Melissa Melby

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2011

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Assistant Professor, Anthropology, University of Delaware

Proposal Title: Minding the Gap: Measuring Divergence in Understandings of Dietary Problems, Causes and Solutions between Experts and the Public in the US and Japan

Ian Miller

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2011

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Associate Professor, History, Harvard University

Proposal Title: The Nature of Cities: Japanese Urban Planning in Global Times

Sagiri Kitao

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2011

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Associate Professor, Economics, City University of New York (CUNY) / Hunter College

Proposal Title: Demographic transition and sustainable social security in the United States and Japan

Lon Kurashige

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2011

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Associate Professor, History, University of Southern California

Proposal Title: Closing the Gates Again? Lessons from the US-Japan Immigration Crisis

Andrew Tiedt

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2011

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Postdoctoral Research Trainee, Center on Aging at NORC, University of Chicago

Proposal Title: Cross-National Comparisons of the Effects of Social Support on Depressive Symptoms among Older Women and Men in the U.S. and Japan

Janelle Knox-hayes

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2011

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Assistant Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology

Proposal Title: Comparative Analysis of the Institutional Development of Environmental Finance in Asia the United States and Europe

Yoko Hayashi

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2011

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Associate Professor/ President, Graduate Program of Arts Management, School of Art Informatics, Shobi University

Proposal Title: Research on the effect of creativity and the effect of cultural programs on aging communities as well as the method of training for educators and teaching artists for such programs, including people with Alzheimer's and other cognitive problems

Hideko Yoshimoto

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2011

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Associate Professor, International Studies, Yamaguchi University

Proposal Title: American Public Diplomacy and News Framing of Okinawa

Nobutaka Fukuda

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2011

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Professor, School of Social Informatics, Aoyama Gakuin University

Proposal Title: The Influence of Social and Economic Policy on Childcare Provision: A Comparative Study between Japan and the U.S.

Rie Sakai

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2011

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Assistant Professor, Medical Education, Juntendo University School of Medicine

Proposal Title: Geographic maldistribution of pediatricians: A comparison of Japan and the United States

Joseph Coleman

Competition: Abe Fellowship for Journalists 2009

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Roy W. Howard Professional-in-Residence, School of Journalism, Indiana University / Bloomington

Proposal Title: The Silver Bullet? Putting the Elderly to Work in an Aging Japan

Eric Jaffe

Competition: Abe Fellowship for Journalists 2011

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Author, Simon & Schuster

Proposal Title: The Modern Legacy of Okawa Shumei's Pan-Asianism

Donald Kirk

Competition: Abe Fellowship for Journalists 2011

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Journalist and Author, Freelance Journalist

Proposal Title: Bases of Discontent: The U.S. Military Presence in Japan and Korea

Mizuho Kajiwara

Competition: Abe Fellowship for Journalists 2011

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Staff writer, GLOBE, Asahi Shimbun

Proposal Title: Aquapolitics: Strategies of Japan and the U.S. for Water Security

Emily Taguchi

Competition: Abe Fellowship for Journalists 2011

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Producer, Freelance

Proposal Title: The Price of Energy

Joshua Petitto

Proposal Title: The Oceanic Imaginary in Modern Japan, 1890-1920

Sean McPherson

Proposal Title: Festival Art, Cultural Identity and Nationalism in Modern Japan

Sayuri Oyama

Proposal Title: Translating/Writing Japanese Literature: Readings of Toson, Nakagami, Oe, and Murakami

Ayako Takamori

Proposal Title: Mixed Race in Okinawa: Transnational Families in War and Peace

Paul Scalise

Proposal Title: Public Policy Transformations and the Japanese Waterworks Industry

John Kupchik

Proposal Title: A grammar of the Eastern Old Japanese dialects

James Welker

Proposal Title: Transfiguring the Female: Women and Girls Engaging the Transnational in Late 20th Century Japan

Matthew Mitchell

Proposal Title: An Examination of Early Modern Religious Sites and Their Fiefs Through the Example of Zenkoji Temple

Mitzi Carter

Proposal Title: Base(ic) Bodies and Tours of Duty: mapping Militarized Space, Race, and Movement in Okinawa

Patrick Luhan

Proposal Title: Emotions Out of History: Japanese Historical Fiction, 1790-1840