European Japan Advanced Research Network (EJARN)
EJARN Executive Committee Members
Professor Marie Söderberg, Chairperson, Marie.Soderberg@hhs.se
Dr. Axel Berkofsky, Axel.Berkofsky@unipv.it
Professor Christopher Hughes, c.w.hughes@warwick.ac.uk
Dr. Paul Midford, Paul.Midford@svt.ntnu.no
Professor Cornelia Storz, storz@wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de
EJARN Members
Professor Axel Berkofsky
Axel Berkofsky is Professor at Gianni Mazzocchi Fellow University of Pavia, Italy and Senior Associate Research Fellow, Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale (ISPI, Milan, Italy). He is also Co-head of Research of the Research Unit 'Chinese Investments in Europe' at the Turin-based Centre of Advanced Studies on Contemporary China (CASCC).
Dr. Berkofsky has extensively published on Japanese foreign and security policies, China and EU-Asia relations and is a regular contributor to journals, magazines, newspapers and online publications.
He is a member of EJARN executive committee.
E-mail: Axel.Berkofsky@unipv.it
Professor Verena Blechinger-Talcott
Verena Blechinger-Talcott is Chair of Japanese Politics and Political Economy at the Institute of East Asian Affairs, Berlin Free University.
Before joining the faculty of Berlin Free University, she held appointments as assistant professor of government at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY (2003-2004) and as Advanced Research Fellow in the Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University (2002-2003). From 1997-2002, she was a Research Fellow and later Head of the Social Science Section (1999-2002) and Deputy Director (2001-2002) at the German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ), Tokyo. In 2008, she was a Visiting Professor at the Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo.
Her research interests include Japanese politics in comparative perspective, institutional change in Japanese politics, and government-business relations in both domestic politics and international relations. Her current research project focuses on corporate social responsibility and social business in Japan.
The author of many articles and book chapters, her main publications include the monographs Governing Japan. Political System, Reform Processes and International Relations in International Comparison ["Politik in Japan. System, Reformprozesse und Außenpolitik im internationalen Vergleich]", Frankfurt/Main: Campus 2006 (co-editor),
Website: www.fu-berlin.de/e/oas/japanologie/institut/mitarbeiter/professoren/blechinger/index.html
E-mail: vblechin@zedat.fu-berlin.de
Dr. Guibourg Delamotte
Dr. Guibourg Delamotte is Associate Professor at the French Institute for Oriental Studies (Inalco). She is Research Fellow with the Center for Japanese Studies (CEJ, Inalco), Associate Research Fellow at CRCAO (Research Center on East Asian Civilisations) and Asia Centre (Paris). She is also Adjunct Fellow at Temple University Japan. From May to July 2010 she was NIDS Fellow at the National Institute for Defense Studies (Tokyo).
Her book on Japan’s defence policy (La Politique de defense du Japon, Presses universitaires de France, 2010) is her latest publication. It is based on her PhD dissertation (Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, 2007), which received the Shibusawa-Claudel award (2008).
In 2007, she coedited a book with Pr François Godement, Geopolitique de l’Asie (Armand Colin-Sédès). Her publications also include several articles and contributions (to Ramsès, Documentation française’s Asie, The HAPR...).
A French and Australian citizen, she read Law at University Panthéon-Assas (Paris II) and the University of Oxford, and International Relations at the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po). She holds a Masters in Japanese from Inalco.
Website: www.centreasia.org
E-mail: g.delamotte@centreasia.org
Dr. Bert Edström
Dr. Bert Edström is Senior Research Fellow at the Asia Program at Institute for Security and Development Policy (ISDP), Stockholm. His main areas of expertise are Japanese foreign and security policy and Japanese domestic politics. Dr. Edström has a Ph.D. in Japanese Studies from Stockholm University (1988), and a M.S.Sc (1974) and B.A. (1971) from the same university. His dissertation dealt with national role conceptions ascribed to Japan nationally and internationally.
