Sophia University Professor Koichi Nakano: Whither the Abe Government?
A Decisive Turn to Nationalism? Professor Nakano will talk about current Japanese politics and its direction in the future at NHK Seizanso in Aoyama. This event co-sponsored by The Princeton Club of Japan and The Cambridge & Oxford Society, Tokyo
Koichi Nakano, Professor, Department of Liberal Arts, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Sophia University
Comparative politics, Japanese politics and Political theory
Please join the Harvard community, the Princeton Club and the Cambridge & Oxford Society in Tokyo, hear Professor Koichi Nakano of Sophia University speak about the politics of the Abe government: will Japan make a decisive turn to nationalism? Professor Nakano will discuss current controversies related to possible changes to Japan’s constitution. Join us for this important topic that affects all of us and our children.
Koichi Nakano is Professor of Political Science at the Faculty of Liberal Arts, Sophia University. He specializes in the comparative politics of advanced industrial democracies, particularly Japan and Europe, and in political theory.
He currently serves as director for the Sophia University Institute of Global Concern (IGC).
His research has focused on a variety of issues of contemporary Japanese politics from comparative, historical, and philosophical perspectives, including neoliberal globalization and nationalism; the Yasukuni problem; language, media and politics; amakudari and administrative reform in Japan; decentralization; and the cross-national transfer of policy ideas.
In English, he has published articles in The Journal of Japanese Studies, Asian Survey, The Pacific Review, West European Politics, Governance, and a single-authored book entitled Party Politics and Decentralization in Japan and France: When the Opposition Governs (Routledge, 2010) among others. In Japanese, his publication includes Sengo Nihon no Kokka Hoshushugi: Naimu/Jichi Kanryo no Kiseki (Postwar State Conservatism in Japan: A Study of the Bureaucrats of the Ministry of Home Affairs) (Iwanami Shoten, 2013). He has also frequently commented on Japanese politics for the international and Japanese media, including BBC, CNN, Reuters, AP, The Economist, Wall Street Journal, Le Monde, The Australian, and BS Fuji.
He has a B.A. in philosophy from the University of Tokyo. He earned his second B.A. in philosophy and politics at Oxford University (UK). He continued his study at Princeton University (US) where he earned his M.A. and Ph.D.
Publications (English and Japanese):
Party Politics and Decentralization in Japan and France: When the Opposition Governs Abingdon:Routledge, 2010
With Kishikawa Takeshi eds. Gurōbaruna Kihan/Rōkaruna Seiji: Minshushugi no Yukue (The Politics of Global Norms: Whither Democracy?) Tokyo: Sophia University Press, 2008
With Sophia 21st Century COE Program eds. Yasukuni to Mukiau (Facing up to Yasukuni). Tokyo: Mekong Publishing, 2006
“'Democratic Government’ and the Left” in RikkiKersten and David Williams,eds. The Left in the Shaping of Japanese Democracy: Essays in Honour of J.A.A. Stockwin.London: Routledge, 2006
Sengo Nihon no Kokka Hoshushugi (Japan’s National Conservatism – Bureaucrats of Home Ministry and Ministry of Home Affairs) Iwanami Shoten, 2013
Minshu-seiji to Nihon-go in “Kotoba wa Shakai wo Ugokasuka” (Democratic Government and Japanese Language in “Can Language Change Society?” edited by Sumio Matsunaga) Toshindo, 2009
Journal Articles:
Koichi Nakano. 2004. “Cross-National Transfer of Policy Ideas: Agencification in Britain and Japan” Governance.vol. 17, no. 2 (April 2004). pp. 169-188.
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Time: Thursday October 24, 2013 7:00pm-9:00pm (Doors open at 6:30pm)
Place: NHK Seizanso at Omotesando, Aoyama
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Admission: 6,000 yen payable at the door by cash includes standing buffet dinner with cash bar.
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This event co-sponsored by The Princeton Club of Japan and The Cambridge & Oxford Society, Tokyo