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Aya Goto leads Harvard School of Public Health students on field trip to Fukushima Prefecture, Japan

This January, Aya Goto, Professor of the Practice of International Community Health and faculty director of the Takemi Program in International Health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, is leading a cohort of fifteen graduate students on an immersive tour of Fukushima Prefecture.

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Miya Qiong Xie (Ph.D. '17) awarded 2024 Modern Language Association Prize for First Book

Miya Qiong Xie (Ph.D. 2017) was recently awarded the 2024 Modern Language Association Prize for First Book for her monograph Territorializing Manchuria: The Transnational Frontier and Literatures of East Asia (Harvard University Asia Center, 2023).

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Mari Miura featured in article in the Asahi Shimbun

Mari Miura, Professor of Political Science at Sophia University and 2024-25 Reischauer Institute Visiting Scholar, has recently been featured in the Asahi Shimbun in an article titled, なお「男性の壁」、女性議員の層厚くしないと ("Facing the gender barrier: the number of female legislators must increase"). In this article, she discusses challenges in Japanese politics, especially around gender representation and the recent election outcomes.

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