Associate Professor, Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics
D.Phil., Oxford University

Fields: Comparative Government and International Relations (Japan)

Author of Bargaining with Japan: What American Pressure Can and Cannot Do (1997) and Education Reform in Japan: A Case of Immobilist Politics (1991). Contributor to various journals, including International Organization, Foreign Affairs, and the Journal of Japanese Studies. Current book project focuses on changes in Japan's system of social protection in response to the nation's problems with declining fertility and industrial "hollowing out." Fulbright Scholar, Abe Fellow, Rhodes Scholar, and Reischauer Post-Doctoral Fellow at Harvard University.

Web pages:

• Personal
• Japan Politics Central