Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies

Waseda University

Maximilien Xavier REHM

Maximilien Xavier REHM
Posted
Fri, 18 Sep 2026
  • Degree：
    Ph.D. (Global Society Studies) Doshisha University Graduate School of Global Studies

Field of Specialization

Japanese Politics

Research Theme

Japanese Migration Policy, Policymaking Process, Japanese Foreign Relations

Major Works / Publications / Awards

Major Works / Publications

  • Rehm, Maximilien Xavier. 2026. “The Institutionalizing of International Education Policy as a Labor Migration Pathway: Analyzing Four Decades of Policymaking in Japan.” Contemporary Japan, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2026.2612671.
  • Rehm, Maximilien Xavier. 2024. “Abe’s Incrementalism: An Institutionalist Analysis of Immigration Policy Reform during the Second Abe Administration.” Japan Forum 37 (2), 178–203. https://doi.org/10.1080/09555803.2024.2411005.
  • Rehm, Maximilien Xavier. 2024. “Still A Negative Case? Japan’s Changing Refugee Policy In The Face Of New Geopolitical Challenges.” Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus 22 (6). https://doi.org/10.1017/S155746602402919X.
  • Rehm, Maximilien Xavier. 2024. “Re-Examining the Roles of the Polity-Bureaucracy-Industry Triad in Japanese Immigration Policymaking: How Have the Major Actors’ Levels of Influence Changed since 1990?” Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies 24 (1). https://www.japanesestudies.org.uk/ejcjs/vol24/iss1/rehm.html.
  • Rehm, Maximilien Xavier. 2023. “Shutting the Door: Japan’s COVID-19 Border Control Policy in the Context of Its (Non-)Immigration Policy.” Migration Policy Review 15, 194–218.
  • Rehm, Maximilien Xavier. 2023. “The Admission of Foreigners as ‘Human Resources’: The Contradictory Approach of Japan.” Global Resource Management Journal 9, 73–91.
  • Rehm, Maximilien Xavier. 2021. “A New Immigration Regime for Low- and Medium-Skilled Labor in Japan? Assessing the 2019 Amendment to the Immigration Control Act at the Two-Year Mark.” Journal of Global Studies 12, 143–67.

Academic Societies / Service to Society

Academic Societies

  • European Association for Japanese Studies
  • The Japanese Association for Migration Studies
  • Japan Association for Migration Policy Studies

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