I was interviewed by @scmpnews.bsky.social regarding the LDP leadership contest in Japan. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtzY...

Wed., 9/3, 8-9 pm ET: Join next #JPOSS to discuss Jacques Hymans's paper, “Official historical memory discourse and public opinion: The case of Japan’s new banknote designs” with Charles Crabtree, @yoshiono.bsky.social, and @lipscy.bsky.social. Paper and registration: jposs.org/event/hymans...

#OpenAccess from our new issue - Beyond #COVID19 vaccine acceptance: survey evidence from Taiwan - cup.org/4kD6qBy "partisan fights on the vaccination against COVID-19 in Taiwan centred on its brand choice rather than acceptance" - Yun-Yeh Chiang & Jason Kuo

I wrote a piece about Japan's recent upper house election in @eastasiaforum.bsky.social eastasiaforum.org/2025/07/27/j...

Thurs., 6/19, 8-9 pm ET: Join next #JPOSS to discuss Shusuke Ioku's paper, “Weapons of the Weak: Population Mobility and the Construction of the State in Early Modern Japan, with Francisco Garfias @fgarfias.bsky.social, Chiaki Moriguchi, and Amy Catalinac (Chair). Info: jposs.org/event/ioku-0...

The Japan Conference at the Centre for the Study of Global Japan @uoft.bsky.social 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.

#JPOSS is organized by Amy Catalinac, Christina Davis, @sfujihira.bsky.social, @yusakuhoriuchi.bsky.social, Saori Katada, @lipscy.bsky.social, and @profdansmith.bsky.social. Please check out Sangyong Son's website. We look forward to your participation! sangyongson.com

📣 Job opening alert: CSIS Japan Chair is now accepting applications for a Fellow/Senior Fellow and a Research Assistant! More information: careers.csis.org/opportunities

Read "The Institutional Sources of Economic Transformation: Explaining Variation in Energy Transitions," forthcoming in @thejop.bsky.social, co-authored by Faculty Associate @lipscy.bsky.social. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....

I am the co-editor-in-chief of @jjps.bsky.social. We welcome manuscripts from the full range of subfields and methods. We are a @cambridgeup.bsky.social open-access journal (OA is free if you don't have funding to cover it). Please consider submitting your work! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Our article “The Institutional Sources of Economic Transformation: Explaining Variation in Energy Transitions” is now forthcoming from @thejop.bsky.social. Many thanks to so many colleagues for their helpful feedback! #Polisky #ClimateChange www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....

The three campuses of University of Toronto responded completely differently to overnight snowfall.

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

The US-Japan Foundation & leading scholars announced an award for best doctoral dissertation in social sciences on Japan. They hope it will give an early boost to the winner's career and deepen our knowledge.Details here: us-jf.org/en/news/usjf... (Please let folks on your distribution lists know.)

This should be a great event!

We will be hosting a webinar on the Geoeconomics of the Second Trump Presidency on 2/11. Featuring Michael Beeman (USTR under Trump 1.0) and expert comments from Jonathan Miller, @profvekasi.bsky.social, and Yves Tiberghien. Hope you can join us! munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/geoeco...

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

From our new issue - Do pandemics reduce support for democracy? A survey experiment in Myanmar - cup.org/4hirqw9 - Swe Oo Mon & Kyohei Yamada #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, only received 93.2%. Who are the dissenters and why are they still allowed to vote? news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/a9a...

Question for authors: I received notice from Cambridge UP about an option to allow my book Petro-Aggression for AI training, with remuneration. Strikes me as a collective action problem: if I decline but every other author accepts, have I only harmed myself? Thoughts?

A Toronto driver was so unhappy with a speed camera that they hacked it off, dragged it through a park, and dumped it into a duck pond www.blogto.com/city/2025/01...

U.S. new year’s TV programming: pop music. Japanese new year’s TV programming: pop music. Canadian new year’s TV programming: “Would you rather have a first date where you are smelly or your date is smelly?”

In Memoriam Takashi Inoguchi (1944-2024) - cup.org/3W2suMj

A two-year, pre-to-postdoc position (politics of Asian Americans) at @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social. Please share it with anyone who may be interested in this position. apply.interfolio.com/160584

Thriiled that Japan’s Quiet Leadership is among Foreign Affairs’ best books of 2024! Thank you for rhis distinction! www.foreignaffairs.com/lists/%5Bobj...

