Fellows

Kyunghee Lee is an Associate Professor at the School of Social Work, Michigan State University. She received her EdD from Harvard University and PhD from Columbia University. Her research focuses on poverty-related issues such as adverse impacts of poverty on children and effective anti-early intervention programs. In particular, she has examined non-parental child care arrangements for low income working mothers in the context of welfare reform and investigated impacts of Head Start program on outcomes for children and families. Her current research focuses on a comparative study of poverty, human development, and parenting practice issues between the US and Japan

Kunio Nishikawa is an agricultural economist and an associate professor of Ibaraki University. As part of his research, he engages in extensive field surveys in Ibaraki, Yamagata, Hiroshima and Shimane prefectures, where he collects information and conducts interviews with farmers, local government officials and regional cooperative representatives. In doing so, he seeks not only to clarify how agricultural policy changes are affecting farm management and the structure of agriculture in Japan, but to contribute to the policymaking process. His research achievement was compiled in Policy Change and “Ninaite” on Paddy Field Agriculture published by Norin-Tokei-Kyokai and Features of Structural Change

Charles Mooney Jr. is a leading legal scholar in the fields of commercial law and bankruptcy law. His book Security Interests in Personal Property (with S. HARRIS, Foundation Press, 2d ed. 1992; Supp. 1999; 3d ed. 2000; 4th ed. 2006; 5th ed. 2011; 6th ed. 2015) is a widely adopted text used in law schools around the United States. Mooney was honored for his contributions to the uniform law process by the Oklahoma City School of Law and was awarded the Distinguished Service Award by the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers. He also served as US Delegate at the

Kohei Watanabe is associate professor at Teikyo University (Tokyo, Japan) and a research associate at the Malaysian Commonwealth Studies Centre, University of Cambridge, UK. He obtained his PhD (Geography, Cambridge) on the topic of household waste management. His current research topics include analysis of municipal waste statistics, food waste minimisation and waste management in Southeast Asia.

Dr. Adam P. Liff is associate professor of East Asian International Relations at Indiana University’s Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, where he also serves as founding director of its 21st Century Japan Politics & Society Initiative. His research focuses on international security affairs and the Asia-Pacific—especially Japanese and Chinese security policy; U.S. Asia-Pacific strategy; the U.S.-Japan alliance; and the rise of China. Beyond IU, Dr. Liff is a Non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and Associate-in-Research at Harvard University’s Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies and Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. He holds a PhD and MA in Politics from Princeton

Hirofumi Uchida is a professor of Banking and Finance at the Graduate School of Business Administration, Kobe University, Japan. He received his MA in Economics in 1995 and his PhD in Economics in 1999, both from Osaka University. Prior to joining Kobe University in 2009, Professor Uchida was with the Kyoto Institute for Economic Research at Kyoto University, and the Faculty of Economics at Wakayama University.  He was also a visiting scholar at the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University as a 2003 Fulbright Scholar. His research interests focus on banking, financial institutions, and financial system architecture. His research has

Shinsuke Tanaka is an Assistant Professor of Economics at The Fletcher School and Department of Public Health and Community Medicine at the School of Medicine, Tufts University. Tanaka’s fields of interest are environmental economics, health economics, and development economics. Broadly, he is interested in the study of interactions between environmental policies, public health, and economic activities, and their implications for economic development in low- income countries.