Japanese political science community has generally been slow in adopting an experimental approach in the study of Japanese politics. In the areas of public opinion research, however, there have been some new attempts that take advantages of the methodological merits of experiments in investigating the Japanese political attitudes and behaviors. In this presentation, Professor Kohno will introduce three studies that he and his colleagues have embarked on, which relate to three major issues that Japan faces: constitutional revision, national security policy, and people's attitudes under natural disasters.

 

Professor Kohno received his Bachelor of Laws in 1985 from Sophia University, M.A. (International Relations) in 1987 from Yale University, Ph.D. (political science) in 1994 from Stanford University, and is currently Professor at School of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University. Before joining Waseda, he taught at University of British Columbia (1994-98) and at Aoyama Gakuin University (1998-2003), and he was a national fellow at the Hoover Institution (1996-97). Outside Waseda, Professor Kohno served as Senior Officer at Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (2013-16). He has published extensively in both English and Japanese on Japanese politics and Japan's foreign policy, including Japan's Postwar Party Politics (Princeton University Press, 1997) and Seido [Institutions] (University of Tokyo Press, 2002).