My university sends me “Cyber Security Awareness Training” messages, where the invitation email links to a non-university, sketchy sounding third-party website to conduct “phishing training.” Ignored it forever only to find out that it is apparently legitimate. 🤔

Where not #OpenAccess, the articles in our 2023 volume are free to read until the end of 2024 - cup.org/3B9ZrPF Papers by @ndmlees.bsky.social, @chongjaian.bsky.social@lipscy.bsky.social, @mestevez.bsky.social & more

A video recording of our recent event on Japan-South Korea relations is now available. Featuring Jennifer Lind (@proflind.bsky.social) and Andrew Yeo. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCIa...

I've seen so many great starter packs, but I've yet to encounter one on int'l organizations and cooperation. So, I made one. It is no doubt incomplete, but I hope you find it helpful nonetheless. Feel free to circulate and, if you have suggestions on who to add, send them my way! go.bsky.app/RbHqH38

I didn't realize that if you click on "see more dates" on Google Maps street view, you can see how the same location has changed over time. Here’s the Bloor & Bathurst intersection in Toronto in 2009 and 2024.

Please join us this Friday for a Zoom webinar event on the future of Japan-Korea relations, featuring Andrew Yeo (Brookings) and Jennifer Lind (Dartmouth). Should be an interesting conversation in light of the recent U.S. election! munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/japan-...

IR Question of the Week: What is the "Second Image Reversed" and what does it have to do with Trump's reelection? A short 🧵

I just gained 1000+ followers overnight for no apparent reason. Can someone fill me in on what might be going on?

PSA: Some academics use HTTP rather than HTTPS for their personal websites. Some popular browsers now block HTTP websites with scary-sounding security warnings. Files from the website also get auto-blocked, often without any explanation. I was in this boat not long ago and it’s worth fixing!

I am quoted in this great article by Motoko Rich @nytimes.com on Ishiba's new minority government: www.nytimes.com/2024/11/11/w...

I created a starter pack of faculty members / researchers at the University of Toronto from across academic disciplines, faculties, and campuses. I tried to find as many as I could. Please let me know which additional colleagues to add. go.bsky.app/GjLWXGA #UofT

I am part of this CBC News explainer of the recent Japanese election. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCXF...

Where not #OpenAccess, the articles in our March 2023 issue are free to read until the end of 2024 - cup.org/4fHzRAv With papers by @lipscy.bsky.social, @mestevez.bsky.social & more #jjps

It was a great pleasure to host Ambassador Kanji Yamanouchi for a thoughtful and wide-ranging discussion of the future of Canada-Japan relations. We will post a recording of the excellent talk in the near future.

We are very much looking forward to hosting Ambassador Kanji Yamanouchi on October 8 for a talk at the Centre for the Study of Global Japan on "A New Chapter in Canada-Japan Relations." Hope to see you there! munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/new-ch...

I offered my airplane seat to an old couple so they could sit together, and they thanked me with this little package with a coin inside.

This should be a great opportunity for early-career researchers and journalists: www.ssrc.org/programs/abe...

According to the IMF, the implied purchasing power parity exchange rate is now 91 yen/US$ (by this measure the yen appreciated ~10% over the last 5 years due to higher inflation in the US). The actual rate is 150. No wonder everything seems ridiculously cheap in Japan right now!

I received a question about how #OpenAccess works for authors w/o funding support. @jjps.bsky.social will operate based on full no-question fee waivers, i.e. if you declare you don't have institutional/grant funding that covers open access, your article will receive open access for free. #polisky

We are very excited to announce that the Japanese Journal of Political Science will shift to full #OpenAccess for all articles accepted for publication after October 4. We look forward to your manuscript submissions. #polisky

We are pleased to publish the 2024 Annual Newsletter of the Centre for the Study of Global Japan at University of Toronto. Read about our many activities and initiatives as well as reflections from our faculty and student affiliates! munkschool.utoronto.ca/media/6298/d...

The Japanese text: "This lavender sachet we previously placed in your room is now enclosed in a bag for you. Please enjoy the scent, and feel free to take it home with you." The English translation: "This is not a bath salts. Do not put it in your bath."

Very excited to welcome Ambassador Rust Deming as a senior fellow and associate of the Center for the Study of Global Japan at the University of Toronto. You can read about his distinguished career as a US diplomat here: munkschool.utoronto.ca/person/rust-...

There is a lot of constrution going on in Toronto 😮

Japanese TV show is puzzled by the long cloth many hotels place across the end of their beds. Explanation: in Western culture, people wear shoes in bed, and this keeps the bedding clean. I also had no idea that's what it was for! news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/1ea...