Phillip Lipscy

@lipscy.bsky.social

Polisci professor, University of Toronto & 東京大学 (prev. Stanford, Harvard). IPE, IOs, climate, Japan; website: https://www.lipscy.org Director: https://munkschool.utoronto.ca/csgj Book: http://amazon.com/dp/1316604284/

Tomorrow, 8-9 pm ET: Join us for #JPOSS #57 to discuss Erik Wang's @erik-h-wang.bsky.social paper, “Too Much But Never Enough: Administrative Capacity and Backlashes to State-building in Medieval Japan,” w/ Emily Sellars, Jun Yamasaki, & Christina Davis. Paper & registration: shorturl.at/HQsg1

Erik Wang (New York University), “Too Much But Never Enough: Administrative Capacity and Backlashes to State-building in Medieval Japan” – JPOSS

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congratulations to Dr. Lawther for successfully defending his dissertation today. very happy to have supervised this excellent work

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Japan, ostensibly one of the least religious countries in the world, had its political order upended by the lay Buddhist organization Soka Gakkai. That is THE story about Friday's epochal shift in Japanese politics (thread follows):

Tensions between the LDP and Komeito have been building over recent years, but Japan's ruling coalition has hit a crucial stage. The combo of Takaichi at the helm, plummeting election results for Komeito, a Soka Gakkai base that's facing its own existential crises after Ikeda Daisaku...a new era.

Tobias Harris@tobiasharris.bsky.social · 10mo ago

With the LDP and Kōmeitō at odds, sharing my conversation with @levimclaughlin.bsky.social from after the upper house elections. observingjapan.substack.com/p/the-past-p...

Wed., 9/3, 8-9 pm ET: Join next #JPOSS to discuss Jacques Hymans's paper, “Official historical memory discourse and public opinion: The case of Japan’s new banknote designs” with Charles Crabtree, @yoshiono.bsky.social, and @lipscy.bsky.social. Paper and registration: jposs.org/event/hymans...

Jacques Hymans (University of Southern California), “Official historical memory discourse and public opinion: The case of Japan’s new banknote designs” – JPOSS

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