The Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission is delighted to announce that three outstanding scholars from the United States have been selected to participate in the 2018 Fellowship Program for Advanced Social Science Research on Japan. The Fellowship is a joint activity of the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Awards support research on modern Japanese society and political economy, Japan’s international relations, and U.S.-Japan relations.
Bowdoin College
“Nomadic Borderlands: Imperial Japan and the Origins of Ethnic Autonomy in Modern China”
California State University, Long Beach
“Early Coalitions Between Japanese and American Feminists, from World War I to the U.S. Occupation of Japan”
University of Washington
“Populism in Japan”
For more information on the Fellowship, please visit NEH’s website.