Yutaka Tsujinaka

Yutaka Tsujinka
Born	1954 Osaka, Japan
Occupation(s)	Professor of Political Science, Faculty of Humanity and Social Sciences at University of Tsukuba

Yutaka Tsujinaka (born 1954) is a professor of political science and the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Tsukuba.　He is now teaching at the College of Social Sciences and the doctoral program in International and Advanced Japanese Studies. He is also the president of Japan Political Science Association, a member of the International Association of Universities (2012–2016), the director of Internationalization Subcommittee of IAU (2013–), the executive assistant to the President at University of Tsukuba (2013–) and the director of Institute for Comparative Research in Human and Social Sciences (ICR) (2014–). Youji Inaba professor of economy at Nippon University said in a newspaper column that Professor Tsujinaka talks in friendly Kansai dialect and always gives everyone warm smile as if he has "Tender-Heated DNA" in his body. (Nikkei: July 8, 2015)

Academic background

• 1972 Graduate from Kozu High School in Osaka
• 1976 LL.B Osaka University, School of Law
• 1978 LL.M. Osaka University, School of Law (Political Science)
• 1981 Completion of the course work for doctoral program of Osaka University School of Law (Political Science)
• 1996 Doctor of Law (Political Science) Kyoto University

Positions and teaching career

• 2014–current President of Japanese Political Science Association
• 2013–current Director of Institute for Comparative Research in Human and Social Sciences (ICR)
• 2013–current Executive Advisor to the President at University of Tsukuba
• 2013–current Chairman of Internationalization Subcommittee of IAU
• 2012–current Administrative board member of International Association of Universities (IAU)
• 2011–2013 Headquarter Vice President at University of Tsukuba
• 2008–2011 Director of Dr. Program in International and Advanced Japanese Studies
• 2003–2008 Manager of Special Research Project on Civil Society, the State and Culture in Comparative perspective
• 2001–2004 Dean of College of Social Sciences University of Tsukuba
• 1998–current Professor of Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at University of Tsukuba
• 1989–1991 Visiting Fellow: Cornell University East Asia Program and Department of Government
• 1986–1998 Associate professor of Institute of Social Sciences and Political Science at University of Tsukuba
• 1984–1986 Associate professor at Department of Law and Political Science, University of Kitakyushu
• 1981–1984 Assistant professor at Department of Law and Political Science, University of Kitakyushu

Academic societies

• Japan Political Science Association
• Association for Asian Studies
• American Political Science Association
• Japan NPO Research Association
• Public Policy Studies Association
• Japan Association For Comparative Politics

Honors and awards

• 2010 Japan NPO Research Association Award
• 2010 Best Faculty member 2009
• 1995 Okinaga Award
• 1990 American Council of Learned Societies Award
• 1989 Fulbright Award

Research projects

• 2010–2015 "A Comparative and Empirical Study of the Structural Change in Politics and Transformations in Pressure Groups, Policy Networks, and Civil Society in Japan since 2009"
• 2005–2010 "A Comprehensive Empirical Study on the Three-Level Civil Society Structure and Governance in Japan, South Korea, the United States, Germany, and China in Comparative Perspective"
• 2002–2005 "A Systematic and Comparative Study on Public Policy and Policy-Making Processes in Japan and Korea"
• 2000–2004 "Comparative and Empirical Study of Interest Groups and Civil Society Organizations focusing Primarily on Contemporary China"
• 1996–1998 "A Comparative and Empirical Study on Changes in Government and Interest Group Sector in Japan and Korea"
• 1995–2002 "A Comparative and Empirical Analysis of Environmental Policy Network in Japan, the United States, Germany, and Korea"
• 1993–1995 "A Comparative Statistical Analysis of the Formation and Change in Interest Groups in Advanced Countries"

Major Publications in English

Single Authorship

• 1996　Interest Group Structure and Regime Change in Japan, The Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland.

