Shimizu Yuichiro

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Affiliation

Faculty of Policy Management (Shonan Fujisawa)

Position

Professor

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  • <Position>
    2017-present Professor, Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University
    2017-present Professor, Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University
    2010-2017 Associate Professor, Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University
    2007-2010 Assistant Professor, Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University
    2003-2007 Research Associate, The University of Tokyo
    2002-2003 Research Assistant, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Japan

    <Short Bio>
    Yuichiro Shimizu is Professor of Japanese Politics and History in the Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University, Japan.

    His research and teaching focus on Japanese political history. His recent book, The Origins of Modern Japanese Bureaucracy (London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019, in English), describes the process of nation building in Meiji and Taisho Japan from the view point of making and enhancing national elite. He point out the open door policy of bureaucracy as the route of making Japanese democracy.

    He has been interested in the Relationship between Politicians and Bureaucrats. His first book, Party and the Bureaucracy in Modern Japan: the Clash of the Constitutional Government (Tokyo: Fujiwara Shoten, 2007) (in Japanese), he discussed about this issue, and pointed out they found the way of collaboration and separation after the long conflict.

    His research is not only historical one, but also comparing Modern and Contemporary Japan. Because Japan has been faced on historical change in Politic, but there is not any experience about Government change more than a half century. Thus he experience in Modern Japan is the latest case to be referred. So he compiles a lot of Oral Histories to Politicians and Bureaucrats in Japan.

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  • Graduate School of Media and Governance, member

  • Graduate School of Media and Governance, Co-chair, Japan Studies Platform Laboratory, Keio Research Institute at SFC

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  • 2017.04
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    Keio University, Faculty of Policy Management, Professor

  • 2011.04
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    Keio University, Graduate School of Media and Governance, Associate Professor

  • 2015.05
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    The University of Tokyo, Research center for advanced science and technology, Visiting researcher

  • 2010.06
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    2016.10

    Keio University, Global Security Research Institute, Fellow

  • 2011.04
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    2017.03

    Keio University, Faculty of Policy Management, Associate Professor

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  • 1999.03

    Keio University, Faculty of Laws, Political Science

    University, Graduated

  • 2001.03

    Keio University, Graduate School of Law, Political Science

    Graduate School, Completed, Master's course

  • 2003.03

    Keio University, Graduate School of Law, Political Science

    Graduate School, Withdrawal before completion, Doctoral course

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  • Doctor of the Science of Law [S.J.D.], Keio University, Dissertation, 2005.12

  • Master of Laws [LL.M.], Keio University, Coursework, 2001.03

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  • 小型車両系建設機械特別教育, 2020.01

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Research Areas 【 Display / hide 】

  • Humanities & Social Sciences / Politics (Political Science)

  • Humanities & Social Sciences / Japanese history (Japanese History)

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Research Keywords 【 Display / hide 】

  • Oral History

  • Politico-bureaucrats relationship

  • Japanese Politics

  • Japanese Political History

  • Modern Japanese History

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Research Themes 【 Display / hide 】

  • Japanese Governance, Politico-Bureaucrats Relationship, Bureaucracy, 

    1999.04
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  • Japanese Electoral Districts System and Local Politics, 

    2011.04
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  • Developing the method of Oral history, 

    2001.07
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  • International Comparative of the Chamber and Procedure, 

    2009.04
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  • 内閣法制局の研究, 

    2008.04
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  • Hara Takashi: Imaginary and Real Images of the "Commoner Prime Minister"

    Yuichiro Shimizu, Chuo Koron Shinsha, 2021.09,  Page： 324

    Contact page： 1-356

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    初の「平民」首相として、本格的政党内閣を率いた原敬。戊辰戦争で敗れた盛岡藩出身の原は苦学を重ね、新聞記者を経て外務省入省、次官まで栄進する。その後、伊藤博文の政友会に参加、政治家の道を歩む。大正政変、米騒動など民意高揚の中、閣僚を経て党の看板として藩閥と時に敵対、時に妥協し改革を主導。首相就任後、未来を見据えた改革途上で凶刃に倒れた。独裁的、権威的と評されるリアリスト原の軌跡とその真意を描く。

