Hanno Jentzsch holds a MA in East Asian Politics (Ruhr-University Bochum, 2011) and received his PhD from the University of Duisburg-Essen in March 2016. From October 2016 to March 2020, he held a position as a senior research fellow at the German Institute for Japanese Studies in Tokyo, and worked as a university assistant (post-doc) at the University of Vienna (April 2020 - December 2022) and as a lecturer for "Global Political Economy of Japan" at Leiden University (January 2023 - August 2024). His first monograph “Harvesting State Support” (University of Toronto Press, 2021) analyzes institutional change in Japanese agriculture. His research interests further include decentralization, the political economy of “rural revitalization” in Japan, the Japanese welfare state, and the role of informal institutions in processes of institutional change in advanced political economies. Currently he his working on a monograph that investigates the relationship between the local state and community-level self-governance organizations in rural Japan.

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Department of East Asian Studies

Spitalgasse 2, Hof 2 (Campus)
1090 Wien

T: +43-1-4277-43804

hanno.jentzsch@univie.ac.at

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