Nakano Koichi

(中野晃一)

Profile Information

Affiliation: Professor, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Department of Liberal Arts, Sophia University
Visiting Scholar, Program on US-Japan Relations, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University

Degree: Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy(The University of Tokyo)
B.A. in Philosophy and Politics(University of Oxford)
M. A. in Politics(Princeton University)
Ph.D. in Politics(Princeton University)

Contact information: knakanosophia.ac.jp
Researcher number: 10327885
J-GLOBAL ID: 200901077464299646
researchmap Member ID: 1000306044

(Subject of research)
Japanese Bureaucracy

Research Interests

Research Areas

Humanities & social sciences / Politics /

Major Research History

Oct, 2011 - Present

Professor, Faculty of Liberal Arts Department of Liberal Arts, Sophia University
Apr, 2017 - Mar, 2021

Dean, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Sophia University
Apr, 2007 - Sep, 2011

Associate Professor, Faculty of Liberal Arts Department of Liberal Arts, Sophia University
Apr, 2006 - Mar, 2007

Associate Professor, Faculty of Liberal Arts Department of Liberal Arts, Sophia University
Oct, 2004 - Mar, 2006

Associate Professor, Faculty of Comparative Culture Department of Comparative Culture, Sophia University
Oct, 1999 - Sep, 2004

Lecturer, Faculty of Comparative Culture Department of Comparative Culture, Sophia University

Education

Oct, 1997 - Nov, 2003

Graduate School, Division of Politics, Princeton University
Sep, 1995 - May, 1997

Graduate School, Division of Politics, Princeton University
Apr, 1993 - Jul, 1995

Graduate School, Division of General Culture, The University of Tokyo
Oct, 1993 - Jun, 1995

Philosophy and politics, Philosophy and politics, University of Oxford
Apr, 1988 - Mar, 1993

Faculty of Literature, The University of Tokyo

Awards

Papers

Civic Participation and Party Politics : from Civic Protest to Electoral Contest

53(7) 356-362, Jul, 2018 Invited
Book review on Nationalisms in Japan. By Naoko Shimazu (London: Routledge, 2006)

NAKANO KOICHI

Monumenta Nipponica, 62(4) 496-498, Jan 1, 2007
Amakudari: The Hidden Fabric of Japan's Economy (review)

NAKANO KOICHI

The Journal of Japanese Studies, 31(1) 159-163, 2005
Cross-national transfer of policy ideas: Agencification in Britain and Japan

K Nakano

GOVERNANCE-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF POLICY AND ADMINISTRATION, 17(2) 169-188, Apr, 2004 Peer-reviewed
比較政治と国家機構の分析 : 政策ネットワーク論を中心に(<特集>政治分析のフロンティアと現代日本の政治変動)

中野晃一

社会科学研究, 54(2) 27-43, Mar, 2003

Misc.

Washington’s Man in Japan

Koichi Nakano

The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, 20(16), Sep, 2022 Invited
改憲よりも雇用と経済を : 安倍内閣退陣の可能性 (特集安倍首相に逃げ道はない)

中野晃一, 石塚壮一

マスコミ市民 : ジャーナリストと市民を結ぶ情報誌, (583) 7-15, Aug, 2017
政治における労組と市民社会「共闘」に大切な「大人」の流儀連携は「話せる人」を探すことから (特集分断社会を乗り越えろ!)

中野晃一

Report = 情報労連リポート, 34(4) 18-20, Jan, 2017
インタビュー中野晃一さんに聞く個が個のまま互いを尊重し、世界に関わること : 市民の思いと願いが政治を変える

中野晃一, 菅間正道

人間と教育, (93) 4-18, 2017
新春特別インタビュー立憲主義、憲法、平和を語る : 改憲論議に仕掛けられたワナ : 上智大学国際教養学部教授中野晃一さんに聞く

中野晃一

住民と自治 = Jumin to jichi monthly, (645) 8-14, Jan, 2017

Major Books and Other Publications

Regime Type and Beyond: The Transformation of Police in Asia

Weitseng Chen, Hualing Fu (Role: Contributor, Organizational. Legacies of Authoritarian Police in Postwar Japan)

Cambridge University Press, May, 2023 (ISBN: 9781009042154)
Japan in the Heisei Era (1989–2019)

(Role: Contributor, The rightward shift of Japanese politics: Interest, reform, and identity)

Feb 22, 2022 (ISBN: 0367221675)
The Law and Politics of Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendments in Asia (Comparative Constitutional Change)

(Role: Contributor, The politics of unconstitutional constitutional amendment in Japan: The case of the pacifist Article 9)

Nov 30, 2021 (ISBN: 0367562596)
Japanese constitutional revisionism and civic activism

Hardacre, Helen, George, Timothy S., 駒村, 圭吾, Seraphim, Franziska (Role: Contributor, “Crisis of Constitutional Democracy and the New Civic Activism in Japan: From SEALDs to Civil Alliance”)

Lexington Books, 2021 (ISBN: 9781793609045)
Authoritarian legality in Asia : formation, development, and transition

Chen, Weizeng, Fu, Hualing (Role: Contributor, “Neoliberal Turn of State Conservatism in Japan: From Bureaucratic to Corporatist Authoritarian Legality")

Cambridge University Press, 2020 (ISBN: 9781108496681)
Japanese translation of Party Politics and Decentralization in Japan and France: When the Opposition Governs (Abingdon: Routledge, 2010)

Nakano Koichi

Jun 10, 2019
Identity, Trust, and Reconciliation in East Asia: Dealing with Painful History to Create a Peaceful Present (Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies)

Kevin P. Clements (Role: Contributor, “History, Politics, and Identity in Japan”)

