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ロバート・ペッカネン        ワシントン大学

Robert Pekkanen is Chair of the Japan Studies Program and Assistant Professor at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington.  Harvard University awarded him a Ph.D. in political science in 2002. He has published articles on Japanese politics in such journals as The American Political Science Review, The British Journal of Political Science, and The Journal of Japanese Studies, among others. His recent book on Japan's civil society, Japan's Dual Civil Society: Members without Advocates (Stanford, 2006) won the Ohira Prize in 2008 and an award from the Japanese Nonprofit Research Association (JANPORA) in 2007.  The Japan Times also featured it as one of the "Best Asia Books" of 2006. A Japanese translation appeared in 2008. Pekkanen has interviewed over 50 members of the Japanese Diet. He himself has been interviewed by media including PBS's "The News Hour with Jim Lehrer," The Christian Science Monitor, Asahi Shimbun (Japan), USA Today, and radio programs in the US, Jamaica and Australia.

September 10th, 2005: (L-->R) Jun'ichiro Koizumi, Martha Leche, Ellis Krauss, Robert Pekkanen