Dr. Edström worked as an administrator and researcher at Stockholm University. With Torbjörn Lodén he initiated the East Asian Area Studies Program at Stockholm University as a served as the first Director of the Program, and a researcher at the Center for Pacific Asia Studies at the same university 1989-2000, serving concurrently as its Director 1989-92. In 2000 he left the university and established a consulting company but continued research part time as a Senior Research Fellow at Göteborg University. Dr. Edström is the author of books on Japan’s foreign policy and has published extensively on Swedish-Japanese relations. His most recent book is “Japan and the Challenge of Human Security: The Founding of a New Policy 1995-2004” (2008). He has also written numerous articles and research reports on security policy issues and modern Japanese history as well as Japanese-Swedish relations.
E-mail: bedstrom@isdp.eu
Dr. Linus Hagström
Linus Hagström is Senior Research Fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs. He is also Research Fellow at the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities and Associate Professor of Political Science at Stockholm University. Hagström is the author of Japan's China Policy: A Relational Power Analysis (London and New York: Routledge, 2005), and a co-editor of North Korea Policy: Japan and the Great Powers (London and New York: Routledge, 2006) and The Other Binary: Why Japan-North Korea Relations Matter (special issue of Pacific Affairs 79, no.3 [2006]) (both with Marie Söderberg). He has published peer-reviewed articles in the European Journal of International Relations, The Pacific Review, the Pacific Affairs, International Journal, Asian Survey, the European Journal of East Asian Studies and the Japanese Journal of Political Science.
Website: http://www.ui.se/mainE.aspx?doc_id=1109
E-mail: linus.hagstrom@ui.se
Professor Glenn Hook
Glenn D. Hook is Chair of Japanese Politics and International Relations, previously Head of Department, and since 1995 Director of the Graduate School of East Asian Studies, the University of Sheffield. He is also the inaugural Director of the National Institute of Japanese Studies launched in 2006 with the University of Leeds as an international Centre of Excellence funded by the British authorities. He has been Visiting Professor or Fellow at Australian National University, University of California, Chuo University, Hiroshima University, Keio University, Meiji University, Peking University, and several times at the University of Tokyo and elsewhere. He has won research grants, fellowships and awards from the British Academy, the Economic and Social Research Council, Japan Foundation, Japanese Ministry of Education, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Leverhulme Foundation, McArthur Foundation, Nuffield Foundation, Toshiba Foundation and others. He has published numerous articles, chapters and books as well as given over two-hundred presentations at learned societies and universities in more than twenty countries on topics relating to Japanese politics, international relations, and security. He has served in a range of other capacities, including President of the British Association for Japanese Studies, assessor for the Nobel Peace Prize, and as a member of the international advisory board of the Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo.
Website:
http://www.wreac.org/component/mtree/WREAC-people/Core-researchers/Hook%2C-Prof-Glenn-D/details.html
E-mail: g.hook@sheffield.ac.uk
Professor Christopher Hughes
Chris Hughes is Professor of International Politics and Japanese Studies in PAIS, as well as a Research Associate at the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation. Previously he was Research Associate at the Institute for Peace Science, Hiroshima University (IPSHU). From 2000-2001 he was Visiting Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo; and in 2006 he held the Asahi Shimbun Visiting Chair of Mass Media and Politics at the Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo. He holds degrees from the universities of Oxford (BA and MA), Rochester (MA), and Sheffield (MA and PhD). He is an honorary Reserach Associate at IPSHU. and has been a Research Associate at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), and Visiting Scholar at the East Asia Institute, The Free University of Berlin. In 2009/2010 he will be the Edwin O. Reischauer Visiting Professor of Japanese Studies at Harvard University. Research scholarships have been received from the Japanese Ministry of Education, the Japan Foundation Endowment Committee, the European Union, British Council, and the British Academy. His research interests include Japanese foreign and security policy; Japanese international political economy; regionalism in East Asia; Japanese radicalism and terrorism; post-Cold War traditional and non-traditional security policy; US-Japan alliance relations; North Korea's external political and economic relations; globalisation and security. He is a member of EJARN executive committee.
