Fellows

Machiko Osawa is a professor of economics at Japan Women’s University, and is also the director of the Research Institute for Women and Careers. She received her MA in economics from Eastern Illinois University (1977) and PhD in economics, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (1984). She was a  researcher at the Center for Social Sciences, Columbia University (1980-84), a Hewlett Fellow at the University of Chicago (1984-86), a senior researcher, at the Japan Institute of Labor (1987-90), and associate professor of economics at Asia University (1990-96). She served on advisory boards for the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology; Ministry …

Leonard Schoppa is Professor Politics at the University of Virginia and is currently serving as Associate Dean for the Social Sciences in the College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.  He is the author of Race for the Exits: The Unraveling of Japan’s System of Social Protection (Cornell, 2006); Bargaining with Japan: What American Pressure Can and Cannot Do (Columbia, 1997); and Education Reform in Japan (Routledge, 1991).  His articles have appeared in Foreign Affairs, International Organization, and Comparative Political Studies.

Yoshihide Soeya is professor of political science and international relations at the Faculty of Law of Keio University.  His areas of interest are politics and security in East Asia, and Japanese diplomacy and its external relations in the region.  He received his PhD from the University of Michigan in 1987, majoring in world politics.

An expert on the political economy of East and Southeast Asia, Terry used her Abe fellowship to research and write a book on the intellectual history of the East Asian development model, How Asia Got Rich (M.E. Sharpe, 2003). She has followed developments in East Asia as a journalist, academic, and business person for more than 30 years. Based in Hong Kong since 2000, her consulting work has taken her deeply into issues of sustainability, climate change, urbanization, bioethics, and innovation in the East Asian setting. As an adjunct professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, she

Frank Upham’s scholarship focuses on Japan and China, and his book Law and Social Change in Postwar Japan received the Thomas J. Wilson Prize from Harvard University Press in 1987. Recent scholarship includes “Who Will Find the Defendant If He Stays with His Sheep? Justice in Rural China,” “From Demsetz to Deng: Speculations on the Implications of Chinese Growth for Law and Development Theory,” “Creating Law from the Ground Up: Land Law in Post-Conflict Cambodia,” and “Resistible Force Meets Malleable Object: The Story of the ‘Introduction’ of Norms of Gender Equality into Japanese Employment Practice.” Upham has spent time at

Brian Woodall is a professor in Georgia Tech’s Sam Nunn School of International Affairs.  He received his PhD in Political Science from the University of California at Berkeley, and has held faculty positions at the University of California at Irvine and at Harvard University as well as visiting appointments at the University of Tokyo, Tokyo Institute of Technology, and Tohoku University.  In addition to numerous articles and book chapters, Dr. Woodall is the author of Growing Democracy in Japan, Japan Under Construction, and Japan’s Changing World Role, and co-editor of Elections in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan Under the Single Non-Transferable Vote.  He has

David E. Weinstein is Carl S. Shoup Professor of the Japanese Economy and Director of Research at the Center on Japanese Economy and Business. He is also Research Director of the Japan Project at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Previously, Professor Weinstein was a Senior Economist and a consultant at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. Prior to joining the Columbia faculty, Professor Weinstein held professorships at the University of Michigan and Harvard