On the occasion of publication of my new book, Contemporarary Japanse
Politics: Institutional Changes and Power Shift (Columbia Univ. Press), I will speak at the Johns Hopki Univ. SAIS on Sept.18, Southern Methodist Univ. on Sept. 23, and UC Berkeley on Sept.24.

The announcements of the events are:

http://www.reischauercenter.org/events/upcoming-events-
registration/

http://blog.smu.edu/towercenter/events/tomohito-shinoda
-japans-political-institutional-changes-and-power-shift
/

http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.h
tml?event_ID=70155&date=2013-09-24&filter=Secondary%20E
vent%20Type&filtersel=830

Best Wishes,