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Phillip Lipscy @lipscy.bsky.social · 5d

I was interviewed by @scmpnews.bsky.social regarding the LDP leadership contest in Japan.

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Who will be Japan’s next prime minister?

YouTube video by South China Morning Post

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Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University @harvardusjapan.bsky.social · Aug 29

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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Japanese Journal of Political Science @jjps.bsky.social · Aug 18

#OpenAccess from our new issue -

Beyond #COVID19 vaccine acceptance: survey evidence from Taiwan - cup.org/4kD6qBy

"partisan fights on the vaccination against COVID-19 in Taiwan centred on its brand choice rather than acceptance"

- Yun-Yeh Chiang & Jason Kuo

JJPS abstract discussing the partisan fights over COVID-19 vaccination in Taiwan and the impact on vaccine choice, highlighting findings from a 2022 survey of Taiwanese respondents.

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Phillip Lipscy @lipscy.bsky.social · Jul 28

I wrote a piece about Japan's recent upper house election in @eastasiaforum.bsky.social

eastasiaforum.org/2025/07/27/j...

Japan’s upper house election delivers political uncertainty with big implications

Japan’s upper house election delivered deadlock over direction, exposing the nation’s fragile leadership and rising populist undercurrents in a political moment demanding clarity and strength.

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Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University @harvardusjapan.bsky.social · Jun 3

Thurs., 6/19, 8-9 pm ET: Join next #JPOSS to discuss Shusuke Ioku's paper, “Weapons of the Weak: Population Mobility and the Construction of the State in Early Modern Japan, with Francisco Garfias @fgarfias.bsky.social, Chiaki Moriguchi, and Amy Catalinac (Chair). Info: jposs.org/event/ioku-0...

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Phillip Lipscy @lipscy.bsky.social · May 27

The Japan Conference at the Centre for the Study of Global Japan @uoft.bsky.social was a great success. It was wonderful to see exciting work from the next generation of Japan scholars and exchange views on the future of Japan studies.

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Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University @harvardusjapan.bsky.social · May 16

#JPOSS is organized by Amy Catalinac, Christina Davis,
@sfujihira.bsky.social, @yusakuhoriuchi.bsky.social, Saori Katada, @lipscy.bsky.social, and @profdansmith.bsky.social. Please check out Sangyong Son's website. We look forward to your participation! sangyongson.com

Sangyong Son

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Kristi Govella @kristigovella.bsky.social · May 13

📣 Job opening alert: CSIS Japan Chair is now accepting applications for a Fellow/Senior Fellow and a Research Assistant! More information: careers.csis.org/opportunities

Careers | Center for Strategic and International Studies

CSIS is a bipartisan, nonprofit organization headquartered in Washington, D.C. The Center’s 220 full-time staff and large network of affiliated scholars conduct research and analysis and develop polic...

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Phillip Lipscy @lipscy.bsky.social · Mar 26

Congratulations!

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Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University @harvardusjapan.bsky.social · Mar 18

Read "The Institutional Sources of Economic Transformation: Explaining Variation in Energy Transitions," forthcoming in @thejop.bsky.social, co-authored by Faculty Associate @lipscy.bsky.social. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....

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Phillip Lipscy @lipscy.bsky.social · Mar 8

I am the co-editor-in-chief of @jjps.bsky.social. We welcome manuscripts from the full range of subfields and methods. We are a @cambridgeup.bsky.social open-access journal (OA is free if you don't have funding to cover it). Please consider submitting your work!

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Japanese Journal of Political Science | Cambridge Core

Japanese Journal of Political Science - Professor Rieko Kage, Professor Shuhei Kurizaki, Professor Phillip Lipscy

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Phillip Lipscy @lipscy.bsky.social · Mar 7

Congratulations, that is so well deserved!

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Phillip Lipscy @lipscy.bsky.social · Feb 26

Our article “The Institutional Sources of Economic Transformation: Explaining Variation in Energy Transitions” is now forthcoming from @thejop.bsky.social. Many thanks to so many colleagues for their helpful feedback! #Polisky #ClimateChange

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Phillip Lipscy @lipscy.bsky.social · Feb 13

About a 40 minute drive within the city

Phillip Lipscy @lipscy.bsky.social · Feb 13

The three campuses of University of Toronto responded completely differently to overnight snowfall.

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Phillip Lipscy @lipscy.bsky.social · Feb 10

Our webinar event on the Geoeconomics of the Second Trump Presidency is coming up tomorrow. Hope to see you there!

Phillip Lipscy @lipscy.bsky.social · Feb 4

We will be hosting a webinar on the Geoeconomics of the Second Trump Presidency on 2/11. Featuring Michael Beeman (USTR under Trump 1.0) and expert comments from Jonathan Miller, @profvekasi.bsky.social, and Yves Tiberghien. Hope you can join us!

munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/geoeco...

The Geoeconomics of the Second Trump Presidency

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Dick Samuels @rjsamuels.bsky.social · Feb 5

The US-Japan Foundation & leading scholars announced an award for best doctoral dissertation in social sciences on Japan. They hope it will give an early boost to the winner's career and deepen our knowledge.Details here: us-jf.org/en/news/usjf... (Please let folks on your distribution lists know.)

USJF announces new dissertation award

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Kristin Vekasi @profvekasi.bsky.social · Feb 4

This should be a great event!

Phillip Lipscy @lipscy.bsky.social · Feb 4

We will be hosting a webinar on the Geoeconomics of the Second Trump Presidency on 2/11. Featuring Michael Beeman (USTR under Trump 1.0) and expert comments from Jonathan Miller, @profvekasi.bsky.social, and Yves Tiberghien. Hope you can join us!

munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/geoeco...

The Geoeconomics of the Second Trump Presidency

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Phillip Lipscy @lipscy.bsky.social · Feb 4

We will be hosting a webinar on the Geoeconomics of the Second Trump Presidency on 2/11. Featuring Michael Beeman (USTR under Trump 1.0) and expert comments from Jonathan Miller, @profvekasi.bsky.social, and Yves Tiberghien. Hope you can join us!

munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/geoeco...

The Geoeconomics of the Second Trump Presidency

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Phillip Lipscy @lipscy.bsky.social · Feb 1

We are very excited to welcome Kay Shimizu to the Centre for the Study of Global Japan, Munk School to talk about her book, "The Digital Transformation and Japan's Political Economy" (co-authored with Ulrike Shaede). We hope you can join us!

munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/digita...

The Digital Transformation and Japan's Political Economy

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Japanese Journal of Political Science @jjps.bsky.social · Jan 17

From our new issue -

Do pandemics reduce support for democracy? A survey experiment in Myanmar - cup.org/4hirqw9

- Swe Oo Mon & Kyohei Yamada

#jjps

Japanese Journal of Political Science Swe Oo Mon and Kyohei Yamada abstract graphic

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Phillip Lipscy @lipscy.bsky.social · Jan 16

The Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame just elected Ichiro, but he only received 92.6% support. When he was eligible, Sadaharu Oh, the world leader with 868 homeruns, only received 93.2%. Who are the dissenters and why are they still allowed to vote?

news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/a9a...

イチロー氏が殿堂入り！有資格1年目では史上7人目「何とか日本野球の力になりたい」岩瀬仁紀ら4名が選ばれる、王貞治氏も祝福（TBS NEWS DIG Powered by JNN） - Yahoo!ニュース

野球殿堂博物館は16日、「2025年野球殿堂入り通知式」を開催し、計4名の殿堂入りを発表した。プレーヤー表彰でプロ野球・オリックスや大リーグ・マリナーズなどで活躍したイチロー氏（51、マリナーズ会長

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Jeff Colgan @jeffcolgan.bsky.social · Jan 7

Question for authors: I received notice from Cambridge UP about an option to allow my book Petro-Aggression for AI training, with remuneration. Strikes me as a collective action problem: if I decline but every other author accepts, have I only harmed myself? Thoughts?

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Phillip Lipscy @lipscy.bsky.social · Jan 7

I declined. This is effectively signing away not only the contents of the book but your own writing style and voice. No way I am endorsing that for fractions of a penny.

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Phillip Lipscy @lipscy.bsky.social · Jan 2

A Toronto driver was so unhappy with a speed camera that they hacked it off, dragged it through a park, and dumped it into a duck pond

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Here's a full history of Toronto's most controversial speed camera after latest incident

Amid a push for road safety improvements across Toronto, the implementation of one measure in one particular pocket of the city, an Automated Speed E…

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