Shinju Fujihira, PhD. 藤平新樹
Executive Director, Program on US-Japan Relations @harvardusjapan.bsky.social. IR and CP, political economy and security studies, Asia and Europe, theory and practice.
- Reposted by Shinju Fujihira, PhD. 藤平新樹POSTPONED: Please note that Dani Rodrik's seminar is canceled today. We plan to reschedule later in the spring semester. us-japan.wcfia.harvard.edu/event/postpo...
- Reposted by Shinju Fujihira, PhD. 藤平新樹Our new #article with Matsunaga et al: Crossing the fairness threshold: skepticism, risk and zero-sum thinking in Fukushima’s decommissioning TL;DR: fairness reduces both risk perception and zero-sum thinking which subsequently influence policy skepticism www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- Reposted by Shinju Fujihira, PhD. 藤平新樹This is perfect. The DOJ's embarrassing snafu with disappearing redactions was the fault of Elon Musk. Musk cancelled government subscriptions to Adobe programs that would have made the redactions permanent. What a pack of fools.
- Reposted by Shinju Fujihira, PhD. 藤平新樹Jazz OTD: The renowned pianist (and Sado Island native) Yamamoto Tsuyoshi led one of his first sessions live at Misty’s, a Tokyo club that was then his regular spot, on December 25, 1974. Excellent hard bop. Merry Christmas, to those who celebrate! #jazzsky
- Reposted by Shinju Fujihira, PhD. 藤平新樹Jazz OTD: The exceptionally prolific (nearly 50 albums as leader) tenor saxophonist Eric Alexander recorded "Nightlife in Tokyo" on December 19, 2002 with Harold Mabern (p), Ron Carter (b), and Joe Farnsworth (d). As usual, particularly with this knockout lineup, it's first-rate hard bop. #jazzsky
- Reposted by Shinju Fujihira, PhD. 藤平新樹Jazz OTD: One of the all-time great jam session albums, "Sonny Side Up" features a murderer's row of horn players (Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Rollins, and Sonny Stitt) and a top rhythm section (Ray Bryant, Tommy Bryant, and Charlie Persip). Dizzy on vocals here too, recorded December 19, 1957. #jazzsky
- Reposted by Shinju Fujihira, PhD. 藤平新樹Great to have When Rebels Win now in physical form! It’s available from Cornell University Press (use code 09BCARD for 30% off) or other major booksellers www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
- See How a Chinese Invasion of Taiwan Could Unfold www.wsj.com/world/china/...
- Chinese exports to Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines, Vietnam & Malaysia, Jan-Sept: +23.5% f/m $330bn (2024) to $407bn (2025). www.ft.com/content/16d0...
- "Prime Minister Takaichi deserves our full public support in response to Beijing’s cynical attempt to intimidate her and to weaken the US-Japan alliance.”--Ambassador Nicholas Burns. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
- Japan Says China Aimed Military Radar at Its Fighter Jets www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/w...
- "Kriegstüchtig"="war ready." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/w...
- Reposted by Shinju Fujihira, PhD. 藤平新樹1/Quick thoughts of implications of US National Security Strategy for Europe -- weaponized interdependence meets nationalist international. The US will use its tools (economic, technology, and financial dominance) to press for far right agenda. www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
- Reposted by Shinju Fujihira, PhD. 藤平新樹Jazz OTD: From December 6-7, 1985, the original World Saxophone Quartet (Hamiet Bluiett, Julius Hemphill, Oliver Lake, David Murray) recorded their performances at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, leading to this absolutely superb album. Here, a lovely Bluiett composition. #jazzsky
- Reposted by Shinju Fujihira, PhD. 藤平新樹Congratulations to Faculty Associate Jennifer Lind @proflind.bsky.social on the publication of her latest book, Autocracy 2.0: How China's Rise Reinvented Tyranny. www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
- Reposted by Shinju Fujihira, PhD. 藤平新樹Check out Japan Decides 2024, edited by @kmcelwain.bsky.social (2005-06), Robert Pekkanen, and Faculty Associate @profdansmith.bsky.social, with contributions by Kenya Amano (2023-24), Faculty Associate Saori Katada, @profvekasi.bsky.social (2021-22), and others. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
- Reposted by Shinju Fujihira, PhD. 藤平新樹this line must have felt irresistible "...a nationwide surge of aggression by bears that is testing Japan’s traditional belief in harmonious coexistence with nature." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/w...
