Dr Thang Leng Leng is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Japanese Studies, also co-Director of the Next Age Institute, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore. She obtained PhD (Anthropology) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and is a socio-cultural anthropologist with research interests in ageing, intergenerational approaches and relationships, family and migration with a focus on Asia, especially Japan and Singapore. She publishes widely in her areas of expertise and specializes in ethnographic and qualitative research approaches. She is co editor-in-chief of the Journal of Intergenerational Relationships (Taylor and Francis, USA) and Vice Chair of the International Consortium for Intergenerational Programmes.