Fellows

Sheldon Garon is the Nissan Professor of History and East Asian Studies at Princeton University.  A specialist in modern Japanese history, he also writes transnational history that spotlights the flow of ideas and institutions.  His book Beyond Our Means: Why America Spends While the World Saves (2012) examines the linked histories of saving and spending over the past two centuries in Japan, Europe, other East Asian nations, and the U.S. Previous publications include The State and Labor in Modern Japan (1987); Molding Japanese Minds: The State in Everyday Life (1997); and The Ambivalent Consumer: Questioning Consumption in East Asia and

Sanford M. Jacoby is Distinguished Research Professor of History, Management and Public Policy at UCLA. Trained as an economist, Jacoby studies the workplace and labor markets using comparative and historical methods. With respect to Japan, he is best known for his book, The Embedded Corporation: Governance and Employment Relations in Japan and the United States (Princeton UP, 2005; Japanese translation, Nihon no jinjibu, America no jinjibu, Toyai Keizai, 2006). He regularly visits Japan to teach at Doshisha University and to do research.

Henry Laurence is an associate professor of Government at Bowdoin College, Maine, U.S.A., where he has also served as director of the Asian Studies Progam. He received a PhD in Political Science from Harvard University and a BA from Oriel College, Oxford University.  In 2007-2008 he was a Research Associate at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University and a Senior Associate Member of the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies at St. Antony’s College, Oxford. He has also been affiliated with the Institute for Social Sciences at the University of Tokyo, and the U.S – Japan

I am on the faculties of the University of Arkansas School of Law and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, and I am a frequent visiting scholar at the University of Tokyo Faculty of Law. My particular fields of interest are comparative health law and health policy, tort law and products liability. I am on the executive committee of the Asian Law & Society Association, and in 2018 will serve as chair of the East Asian Law & Society Section of the Association of American Law Schools. For pro bono publico work, I serve on the boards of the

Yoshiko Nakano is Associate Professor in the Department of Japanese Studies at the University of Hong Kong. After moving from Washington, D.C. to Hong Kong in 1997, she began looking into the globalization of “Made in Japan” products. Using the rice cooker as an example of this process, she has examined how this electrical appliance was localized for the Chinese market, and how it has followed in the footsteps of Asian migrants and made its way around the world. The resulting book is Where There Are Asians, There Are Rice Cookers: How “National” Went Global via Hong Kong (HKU Press