Research Pairs

The Research Pairs between Associates and graduate/senior thesis students during the 2015-16 academic year are listed below. 

Naofumi FUJIMURA (Kobe University, Political Science), Party organizations and legislative behavior; electoral and party institutions
Jingkai HE (Ph.D. candidate, Government), Authoritarian institutions and dynamics of regime change


Aki FUKUYAMA (Asahi Shimbun), Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP); Japanese industry and technology
Subo WIEYERATNE (Ph.D. candidate, History), History of Japan’s space program


Hiroyuki HARA (Ministry of Finance), Financial risk after natural disasters
Chika OGAWA (Ph.D. candidate, Government), Party politics and decentralization in parliamentary democracies


Masahiro NAKAGAWA (National Police Agency), Intellectual property theft in US and Japan
Ryan GLASNOVICH (Ph.D. candidate, HEAL), Policing institutions in premodern Japan


Wataru NAKAYAMA
 (Tokyo Gas), Risk management strategies of global energy companies
Hao-Kai PAI (Senior thesis, Economics), Global supply chains


Seiji MANABE (Air Self-Defense Force), Japan's collective self-defense and deterrence in East Asia
Miles GRAHAM (Senior thesis, Government), Japan's defense spending and East Asia's security environment


Silvio MIYAZAKI (University of Sao Paolo), Japan's trade policy and Latin America
Deriam CHIRINOS (Harvard College junior), Japan's economic relations with Latin America


Koji SONODA (Asahi Shimbun), Grassroots mobilization of the right wing; Japanese politics and security policy
David SONG (Senior thesis, Government), Transnational and US social movements for the comfort women


Koji SUGIMOTO (Sankei Shimbun), US alliances in East Asia; Japanese politics and security policy
George YIN (Ph.D. candidate, Government), Ideational drivers of war and peace; Chinese foreign policy


Keiichiro UEDA (Ministry of Economy, Trade & Industry), Demographic change and public policy
Sinn Won HAN (Ph.D. student, Sociology), Family demography, gender, social inequality


Kohei YOSHINO (Ministry of Foreign Affairs), Multilateral institutions and maritime disputes in the South China Sea
Kacie MIURA (Ph.D. student, Political Science, MIT), Chinese foreign and security policy