Abe Fellowship

Conference August 11, 2021

Abe Fellowship Colloquium | The Political Economy of the Abe Government and Abenomics Reforms

SPEAKERS Hoshi Takeo | 星 岳雄 Professor, University of Tokyo 東京大学大学院経済学研究科教授 Phillip Lipscy  | フィリップ・リプシー Associate Professor, University of Toronto | 2014 Abe Fellow トロント大学政治学部准教授 | 安倍フェロー（2014年度） The government of Abe Shinzo, in power in Japan from 2012 to 2020, represents an important turning point in Japanese politics and political economy. Abe became the longest-serving prime minister in Japanese history, reversing a trend of short-lived leaders. His government not only stands out for its longevity, but also for its policies: Abe implemented a variety of significant changes, among the most important being a series of economic reforms to reinvigorate Japan’s …

Conference September 24, 2020

Abe Fellowship Colloquium – Robo sapiens japanicus: Robots, Gender, Family, and the Japanese Nation

Japan is arguably the first postindustrial society to embrace the prospect of human-robot coexistence. Over the past decade, Japanese humanoid robots designed for use in homes, hospitals, offices, and schools have become celebrated in mass and social media throughout the world. In Robo sapiens japanicus: Robots, Gender, Family, and the Japanese Nation (University of California Press, 2018), Jennifer Robertson casts a critical eye on press releases and public relations videos that misrepresent robots as being as versatile and agile as their science fiction counterparts. An ethnography and sociocultural history of governmental and academic discourse of human-robot relations in Japan, this book explores …