Website: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/pais/staff/hughes
Email: c.w.hughes@warwick.ac.uk
Professor Pekka Korhonen
Professor Pekka Korhonen is Professor of World Politics at Jyväskylä University, Finland. He started his studies on Japan in 1986 as a visiting research student at Tokyo University, studying Japanese foreign policy. Since then he has always kept Japan in the centre of his attention, but simultaneously he has tried hard not to become a Japanologist, with which he means a Japan-only researcher. His studies have instead moved in the area of international political economy, world politics, and geopolitics, and methodologically he has specialized on conceptual, rhetorical, and narrative analysis.
During the 1990s he concentrated especially on studying Asian and Pacific integration, which resulted in books Japan and the Pacific Free Trade Area (Routledge 1994) and Japan and Asia Pacific Integration: Pacific Romances 1968-1996 (Routledge 1998). During this decade he has studied mostly the conceptual history of Asia during the past 2500 years, in several languages and cultural areas, Japan included. He has written on the subject in Japanese アジアの西の境 (国際日本文化研究センター、２０００年) and a number of articles in Finnish, Swedish and English. A monograph proceeds slowly, but steadily.
Website: http://users.jyu.fi/~pkonen/index.htm
Email: pkonen@jyu.fi
Dr. Sébastien Lechevalier
Sébastien Lechevalier is an Associate professor at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS, Paris), in charge of the lecture on the Japanese economy (within the Research Center on Contemporary Japan); He is also the founder of Fondation France Japan de l’EHESS (EHESS Paris 日仏財団). He has a Ph.D. of Economics from EHESS, 2003. Lechevalier’s research interests are among others: Increasing heterogeneity of firms and new forms of coordination: An analysis of the evolution of Japanese capitalism; Wage and Productivity Differentials in Japan and Japanese innovation system and emergence of new industries. Major publications include“The diversity of Capitalism and Heterogeneity of Firms – A Case Study of Japan during the Lost Decade”, Evolutionary and Institutional Economic Review 4 (1), Special Issue “The Evolution of Institutions and Organizations”, October 2007; “The Evolution of the Productivity Dispersion of Firms - A reevaluation of its determinants in the case of Japan”, (with K. Ito), Review of World Economics, 2009, Volume 145, Number 3, Forthcoming; “The effect of participation in government consortia on the R&D productivity of firms: A case study of robot technology in Japan”, (with Y. Ikeda & J. Nishimura), Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 2010, Volume 19, Issue 1, Forthcoming.
Website: http://crj.ehess.fr/document.php?id=332
Email: sebastien.lechevalier@ehess.fr
Dr. Paul Midford
Paul Midford is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Norwegian University for Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, directs the NTNU Japan Program, and is Associate Editor for foreign policy and domestic politics submissions at Japan Forum. He previously taught full-time at Kwansei Gakuin University, Lafayette College, and Kanazawa University; he also taught part-time at Hokuriku University. Midford received a Ph.d. in Political Science from Columbia University in 2001. He specializes in Japanese foreign and defense policies, especially toward Asia, and the impact of public opinion and domestic politics on policy. Midford is co-editor with Robert Eldridge of Japanese Public and the War on Terrorism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), and authored Japanese Public Opinion and the War on Terrorism: Implications for Japan’s Security Strategy (EastWest Center Washington, 2006). He has published in International Organization, Security Studies, Pacific Review, Asian Survey, and International Relations of the Asia-Pacific.
He is a member of EJARN executive committee.
