Akihiro Ogawa

University of Melbourne

akihiro.ogawa [at] unimelb.edu.au

Akihiro Ogawa is the Japanese Studies Chair at the University of Melbourne’s Asia Institute.  His core research interest lies in contemporary Japan and Asia, focusing on civil society.  His research is widely published, with more than 70 publications, and has won a range of awards and grants, including the 2010 Japan NPO Research Association Book Award and SSRC Abe Fellowship.  He chairs the Asian Civil Society Research Network (https://asiancivilsociety.com/), founded in 2017, and is currently working on legislative transparency with parliamentary monitoring organizations in Asia.  He holds a PhD in Anthropology from Cornell University and a Docent in Japanese Studies from Stockholm University.