Academic Manuscript Workshops:
Academic Year 2025-2026
“Contemporary Japanese Politics and Society” Manuscript Workshop
In February 2026, 21JPSI Director Adam Liff and 21JPSI Faculty Affiliate Hilary Holbrow will convene an in-person manuscript workshop organized around the theme of “Migration in Contemporary Japan.” A multidisciplinary group of Japan- and U.S.-based social scientists with expertise on contemporary Japanese politics and society will gather to present, discuss, and receive critical feedback on their work-in-progress academic manuscripts. (Details TBD.)
“Japan and the World” Manuscript Workshop
In December 2025, 21JPSI Director Adam Liff will convene an in-person manuscript workshop organized around the theme of “Japan and the World.” A group of scholars with expertise on contemporary Japanese foreign policy will gather to present, discuss, and receive critical feedback on their work-in-progress academic manuscripts. (Details TBD.)
Academic Year 2022-2023
“Building an Inclusive Society in Japan” Manuscript Workshop
In February 2023, 21JPSI Director Adam Liff and 21JPSI Faculty Affiliates Hilary Holbrow and Marvin Sterling will convene a virtual manuscript workshop based on the theme of “Building an Inclusive Society in Japan.” A multidisciplinary group of six Japan- and U.S.-based social scientists with expertise on contemporary Japanese politics and society gathered to present, discuss, and receive critical feedback on their (work-in-progress) academic manuscripts. (All paper titles/topics are unofficial placeholders to be updated after the workshop.)
Nicholas Fraser
University of California - Berkeley, Postdoctoral Fellow
Paper Title: “Crafting Procedural Hurdles: How Bureaucratic Norms Contribute to Immigration Policy Legacies”
Indiana University, Ph.D. Candidate
Paper Title: “The African-American Experience of Intersectional Difference in Japan”
Indiana University, Assistant Professor
Paper Title: “(Invisible) Inequalities: Gender and Ethnic Stratification in Elite Japanese Firms”
Sophia University, Professor
Paper Title: “Public Support for Women’s Representation and Gender Quotas: An Experimental Analysis of the Principle-Policy Paradox”
Indiana University, Associate Professor
Paper Title: “Mixed-race Identities and the Challenge of Multiculturalism in Contemporary Japan Election”
Keio University, Professor
Paper Title: “Education among Immigrant Children in Japan”
“Japan and the World” Manuscript Workshop
In February 2023, 21JPSI Director Adam Liff will convene a virtual manuscript workshop based on the theme of “Japan and the World.” A group of five Japan- and U.S.-based scholars with expertise on contemporary Japanese foreign policy gathered to present, discuss, and receive critical feedback on their (work-in-progress) academic manuscripts. (All paper titles/topics are unofficial placeholders to be updated after the workshop.)
Waseda University, Professor
Paper Title: “Survival Stories: Japan, Global Status, and COVID-19”
Indiana University, Associate Professor
Paper Title: “A Comparative Analysis of the U.S.-Japan and U.S.-ROK alliances and a Regional (Taiwan) Contingency”
Academic Year 2021-2022
“Demographic Challenges in Contemporary Japan” Manuscript Workshop
In February 2022, 21JPSI Director Adam Liff and 21JPSI Faculty Affiliate Hilary Holbrow convened a virtual manuscript workshop based on the theme of “Demographic Challenges in Contemporary Japan.” A group of five U.S.-based scholars with expertise on contemporary Japanese politics and society gathered to present, discuss, and receive critical feedback on their (work-in-progress) academic manuscripts.
Pomona College, Assistant Professor
Paper Title: “Challenges with Incorporating Advanced Technologies in Care Work for Elderly People in Japan”
Loyola Marymount University, Professor
Paper Title: “Aging and the Politics of Monetary Policy in Japan”
University of Colorado Boulder, Assistant Professor
Paper Title: “Fragile Kinships: Child Welfare and Well-Being in Japan”
York College/CUNY, Associate Professor
Paper Title: “Japan as an 'Emerging Migration State': Litmus Test of a Liberal Democracy?”
Texas Christian University, Associate Professor
Paper Title: “After Reform: Immigration and Japan’s 2019 House of Councilors Election”
“Japan and the World” Manuscript Workshop
In December 2021, 21JPSI Director Adam Liff convened a virtual manuscript workshop based on the theme of “Japan and the World.” A group of six American and Japanese scholars with expertise on contemporary Japanese foreign and national security policy gathered to present, discuss, and receive critical feedback on their (work-in-progress) academic manuscripts.
Hitotsubashi University, Associate Professor
Paper Title: “Chinese Influence Operations through the Internet in Japan”
Indiana University, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Associate Professor of East Asian International Relations
Paper Title: “The U.S.-Japan Alliance and Taiwan”
Colby College, Visiting Assistant Professor
Paper Title: “The Politics of Justification in Japan’s Security Technology Strategies”
Prof. Satoru Mori
Hosei University, Professor
Paper Title: “The Indo-Pacific and the U.S.-Japan Alliance”
Prof. Andrew Oros
Washington College, Professor
Paper Title: “The Leading Edge: America’s Aging Allies in Northeast Asia”
University of Washington, Professor
Paper Title: “Space and the U.S.-Japan Alliance”
“Gender, Ethnicity, and Immigration in Contemporary Japan” Manuscript Workshop
In September 2021, 21JPSI Director Adam Liff and Faculty Affiliate Hilary Holbrow convened a virtual manuscript workshop based on the theme of “Gender, Ethnicity, and Immigration in Contemporary Japan. A multidisciplinary group of six American and Japanese scholars with expertise on contemporary Japan gathered to present, discuss, and receive critical feedback on their (work-in-progress) academic manuscripts.
