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Intellectual Exchange Discretionary Grants 2010

Bard
College
, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Policy Responses to Social and Demographic Changes in Contemporary Japan
Project Director: Kenneth Haig, Assistant Professor of Political Studies
$9,101
This grant supported a panel at the 2011 AAS conference.  This
interdisciplinary and international panel will discuss how (or whether)
policymakers in Japan have responded to the socioeconomic and demographic
changes that Japan has undergone in recent years.  

Baruch
College
, New York, NY
Japan’s Political Transition
Project Director: Gene Park, Assistant Professor of Political Science
$12,419
This grant supported a panel at the 2011 AAS conference.  This panel will
discuss the larger meaning of the tectonic shift in Japanese politics brought
about by the 2009 election.  Specifically, the panel will discuss the
origins of this historic shift, how it has shaped the organization of political
parties and their relationship to interest groups, and the implications for
policy-making. 

Columbia
University
, New York, NY
The Politics of Financial Crisis Response and Reform in Japan
Project Director: Kaoru Shimizu, Assistant Professor of Political Science
$12,110
This grant supported a panel at the 2011 AAS conference.  It brings
together discussants from the U.S. and Japan to discuss Japan’s post-bubble
financial crisis in light of the global “great recession” of 2008.  

Cornell
University
, Ithaca, NY
Urban Ecology in Asian Cities: Urban and Building Policies for Climate Change
Mitigation in East and Southeast Asian Countries
Project Director: Ying Hua, Assistant Professor in Human Ecology
$12,047
This grant supported a panel at the 2010 AAS conference.  This object of
this panel is to discuss urgent environmental challenges from a city-level
perspective.  Issues that will be discussed include local environment
conservation, global climate change mitigation and adaptation.  

DePaul
University
, Chicago, IL
Innovations in Education in Asia: Private Sector Growth, Government Reform and
Emerging Models of Best Practice
Project Director: Katherine Ibata-Arens, Associate
Professor
$11,178
The panel brings together researchers from Japan, the United States, China, and
Canada to engage on the topic of innovations in education policy in the US and
Asia. Discussions will include aspects of both private and public sector
investments in this field. 

The
Johns Hopkins University
, Baltimore, MD
Building Citizenship in Hard Times: The Citizen, The State, and Economic Crisis
in Japan
Project Director: Erin Chung, Assistant Professor
$9,808
This panel brings together researchers to discuss how economic and political
crises shape state-society relations. The aim is to broaden the understanding
of citizenship in Japan through analyzing how the state manages crises and how
citizens respond to hard times in a comparative context. 

National
Bureau of Asian Research
, Seattle, WA
National Asia Research Program West Coast Symposium
Project Director: Michael Wills, Vice President, Research and Operations
$9,790
This symposium will bring together the academic, business, and governmental
communities to discuss issues of strategic importance to U.S. policy in Asia.
Topics include U.S-Asia relations, globalization and regionalism in Asia,
governance in Asia, and natural resource trends in Asia.

North
Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
, Greensboro,
NC 
Old-Age Programs in Japan: Effects on Communities and People
Project Director: Yoko Crume, Assistant Professor
$9,777
The panel brings together researchers from Japan and the United States to
discuss the various national level programs for this aging society and the
implications for and impact on the municipal governments and communities.
Topics include Long-Term-Care Insurance program and its impact, local
transportation issues, provision of assisted devices and home renewal,
etc. 

Purdue
University
, West Lafayette, IN
Out of the Ashes: Post-Crisis Recovery in Asia
Project Director: Daniel Aldrich, Associate Professor of Political Science
$4,546
This grant supported a panel at the 2011 AAS conference.  This panel will
bring together scholars on disaster recovery and crisis mitigation to discuss
the factors critical for resilience and recovery.  

University
of Southern California
, Los Angeles, CA
Institutionalizing Security and the Future of Regional Architecture in Eastern
Asia
Project Director: Jacques Hymans, Assistant Professor
$4,460
The panel brings together a diverse group of researchers pairing general
theoretical frameworks with region-specific knowledge to analyze some of the
current regional architecture such as ASEAN, the US-Japan Alliance, the role of
Russia, etc. 

University
of Virginia
, Charlottesville, VA
Walking to School in Japan and the United States: How and Why Policies
Differ 
Project Director: Leonard Schoppa, Associate
Professor of Politics 
$10,000
Walk to school rates have plummeted in the United States, while this mode of
transport remains common in Japan.  This project seeks to understand how
Japan has been able to maintain high rates of walking to school and why it is
succeeded in doing so, while also discussing the problems that have challenged
the system in recent years (e.g. safety concerns).