Ellis Krauss
Professor of Japanese Politics and Policymaking, Director of Japanese Studies
ekrauss@ucsd.edu
Phone: (858) 534-8175
Fax: (858) 534-3939
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0519
Office #1413
Education
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1973
M.A., Stanford University, 1965
B.A., Brooklyn College of CUNY, 1964
Biography
Krauss is a leading expert on Japanese politics, U.S.-Japan relations, and Japan's political economy. Krauss in 2004 published a co-edited book with T.J. Pempel, UC-Berkeley, Beyond Bilateralism: U.S.-Japan Relations in the New Asia Pacific (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004) that analyzes how recent trends in the Asia-Pacific over the past decade and a half have reshaped the U.S.-Japan relationship. In 2000, he published a book entitled Broadcasting Politics in Japan: NHK and Television News (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000), about NHK, Japan's mammoth public broadcaster, and its relationship to and consequences for Japanese politics. He has written or edited many other books and also articles published in professional journals dealing with political science and Asian Studies, including a recent research note in the British Journal of Political Science and an article in the American Political Science Review.
Former Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi with Martha Leche (Professor Krauss's wife), Professor Krauss, and co-author Robert Pekkanen in September 2005.
In 2004, Krauss received a UC Pacific Rim Research Program grant on "The Comparative Effects of Electoral Reform in Two Pacific Rim Democracies: Japan and New Zealand." With T.J. Pempel, he also received a U.S.-Japan Friendship Commission grant in 2000 for the "Beyond Bilateralism" conference project and volume mentioned above.
In 2003 and 2001, Krauss was a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation, University of Warwick, U.K. He was named Distinguished Lecturer of the Association for Asian studies in 1992-1993. He has received a Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars fellowship for research in residence and was twice a Fulbright Fellow in Japan. He has been a visiting scholar at several Japanese universities, including the University of Tokyo during periods in 1998-2000. Krauss serves on the advisory boards of several journals and important committees of national organizations in the field of Asian studies, including being a member of the the American Advisory Board of the Japan Foundation. Krauss joined IR/PS in 1995.
Get Out the Vote Election Rally in Tokyo
Programs and Centers
Japan Regional Concentration Program
Perspectives
Krauss can provide commentary on domestic politics in Japan, the Japanese mass media, U.S.-Japan relations and Japan's foreign policy and role in Asia.
Expertise
Krauss is a leading expert on Japanese politics, U.S.-Japan relations, and Japan's political economy.
Current Projects
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Krauss currently is conducting a project (with Robert Pekkanen, University of Washington), on how Japan's political parties have responded and adapted to Japan's electoral reforms of the 1990s. He is also doing co-authored research on changes in the influence and role of politicians and bureaucrats in postwar Japan (with Michio Muramatsu and Ethan Scheiner) and on US-Japan relations in comparative perspective to U.S.-U.K. and U.S.-German relations (with Christopher Hughes and Verena Blechinger).
Krauss pictured with Pekkanen (left) in front of the Diet building.
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Background Notes
In 2003, Krauss was chosen as one of the six members of the "U.S. Knowledge Leaders" tour to Tokyo to interact with Japanese private sector, government, and cultural elites, sponsored by the Japan Federation of Economic Organizations' Keizai Koho Center. In 1998-2000, Krauss received a prestigious Abe Fellowship to conduct research on the U.S., Japan, and APEC. In 1992-3 he was named "Distinguished Lecturer" of the Association for Asian Studies. He directed a National Endowment for the Humanities Seminar on "The Democratic Experience in Japan" in 1994. He is on advisory boards of several journals and important committees of national organizations in the field of Asian and Japanese Studies. Krauss joined IR/PS in 1995.
Professor Krauss with New Zealand's former Prime Minister Sir Geoffrey Palmer in July 2006.
Professional Activities
Member, Advisory Board, The Japan Foundation, 2002- present
Member, Editorial Board, The Pacific Review, 2001- present
Member, Advisory Board, Asian Survey, 1997- present
Member, Advisory Board, Journal of Japanese Studies, 1992-1995 and 2001- present
Member, Executive Committee, Japan Politics Research Group, 1998- present
Member, Screening Committee [for faculty hiring], Hiroshima Peace Institute, Japan, 2000- present
Member, Editorial Board, Social Science Japan Forum
Member, Evaluation Committee of the East Asian Program, University of Washington, February, 2001
Board of Directors, Japan Policy Research Institute, 1994-present
Research Interests
- Japanese Politics (graduate and undergraduate)
- Politics of U.S.-Japan Economic Relations (graduate and undergraduate)
- Japan and the U.S. in Asia (graduate) and Japanese Foreign Policy (graduate)
- Japanese Political Economy (graduate and undergraduate)
Future Japanese Voter at an Election Rally
Publications of Note
Krauss in 2004 published a co-edited book with T.J. Pempel, UC-Berkeley, Beyond Bilateralism: U.S.-Japan Relations in the New Asia Pacific (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004). In 2000 he published a book entitled, Broadcasting Politics in Japan: NHK and Television News (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000), about NHK, Japan's mammoth public broadcaster, and its relationship to and consequences for Japanese politics. Krauss also is co-editor of Media and Politics in Japan (1996). His previous works include co-editing and contributing articles for Democracy in Japan and Conflict in Japan. He wrote a monograph for the Foreign Policy Association, entitled "Japan's Democracy: How Much Change? " and has written many articles published in professional journals dealing with political science and Asian Studies.
Recent Publications
Journal Articles:
“Electoral Incentives in Mixed-Member Systems: Party, Posts, and Zombie Politicians in Japan”, (Co-authors Robert Pekkanen and Benjamin Nyblade)
American Political Science Review Vol. 100, No. 2 May 2006
Japan’s ‘‘Coalition of the Willing’’ on Security Policies [co-author Robert Pekkanen]
Orbis, Volume 49, Number 3 Summer 2005
‘Presidentialization’ in Japan? The Prime Minister, Media and Elections in Japan [co-author Benjamin Nyblade]
British Journal of Political Science, Vol. 34 April 2004, pp. 357-368
"Explaining Party Adaptation to Electoral Reform: The Discreet Charm of the LDP?" [co-author: Robert Pekkanen]
Journal of Japanese Studies, Vol. 30, No. 1 Winter 2004, pp.1-34
"The U.S., Japan, and Trade Policy: From Bilateralism to Regional Multilateralism Regionalism +"
The Pacific Review, Vol .16, No. 3 (2003), pp. 309-331
Recent Books:
Broadcasting Politics in Japan: NHK and Television News
Book Reviews:
Monumenta Nipponica
The Japan Times (December 13, 2000)
Foreign Affairs (July/August 2000)
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Japan’s Foreign Policy
Fall 2007
Course Description:
The main purpose of this course is to explore Japan’s foreign policy in Asia in the wake of the Cold War, especially the emergence of new multilateral governance structures, the economic and military rise of China and the problem of North Korea, the emergence of Japanese and other nationalisms. This course dovetails with such other courses as “International Relations of the Asia-Pacific” but unlike the latter focuses on Japan and goes into more detail on Japan’s its foreign policies in the region. It also dovetails with IRGN 460 “The Politics of U.S.-Japan Relations,” unavoidably of course involving the U.S to some degree; but unlike 460 it is not concerned with the bilateral interaction but with the foreign economic and security policies of Japan towards the Asian region and major regional and global institutions.
Postwar Politics in Japan
Fall 2007
Course Description:
Overview of postwar politics in Japan, including American Occupation reforms, political institutions, major political factors, mass and elite, and political behavior. Special attention will be paid to the issue of Japan’s changing democracy.
The Politics of U.S.-Japan Relations
Spring 2006
Course Description:
This course focuses on the politics and policymaking involved in conflictual and cooperative economic and security relations between the United States and Japan. We will examine especially the interaction between the domestic and international levels in each country and how these shaped the sources, process, and outcomes of relations between the two countries.
The emphasis in the course is on actual case studies of policymaking and related politics in specific issues of economics and security. The course will not deal much with finance or monetary issues as these are dealt with extensively at IR/PS in other courses related to Japan. Rather, the emphasis is primarily on trade and other non-finance political economic issues, and on military security issues.
