Japan Zoominar @ UC San Diego: "New Constellations? Elections in Japan, Germany, and the U.S." with Kenneth Mori McElwain and Axel Klein, moderated by Ulrike Schaede
Wednesday, November 3, 2021, 8:30am-9:30am JST / Tuesday, November 2, 2021, 4:30pm-5:30pm Pacific

As Japan tallies the votes, Germany searches for a Chancellor, and the U.S. anticipates local election outcomes, a shift in local and global political constellations is palpable. Legislative power balances are uncertain, and the center of political gravity may be moving into new directions. Japan may well change course as well, with the more moderate PM Kishida at the helm of the LDP. We will discuss the outcome of the 10/31 election in Japan, in the context of these other shifts. What will it mean for Japan, and for geopolitics?
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Kenneth Mori McElwain is Professor of Comparative Politics at the Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo. His research focuses on comparative political institutions, most recently on differences in constitutional design across countries. He also serves as Editor-in-Chief of Social Science Japan Journal, published by Oxford University Press, and is a board member of the UTokyo Center for Contemporary Japanese Studies.

Axel Klein, PhD is a full professor of Modern East Asian Studies and Japanese Politics at Duisburg-Essen University (Germany). He is a political scientist focusing on election campaigning, populism, and the relationship of politics and organized religion in Japan. Among others, he has produced a documentary film on Japanese elections ("Pictures at an Election", 2008, available on Youtube) and is an expert on the political party Kōmeitō.

Ulrike Schaede is Professor of Japanese Business at GPS, UC San Diego, and the Director of JFIT. Her 2020 book "The Business Reinvention of Japan" analyzes how Japanese companies are responding to the rise of China and the changing global competition, and recently won two prestigious awards: the 2020 Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize and a silver medal in the Axiom Business Book Awards 2021, "Economics" category.

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