Yuko Hara
University of Maryland, College Park, Department of Sociology, Doctoral Candidate
Paper Title: “Family Responsibilities and Work Attitudes of Japanese Adults Over the Life Course”
Indiana University, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Assistant Professor of Japanese Politics and Society
Paper Title: “Champions, Gatekeepers, or Icons? Women’s Managerial Representation and Gender (In)Equality in Four Japanese Firms”
Cornell University, East Asia Program, Assistant Professor of International and Comparative Labor
Paper Title: “Bifurcated Incorporation and Social Mobility in Japan”
Prof. Yoshiaki Kubo
University of the Ryukyus, Department of Law, Politics, and International Relations, Associate Professor
Paper Title: “Scientific Border Controls Reduce Xenophobia under the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment in Japan”
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, School of Labor and Employment Relations, Assistant Professor
Paper Title: “Lifetime Advantage at the Top? The Norm of Lifetime Employment and CEO Succession in Japan”
Princeton University, Department of Sociology and Office of Population Research, Ph.D. Candidate
Paper Title: “Gender Differences in Risk Taking in College Applications: Institutional Origins of Female Underrepresentation in Selective Colleges in Japan”
Academic Year 2020-2021
"Race and Multiculturalism in Contemporary Japan" Manuscript Workshop
In January 2021, 21JPSI convened an interdisciplinary group of six American and Japanese scholars on contemporary Japan to present, discuss, and receive critical feedback on their work-in-progress academic manuscripts. Owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, the workshop was held virtually via Zoom.
J. F. Oberlin University, Professor of Political Science and International Relations
Paper Title: “Migrant Domestic Workers: Immigration Policies Exacerbating Gender Inequality in Japan and South Korea”
Prof. Mitzi Uehara Carter
Florida International University, Assistant Teaching Professor of Anthropology and East Asian Studies; Director of the Global Indigenous Forum
Paper Title: “Chuuto-Hanpa and Barbed Wire Kinks: Black Okinawan Racialization in Militarized Spaces”
Princeton University, Department of East Asian Studies, PhD Candidate
Paper Title: “Not Just a Trend: Digital Activism, Black Lives Matter, and Black Japanese (Counter)Narratives in Contemporary Japan”
University of California Los Angeles, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, PhD Candidate
Paper Title: “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child: Yassa Mossa and the Impossibility of Black Japanese-ness”
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of African American & African Studies; Asian American Studies Program, core faculty member
Paper Title: “Toward a Political Theory of Deoccupation”
Indiana University, Department of Anthropology, Associate Professor
Paper Title: “Neoliberal Intimacies, Global Blackness, and the ‘Kokujin-Hafu’ Experience: Toward an Anthropology of Contemporary Afro-Asia”
2nd Annual "Japan and the World" Academic Manuscript Workshop
In December 2020, 21JPSI convened six American and Japanese experts on Japanese foreign policy to present, discuss, and receive critical feedback on their work-in-progress academic manuscripts. Owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, the workshop was held virtually via Zoom.
Hosei University, Professor of International Politics and China Studies
Paper Title: “The Origin of Japan-US-Taiwan Security Relations; Lee Teng-hui’s Legacy and Japan’s Security Policy in the Taiwan Strait”
Prof. Yinan He
Lehigh University, Professor of International Relations
Paper Title: “The Japan Differential? Sino-Japanese Relations Since the Trump Era”
Indiana University, Associate Professor of East Asian International Relations
Paper Title: “Japan, Taiwan, and the “One China” Framework at 50 (1972-2022)”
University of Toronto, Associate Professor of Political Science
Paper Title: “Japan Transformed? The Foreign Policy Legacy of the Abe Government”
University of Tokyo, Professor of International Politics
Paper Title: “Prospects of Japan’s China Policy in a Post-Abe Administration Era”
Ms. Ayumi Teraoka
Princeton University, Ph.D. Candidate
Paper Title: “The ‘Taiwan Clause’ and the U.S.-Japan-China Triangle: Lessons for U.S.-Japan Alliance Management Today”
Academic Year 2019-2020
Inaugural "Japan and the World" Academic Manuscript Workshop
21JPSI convened four leading experts on Japanese foreign policy to present, discuss, and receive critical feedback on their work-in-progress manuscripts.
Prof. Mary Alice Haddad
Professor of Government, East Asian Studies, and Environmental Studies, Wesleyan University
Paper Title: “Japan’s Urban Diplomacy: Enhancing and Expanding 21st Century Foreign Policy”
Vincent de Paul Professor, DePaul University
Paper Title: “Japan’s Health and Medicine Diplomacy: Case Studies in New Drug Discovery for the Developing World”
Associate Professor of Political Science, Director of the Sun & Star Program on Japan and East Asia in the Tower Center, Southern Methodist University
Paper Title: “China as Number One? Lessons from Japan’s Experience for China’s Foreign Direct Investment”
Assistant Professor, School of Policy and International Affairs, Department of Political Science, University of Maine
Paper Title: “Political Cooperation and Conflict in Japan’s Trade Agreements”