Center for The National Interest, Washington, D.C.
Extended Deterrence and Stability in East Asia:
A U.S-Japan-Korea Dialogue (Year 2)
Project Director: Paul Saunders, Executive
Director
$81,642
The project is the second year of a two year project with a series of dialogue meetings among
U.S., Japanese, and Korean experts on security issues. The meetings will
focus on discussing changes in East Asia’s security environment and how
extended deterrence-a key basis of regional stability during the Cold War-can
be understood in the profoundly different world of the twenty-first
century. The project director will write an interim report assessing
potential threats and challenges in East Asia and a final report offering
policy recommendations. The project also includes a series of
Washington-based seminars on topical East Asian security issues.
Center for Women Policy Studies, Washington, D.C.
“Multidisciplinary Intellectual Exchange
for Women Leaders from United States, Japan, South Korea, and Philippines:
Migration, Trafficking and Women’s Human Rights
Project Director: Jennifer Tucker, Vice
President
$96,874
The objective of this project is to create a new
infrastructure of leaders working together to combat trafficking and to promote
policies that ensure the safety of women during all stages of migration. This
new infrastructure will create partnerships among women leaders from local elected
officials in the US, Japan, South Korea, and the Philippines; local and
national civil society organizations; and academic institutions.
Programming will focus on policy-analysis and development as well as research
on the complex issues of women, migration and trafficking.
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Tripartite Research Network for Low-Carbon
Building Sector in the US, Japan, and China in Post-Kyoto Era: Integration of
Approaches of Innovative Business Models (bottom-up) and Effective Policy
Framework (top-down) (Year 1)
Project Director: Ying Hua, Assistant Professor
$48,590
This project examines the role of the private
sector in addressing global climate mitigation and adaptation in the building
sectors in the U.S., Japan, and China, as an important complement to the
existing research on building policies for emissions reductions. The team will
be researching how bottom-up approaches can be integrated with top-down efforts
for a greater, faster, and more sustainable emissions reduction process. Events
will include a Delphi study and a series of three symposia. Some of the project
outcomes include a tripartite research and business network as well as a
consortium to serve as a long-term collaborative platform for continuous
research and sustainable projects of investment, technology transfer and
knowledge sharing.
Council on Foreign Relations, Washington, D.C.
Japan’s Political Transition and the US-Japan
Alliance (Year 1)
Project Director: Sheila Smith, Senior Fellow
for Japan Studies
$55,805
This project will analyze the political
transition in Japan as it pertains to the management of the U.S.-Japan
alliance. Case studies of specific alliance policies adopted by the new DPJ
government will be compared with previous LDP governments to ascertain the
extent of policy difference between the two parties. To develop a better
understanding of how policy transitions affect
U.S.-Japan alliance management policies, the experiences of other U.S. alliance
(UK, Germany, Australia, and South Korea) will be examined to place the Japan
case in a comparative context, and to facilitate the development of a ‘best
practices’ approach to considering prescriptions for future U.S. alliance
management approaches with Japan. There will be roundtable meeting and
workshops in Washington, DC and Tokyo. The project director will be writing
throughout the course of the project. A book manuscript is forthcoming.
East-West Center, Washington, D.C.
Japan Studies Fellowship Program (Year
1)
Project Director: Satu Limaye,
Director, East-West Center, Washington, D.C.
$93,858
This program will provide short-term fellowships
for young and rising scholars and analysts from the United States and Japan to
conduct research on issues of key relevance to the US-Japan partnership in the
years to come. The following is required of each fellow: temporary residence at
East-West Center’s DC offices, generally for 3-6 months, including fieldwork in
Japan; 2. a scholar/policy-relevant mentor to help guide work; 3. publish at
least one article in an EWC publication, and 4. give a public presentation on
their research at the EWC.
East-West Center, Honolulu, HI
Disaster Management and Resiliency in the Asia
Pacific: Journalism Fellowship
Project Director: Elizabeth Dorn, Program
Coordinators, Seminars
$99,691
This project is for a twelve-day study tour in
which twelve journalists – including four from Japan and four from the US –
travel to two cities in the United States and two cities in Japan. The
journalists will meet with government officials, corporate executives,
scientists, academics, journalists, environmental activists and other
stakeholders to understand disaster management and resiliency from a wide
variety of perspectives. The agenda will include meetings, roundtable
discussions and field trips.
There will also be a dialogue in the final stop
of the study-tour to allow participants time to talk about their experiences
and to discuss the role and responsibility of local and international media in
accurately reporting disasters.
Harvard University, Boston, MA
Life Cycle Analysis of Metals: Improving Health,
Environment and Productivity (Year 1)
Project Director: Joseph Brain, Drinker
Professor of Environmental Physiology
$59,840
This project will explore metal recycling
policies and practices in Japan and globally. The goal is to reduce the environmental
and health impact of producing and using metals, especially rare earth and
heavy metals. Experts will focus on life cycle analysis of metal-containing
products and explore “urban mining” of discarded electronics as both a source
of metals and as a strategy to keep them out of the environment as a mechanism
to improve health and human security.
Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC
Japan-U.S.-Canada Cooperation in a Multilateral
Context (Year 3)
Project Director: Kent Calder, Director,
Reischauer Center of East Asian Studies
$48,763
This project, through a series of three
conferences, seeks to strengthen relations among Japan, Canada, and the United
States through the exploration of issues of mutual analytical interest. The
four overarching topics under discussion are: 1) international developments and
international architecture, 2) the Arctic region and global affairs, 3)
developments in the Asia-Pacific region, and 4) energy security. Conference proceedings
and conclusions will be disseminated to the broader public both through
Internet websites, and through the publication of Occasional Papers.
