Fellows

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

T. J. Pempel is the Jack M. Forcey Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He has been on the Berkeley faculty since 2001. He has also held positions at Cornell University, the University of Colorado, the University of Wisconsin and the University of Washington. From 2001 until 2006 he was the director of Berkeley’s Institute of East Asian Studies. He is a presidential appointee to the Japan US Friendship Commission. His research focuses on comparative politics, Japanese political economy, and Asian regional issues. He has published over 120 articles and 24 books. Recent books include Security