Fellows

Pepper Culpepper is Professor of Political Science at the European University Institute in Italy. His research focuses on the intersection between capitalism and democracy, both in politics and in public policy. His book Quiet Politics and Business Power: Corporate Control in Europe and Japan (Cambridge University Press 2011), was awarded the 2012 Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research. He is the author of Creating Cooperation (Cornell University Press, 2003) and co-editor of Changing France (with Peter Hall and Bruno Palier, Palgrave 2006) and of The German Skills Machine (with David Finegold, Berghahn Books 1999). His work has appeared …

Toshiya Jitsuz umi is Professor at the Faculty of Policy Studies, Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan. He holds an LLB from the University of Tokyo, an MBA from the Stern School of Business, New York University, and a DSc from the Graduate School of Global Information and Telecommunication Studies, Waseda University. Before joining Chuo University, he was a professor at the Faculty of Economics, Kyushu University. Previously, he worked for 18 years at the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (now Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications [MIC]), Japan. During 2007- 2008, he was a visiting scholar at the Columbia Institute for

Narushige Michishita is vice president and professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) in Tokyo. He is the director of the GRIPS Security and International Studies Program, Maritime Safety and Security Policy Program, and Strategic Studies Program. He is a member of the National Security Secretariat Advisory Board of the Government of Japan and a global fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington DC. He has served as senior research fellow at Japan’s National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS), Ministry of Defense, and as assistant counsellor at the Cabinet Secretariat for Security and

Franziska Seraphim is associate professor of modern Japanese history and director of Asian studies at Boston College. She is the author of War Memory and Social Politics in Japan, 1945-2005 (Harvard Asia Center, 2006). Her research focuses on public memory, historical justice, and social movements in Asia in comparative and global perspectives. Recent publications include “Carceral Geographies of Japan’s Vanishing Empire: War Criminals Prisons in Asia” in Kushner, ed. The Dismantling of the Japanese Empire in East Asia (Routledge, 2016) and “A ‘Penologic Program’ for Japanese and German War Criminals after World War II” in Cho et al., eds. Transnational