2008-2009 Abe Fellows

Abe Fellowship Awards

 

	Shin Arita, Associate Professor    University of Tokyo     “Transformation of Employment Structure and    Social Inequality in Post-Industrial Countries:    A Comparison of Japan, South Korea, and    the United States"
	Erin Chung, Assistant Professor  Johns Hopkins University  “Immigrant Incorporation in Ethnic Democracies:   Citizenship Regimes and Noncitizen Political   Participation in Austria, Germany, Japan,   and Korea"
	Lauren Eastwood, Assistant Professor  StateUniversity of New York at Plattsburgh  “Civil Society in Global Environmental Governance:   A Comparative Analysis of NGO Participation in   UN Environmental Policy Debates”
	Margarita Estevez-Abe, Associate Professor  Syracuse University  “Comparative Political Economy of Married  Women’s Work”
	Takako Hikotani, Associate Professor  National Defense Academy  "Civil-Military Relations of Multilateral  Military Operations”
	Ying Hua, Assistant Professor   Cornell University  “Towards a Low-Carbon Building Sector in the   Post-Kyoto Era: A Comparative Study of Building   Sector Policy Framework in Japan and the U.S.   and the Policy Impact on Emission Reductions”
	Robert Knapp, Jr., Member of the Faculty  Evergreen State College  “Comparative Case Studies of Sustainable  Commercial/Institutional Buildings”
	Ken Masujima, Professor  Kobe University, School of Law  "Development for Regionalism:   Policial Dynamics of Regional  Development Policy in Europe  and South America and Its  Implications for Asia"
	Salil Mehra, Professor of Law  Temple University  “Law, Harm and Cultural Cognition:   An Experiment with Interactive Cartoons”
	Toshiaki Miura, Editorial Writer  The Asahi Shimbun  “Historical Memory and Politics in East Asia:  A Perspective from U.S.-Japan Relations"
	Yuko Okubo, Postdoctoral Fellow  National University of Singapore  “The Localization of Multicultural Education  and Second-Generation Chinese and  Vietnamese Immigrants: A Comparison   of Japan and the United States ”
	Mika Shimizu, Visiting Fellow   East-West Center  “Designing Institutions for a Global Risk   Management Approach in Asia : The U.S.-Japan   Initiative”
	Michiko Ueda, Assistant Professor   California Institute of Technology  “The Effect of Minority Legislative Representation”
Abe Fellowship for Journalists Awards
	Gordon Feller  Freelance Journalist  “Asian Municipalities Design Innovative  City-Level Responses to Global Warming”
	Satoru Fuse   TV-Asahi  “Modernization of the Chinese Navy:   Implications for the Japan-U.S. Alliance ”
	Stéphanie Giry    Foreign Affairs   “Push and Pull, Twist and Shout: Energy Relations   between Japan, China, and Russia"
	Rob Schmitz  The California Report, KQED  “The Path to Greater Energy Efficiency:   What California Can Learn From Japan ”