Migration Dialogue, Davis, CA
Migration and Competitiveness: Japan and the
U.S. (Year 1)
Project Director: Philip Martin, Professor
$54,642
This project seeks to examine how foreign
workers affect competitiveness in key economic sectors in Japan and the US. The
goal of this project is to understand how immigration affects local workers as
well as the competitiveness of key sectors that hire migrant workers by
analyzing the interaction of migrants and labor cost trends, rates of
innovation and productivity growth, and training, recruitment and retention
systems.
Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL
Building a Human Security Network between the US
and Japan (Year 1)
Project Director: Sangmin
Bae, Associate Professor
$55,550
The aim of this project is twofold: to offer
opportunities to revisit, evaluate, and disseminate Japan’s human security role
and to encourage academic and public discussion of human security in the United
States. The project intends to achieve these goals by hosting public
symposiums on human security in Chicago and Tokyo, organizing a conference
panel at the International Studies Association, creating a collaborative
website, and publishing an edited volume on the human security network between
the US and Japan.
Pacific Forum, Honolulu, HI(Formerly Pacific Forum CSIS)
US-Japan-ROK-China Relations for the 21st
Century – 2011
Project Director: Ralph Cossa,
President Pacific Forum CSIS
$49,008
This project builds on a previous project to
build dialogue among the US, Japan, Republic of Korea, and China to analyze
sources of mistrust among the four nations in order to develop practical
recommendations and approaches that will enable all four countries to build greater
trust and mutual confidence. The current lack of trust in Northeast Asia
is a critical obstacle to the cooperation needed to accomplish shared
objectives among the four countries.
Peace Winds America, Seattle, WA
Japan-US Civil-Military Disaster Preparedness
Initiative (Year 1)
Project Director: Charles Aanenson
$89,963
The goal of this initiative is to strengthen the
US-Japan alliance, while promoting new partnerships with Indonesia and South
Korea in the realm of disaster preparedness and response. The proposed
project seeks to improve the disaster management capacities, collaboration, and
coordination efforts of Japan, the US, and South Korea. Fulfilling the
shared responsibility of humanitarian assistance and disaster relief, better
disaster planning will reduce the devastating impact of natural disasters,
while greater cooperation and collaboration will enhance dialogue, and improve
bilateral and trilateral relations.
University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA
IGCC Northeast Asia Defense Transparency
Project
Project Director: Tai Ming Cheung, Senior Research Fellow
$67,468
This project seeks to promote greater defense
transparency and confidence building among military establishments in Northeast
Asia through a set of joint activities with US, Japanese and other Northeast
Asian partners. First is the creation of a regional defense transparency index
that measures the openness of defense programs, policies, budgets, and overall
national security strategies. This will be followed by a website to host the
transparency index along with associated sources of defense information.
University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL
David Goodman Memorial Performing Arts Network
(Year 2) (Formerly “Illinois Performing Arts Network”)
Project Director: Elizabeth Oyler,
Professor
$88,458
The goals of this project are to: Build on the
expertise of Illinois Japan studies faculty to develop interactive program in
pre-modern, modern, and contemporary Japanese music, dance, and theater using
digital new-media technologies; Participate in the expanding number of global
performing arts networks worldwide; Integrate performing arts exchanges and
collaborations with Japan into the curricular and research programs of East
Asian Studies, Music, Theater, Computer Science, Art and Design, and other
departments at the University of Illinois; Disseminate interactive performing
arts programming via the internet and television to sites around the world;
assess continuously the impact of the results of these efforts;
institutionalize the Japanese performing arts as an integral part of research
and teaching at the University of Illinois and other institutions in our
worldwide network.
University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
Japanese Global Scholars Program (Year 2)
Project Director: Carl Falsgraf,
Director, Center for Applied Second Language Studies
$120,832
The Japanese Global Scholars Program pairs
academic with linguistic training and follows the successful Chinese Flagship
Program model, which CASLS and its partners have developed and administered for
the past four years. The University of Oregon will work closely with K-12
programs, particularly immersion and heritage programs, to recruit students
with Intermediate Japanese language skills. Once accepted to the
University and enrolled in the Japanese Scholars Program, students will live in
an immersive environment in a Japanese dorm; enroll in regular content courses
taught in Japanese; major in an academic field of their choice; enroll in
regular content classes at Meiji University their junior year; and complete a
senior capstone project written in Japanese.
University of
Utah, Salt
Lake City, UT
Integrating Japan into Comparative and Global
Health Studies (Year 2)
Project Director: Janet Theiss,
Professor, Department of History
$84,315
This project seeks to establish undergraduate
and graduate curriculum and research infrastructure for the study of Japanese
health issues within our existing social science and Asian Studies programs by
creating a new position in Japanese health-related studies. The logic for
establishing an emphasis in Japanese health care issues in global and
comparative perspective is both scholarly and institutional. From a
scholarly and policy development standpoint, health care challenges and the
reform and development of health care systems have become critical issues
worldwide both in developed and developing countries. In this context,
Japan provides both a model of a relatively successful system and a harbinger
of challenges to come, especially those posed by aging populations.
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA
Exploring the Impacts of Fukushima Nuclear Power
Plant Accidents on the Ocean (Year 1)
Project Director: Ken Buesseler,
Senior Scientist
$90,000
This project will explore the impact of the 2011
Fukushima nuclear power plants accidents on the ocean and inform the public and
policy-makers of the findings. The first element will be a scientific symposium
in Tokyo followed by colloquia in Tokyo and Woods Hole, MA. Issues to be
covered include uncertainties in what science can tell us, public perception issues
about risks, public policy implications, regulator issues. Print and website
materials will be made available to a broad audience. A special bilingual issue
of Oceanus magazine will be published for this project.