  • The Origins of Modern Japanese Bureaucracy

    Yuichiro Shimizu, translated by Amin Ghadimi, Blomsbury Publishing, 2019.10,  Page： 288

    Contact page： 1-288 , Accepted

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    What is a bureaucracy, from where does it come, and how does it develop? Japanese have long described their nation as a “kingdom of bureaucrats", but until now, no historian has fully explained the historical origins of the mammoth Japanese executive state. In this ground-breaking study, translated into English for the first time, Yuichiro Shimizu traces the rise of the modern Japanese bureaucracy from the Meiji Restoration through the early 20th century. He reveals how the making of the bureaucracy was none other than the making of Japanese modernity itself. Through careful political analysis and vivid human narratives, he tells the dynamic story of how personal ambition, new educational institutions, and state bureaucratic structures interacted to make a modern political system premised on recruiting talent, not status or lineage.

  • The Bureaucracy in Modern Japan: from Restoration Bureaucrats to Educated Elites

    Yuichiro Shimizu, Chuo Koron Shinsha, 2013.04,  Page： 356

    Contact page： 1-356

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    明治維新後、新政府の急務は近代国家を支える官僚の確保・育成だった。当初は旧幕臣、藩閥出身者が集められたが、高等教育の確立後、全国の有能な人材が集まり、官僚は「立身出世」の一つの到達点となる。本書は、官僚の誕生から学歴エリートたちが次官に上り詰める時代まで、官僚の人材・役割・実態を明らかにする。激動の近代日本の中、官僚たちの活躍・苦悩と制度の変遷を追うことによって、日本の統治内部を描き出す。

  • Party and the Bureaucracy in Modern Japan: the Clash of the Constitutional Government

    Yuichiro Shimizu, Fujiwara Shoten, 2007.01,  Page： 334

    Contact page： 1-334

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    明治維新から昭和の政党内閣期に至る時代、立憲政治の導入から定着に至る過程を政党と官僚の関係から捉えなおすことで、近代日本における統治構造の形成と展開を論じた。

  • The Political Research Association and Japanese party politics - 130 years of its history

    Kentaro Oku, Yuichiro Shimizu, Shinsuke Hamamoto ed., Yoshida Publishing, 2024.04,  Page： 484

    Scope: 明治・大正期立憲政友会と政務調査会

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    政調会は、なぜ、これほど発達したのか？ 政治学と歴史学を融合し、政調会の本質に迫る。気鋭の研究者が、明治から平成までの政調会史を振り返る11論文。

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  • oral History in Japanese Political Science

    YUICHIRO SHIMIZU

    Historical Journal (Association of Historical Science)   ( 892 ) 64 - 74 2024.07

    Research paper (scientific journal), Single Work, Lead author,  ISSN  0386-8907

  • 「「日本初の女性議員三九名」はどこへ行ったのか大量当選、大量落選の構造分析」

    Yuichiro Shimizu

    『法学研究』 (慶應義塾大学法学部内法学研究会)  97 ( 1 ) 137 - 176 2024.01

    Research paper (bulletin of university, research institution), Single Work, Lead author,  ISSN  03890538

  • Codebook: The Descriptive Results of the 2022 Japanese Bureaucrats’ Survey on Work-Life Balance

    Eiichi AOKI, Haoamiao WANG, Toshiyuki KAMBAYASHI, Masatsugu ITO, Koichi KAWAI, Wartaru KITAMURA, Yuichiro SHIMIZU, Kengo SOGA, Yosuke TEZUKA, Yuichi MURAKAMI

    Annual Bulletin, Graduate School of Education, Tohoku University (Graduate School of Education, Tohoku University)  71 ( 2 ) 107 - 126 2023.06