Email: Paul.Midford@svt.ntnu.no, Midfordp@yahoo.co.jp
Dr. Richard Nakamura
Richard Nakamura has since the end of 1990’s conducted research on Japanese economy, business and industry, involving primarily longitudinal studies of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) processes in Japan, where productivity and organizational effects have been analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively. In 2005, He defended his Ph.D. thesis titled “Motives, Partner Selection and Productivity Effects of M&As: The Pattern of Japanese Mergers and Acquisitions” at the Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden.
Currently, he is studying the micro (firm-level) effects of the changing foreign direct investment (FDI) patterns in Japan and the Baltic Sea Region, focusing on the increasing Chinese outward direct investments.
Besides his research, he is teaching international business, globalization issues, business ethics, applied organization theories, and research methodology at the Linnaeus School of Business and Economics, Linnaeus University.
Areas of specialisation: International Business studies, Japanese and East Asian industry and business, FDI, Efficiency effects from M&As on production and organization.
Email: Richard.nakamura@lnu.se
Dr. Patricia A. Nelson
Patricia A. Nelson, Senior Research Fellow at EIJS, researches and publishes on institutional change and the logic of inter-organizational institutions, foreign direct investment in high technology sectors, government-business relations, and business history. She was awarded a Ph.D. in international political economy with Susan Strange at the University of Warwick. Subsequently, she was awarded post-doctoral fellowships with Social Science Research Council/ Japan Society for the Promotion of Science at Hitotsubashi University and the Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University, and held appointments in the UK and Japan including the University of Edinburgh Business School, Seijo University, and Keio University.
Website: http://hhs.academia.edu/PatriciaNelson
Email: patrica.nelson@hhs.se, nelson.p.a@gmail.com
Professor Ian Neary
Ian Neary is Professor in the politics of Japan in the Department of Politics and International Relations, Fellow of St Antony’s College, and currently head of the school of Interdisciplinary Area Studies Oxford University. He has previously taught about Japan at the universities of Huddersfield, Newcastle and Essex, and has been a visiting professor at the universities of Saitama, Fukuoka and Kyushu. He has written on aspects of policymaking in Japan with a focus on the pharmaceutical industry, a textbook on Japan politics and a comparative study of human rights implementation in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. In 2010 he published a biography of Matsumoto Jiichiro (1887-1966) a human rights activist, businessman and left-wing politician. He is currently working on a study of the development and impact of Dowa policy and collaborating with colleagues in Japan on a new history of Buraku communities in Japan.
E mail: ian.neary@nissan.ox.ac.uk
Dr. Akihiro Ogawa
Akihiro Ogawa is an assistant professor in the department of Japanese studies at Stockholm University, Sweden. He received a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Cornell University (2004) and then conducted postdoctoral work at Harvard University. His main research interests are political anthropology (social movements, civil society and public sphere) and educational anthropology (lifelong learning and knowledge society). His first book, The Failure of Civil Society?: The Third Sector and the State in Contemporary Japan, is forthcoming from State University of New York Press in March 2009. Meanwhile, he has started his second book project - New Knowledge and Globalization: Lifelong Learning in Japan for the 21st Century. His major research interest lies in broadly exploring lessons for Japan’s new lifelong learning by comparing it with the situation in Nordic countries where lifelong learning is deeply rooted in everyday life. Furthermore, as a larger project, he looks at grassroots participation in one of the most vital policy concerns in contemporary East Asian and global politics – the revision of Japan’s Constitution, particularly focusing on Article 9: Japan’s pacifism.