Multiple Authorship

• 2016　Sae Okura, Leslie Tkach-Kawasaki, Yohei Kobayashi, Manuela Hartwig, and Yutaka Tsujinaka. "Analysis of the Policy Network for the "Feed-in Tariff Law" in Japan: Evidence from the GEPON Survey." Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia vol15. World Association for Triple hElix and Future strategy studies.
• 2015　Fahimul Quadir and Yutaka Tsujinaka. Civil Society in Asia: In Search of Democracy and Development in Bangladesh. Routledge.
• 2014 Robert J. Pekkanen, Yutaka Tsujinaka, and Hidehiro Yamamoto. Neighborhood Assoications and Local Governance in Japan. Routledge.
• 2014　Robert J. Pekkanen, Steven Rathgeb Smith, and Yutaka Tsujinaka. Nonprofits and Advocacy: Engaging Community and Government in an Era of Retrenchment. The Johns Hopkins University Press.
• 1997　John Boli, Frank Dobbin, David Knoke, and Yutaka Tsujinaka.　Forging Industrial Policy: The United States, Britain, and France in the Railway Age. University of Cambridge.
• 1996 David Knoke, Frantz Urban Pappi, Jefferey Broadbent, and Yutaka Tsujinaka. Comparing Policy Networks: Labor Politics in the U.S.Germany, and Japan. University of Cambridge Press.
• 1991 Peter J. Katzensein and Yutaka Tsujinaka. Defending the Japanese State: Structures, Norms and the Political Responses to Terrorism and Violent Social Protest in the 1970s and 1980s. Cornell University.

Chapter Sharing

• 2015 "Constructing Co-Governance Between Government and Civil Society: An Institutional Approach to Collaboration." Governance in South, Southeast, and East Asia: Trends, Issues and Challenges. Springer.
• 2013　"Constructing Co-goverrnance Between Government and Civil Society: An Institutional Approach to Collaboration." Public Organization Review: A Global Journal. Springer.
• 2012 "Civil Society and the Triple Disaster Revealed Strengths and Weakness." Natural Disaster and Nuclear Crisis in Japan: Response and Recovery after Japan's 3/11. Routledge.
• 2010 "Civil Society and Social Capital in Japan." International Encyclopedia of Civil Society, Springer.
• 2009 Yutaka Tsujinaka and Leslie M. Tkach-Kawasaki. "Internet dans la société civile : premier bilan au Japon, en Corée et en Chine (1997-2007)." Hermès, La Revue: Société civile et internet en Chine et Asie Orientale.
• 2008 "Japan's Internal Security Policy." Rethinking Japanese Security: International and External Dimensions. Routledge.
• 2007　Yutaka Tsujinaka, Jae-Young Choe, and Takafumi Ohtomo. "Exploring the Realities of Japanese Civil Society Through Comparison." ASIEN: The German Journal on Comteporary Asia vol.105.
• 2007 Yutaka Tsujinaka and Robert Pekkanen. "Civil Society and Interest Groups in Contemporary Japan." Pacific Affairs: An International Review of Asia and the Pacific vol. 80.
• 2003 "From Developmentalism to Maturity: Japan's Civil Society Organizations in a Comparative Perspective." The State of Civil Society in Japan. Cambridge University Press.
• 1995　Yutaka Tsujinaka and Peter Katzenstein. "Bullying," "Buying," and "Binding": US-Japanese transnational relations and domestic structures." Bringing the Transnatinonal Relations Back In: Non-State Actors, Domestic Structures and International Institutions. University of Cambridge Press.
• 1994 "Rengo: The Final Participant in Japan's Osmotic Corporatism: A Network Interpretation of its Strength." "Japanese Interest Groups in　Transition ̶ A Historical and Cross-national Comparative Analysis."Tsukuba Review of Law and Political Science vol.17.　University of Tsukuba.
• 1993 "Rengo and Its Osmotic Networks." Political Dynamics in Contemporary Japan. Cornell University Press.

External links

• Yutaka Tsujinaka official homepage