    Research paper (scientific journal), Joint Work,  ISSN  13465740

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    本研究資料は，2022年に実施された国家公務員のワークライフバランスに関するサーベイ（以下，2022年サーベイ）のうち，フェイスシート及びワークライフバランスに関する回答の集計結果を示したものである。
    　2022年サーベイは楽天インサイト社（以下，調査会社）の保有するアンケートモニター登録者に対してオンラインで実施された。スクリーニング調査に回答したのは19,027人であり，その後のフェイスシートとワークライフバランスに関する調査の対象となったのが749名であった。なお，3回にわたるタイムユーズサーベイまで完了した回答は，データクリーニング後309名となった。　調査項目は生活満足度，仕事満足度，性格特性，PSM（Public Service Motivation）などである。
    集計は総合職・一般職と本府省庁・地方支分部局の4つの組み合わせ及び合計の5つについて行った。

  • Codebook: The Descriptive Results of the 2021 Japanese Bureaucrats’ Survey on Work-Life Balance

    Eiichi AOKI, Haoamiao WANG, Toshiyuki KAMBAYASHI, Masatsugu ITO, Koichi KAWAI, Wartaru KITAMURA, Yuichiro SHIMIZU, Kengo SOGA, Yosuke TEZUKA, Yuichi MURAKAMI

    Annual Bulletin, Graduate School of Education, Tohoku University (Graduate School of Education, Tohoku University)  71 ( 1 ) 171 - 190 2022.12

    Research paper (scientific journal), Joint Work,  ISSN  13465740

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    本研究資料は，2021年に実施された国家公務員のワークライフバランスに関するサーベイ（以下，2021年サーベイ）のうち，フェイスシート及びワークライフバランスに関する回答の集計結果を示したものである。
    2021年サーベイは楽天インサイト社（以下，調査会社）の保有するアンケートモニター登録者に対してオンラインで実施された。スクリーニング調査に回答したのは20,000人であり，その後のフェイスシートとワークライフバランスに関する調査の対象となったのが758名であった。なお，集計
    の段階では調査会社のデータクリーニング後668名となり，さらに研究チームのデータクリーニング後644名となった。
    　調査項目は生活満足度，仕事満足度，性格特性，PSM（Public Service Motivation）などである。
    　集計は総合職・一般職と本府省庁・地方支分部局の4つの組み合わせ及び合計の5つについて行った。

  • State, Political Parties, and the Nation: Triangular Political History without a Center of Gravity

    Yuichiro Shimizu

    (GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES ON JAPAN)   ( 4 ) 17 - 37 2021.06

    Research paper (scientific journal), Single Work, Lead author,  ISSN  2687-6132

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    Last year, Japan celebrated the one hundred and thirtieth anniversary of the establishment of the Meiji imperial constitution. As the first constitutional
    state in Asia, Japan’s experience soon garnered the attention of the world. As in the post-war era where Japan’s model of high-speed economic growth proffered
    a model for developing countries, in the pre-war imperial world, Japan’s experience with constitutionalism provided encouragement to those nations, then colonies of the European powers. Yet this history of constitutionalism was by no means a story of unalloyed successes. Rapid modernization and economic
    growth in no short order destabilized Japan’s traditional order, giving birth to an unstable social structure.
    How to design the relationship between the state, political parties and nation has remained a major question which has continued up to the present. Clarifying how the three parts of the triangle (state, parties, nation) have evolved over the last one hundred and thirty years provides important insights into how the development of Japanese ‘democracy’ has differed from the experience of the Western democracies.

    Keywords: Modernization, democracy, constitutionalism, state, political parties

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  • 小布施町における、新事業創造プログラム

    2024.06
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    長野県小布施町, Commissioned ｒesearch, Principal investigator

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    SFCの学生とともに月に１度、長野県小布施町を訪れ、町民の方々と一緒に町の課題を解決する新事業を創造していく。

  • 「近現代日本の支配構造の社会階層形成史的解明：世襲と再生産に着目して」

    2023.04
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    2028.03

    Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, 基盤研究B, Research grant, Coinvestigator(s)

  • 料理技術習得とウェルビーイングの関係性を分析する研究

    2022.10
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    2023.03

    （株）味の素, Joint research, Principal investigator

  • Electoral District Revision and Political Participation: A Historical Structural Analysis of Institutional Revision