Website: www.akiogawa.net
Email: akihiro.ogawa@orient.su.se
Dr. Norbert Palanovics
Norbert Palanovics is a Hungarian scholar, an honorary associate professor at the University of Pécs-Hungary, Faculty of Business and Economics, and from April 2009, part-time lecturer at Nagoya University, Graduate School of International Development. He also works as a Japan and East-Asia correspondent for Hungary’s largest circulation political daily newspaper, Népszabadság. Dr. Palanovics received his PhD degree from Nagoya University, where he researched and taught Japan’s Official Development Assistance (ODA) and peacebuilding policies. He also attended the Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) – Johns Hopkins University in Washington, D.C. as a visiting research associate, where he researched and lectured about the U.S.-Japan alliance. Prior to his half a decade long stay in Japan, Dr. Palanovics had worked as a senior lecturer at Mexico’s prestigious private university, Universidad de las Americas, Puebla. His publications in peer-reviewed journals include articles about Japan’s foreign, peace and development assistance policies as well as about negotiations. He has featured as a commentator in leading Japanese newspapers. His research interests are Japanese foreign and development policy, Japan’s relations with East Asia and contemporary Japanese society. He likes traveling, languages and watching football/soccer (he used to be a referee for twelve years).
Email: palanovicsnorbert@yahoo.com
Dr. Annette Skovsted - Hansen
Annette Skovsted Hansen, PhD, is Associate Professor of Japanese history at Aarhus University, Denmark. From 1991 to 1998, she worked as international staff in the Department of Public Information at United Nations Headquarters in New York and, from 2005 to 2008, she was chairman of the Association of Development Researchers in Denmark (FAU). She holds an MA in Japanese history from Columbia University, New York, and a PhD in History from Copenhagen University, Denmark. Her current research interest is the history of the social and cultural dimensions of development assistance, 1947-2008. Her latest publications include a Nordic-Japanese co-edited volume, Aid Relationships in Asia: Exploring Ownership in Japanese and Nordic Aid, from Palgrave in 2008. Her current research focuses on the strategic outcomes of Japanese Development Assistance (ODA) as compared to Danish ODA in terms of channels of communication and networks between alumni whose participation in overseas courses were financed by ODA and their host countries, exemplified by formal alumni organizations and the dissemination of newsletters. A larger collective research project she is presently designing is on Indian, Thai, Chinese, and Japanese alternatives to European ODA.
Email: ostash@hum.au.dk
Dr. Dick Stegewerns
Dick Stegewerns is associate professor of modern and contemporary Japan at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, Oslo University. His research has focused on Japanese intellectual history of the modern period. Other fields of expertise are Japanese politics and society, international relations of East Asia, and Japanese film history. His major publications are Nationalism and Internationalism in Imperial Japan - Autonomy, Asian Brotherhood, or World Citizenship? (2003) and Adjusting to the New World – Japanese Opinion Leaders of the Taishō Generation and the Outside World (2009). At present he conducts various research projects on Japanese theories of regionalism, Pan-Asianism, the visualization of Japanese history, the representation of the Asia Pacific War in Japanese cinema, and the history of democracy in Japan. He serves as convenor of the history section of the European Association of Japanese Studies (EAJS) and local organiser of next year’s conference of the Nordic Association for the Study of Contemporary Japanese Society (NAJS) and teaches as a guest lecturer at the Department of 20th Century Studies, Kyoto University.
Website: http://www.hf.uio.no/ikos/om-instituttet/ansatte/vit/dickst.xml
Email: dick.stegewerns@ikos.uio.no
Professor Cornelia Storz
Cornelia Storz currently holds the Chair for Japanese Economy at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration and is affiliated to the Interdisciplinary Centre for East Asian Studies(IZO).
Before joining the Goethe University Frankfurt she was Professor for Japanese Economy at the Philipps-University of Marburg (Faculty of Economics and Business Administration and the Centre for Japanese Studies, 2001-2006) and at the University for Applied Sciences, Bremen (Professor for Japanese Economy and Society, 1997-2001). From 1993 to 1996 she was a Research assistant at the University of Duisburg (Economic Policy/East Asian Economics) and received her PhD in Economics (German equivalent: Dr. rer. oec.) with a thesis on the Japanese entrepreneur („Der japanische Unternehmer“, Nomos Publishing) in 1996. She graduated 1992 in Studies of Business Administration and Japanese Studies at the University of Bonn and ICU (Tokyo).She has been invited by several research organisations including the Institute of Social Science/University of Tokyo (scholarships of JSPS, BMBF and others), the Japan Institute for Labour Policy and Training (JILPT scholarship), the Kansai University (guest professor) and RIETI at METI (BMBF scholarship). She is treasurer of the European Association of Japanese Studies (EAJS).
She is a member of executive committee of the European Research Network EJARN.
Website: www.wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de/Professoren/storz
Email: storz@wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de
Dr. Patrik Ström
Patrik Ström is the "Staffan Helmfrid Pro Futura Fellow" at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in Uppsala, and the Department of Human and Economic Geography, School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Ström holds a PhD in Business Administration and an Econ. Dr. in Economic Geography. His research focuses on the internationalization and development of the East Asian service economy. In particular the research deals with several areas of the advanced service sectors, such as professional business services, finance and creative industries. Studies on the internationalization and competitiveness of these sectors and the financial integration of East Asia with special focus on the role of Japan have been published.
Ström has been a visiting researcher at Keio University, Stanford University and University of British Columbia.
Email: Patrik.Strom@geography.gu.se
Dr. John Swenson-Wright
D. Phil in International Relations, St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford, is Senior Lecturer in Modern Japanese Studies (Politics and International Relations) at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge and fellow of Darwin College. He was an undergraduate at Christ Church, Oxford where he read Politics, Philosophy and Economics (PPE), and has an MA in International Relations from the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins, in Washington, DC. He is the author of Unequal Allies?: United States Security and Alliance Policy Toward Japan, 1945-1960 (Stanford, 2005), an edited translation of the memoirs of Wakaizumi Kei, The Best Course Available, (Hawai’i University Press, 2002) dealing with the post-1945 reversion of Okinawa to Japan, and recently has published, together with Andrew Bell and Karin Tyberg, Evidence (Cambridge University Press, 2008), an edited series of articles from the Darwin lecture series. In addition to his Cambridge position, he is an Associate Fellow at Chatham House (The Royal Institute of International Affairs) where he convenes a regular discussion group on contemporary Korea. He is currently working on a monograph on Japan’s 20th and 21st century relations with the Korean peninsula.
Email: jhs22@cam.ac.uk, jhs22@hermes.cam.ac.uk
Dr. Kenji Suzuki
Kenji Suzuki is Associate Professor at School of Global Japanese Studies, Meiji University in Tokyo, and also Senior Research Associate at European Institute of Japanese Studies, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden. After getting LL.B. at Tokyo University and working for a research institute for three years, he went to London School of Economics and got a master’s degree. He then proceeded to University of Warwick where he got PhD in 2000. Meanwhile he moved to Stockholm and became Assistant Professor at European Institute of Japanese Studies. He became Associate Professor in 2004, and started working at Meiji University in 2008. His initial interest was government-industry relations and its impact on the formation of economic policies such as competition policy, financial policy and social policy. He has also studied government-industry relations from the perspective of corporate social responsibility. Currently, however, his main research interest goes in a more sociological direction. He recently focuses on the international comparison of values and ideas and their relations with socio-economic conditions and social institutions.
Email: kenjisuz@kisc.meiji.ac.jp
Professor Marie Söderberg
Marie Söderberg, is the Director of the European Institute of Japanese Studies at Stockholm School of Economics. She is also a Professor of Japanese Studies at Stockholm University. She has a PhD from Stockholm University in 1986. The title of her thesis was “Japan’s Military Export Policy”. She has published on Japanese Influences in Asia, Japan China and Japan-North Korea relations. A central focus of her research is Japanese foreign aid policy on which she over the years have done numerous studies of various aspects. Marie Söderberg is the senior editor of the European Institute of Japanese Studies, East Asian Economics and Business Studies, a book series published by Routledge in London and New York. She is also the chairperson of EJARN’s (European Japan Advanced Research Network) executive committee.
Email: Marie.Soderberg@hhs.se