Our article, “The Institutional Sources of Economic Transformation” is now available from @thejop.bsky.social. Many thanks to Bob Keohane, the Balzan Foundation, and many colleagues for their feedback!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
05.12.2025 15:56 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Erik Wang (New York University), “Too Much But Never Enough: Administrative Capacity and Backlashes to State-building in Medieval Japan” – JPOSS
Tomorrow, 8-9 pm ET: Join us for #JPOSS #57 to discuss Erik Wang's @erik-h-wang.bsky.social paper, “Too Much But Never Enough: Administrative Capacity and Backlashes to State-building in Medieval Japan,” w/ Emily Sellars, Jun Yamasaki, & Christina Davis. Paper & registration: shorturl.at/HQsg1
12.11.2025 13:34 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 1
congratulations to Dr. Lawther for successfully defending his dissertation today. very happy to have supervised this excellent work
31.10.2025 21:29 — 👍 64 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Japan's New Prime Minister Takaichi: What Can We Expect?
Tuesday, 11/4, 8-9PM ET: Join Director Christina Davis and our Faculty Associates Amy Catalinac, Saori Katada, @adampliff.bsky.social, @lipscy.bsky.social, @profdansmith.bsky.social online to discuss "Japan's Prime Minister Takaichi: What Can We Expect?"
munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/japans...
30.10.2025 12:51 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Logo of the Japanese Journal of Political Science (JJPS) featuring stylized text "JJPS" in pale grey on a dark green background, with the phrase "Submit your paper" below it in smaller font. Two dots, one large and one small, are positioned near the top.
You can find out how to prepare your materials for submission to the Japanese Journal of Political Science, the publication process, and more here -
cup.org/4lzndHq
#OpenAccess #jjps
19.10.2025 14:30 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Event Report: Japan Conference: University of Toronto 2025
Japan conference 2025, university of toronto
We have posted an event report for the Japan Conference hosted at the Centre for the Study of Global Japan ealier this year. Thanks to all the participants for a great conference!
munkschool.utoronto.ca/csgj/news/ev...
16.10.2025 13:44 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Japan, ostensibly one of the least religious countries in the world, had its political order upended by the lay Buddhist organization Soka Gakkai. That is THE story about Friday's epochal shift in Japanese politics (thread follows):
10.10.2025 18:55 — 👍 174 🔁 65 💬 5 📌 16
Tensions between the LDP and Komeito have been building over recent years, but Japan's ruling coalition has hit a crucial stage. The combo of Takaichi at the helm, plummeting election results for Komeito, a Soka Gakkai base that's facing its own existential crises after Ikeda Daisaku...a new era.
09.10.2025 12:58 — 👍 13 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
YouTube video by South China Morning Post
Who will be Japan’s next prime minister?
I was interviewed by @scmpnews.bsky.social regarding the LDP leadership contest in Japan.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtzY...
02.10.2025 20:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Jacques Hymans (University of Southern California), “Official historical memory discourse and public opinion: The case of Japan’s new banknote designs” – JPOSS
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...
29.08.2025 14:55 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1
JJPS abstract discussing the partisan fights over COVID-19 vaccination in Taiwan and the impact on vaccine choice, highlighting findings from a 2022 survey of Taiwanese respondents.
#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
18.08.2025 11:00 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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...
03.06.2025 20:23 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1
Sangyong Son
#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
16.05.2025 20:48 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Congratulations!
26.03.2025 23:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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....
18.03.2025 15:29 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Japanese Journal of Political Science | Cambridge Core
Japanese Journal of Political Science - Professor Rieko Kage, Professor Shuhei Kurizaki, Professor Phillip Lipscy
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...
08.03.2025 16:11 — 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Congratulations, that is so well deserved!
07.03.2025 15:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Article title and abstract
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....
26.02.2025 19:19 — 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
About a 40 minute drive within the city
13.02.2025 13:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The three campuses of University of Toronto responded completely differently to overnight snowfall.
13.02.2025 13:13 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Our webinar event on the Geoeconomics of the Second Trump Presidency is coming up tomorrow. Hope to see you there!
10.02.2025 19:01 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
USJF announces new dissertation award
USJF announces new dissertation award
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.)
05.02.2025 12:22 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
This should be a great event!
04.02.2025 14:06 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The Geoeconomics of the Second Trump Presidency
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...
04.02.2025 02:24 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 2
The Digital Transformation and Japan's Political Economy
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...
01.02.2025 15:29 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Japanese Journal of Political Science Swe Oo Mon and Kyohei Yamada abstract graphic
From our new issue -
Do pandemics reduce support for democracy? A survey experiment in Myanmar - cup.org/4hirqw9
- Swe Oo Mon & Kyohei Yamada
#jjps
17.01.2025 12:33 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
イチロー氏が殿堂入り！有資格1年目では史上7人目「何とか日本野球の力になりたい」岩瀬仁紀ら4名が選ばれる、王貞治氏も祝福（TBS NEWS DIG Powered by JNN） - Yahoo!ニュース
野球殿堂博物館は16日、「2025年野球殿堂入り通知式」を開催し、計4名の殿堂入りを発表した。プレーヤー表彰でプロ野球・オリックスや大リーグ・マリナーズなどで活躍したイチロー氏（51、マリナーズ会長
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...
16.01.2025 13:46 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I profess history in the strange land of Wisconsin. I was born and raised, and spent most of my life in greater San Diego (the part adjacent to the border and then Chula Vista), with time away at school in Santa Barbara, and six years in Tokyo.
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History PhD Candidate, UW-Madison. Former visiting research fellow, Waseda University. Writing a PhD dissertation on Pan-Asianism and Indo-Japanese connections from 1900 to the late 1950s. 🏳️🌈
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Professor of Political Science, University of Copenhagen. Research interests: European and Nordic Politics, Political Economy. Collector of modern ceramics, Faroese paintings and Christine Swane paintings. Lifelong fan of Bob Dylan and modernist poetry.
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Policy, Elections, And Representation Lab (PEARL) at the University of Toronto. Director: Eric Merkley.
Japan Chair is a leading source of analytic insight and policy-relevant research on Japan, the U.S.-Japan alliance, and Japan’s leadership on the global stage.
UC Berkeley Professor, author of Marketcraft: How Governments Make Markets Work.
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