{"id":611,"date":"2015-07-21T10:52:25","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T01:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/?p=611"},"modified":"2015-07-21T10:52:25","modified_gmt":"2015-07-21T01:52:25","slug":"yales-rosenbluth-speaks-on-study-of-japanese-attitudes-towards-immigrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/news-en\/2015\/07\/21\/611\/","title":{"rendered":"Yale\u2019s Rosenbluth speaks on study of Japanese attitudes towards immigrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-30111\" alt=\"DSC_0010 cr sm\" src=\"http:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/assets\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSC_0010-cr-sm.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"582\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On July 9, Frances McCall Rosenbluth, Damon Wells Professor of International Politics at Yale University, and a comparative political economist with a special interest in Japan, gave a lecture for students and faculty at Waseda University. This workshop was supported by the Top Global University Project Center for Empirical Analyses of Political Economy.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-30107\" alt=\"DSC_0032 cr sm\" src=\"http:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/assets\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSC_0032-cr-sm.jpg\" width=\"871\" height=\"768\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Following opening remarks from Graduate School of Political Science professor Aiji Tanaka, Dr. Rosenbluth presented her research entitled \u201cJapanese Attitudes towards Immigration: Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment,\u201d a collaborative project with Dr. Seiki Tanaka and Professor Rieko Kage. This research centered on an experiment to clarify the positive\/negative attitudes of Japanese respondents depending on various characteristics of immigrants. She concluded that Japanese generally had a \u201csociotropic\u201d orientation, preferring skilled and educated immigrants, but simultaneously had self-interested fear of a dilution of cultural \u201cpurity\u201d combined with specific concerns about competition for wages or jobs.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-30109\" alt=\"DSC_0034 cr sm\" src=\"http:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/assets\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSC_0034-cr-sm.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"696\" \/><\/p>\n<p>GSPS professor Masaru Kohno gave a short review praising the research, adding several points on its details. He suggested adding consideration of the definition of immigrant, such as inclusion of the family members of immigrant workers, and of the background of immigration law.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-30110\" alt=\"DSC_0038 sm\" src=\"http:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/assets\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSC_0038-sm.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 9, Frances McCall Rosenbluth, Damon Wells Professor of International Politics at Yale University, and  [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":613,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[83],"class_list":["post-611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","tag-events-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}