Professor and the Renison Research Professor in East Asian Studies, University of Waterloo
The fellowship program promotes and strengthens intellectual exchanges and dialogues in a wide range of fields related to Japan, which also contributes Japanese diplomacy in many ways. I hope that this program will continue for a long time to come.
Dr. Hara conducted research in Tokyo for three months in 2017-2018. Aside from her research, Dr. Hara’s favourite memories from that time includes “Eating delicious Japanese foods and visiting sento (public bath house)!”
My research examines key political and security relations in the context of the San Francisco System and its transformations. Thanks to the Japan Foundation Fellowship, I was able to conduct archival research in Tokyo (e.g., Foreign Ministry Archives, National Diet Library, the University of libraries, etc.) and benefited from valuable opportunities of academic exchanges in the relevant fields.
In addition to advancement of my own research, the Japan Foundation Fellowship greatly helped broaden my academic collaboration networks, as well as strengthen existing ties, in Japan and around the world.
The fellowship program promotes and strengthens intellectual exchanges and dialogues in a wide range of fields related to Japan, which also contributes Japanese diplomacy in many ways. I hope that this program will continue for a long time to come.
Since Dr. Hara returned from Japan, she has co-edited a manuscript alongside three other prominent scholars of Japanese Studies, two of whom are also Japan Foundation Fellows.
Japanʼs Future and a New Meiji Transformation: International Reflections (co-edited with Ken Coates, Carin Holroyd and Marie Söderberg, Routledge, 2019) — This volume is the fruit of a collaborative project between the two policy-relevant networks based in Canada (JFI) and Europe (EJARN). The project conference (December 2016) was also graciously supported by the Japan Foundation.