    2022.04
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    2025.03

    Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Research grant, Principal investigator

  • 小布施町における、新事業創造プログラム

    2022.04
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    2023.03

    長野県小布施町, Commissioned ｒesearch, Principal investigator

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    SFCの学生とともに月に１度、長野県小布施町を訪れ、町民の方々と一緒に町の課題を解決する新事業を創造していく。

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  • Japanese Association of Electoral Studies Award

    2016.05, Japanese Association of Electoral Studies, 優秀ポスター発表

    Type of Award： Award from Japanese society, conference, symposium, etc.

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    「選挙区の線引きはどう行われたのか」に対して

  • Public Policy Studies Association Japan Award

    2014.06, Japanese Association of Electoral Studies, 奨励賞

    Type of Award： Award from Japanese society, conference, symposium, etc.

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    『近代日本の官僚―維新官僚から学歴エリートへ』に対して

  • 27th the Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Award

    2011.06, The Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Foundation, 特別賞

    Type of Award： Award from publisher, newspaper, foundation, etc.

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    小林道彦・中西寛編『歴史の桎梏を超えて』に対して

  • 100th Anniversary Award Paper of the Faculty of Law, Keio University

    1999.11, Keio University, The top prize

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    「清浦内閣の一考察―貴族院の政治対立」『政治学研究』29号に対して

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Courses Taught 【 Display / hide 】

  • MODERN HISTORY OF JAPAN

    2019, Within own ｆaculty

  • JAPAN IN WORLD HISTORY

    2019, Spring Semester, Within own ｆaculty

    Joint class with the Department of History, MIT.

  • GOVERNANCE THEORY

    2019

  • WORKSHOPS ON DESIGNING POLICY

    2019

  • ORAL HISTORY WORKSHOP

    2019

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Courses Previously Taught 【 Display / hide 】

  • MODERN HISTORY OF JAPAN

    Keio University

    2019.04
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    Spring Semester, Within own ｆaculty, 1h

    2015年度から継続中

  • Seminar: Oral History

    Keio University

    2019.04
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    Full academic year, Within own ｆaculty, 2h

    2009年度から継続中

  • Seminar: Japanese Political Development

    Keio University

    2019.04
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    Full academic year, Within own ｆaculty, 2h

    2007年度から継続中

  • ORAL HISTORY WORKSHOP

    Keio University

    2019.04
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    Spring Semester, Within own ｆaculty, 1h

    2015年度から継続中

  • JAPAN IN WORLD HISTORY

    Keio University SFC

    2019.04
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    Autumn Semester, Within own ｆaculty

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  • The Joint class with World History class in the Department of History, MIT

    2024.10
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    2024.12

    , Device of Educational Contents

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    A joint class between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of History's lecture "World History" and SFC's lecture "Japan in World History" is offered every other year.

  • Research exchange for graduate students with the Institute of Japanese Studies at Tianjin Nankai University.

    2024.07

    , Device of Educational Contents

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    We are conducting graduate student exchanges with the Institute of Japanese Studies at Tianjin Nankai University, focusing on research presentations.

  • Attendance by seminar students from the Manhattan College Japan Study Tour

    2024.05

    , Device of Educational Contents

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    Since 2019, on the second day of the Japan Tour, conducted annually in the summer by the Department of History at Manhattan College (led by Professor Paul Droubie), we attend with undergraduate seminar students, visiting Sensoji Temple, Meiji Shrine, and Harajuku. During this time, we particularly focus on deepening mutual understanding of each other's religious views.

  • 湘南学祭実行委員会

    2023.10
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    , Coaching of Students' Association

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    会長

  • Academic exchange with the Center for Japanese Studies at National Chengchi University, the Center for Japanese Studies at Taiwan University and the Policy Management Studies course at National Taipei University

    2023.09
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    2024.06

    , Device of Educational Contents

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    The Center for Japanese Studies at Chengchi University. the Center for Japanese Studies at Taiwan University and the Policy Management Studies course at National Taipei University continue to exchange undergraduate and graduate students, mainly in the form of research presentations. In even-numbered years, our laboratory visits Taiwan, and in odd-numbered years, we accept visits from the Taiwanese side.