Aug 23, 2018 (ISBN: 3319855131)
Press freedom in contemporary Japan

Kingston, Jeff (Role: Contributor, “The Right-Wing Media and the Rise of Illiberal Politics in Japan”)

Routledge, Dec 12, 2016 (ISBN: 1138647039, 9781138647039)
Asian nationalisms reconsidered

Kingston, Jeff (Role: Contributor, “Political Dynamics of Contemporary Japanese Nationalism”)

Routledge, 2016 (ISBN: 9781138826076)
The Democratic Party of Japan: Challenges and Failures

Nakano Koichi (Role: Joint editor)

Routledge, 2016
Disasters and Social Crisis in Contemporary Japan: Political, Religious, and Sociocultural Responses

Nakano Koichi (Role: Joint editor)

Palgrave Macmilan, Oct, 2015 (ISBN: 9781137521316)
『右傾化する日本政治』 (岩波新書, 新赤版 1553)

中野晃一

岩波書店, Jul, 2015 (ISBN: 9784004315537)
Misunderstanding Asia : international relations theory and Asian studies over half a century

Rozman, Gilbert (Role: Contributor, “The Legacy of Historical Revisionism in Japan”)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2015 (ISBN: 9781137512918)
State conservatism in postwar Japan

Nakano Koichi

Iwanami Shoten, Mar, 2013 (ISBN: 9784000258951)
Party politics and decentralization in Japan and France : when the opposition governs (The Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese studies series)

Nakano Koichi

Routledge, Jan 1, 2010 (ISBN: 9780415553056)
『ヤスクニとむきあう』「ヤスクニ問題とむきあう」

中野晃一 (Role: Joint editor, 5-14, 393-416, 417-419)

めこん, Aug 15, 2006 (ISBN: 483960200X)
The left in the shaping of Japanese democracy : essays in honour of J.A.A. Stockwin

Kersten, Rikki, Williams, David (Role: Contributor, “‘Democratic Government’ and the Left”)

Routledge,Universiteit Leiden, 2006 (ISBN: 0415334349)

Presentations

All Quiet on the Eastern Front: Why is Japan's Democratic Backsliding Invisible to the West?

Koichi Nakano

Dec 20, 2023 Invited
Governing in times of crises: German and Japanese perspectives

Koichi Nakano, Karl-Rudolf Korte, Gabriele Vogt

Dec 18, 2023 Invited
日本はどこへ行くのか「極東」にある「西側」国とは

中野晃一

日中若手研究者フォーラム, Oct 21, 2023 Invited
Japan's democratic backsliding: Why is it invisible to "the West"?

Koichi Nakano

Stockholm Seminar on Japan, Aug 22, 2023 Invited
All Quiet on the Eastern Front: Why Is Japan's Democratic Backsliding Invisible to the West?

Koichi Nakano

同志社大学 Center for Japanese Studies, Tübingen University, May 26, 2023 Invited

Professional Memberships

Research Projects

地域立脚型グローバル・スタディーズの構築

21世紀COEプログラム, 文部科学省, Apr, 2002 - Mar, 2007

村井吉敬, 赤堀雅幸, 安野正士, 石澤良昭, 加藤浩三, 川口和子, 私市正年, 岸川毅, 小林宏光, 下川雅嗣, 谷洋之, 寺田勇文, 中野晃一, 中村雅治, 野宮大志郎, 幡谷則子, 三浦まり, 三田千代子, James Farrer, Linda Grove, Mark Mullins, Sorpong Peou, David Wank
官僚ネットワーク分析による国家-社会関係研究:キャリアパス・天下り・中央省庁再編

科学研究費助成事業, 日本学術振興会, 2005 - 2007

中野晃一
1990年代日本の政党政治変動(政権交代・連立政権)の地方分権改革への影響

科学研究費助成事業, 日本学術振興会, 2002 - 2004

中野晃一
民主党政権失敗の検証

財団法人日本再建イニシアティブ
中道保守プロジェクト

財団法人日本再建イニシアティブ

Academic Activities

Member, Editorial Board

Planning, Management, etc.

Asia Pacific Social Science Review, 2015 - Present
Member, International Advisory Board

Planning, Management, etc.

Monumenta Nipponica, 2013 - Present
Member, International Editorial Board

Planning, Management, etc.

Japan Forum, 2011 - Present

Social Activities

The Taiwan Strait Contingency Seen From Japan

Commentator

Asia-Pacific Forward Forum, Mar 5, 2024
日本政治と憲法改正について

Lecturer

中国社会科学院・日本研究センター, Oct 23, 2023
現代日本政治の動向について

Lecturer

中国人民大学, Oct 23, 2023
A Historical Overview of Japanese National Identity and Nationalism

Lecturer

UK-Japan Students Conference, Aug 3, 2023
„Ostasien im Zeichen des Ukraine-Krieges – Droht auch in dieser Region mittelfristig ein ‚heißer‘ Krieg?“

Panelist

Die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Natur- und Völkerkunde Ostasiens, Tokyo (OAG), Jun 28, 2023

Media Coverage

Shinzo Abe Failed to Rearm Japan. Let’s Keep It That Way.

The New York Times, Jul 20, 2022 Newspaper, magazine
What's ailing Japan?

BBC World Service, The Real Story, Sep 10, 2021 TV or radio program
Japan is not ready to host the Olympics

BBC, Newsnight, Jul 24, 2021 TV or radio program
“In Japan Most People Want to Cancel the Olympics, but the Government Won’t Listen”

The Guardian, May 24, 2021 Newspaper, magazine
“The Tokyo Olympics Are On! But Why?”

The New York Times, Mar 25, 2021 Newspaper, magazine

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