Junior Research Programs

Ranging from rapid demographic decline to post-3.11 energy policy and the geostrategic implications of China’s rise, this public roundtable provides an overview of the complex social and political challenges confronted by contemporary Japan. The roundtable will critically discuss explicitly and implicitly deployed notions of crisis in politically relevant narratives. Panelist will discuss what crisis means, how this notion has been deployed in their respective fields of expertise, and how Japan has responded to the various complex social-economic and political changes. While this roundtable will focus on Japan, it is nevertheless our objective to contextualize the origins of crisis narratives and their political impact in the form of institutional change internationally.