Public Engagement
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Here is a partial list of my policy-oriented work, opinion pieces, and
media interviews:
- “Can
Japan Be a Climate Change Leader?” (with Pinar Temocin). 2023. The
Diplomat. October 1.
- “Japan.”
2023. In Stewart Patrick ed., UN Security Council Reform: What the
World Thinks. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. June
28.
- Analysis, Washington Post Monkey Cage. “Nobody
can go to the Tokyo Olympics. So why is the government going ahead
with them?” 7/19/2021. (with Daniel Smith)
- Analysis, Washington Post Monkey Cage. “President
Biden is hosting Japan’s prime minister in D.C. It’s a big deal for
Japan — and the U.S.” 4/15/2021. (with Mary McCarthy)
- Oped, Japan Times. “How
to Decarbonize Japan.” 1/20/2021. (with Daniel Aldrich)
- Analysis, “Japan’s
Prime Minister is Resigning. This is how Abe Transformed Japanese
Politics,” Washington Post Monkey Cage. 9/3/2020.
- Interview, Bungei Shunju (Japan), The
Japan Covid Conundrum. 5/20/2020.
- Interview, Economist, “Japan
is not Rallying around its Prime Minister.” 5/18/2020.
- Interview, New York Times, “2
Cabinet Ministers Resigned in Japan. Their Downfall? Melons and
Potatoes.” 11/1/2019
- Interview, Voice Magazine (Japan), “Remaining Tasks for the
Abe Government” 10/10/2019
- “Japan’s
Opportunity to Lead” (with Daniel Aldrich and Mary McCarthy) 2019.
Nature Climate Change 9: 492.
- “Japan’s
Climate Change Policies in Retreat,” (with Daniel Aldrich and Mary
McCarthy), Asahi Shimbun (Japanese), 5/22/2019.
- “The
Trump Tower Peace Theory: Why Donald Trump's Real Estate Holdings
Abroad are So Dangerous for Americans at Home.” 2017. Foreign
Policy, June 22.
- “The
Folly of UNESCO Withdrawal,” The Hill, 10/18/2017.
- Interview, CNBC, “North
Korean threats and bluster could help Japan’s prime minister win an
election,” 9/26/2017.
- “Trump
and Abe are Natural Allies,” The Diplomat, 2/9/2017.
- “Asia Policy
Challenges Facing Next U.S. Administration: Global Governance,” Toyo
Keizai, 11/4/2016
- “Who's Afraid of
the AIIB?: Why the United States Should Support China's Asian
Infrastructure Investment Bank.” 2015. Foreign Affairs,
May 7.
- Guest Speaker. Foreign
Correspondent's Club of Japan, “Can the Democratic Party
of Japan Rise Again?”11/28/2013.
- Guest Speaker. Japan
National Press Club, U.S.
Perspective on Japanese Politics, 11/27/2013.
- “The
Land of the Sinking Sun: Is Japan’s military weakness putting America
in danger?” (with Philippe de Koning). 2013. Foreign Policy.
July 30.
- “Recommendations on the Foreign Policy of the Abe Government.” 2013. 外
交 18 (March), 45-50.
- “Protecting
Nuclear Plants from Nature’s Worst,” (with Kenji Kushida and
Trevor Incerti). Washington Post, 10/31/2012.
- Interview. Los Angeles Times, “U.S.,
China File Dueling Complaints as Trade Tensions Heat Up,”
9/18/2012.
- “Global
Financial Reformers Must Heed Asia's Clout,” Christian
Science Monitor, 10/28/2008.
Links
Centre for the Study of
Global Japan
Political Science Department,
University of Toronto
Munk School of Global Affairs
and Public Policy
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