Global Japan Research Seminar:
"Japanese Studies in the United States: Past and Present"
by Professor Steven K. Vogel (University of California, Berkeley)

Date: July 25, 2025, 12:15p.m.-1:15p.m. [JST]
Venue: Online (Zoom Webinar)
Language: English

Abstract:
Steven Vogel will offer a brief overview of trends in Japanese studies in the social sciences in the United States, with particular attention to political science. Which disciplines have been more or less prone to hiring Japan specialists? And how has that mix shifted over time? How has the Japanese case shaped broader debates in the disciplines? And how have the animating intellectual puzzles evolved? Vogel will address these questions and more.

Dr. Steven K. Vogel is the Il Han New Professor of Asian Studies and Professor of Political Science and Political Economy at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a specialist on political economy of the advanced industrialized nations, especially Japan. He is the author of Freer Markets, More Rules: Regulatory Reform in Advanced Industrial Countries (Cornell University Press, 1996), which won the Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize, and Marketcraft: How Governments Make Markets Work　(Oxford University Press, 2018).

Registration:
https://glif.ga.a.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/sp/2025-0617.html

This seminar is organized by:
Global Japan Research Lab
GLIF- Global x Local Inclusive Future Society
Endowed Research Unit on Inclusive Global Future Society (GLIF)
The University of Tokyo