Yusaku Horiuchi (Dartmouth), Saori Katada (USC), & Megumi Naoi (UCSD), “Professionalization Session: Strategies for Teaching Japanese Politics”

U.S. ET: July 20 (Thursday), 8 – 9:15 PM JST: July 21 (Friday), 9 – 10:15 AM Zoom Registration: Link. Goals: As part of our professionalization series, we will discuss strategies to teach about Japan in political science. We will discuss (1) ways to teach about Japan, as a standalone Japanese politics course, as a case […]

Masaru Nishikawa (Tsuda University), “Career Trajectory of Political Scientists’ Publication in the First and Second Language: Japan as an example of internationalization of political science, 1971-2023”

U.S. ET: October 26 (Thursday), 8 – 9 PM JST: October 27 (Friday), 9 – 10 AM Zoom Registration: Link. Paper is available here. Authors: Akira Matsui (Yokohama National University), Masaru Nishikawa (Tsuda University), and Daisuke Sakai (Independent Researcher) Abstract: This paper discusses the “science of science” and bibliometrics, which have made new findings on scientific […]

Patricia Maclachlan (University of Texas at Austin), “Mechanisms of Resistance: Informal Institutional Impediments to Japanese Postal Privatization”

U.S. ET: November 9 (Thursday), 8 – 9 PM JST: November 10 (Friday), 10 – 11 AM Zoom Registration: Link. Paper is available here. Author: Patricia Maclachlan (University of Texas at Austin) Abstract: Nearly two decades after Koizumi Jun’ichirō passed his landmark legislation, the postal privatization process has lost its momentum. Japan Post Mail is in […]

Matthew Morris (University of Nottingham), “Deindustrialisation and Election Outcomes – Evidence from Japan”

U.S. ET: December 7 (Thursday), 8 – 9 PM JST: December 8 (Friday), 10 – 11 AM Zoom Registration: Link Paper is available here. Author: Matthew Morris (University of Nottingham) Abstract: I investigate the impact of deindustrialisation on election outcomes in Japan over 1983-2012 to expand the economic voting literature eastwards. To causally identify the impact […]