In Memoriam - Takashi Inoguchi (1944-2024) - cup.org/4gAZ8Nh #jjps

The Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame just elected Ichiro, but he only received 92.6% support. When he was eligible, Sadaharu Oh, the world leader with 868 homeruns, received 93.2%. Who are the dissenters and why are they still allowed to vote? news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/a9ad9…

From our new issue - How can we accept ‘our’ decisions?: an experimental study on lottocracy, epistocracy, and electoral democracy - cup.org/42iOEhz - Akito Yamaguchi (Kyushu University), Masaki Hata (The University of Osaka) & Akira Inoue (UTokyo | 東京大学) #jjps

We are very excited to welcome Kay Shimizu to the Centre for the Study of Global Japan Munk School on 2/6 to talk about her recent book, "The Digital Transformation and Japan's Political Economy" (co-authored with Ulrike Schaede). We hope you can join us! munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/digital-…

We will be hosting a webinar on the Geoeconomics of the Second Trump Presidency. Featuring Michael Beeman (USTR under Trump 1.0) and expert comments from Jonathan Miller, Kristin Vekasi, and Yves Tiberghien. Hope you can join us! Centre for the Study of Global Japan Munk School munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/geoecono…

Our webinar event on the Geoeconomics of the Second Trump Presidency is coming up tomorrow. Hope to see you there!

Thurs., 2/27, 8-9 pm ET: Join #JPOSS to discuss Masanori Kikuchi's paper, “Legacies of Atomic Bombings on Foreign Policy Attitudes in Japan” with James D. Kim, Atsushi Yamagishi, and Saori Katada. Registration: jposs.org/event/kikuchi-…

Our article “The Institutional Sources of Economic Transformation: Explaining Variation in Energy Transitions” is now forthcoming from Journal of Politics @[email protected]. Many thanks to so many colleagues for their helpful feedback! journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.10…

Earlier this year, the 7th cohort of the U.S.-Japan Network for the Future completed a successful DC Policy Week. Members gained insights from around the Washington policymaking ecosystem. We look forward to coming together in June to explore the policy landscape in Japan!

Happy (that’s putting it mildly) to announce my new book, Dominance Through Division: Group-Based Clientelism in Japan. Publication date: today! If you are interested in: cambridge.org/core/books/dom…

I am the co-editor-in-chief of jjps_eds. We welcome manuscripts from across the full range of subfields and methods. We are a Cambridge University Press - Politics open-access journal (OA is free if you don't have funding to cover it). Please consider submitting your work! cambridge.org/core/journals/…

We are delighted to welcome Hideki Makihara, a longtime member of the Japanese Diet and former Minister of Justice, for a talk at Centre for the Study of Global Japan Munk School. Please join us if you will be in Toronto on 3/19! munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/changing…

#OpenAccess - The restraint effect of alliances on military responses during crises - cup.org/4hvMajM "This study investigates the de-escalatory influence of alliances ... on state behaviour during international crises" - Won-June Hwang #FirstView

The Japanese Journal of Political Science is peer-reviewed journal that publishes original theoretical and empirically tested political science research. We welcome manuscripts from the full range of subfields and methods - cup.org/4ihAFNS #OpenAccess from 2025.

We welcome manuscripts from the full range of subfields and methods. Find out how to submit you paper to JJPS here - cup.org/3DqLCh8 #OpenAccess

Prof. Phillip Lipscy, I’m always impressed by your deep insights into Canadian domestic affairs and international relations. I look forward to seeing you again soon at Centre for the Study of Global Japan. – Amb. Kanji Yamanouchi

This is a reminder that APSA travel grant applications are due May 30th! Now is the time to apply.

#OpenAccess from our latest issue - Norm contestation and framing strategies: the home rule movements in Taiwan and Korea during Japan’s colonial era - cup.org/4k8UZBw - Christina Lai #jjps

The Japan Conference at the Centre for the Study of Global Japan Munk School was a great success. It was wonderful to see exciting work from the next generation of Japan scholars and exchange views on the future of Japan studies.

I wrote a piece about Japan's recent upper house election in East Asia Forum eastasiaforum.org/2025/07/27/jap…