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 2019 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.

Amy Stanley, Northwestern University

“Stranger in the Shogun’s City: A Japanese Woman and Her Worlds, 1800-1853”

Jun Uchida, Stanford University

“Provincial Merchants and Japanese Imperial Expansion”

Tara Rodman, University of California, Irvine

“Transnationalism, Modernism, and the Orient in the Career of Japanese Dancer and Choreographer Ito Michio (1893-1961)”

For more information on the Fellowship, please visit  NEH’s website.