The podcast where specialists of Japanese studies react to issues in the news.
Constitutional Revision in Post-Abe Japan on the Record with Dr. Helen Hardacre (Harvard)
In this episode, Dr. Helen Hardacre (Harvard) discusses the impacts of Prime Minister Abe's resignation on the future of the constitutional revision debate in Japan, explaining why constitutional revision was such an important policy goal for Abe and why it was always unlikely to succeed.
Dismantling the Ivory Tower in Asian Studies on the Record with Dr. Christine Yano (Hawaii)
In this episode, AAS President Dr. Christine Yano (Hawaii) talks about how recent developments including COVID-19 and the Black Lives Matter movement have presented an opportunity for scholars to tear down the traditional hierarchies and rigid structures that have propped up the Ivory Tower for so long and to rebuild a new academic environment.