THE SENSE OF INJUSTCE AMONG MILLENIALS IN JAPAN AND KOREA

 
​This project seeks to understand why we experience inequality and insecurity in the ways we do at different times and places. Drawing on 14 months of ethnographic research and interviews with 98 young adults, this research shows how different pace of institutional changes shape subjective impacts using a lens of comparison. 

Published works: 
2019. “Precarious Regular Jobs in Japan” Japan Forum (Online first) — Link to the paper
  • 2018-2019 Graduate Student Best Paper Award, Department of Sociology, UHM

In progress: 
Hope and Reality: Coming of Age in Times of Inequality in Japan and South Korea — book manuscript in preparation

“Reluctant-Commitment or Practical-Adjustment?: Commitment to Competition for Elite Universities in East Asia" — Under review; draft available upon request

(With Dr. Myungji Yang) “Pace of Institutional Changes and the Sense of Injustice among Millennials in South Korea and Japan ”— Under review; draft available upon request

(With Wonjeong Jeong) “Intergenerational Differences in the Support of More Rigorous Tax Policies”

RIGHT-WING POLITICS IN JAPAN AND BEYOND

 
l am also working on another project about democracy and right-wing politics in Japan, a topic I have been continuously researching since 2011. By examining the structural conditions and political actors’ responses to them in shaping a particular political trajectory, this project will shed light on another history of post-recession Japanese society.

Published works: 
2019. “Becoming Right-Wing Citizens in Contemporary Japan.” Contemporary Japan, 31 (2): 122-140. -- Link to the paper
  • 2020 Contemporary Japan Best Paper Award

In progress: 
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(Guest editor with Dr. Naoto Higuchi) Guest Editor “Friends and Foes of Multiculturalism in East Asia” Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia. 19 (2) —December 2020 Issue — Link to the CFP

 “New Right-Wing Movement as Alternative Politics: Why Did They Achieve Success?” in Alternative Politics in Japan edited by D. Slater and P. Steinhoff. 
  • 2016 Seidensticker Award for Best Japan Paper, SPAS Graduate Student Conference, UHM
          
(With Dr. Sharon Yoon) “Legitimizing Nativism and the Hate Discourses of Japan’s ‘Net-Right’”— Under review; draft available upon request