australian workplace

• Construction and Transmission of Specialized Knowledge:Lexicogrammatical Resources in Japanese and English Science textbooks 

• Using the Genre Approach in the Japanese as a Foreign Language classroom: promoting interculturality

• The Genre Approach in the Japanese as a Foreign/Second Language Classroom