UCSD - The Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies

Ellis Krauss
Professor of Japanese Politics and Policymaking

UCSD, IR/PS, 9500 Gilman Drive,
La Jolla, CA 92093-0519
Office #1413

Phone: (858) 534-8175
Fax (858) 534-3939
Email: ekrauss@ucsd.edu

Expert Sheet
Expertise
Krauss is a leading expert on Japanese politics, Japanese media and politics, U.S.- Japan relations, and Japan's foreign policy.

Current Projects
Krauss currently is conducting a project (with Robert Pekkanen, University of Washington), on how Japan's political parties have responded and adapted to Japan's electoral reforms of the 1990s. He is also doing co-authored research on changes in the influence and role of politicians and bureaucrats in postwar Japan (with Michio Muramatsu and Ethan Scheiner) and on US-Japan relations in comparative perspective to U.S.-U.K. and U.S.-German relations (with Christopher Hughes and Verena Blechinger).

Perspective
Krauss can provide commentary on domestic politics in Japan, the Japanese mass media, U.S.-Japan relations and Japan's foreign policy and role in Asia.

Publications of Note
Krauss in 2004 published a co-edited book with T.J. Pempel, UC-Berkeley, Beyond Bilateralism: U.S.-Japan Relations in the New Asia Pacific (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004). In 2000 he published a book entitled, Broadcasting Politics in Japan: NHK and Television News (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000), about NHK, Japan's mammoth public broadcaster, and its relationship to and consequences for Japanese politics. Krauss also is co-editor of Media and Politics in Japan (1996). His previous works include co-editing and contributing articles for Democracy in Japan and Conflict in Japan. He wrote a monograph for the Foreign Policy Association, entitled "Japan's Democracy: How Much Change? " and has written many articles published in professional journals dealing with political science and Asian Studies.

Background Notes
Krauss in 2004 received a UC Pacific Rim Research Program grant on "The Comparative Effects of Electoral Reform in Two Pacific Rim Democracies: Japan and New Zealand." With T.J. Pempel, he also received a U.S.-Japan Friendship Commission grant in 2000 for the "Beyond Bilateralism" conference project and volume mentioned above. In 2003 and 2001 he was a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation, University of Warwick, U.K.. Also in 2003, he was chosen as one of the six members of the "U.S. Knowledge Leaders" tour to Tokyo to interact with Japanese private sector, government, and cultural elites, sponsored by the Japan Federation of Economic Organizations' Keizai Koho Center. In 1998-2000, Krauss received a prestigious Abe Fellowship to conduct research on the U.S., Japan, and APEC. In 1992-3 he was named "Distinguished Lecturer" of the Association for Asian Studies. He directed a National Endowment for the Humanities Seminar on "The Democratic Experience in Japan" in 1994 and received a Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars fellowship for research in residence. He was twice a Fulbright Fellow in Japan and has been a visiting scholar at several Japanese universities. He is on advisory boards of several journals and important committees of national organizations in the field of Asian and Japanese Studies. Krauss joined IR/PS in 1995. B.A. in political science from Brooklyn College of CUNY. M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from Stanford University. Krauss is fluent in Japanese (written and spoken).