- Reposted by Shinju Fujihira, PhD. 藤平新樹Just a reminder that I'm happy to speak to any journalist, or to recommend other scholars to do so, about why prejudice and "potentially divisive symbols" like swastikas (!) are so harmful to morale and cohesion in militaries
- Reposted by Shinju Fujihira, PhD. 藤平新樹Watch the recent online discussion, "Japan's New Prime Minister: What Can We Expect?" co-sponsored w/ the Asian Institute & the Centre for the Study of Global Japan, University of Toronto; and the 21st Century Japan Politics and Society Initiative (JPSI), Indiana University. youtu.be/7gaIGL_kVfI?...
- Reposted by Shinju Fujihira, PhD. 藤平新樹Tomorrow, 8-9 pm ET: Join us for #JPOSS #57 to discuss Erik Wang's @erik-h-wang.bsky.social paper, “Too Much But Never Enough: Administrative Capacity and Backlashes to State-building in Medieval Japan,” w/ Emily Sellars, Jun Yamasaki, & Christina Davis. Paper & registration: shorturl.at/HQsg1
- Reposted by Shinju Fujihira, PhD. 藤平新樹i want to repeat this: mamdani and spanberger have run similar campaigns tailored to their respective electorates and it is maddening to watch political journalists attempt to create some broad contrast where none exist
- Reposted by Shinju Fujihira, PhD. 藤平新樹If anyone needed another reminder of how deeply unpopular the Trump-MAGA Republican agenda is, tonight was the night. But we cannot relent and we cannot become complacent. The midterms are right around the corner.
- Reposted by Shinju Fujihira, PhD. 藤平新樹Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the nation’s top diplomat, making deals
- Reposted by Shinju Fujihira, PhD. 藤平新樹Want to read what I really think about the Trump administration and the Asia Pacific? Here you go. It’s a goddamn catastrophe for U.S. national interests and for the regional economic and diplomatic order.
- Reposted by Shinju Fujihira, PhD. 藤平新樹Wut. This is actually way more puzzling than Trump's tweet. 🤔 How on earth are we going to build ROK nuclear-powered subs in... *checks notes*... Philadelphia? If it were that easy we wouldn't be having so much difficulty building our own and the ones we owe Australia. www.ft.com/content/a6ee...
- Reposted by Shinju Fujihira, PhD. 藤平新樹On his nearly week-long swing through Asia, President Donald Trump accepted glittering gifts. But there was one thing the president wanted that he didn’t get: a meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Free link to our analysis on the one gift that got away: wapo.st/4hx23ba
- Reposted by Shinju Fujihira, PhD. 藤平新樹Private equity gave $10M to Trump's inauguration. He gave them greater access to Americans' 401(k)s. DuPont and Dow Chemical gave $750K. Trump exempted them from an air pollution rule. Intuit gave $1M. Trump killed the IRS Direct File Program. Everything is for sale.
- Reposted by Shinju Fujihira, PhD. 藤平新樹Tuesday, 11/4, 8-9PM ET: Join Director Christina Davis and our Faculty Associates Amy Catalinac, Saori Katada, @adampliff.bsky.social, @lipscy.bsky.social, @profdansmith.bsky.social online to discuss "Japan's Prime Minister Takaichi: What Can We Expect?" munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/japans...
- Reposted by Shinju Fujihira, PhD. 藤平新樹
- Reposted by Shinju Fujihira, PhD. 藤平新樹I’m not sure “divided” means what Politico thinks it means. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
- Reposted by Shinju Fujihira, PhD. 藤平新樹So glad that Harvard is continuing its US-Japan Fellowships. Please consider applying!
- Reposted by Shinju Fujihira, PhD. 藤平新樹To recap: Trump is spending money Congress never appropriated to pay federal employees with guns, and cutting programs and grants even when Congress has appropriated funds. They literally have a contingency fund for SNAP that they are refusing to use. No Speaker has done more to weaken Congress.
- Reposted by Shinju Fujihira, PhD. 藤平新樹Paging @darinself.com
- Reposted by Shinju Fujihira, PhD. 藤平新樹There’s now four times as much solar power as the IEA expected 10 years ago. Last year alone, the world installed 553 gigawatts of solar power—roughly as much as 100 million U.S. homes use—which is 1,500% more than the IEA had projected www.fastcompany.com/91430305/ren...
- Please apply to join our super-fun and engaged social science community @harvardusjapan.bsky.social at @weatherheadcenter.bsky.social for the next 2026-27 academic year!!
- For the 2026-27 academic year, we will offer two types of postdoctoral fellowships, with support from the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies and the Japan Foundation. Please see details and ARIeS application portals here: us-japan.wcfia.harvard.edu/apply-become...
