Bio

Professor Emeritus, School of Global Policy and Strategy (GPS), University of California, San Diego, USA. PhD, Stanford University (1973). Former Positions: Professor, University of Pittsburgh (1986-1995); Associate Professor, Assistant Professor, Lecturer, Western Washington University (1970-1986).  Author, coauthor, co-editor of 8 books and over 70 articles on Japan’s domestic politics and on US-Japan Relations, including The Rise and Fall of Japan’s LDP: Political Party Organizations as Historical Institutions  [co-authored with Robert Pekkanen]. (Cornell University Press, 2010). Beyond Bilateralism: U.S.-Japan Relations in the New Asia-Pacific [co-edited with T.J. Pempel] (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004); Broadcasting Politics in Japan: NHK and Television News (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000); Translated by Gotō Jumpei with a new introduction by the author and published in Japanese as  NHK vs. Nihon Seiji (Tokyo: Tōyō Keizai Shimpōsha, 2006).  Many honors and awards including recently: Harvard University Program on U.S.-Japan Relations’ Distinguished Visitor and the Reischauer Institute’s Japan Forum speaker (April 2015); and Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo-Oxford University Press award for the best article in their journal, Social Science Japan in 2014 for “Choosing Cabinets: Electoral System and Cabinet Appointments in Japan.” Shared award with coauthors Robert Pekkanen and Benjamin Nyblade.