People
Board Members

SHIRAHASE Sawako
Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, The University of Tokyo
Sociology, Social Stratification, Social Demography, Change in Family and Social System
My major is sociology, and I in particular have worked on social stratification and demographic transformation, represented by the decline in fertility rate and aging population. Inequality and Disparity are both old and new topics, and they are serious social problems which have not been solved quite a while. I welcome innovative studies about these social issues commonly found in our planet particularly by comparing with Japan.

Kenneth Mori MCELWAIN
Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo
Comparative Politics, Constitutional Design, Elections and Public Opinion, Political Economy
My research focuses on how political institutions are designed, and how they channel public preferences into political outcomes.

OKAZAKI Tetsuji
Graduate School of Economics, The University of Tokyo
Japanese Economic History, Comparative Economic History
I have been studying the Japanese economic development in a comparative institutional perspective, particularly in relation to the history of finance, employment, corporations, and industrial policy. In recent years, my research interests have been extending to spatial and political aspects of economic history.

SAITO Mareshi
Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, The University of Tokyo, Humanities Center
Chinese Literature, East Asian Classical Studies
I have high hopes that this center will bring a new perspective not only to Japanese studies but also to humanities with a broad view of East Asia.
Associate Members

FUKUNAGA Mayumi
Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo

KAGE Rieko
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo

KATO Koichi
Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo

MARUYAMA Jun-ichi
Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo

Kenneth Mori MCELWAIN
Institute of Social Science, and TCJS Board Member, The University of Tokyo

MINO Takashi
Tokyo College, The University of Tokyo

MIZUNO Hirota
Humanities Center, The University of Tokyo

NUKAGA Misako
Graduate School of Education, The University of Tokyo

OKAZAKI Tetsuji
Graduate School of Economics, and TCJS Board Member, The University of Tokyo

SATO Yukiko
Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, The University of Tokyo

TAMARUYA Masayuki
Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, The University of Tokyo

TOYA Riina
Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo

WATANAVE Hidenori
Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, The University of Tokyo

AOKI Naomi
Graduate School of Public Policy, The University of Tokyo
International Advisory Board Members

Mary C. Brinton
Director, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University

Gerald L Curtis
Burgess Professor Emeritus Columbia University

Roger Goodman
Nissan Professor of Modern Japanese Studies and Pro-Vice-Chancellor, University of Oxford

Andrew Gordon
Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University

John Lie
University of California, Berkeley

PARK Cheol Hee
Graduate School of International Studies (former dean), Former Director of Institute for Japanese Studies Seoul National University

James M. Raymo
Department of Sociology, Princeton University

Arthur Stockwin
Former Nissan Professor of Modern Japanese Studies, and Director, Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, University of Oxford

Steven Vogel
Chair of the Political Economy Program, Il Han New Chair in Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley