Next Monday, Nov. 17, 12-1 pm: Join us to discuss Fumiya Uchikoshi's @ufsoc.bsky.social research, "Navigating Uncertainty: Gendered Aspiration, Meritocracy, and Imagined Futures in Japanese Selective College Admission," moderated by Xiang Zhou. In-person & online: shorturl.at/IIVmI

My talk at the Harvard US-Japan program next month! Navigating Uncertainty: Gendered Aspiration, Meritocracy, and Imagined Futures in Japanese Selective College Admission | Weatherhead us-japan.wcfia.harvard.edu/event/naviga...

I hadn’t really thought about a book project before, but the current intellectual environment changed my mind. I just completed a proposal and have started sending it to potential discussants. It still feels so unreal.

Sometimes your co-authors are more critical than reviewers (in a good sense)

Excited to be visiting Vancouver tomorrow! I’ll be sharing my book project ideas at the UBC Japan Centre Seminar Series sppga.ubc.ca/events/event...

Meet the 2025–2026 Academy Scholars! Most will be working on transforming their dissertation into a book manuscript or series of articles, while some will be embarking on new writing. Learn more about them and The Harvard Academy at: https://loom.ly/jgRd-yA

The Harvard Academy is now accepting applications for next year’s Academy Scholars Program. The deadline is September 19. Please consider applying! academy.wcfia.harvard.edu/programs/aca...

It was such an honor to organize two sessions on Asia at ASA 2025 (Demography and inequality in East Asia and Inequality and diversity among Asian Americans). I was especially pleased that both sessions were very well attended!

Submitted my first job application of the year. Ah yes, I'm officially on the job market...

Thrilled to share that my paper on nonmarital childbearing and family structure among Asian Americans, co-authored with Airan Liu, has been conditionally accepted at RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

This paper, published in Research in Higher Education, examines how gendered expectations and stereotypes contribute to persistent gender disparities in selective college applications in Japan. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I'm joining the World Elite Database, a cross-national comparison of economic elites, as a Japan team cordinator!

Paper acceptance from Journal of Asian Studies and Research in Higher Education!

New on Epicenter: On the first day he noticed so few women at his university. Fumiya Uchikoshi set out on a scholarly pursuit to find out why. Read about his investigation of the gender gap at elite Japanese universities. loom.ly/Nq0I5Uo @ufsoc.bsky.social

Epicenter (Harvard Weatherhead Center's online magazine) features my ongoing work on gender gap in selective college attendance in Japan. Many thanks to Michelle Nicholasen for making this happen and Jessica Barnard for interviewing me epicenter.wcfia.harvard.edu/news/2025/04...

I'm presenting my working paper on the role of college education in social origin homogamy at RC28 UCLA!

Looking forward to PAA! My team and I are presenting five papers in total, covering a range of topics on family demography and social stratification including low fertility in East Asia, married women's employment in Japan, and social origin homogamy in the US.

My East Asia low fertility paper has been accepted to ASA Asia/Asian American section session!

got two R&Rs from the same journal lol

I have published two papers this month. For the paper published in CSR, we discussed the policy mismatch in low-fertility Asia (South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and Singapore) and estimated the increasingly salient role of marriage formation in declining fertility www.tandfonline.com/eprint/FQ44S...

Paper just accepted at Chinese Sociological Review, which is titled "The Increasing Importance of Changes in Nuptiality: Policy Mismatch and Fertility Decline in Low-Fertility Asian Societies." I was fortunate to be working with two amazing collaborators, Jolene Tan (Princeton) and Qi Cui (LSE)

Fellow sociologists working on Asia, please nominate your book (or your colleague's) for the ASA Section on Asia and Asian America Asia/Transnational Book Award. I am one of the committee members. The deadline for submissions is March 31, 2025. www.asanet.org/communities-...

Next week I'm visiting the University of Pittsburgh to share my work at the workshop on reproductive crisis in East Asia. While most events are closed, the keynote presentation by Prof Anne Allison is open to the public. www.ucis.pitt.edu/asc/events/%...

Postdoctoral Fellowship at Harvard supported by Japan Foundation academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/14755

got an R&R from a higher ed journal

An extra session request was approved. A huge win (I believe) for East Asian sociologists.

I am realizing that ASA portal UI remains so ancient

Excited to present papers on college education & origin homogamy, occupational licensing & women's employment, the perceived cost of education & family intentions, the relationship btw marriage & fertility desires, and the role of marriage in low fertility in East Asia, all at PAA oral sessions!

just happened to find this job posting. Full prof/associate prof with tenure. Social scientist working on global Japan/Asia. Due by April 16. So, anyone who wants to escape from US... www.waseda.jp/fire/gsaps/n...

For those who are working on Asians (broadly defined) and/or Asian Americans, please consider submitting your work to "Asians and Asian Americans and Society" which I'm organizing at ASA 2025. The deadline for paper submission is February 26! www.asanet.org/2025-annual-...

I am excited to visit Brown University next week to give a talk at PSTC! pstc.brown.edu/events/pstc-...

I'm giving a talk at Harvard pop center tomorrow at 3pm. The talk is based on the same paper I presented at HKU but with updated results. popcenter.harvard.edu/calendar_eve...

Just had a paper accepted at RSSM: Consequences of expanded vocationally oriented programs for gender segregation and inequality: The case of Japanese higher education (with Kohei Toyonaga and Erika Teramoto)

For those who are around in HK and interested, I am giving a talk at HKU Demography Hub on January 7. The title of my talk is “Revisiting the Relationship between Marriage and Childbearing in Low-Fertility East Asia." Looking forward to catching up with friends in HK web.socsc.hku.hk/event/rhps-e...

I am visiting the Institute of Economic Research at Hitotsubashi University this winter. Meanwhile, I will give a talk/lecture at Hiroshima, Doshisha, Keio, Hitotsubashi, and HKU.

I just successfully defended my dissertation yesterday. I was so fortunate to be supported by so many people in and outside of Princeton throughout my PhD. I will be starting my postdoc at Harvard in August.

Weak ties exist, really. A Nobel laureate reached out to me out of the blue (via a suggestion from someone I know), asking questions about the gender gap in selective college attendance in Japan. It is a strange feeling that the name of the person affects my willingness to do free labor quite a lot

Starting next summer, I will be an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, housed at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. I will spend two years there.

Two papers (one on marriage market mismatch and the other on marriage and fertility desires, both in Japan) have been accepted into an oral session #PAA2024. will be chairing a session on assortative mating.

Sex imbalance at Japan's top university is worth worrying about My first op-ed was published in Nikkei Asia. In it, Momoko Nakayama and I discuss how female underrepresentation at the University of Tokyo is socially conditioned. asia.nikkei.com/Opinion/Sex-...

RSF Journal of the Social Sciences Request for Articles - Asians in America Beyond Education: Career Choices, Trajectories, and Mobility Strategies www.russellsage.org/request-arti...

Invited for a flyout, so excited for giving job talks

Today I turned 33 and had my first online job interview, which sounds like a major accomplishment to someone like me who is on the job market