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  • Listening to Open Up: Summer Workshop

    Keio University SFC Oral History Research Seminar,  (Online) , 

    2024.07
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    今から20年前、東京大学先端研で「オーラルヒストリー夏の学校」が開かれました。私も助手として運営に携わりました。「聴く」ことを通じて未知を拓いていきたいという方がたくさん集まって取り組むさまはじつに楽しく、刺激的な時間でした。
    その後、慶應SFCに着任してから15年あまり、「聴く」を軸に据えたワークショップを進めてきました。そこで大切にしてきたのは、私自身が取り組んできたオーラルヒストリーに限らず、多様な「聴く」方法を示し、それぞれの持つ哲学や長所を重ね合わせながら実践を進めてもらうことでした。あふれる学生たちの想いや表現を乗せたワークショップは、たくさんの方にお力添えいただいて成長を続けています。
    こうした取り組みを進めるなかで、ここのところ「聴く」ことへの関心が高まっていることを強く感じています。より開かれ、より多くの方が、「聴く」ことを通じた探求や実践に取り組める場と、そこで育まれるつながりが必要だと考えるに至りました。
    そこで、この夏、「聴く」からひらくワークショップをはじめます。ありがたいことに、すばらしい講師の皆さんにご力添えをいただけました。「聴く」から未知をひらくことに取り組みたいという方であれば、研究者以外の方も歓迎です。「聴く」ことの実践、探求、交流を一緒に進めていきましょう。

  • Plenary session2 "A Historical Approach to Public Policy – How to Understand Policy through History"

    Public Policy Studies Association Japan,  (Ryukoku University Fukakusa Campus) , 

    2024.06

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    Reflecting the main theme of this conference, "Public Policy and Time," we titled our session as "A Historical Approach to Public Policy," will be conducted as a roundtable discussion.

    In recent years, there has been a renewed emphasis on examining the historical background of each policy in public policy research. It goes without saying that public policy research employing historical approaches is extremely closely related to political history research in political science, administrative history research in public administration, and historical research in Japanese history. However, there has been insufficient dialogue between these fields, and each has developed independently within their own cultures and customs.

    From this awareness of the issue, this common theme will first clarify the reality and significance of various historical approaches in public policy research by overlapping and contrasting them. Then, through discussions that transcend individual positions, we will consider the further development of public policy research.

  • Japanese Studies Research Workshop in Jakarta 2024

    Japan Foundation Jakarta,  (Pustat Studi Jepang, Universitas Indonesia(Online)) , 

    2024.03

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    Together with master course graduate school student Tsuji Akiho, we gave a lecture entitled 'How can we do Japanese studies: some ways to enjoy Japanese studies'.

  • External examiner, Doctoral dissertation examination, Dr. Lieven Sommen

    Faculty of literture, KU Leuven,  (KU Leuven) , 

    2023.12

  • 国際交流協会パネル「若手研究者の就職とキャリア形成」コメンテーター

    東アジア日本研究者協議会,  (東京外国語大学) , 

    2023.11

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Memberships in Academic Societies 【 Display / hide 】

  • 日本政治学会, 

    2001.05
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  • 日本行政学会, 

    2010.10
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  • 日本選挙学会, 

    1999.05
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  • 日本公共政策学会, 

    2002.10
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    Present

  • 日本法政学会, 

    1999.05
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    2024.03

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Committee Experiences 【 Display / hide 】

  • 2025.06
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    2027.05

    Chairperson of the editorial board, Japanese Association of Electoral Studies

  • 2024.06
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    board member, The Japanese Society for Public Administration

  • 2024.06
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    Chair of the Conference Program Committee, Public Policy Studies Association JAPAN

  • 2024.01
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    Commitee member, Book Review Commitee, Yomiuri Shinbun

  • 2023.07
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    長野県WWLコンソーシアム構築支援事業事業検証委員, 長野県教育委員会

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