News

April 2013

April 25th 2013
Abe Fellow Jacques Hymans (2007) considers North Korea's path to nuclear weapons in part 2 of the Federation of American Scientists' Strategic Security Blog Q&A "Better Understanding North Korea" →
April 4th 2013
Abe Fellows Richard Samuels (1998) and Narushige Michishita (2006) comment on Japan's increased military assertiveness in an article for the New York Times →
April 2nd 2013
Slurp! A Social and Culinary History of Ramen: New book by Abe Fellow Barak Kushner (2007) on Japan's favorite noodle soup as a symbol of its long history with China →

March 2013

March 15th 2013
On PBS NewsHour — watch Emily Taguchi's Abe Fellowship for Journalists (2011) project on post-Fukushima recovery in Minamisoma, Japan: "Japanese Town Hit Hard by Natural and Nuclear Disaster Imagines Renewable Future" →
March 13th 2013
Abe Fellow Leslie Helm (1998) has published Yokohama Yankee: My Family’s Five Generations as Outsiders in Japan →
March 6th 2013
Now open for applications: the 2013 Korean Studies Dissertation Workshop. Deadline: May 1 →
March 5th 2013
The National Bureau of Asian Research conducted an interview with Abe Fellow Mary Alice Haddad (2009) related to her research on "Environmental Politics in Northeast Asia: Lessons Learned for North America." →

February 2013

February 27th 2013
Now accepting applications: the 2013 Korean Studies Workshop for Junior Faculty, providing support for the conceptualization and planning of a dissertation-based scholarly monograph. Deadline: April 30 →
February 25th 2013
Abe Fellow Andrew Oros (2009) was quoted in a New York Times article on what to expect from Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe’s second term →

January 2013

January 3rd 2013
Abe Fellow Setsuko Kamiya (2009) reports for the Japan Times on new challenges to the practice of double jeopardy in Japan’s courts →

November 2012

November 14th 2012
Abe Fellow Anthony P. D'Costa (2003) is coeditor of the edited volume Transformation and Development: The Political Economy of Transition in India and China, forthcoming from Oxford University Press →

October 2012

October 26th 2012
Documentary video and photos by Abe Journalist Fellow Sonia Narang (2010) featured on Public Radio International's The World as context for current protests surrounding the US military presence in Okinawa →
October 18th 2012
Read an interview with Abe Fellow Jacques Hymans (2007) about his new book, Achieving Nuclear Ambitions, and why the proliferation of nuclear weapons has slowed down in recent decades →

August 2012

August 27th 2012
2011 Abe Journalist Fellow Emily Taguchi reports on changes in the Japanese energy industry for Public Radio International's The World →
August 8th 2012
Canada's Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) has published two papers by 2010 Abe Fellow Paul Blustein on the challenges of global financial oversight →

June 2012

June 14th 2012
2010 Abe Fellow Jennifer Robertson authors "From Uniqlo to NGOs: The Problematic ‘Culture of Giving’ in Inter-Disaster Japan" for The Asia Pacific Journal →

May 2012

May 31st 2012
2006 Abe Fellow Daniel P. Aldrich writes OpEd for CNN on "Hard Lessons for U.S. Nuclear Safety from Fukushima Meltdown" →

April 2012

April 17th 2012
2003 Abe Fellow Bruce Cumings discusses the failed North Korean satellite launch on WBEZ public radio in Chicago →

March 2012

March 13th 2012
2006 Abe Fellow Daniel P. Aldrich writes for Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on the transformation of Japanese civil society in the wake of the Fukushima disaster →

January 2012

January 20th 2012
2006 Abe Fellow Daniel P. Aldrich continues his analysis of post-crisis Japanese nuclear policy →