Research

Occasional Papers by the Program Associates and Fellows

Each Associate and Advanced Research Fellow prepares a major research paper for submission to the Program's Occasional Paper Series, and a set of each year's papers is distributed to leading policymakers and organizations in Japan and the United States.

U.S.-Japan Program Publication List

Research on "Civil Society in the Asia-Pacific"

In 1999, the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations embarked on a major international project entitled "Civil Society in the Asia-Pacific." Civil Society in the Asia-Pacific continues to be an important theme of the program, and we are thus distributing research that relates to this general topic, broadly defined to include work on civil society, social networks, and social capital in countries in the region.

In 2003, Program's Associate Director Frank Schwartz and Director Susan Pharr published a book, The State of Civil Society in Japan.

Other Resources

The Program on U.S.-Japan Relations is co-sponsored by the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. The Reischauer Institute (originally the Japan Institute) was established in 1973 to develop and support Japanese studies at Harvard. The Weatherhead Center, founded as an autonomous research institute in 1958, also acts as an umbrella organization for several international programs at Harvard, providing administrative support and intellectual resources of great talent and variety.

With funding from the Reischauer Institute, Harvard established a Documentation Center on Contemporary Japan (DCCJ) in 1988. Paralleling similar collections on the People's Republic of China, the former Soviet Union, and the Middle East housed in the same library, the DCCJ brings together up-to-date materials, including satellite editions of leading Japanese newspapers; key journals and magazines; a select collection of books, reports, and documents that bear on issues relating to contemporary Japan; and access to such on-line databases as Nikkei Telecom and Gateway Japan. The DCCJ is a part of the Harvard University Library system, which houses one of the world's largest collections of research sources on Japan and East Asia.