- Reposted by Shinju Fujihira, PhD. 藤平新樹I spoke with @thedispatchmedia.bsky.social for this story on Takaichi, which also features great insights from Christina Davis @harvardusjapan.bsky.social, @mireyasolis.bsky.social, @kristigovella.bsky.social, and @sheilasmithcfr.bsky.social thedispatch.com/newsletter/m...
- Reposted by Shinju Fujihira, PhD. 藤平新樹Japanese politics was rocked on Friday as the Kōmeitō announced it would leave its coalition with the LDP after twenty-six years. To understand why this happened and what it means, I wrote a guide for the perplexed. open.substack.com/pub/observin...
- Reposted by Shinju Fujihira, PhD. 藤平新樹Ishiba's address on the eightieth anniversary of the end of the war is really worth reading: japan.kantei.go.jp/content/0001...
- Reposted by Shinju Fujihira, PhD. 藤平新樹This is a big deal. Congrats to Zurich.
- I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics. 🧵 1/7
- Reposted by Shinju Fujihira, PhD. 藤平新樹Japan, ostensibly one of the least religious countries in the world, had its political order upended by the lay Buddhist organization Soka Gakkai. That is THE story about Friday's epochal shift in Japanese politics (thread follows):
- Reposted by Shinju Fujihira, PhD. 藤平新樹What a day! First the ruling coalition in Japan splits up and now we are gearing back to full trade-export control war on U.S.-China relations 🍿🍿: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...
- Reposted by Shinju Fujihira, PhD. 藤平新樹Read Rieko Kage's (2005-06) new article, "Challenging the State? Lawyers and the Reformed Administrative Appeals System in Japan," in the latest issue of Law and Social Inquiry. doi.org/10.1017/lsi....
- Reposted by Shinju Fujihira, PhD. 藤平新樹Watch the video of MJHA's @modernjapanhist.bsky.social annual Distinguished Lecture, delivered by Faculty Associate Andrew Gordon, "After the Pandemic: Revising a Textbook and Rethinking History." youtu.be/EN8tx8J8KzA
- Reposted by Shinju Fujihira, PhD. 藤平新樹Next Monday, 10/6, 12-1 pm: We are excited to feature Amy Catalinac's (2011-12) seminar on her latest book, Dominance through Division, moderated by Noah Nathan @nlnathan.bsky.social! Join us in-person and online: us-japan.wcfia.harvard.edu/event/domina...
- Reposted by Shinju Fujihira, PhD. 藤平新樹Folks look at you like you’re crazy when you say we’re in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in 🇺🇸 history, & yet here we are, allowing the One Special Boy to just do whatever he wants regardless of the actual law.
- Reposted by Shinju Fujihira, PhD. 藤平新樹Just started watching Takaichi's presser, and already I'm struck by the banner calling for "[electing] the first female prime minister." That's a striking contrast to last year when I don't recall her playing that up at all.
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- Reposted by Shinju Fujihira, PhD. 藤平新樹The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School is pleased to announce that Ambassador Ivo Daalder has joined the Center as a Senior Fellow.
- Reposted by Shinju Fujihira, PhD. 藤平新樹A complete collapse of political norms around virtue and ethics since 2016. This celebration of cruelty and violence, and the encouragement of the public to take joy in violence against others, is very unhealthy for society.
- Reposted by Shinju Fujihira, PhD. 藤平新樹Today!!!
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- Reposted by Shinju Fujihira, PhD. 藤平新樹🎉Now online (open access): "Hidden Majoritarianism and Women’s Career Progression in Proportional Representation Systems" at @apsrjournal.bsky.social. @alicirone.bsky.social, @teele.bsky.social, Gary Cox, @fiva.no. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- Reposted by Shinju Fujihira, PhD. 藤平新樹Happy to see this article now "in print" at @polbehavior.bsky.social 🎉 Open-access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
- Reposted by Shinju Fujihira, PhD. 藤平新樹R.E.M. “pushed the boundaries” of alternative rock Herbie Hancock “pushed the boundaries” of jazz Trump & RFK Jr. are “destroying public health & will be responsible for killing people” What is journalism, anyway? 🤷♂️🤦♂️
- You spelled ENDANGERING wrong, @nytimes.com. “Pushing the boundaries” is a *positive* frame implying unconventional innovations. There are no innovations here. Just medieval anti-science populist attacks on some of best methods of truth seeking we have.
- Reposted by Shinju Fujihira, PhD. 藤平新樹Meet the 2025–2026 affiliates in @harvardusjapan.bsky.social! Their research projects encompass topics ranging from technological innovation to international organizations and more. Read more about the program and the incoming cohort at: loom.ly/Was2Eg0
