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Short Bio
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 |