Earlier this month, the Government of Japan announced the recipients of the 2025 Autumn Conferment of Decoration on Foreign Nationals. Among the recipients is Marie Anchordoguy, a professor emerita at the Jackson School and former chair of the Center for Japanese Studies. Anchordoguy was honored with the Order of the Rising Sun in the third

Dear faculty, staff, students, and members of our broader community, Welcome to the 2024-2025 academic year! I hope your autumn quarter was smooth and productive, and that you’re as enthusiastic as we are about the upcoming winter and spring quarters. So far this academic year, we have already hosted (in-person or virtually) the author Shibasaki

Interview with Professor Marie Anchordoguy: Can Japan return as a global innovation leader? In 2022, the Kishida administration announced its New Form of Capitalism concept, aimed at increasing stability within the Japanese economy and undoing some of the excessive effects of “shareholder capitalism,” while also nurturing the tech industries needed for Japan to once again