Jessica Pisano

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 1998

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Political Science, Yale University

Proposal Title: Local Power, Institutional Capacity, and Informal Constraints: Land Reform in the Russian and Ukrainian Chernozem, 1990-1997

Mark Valencia

Competition: Abe Fellowship 1998

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Senior Fellow, Regional Economics and Politics, East-West Center

Proposal Title: Maritime Confidence Building in Northeast Asia: A Theoretical and Practical Analysis

Yoshiro Tsutsui

Competition: Abe Fellowship 1998

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Professor, Economics, Osaka University

Proposal Title: Bank Restructuring and Investor Behavior: A Comparative Study of the Japanese and the U.S. Financial System

Ikuko Toyonaga

Competition: Abe Fellowship 1998

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Associate Professor, Law, Kyushu University

Proposal Title: The Rise of Neo-Liberalism and its "Political Infrastructure" in the United States: A Comparative Perspective

Richard Samuels

Competition: Abe Fellowship 1998

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Professor, Founding Director, Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Proposal Title: Great Forces and Great Choices: Leadership in Italy and Japan

Hideo Otake

Competition: Abe Fellowship 1998

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Professor, Law, Kyoto University

Proposal Title: A Comparison of the Japanese and the French Responses to the Neo-Liberal Challenge

Fumitaka Nishimura

Competition: Abe Fellowship 1998

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Professor, Marketing, Commerce and Economics, Chiba University of Commerce

Proposal Title: A Comparative Analysis of Marketing Stages by Industries and by Time-Series in Japan and the USA

Hirokazu Miyazaki

Competition: Abe Fellowship 1998

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Postdoctoral Fellow, Anthropology, Northwestern University

Proposal Title: Transnational Encounters: Relations between Japanese and Americans in the Tokyo and Chicago Futures Markets

Yumiko Mikanagi

Competition: Abe Fellowship 1998

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Assistant Professor, Social Sciences, International Christian University

Proposal Title: Comparative Studies on the Reagan, Thatcher, and Nakasone Administrations' Policies and their Gender Bias

Jong Lee

Competition: Abe Fellowship 1998

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Professor, Law and Politics, Rikkyo University

Proposal Title: U.S. Policy toward Regional Organization of East Asia in the Postwar Period

Masanobu Ido

Competition: Abe Fellowship 1998

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Professor, Political Science, Ibaraki University

Proposal Title: Labor Market Policies in the Age of Globalization: Italy, Japan and the U.S.

Leslie Helm

Competition: Abe Fellowship 1998

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Reporter, Los Angeles Times

Proposal Title: World Wide Divide: The Evolution of the Internet Experience in the United States and Japan

Martha Harris

Competition: Abe Fellowship 1998

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Visiting Scholar, Atlantic Council of the United States

Proposal Title: Redefining Energy Security: Challenges to Develop Market-Oriented Policies in Japan and the United States

Joan Fujimura

Competition: Abe Fellowship 1998

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Associate Professor, Anthropology, Stanford University

Proposal Title: Social and Cultural Issues in Genomics: A Transnational Study of Japan and the United States

Hilda Eitzen

Competition: Abe Fellowship 1998

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Post- Doctoral Fellow, Central Asian Security, Brown University

Proposal Title: Comparison of Strategies of Foreign Investment and Aid to Post Soviet Kazakhstan: Japan, China and US

Andrew DeWit

Competition: Abe Fellowship 1998

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Assistant Professor, Economics, Shimonoseki City University

Proposal Title: The Politics of the Income Tax in Postwar Japan: A Historical Institutionalist Approach

Charles Burress

Competition: Abe Fellowship 1998

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Staff Writer, Editorial, San Francisco Chronicle

Proposal Title: US Media Coverage of Japan: Does America See Japan Through A Glass Darkly?

Albert Ando

Competition: Abe Fellowship 1998

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Professor, Economics, University of Pennsylvania

Proposal Title: Japanese Recession of the 1990's and its Lessons for Advanced Industrial Countries

Susan Burns

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): University of Texas / Austin

Yoshiko Kainuma

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): University of California / Los Angeles

Sumi Shin

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Stanford University / Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Study

Gregory Pflugfelder

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Columbia University

Linyu Gu

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): University of Hawaii

Robert Bullock

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Cornell University

Sophia Lee

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): California State University