Hanno Jentzsch is a university lecturer (assistant professor) at the Institute for Area Studies.

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Research Interests:

I am a political scientist researching social and regional inequalities in Japan, the political economy of rural revitalization, the Japanese welfare regime, decentralization, and local governance. My first monograph entitled “Harvesting State Support” (University of Toronto Press, 2021) analyzed institutional change and local agency in Japan’s agriculture. My current research projects focus on changing state-society relations and “revitalization” in rural Japan, and on the missing link between rural decline and electoral discontent in Japan.

Previous positions:

• April 2020 – December 2022: Assistant Professor, Department of East Asian Studies/Japanese Studies, University of Vienna
• October 2016 – March 2020: Senior Researcher, German Institute for Japanese Studies (Social Science Section), Tokyo

Fellowships:

• October 2015 – March 2016: Post-Doctoral Fellow, DFG Research Training Group 1613 Risk and East Asia, Institute for East Asian Studies, University of Duisburg-Essen
• September 2013 – December 2013: Visiting Research Fellow, Institute of Social Sciences, Tokyo University
• October 2011 – September 2015: Doctoral Fellow, DFG Research Training Group 1613 Risk and East Asia, Institute for East Asian Studies, University of Duisburg-Essen

Education:  

• March 2016: Dr. Phil. (summa cum laude), University of Duisburg-Essen, Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute for East Asian Studies, DFG Research Training Group 1613 Risk and East Asia. Thesis: The “Local” in Processes of Endogenous Institutional Change: Informal Village Institutions in Japan’s Changing Agricultural Support and Protection Regime. 
  Supervisors: Professor Karen Shire, PhD (University of Duisburg-Essen), Professor Robert Pekkanen, PhD (University of Washington, Seattle).
• February 2011: M.A. Politics of East Asia, Faculty for East Asian Studies, Ruhr- University Bochum, Germany
• May 2008: B.A. Politics and Economics of East Asia, Faculty for East Asian Studies, Ruhr- University Bochum, Germany 

Publications:

Monography

Jentzsch, Hanno. 2021. Harvesting State Support – Institutional Change and Local Agency in Japanese Agriculture, Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Editorship

• Jentzsch, Hanno and Sonja Ganseforth, eds. 2022. Rethinking Locality in Japan. London and New York: Routledge.
• Jentzsch, Hanno and Alison Lamont. 2020. “Renegotiating Social Risks in the Peoples’ Republic of China and Japan.” Special issue for Pacific Affairs, 93 (2)

Journal Articles

• Jentzsch, Hanno and Alison Lamont. 2020. “Introduction: Renegotiating Social Risks in The People’s Republic of China and Japan.” Pacific Affairs, 93 (2): 265–279.
• Jentzsch, Hanno. 2020. “Japan’s Changing Regional World of Welfare: Agricultural Reform, Hamlet-based Collective Farming, and the Local Renegotiation of Social Risks.” Pacific Affairs, 93 (2): 327–351.
• Jentzsch, Hanno. 2019. “La revitalisation régionale et ses contestations locales: Le cas de la promotion de l’œnotourisme à Yamanashi.” Ebisu, 56: 191–221.
• Jentzsch, Hanno. 2017. “Abandoned Land, Corporate Farming, and Farmland Banks: A Local Perspective on the Process of Deregulating and Redistributing Farmland in Japan”. Contemporary Japan, 28 (2): 1–16.
• Jentzsch, Hanno. 2017. “Tracing the Local Origins of Farmland Policies in Japan: Local-National Policy Transfers and Endogenous Institutional Change”. Social Science Japan Journal, 20 (2): 243-260.

Book Chapters

• Jentzsch, Hanno. 2022. “Abenomics in der Landwirtschaftspolitik: Koizumis Werk und Abes Beitrag”. In: Japan Jahrbuch 2022, eds. David Chiavacci and Iris Wieczorek, Munich: Iudicium, 83-92.
• Jentzsch, Hanno. 2022. “San’ya – The Making and Unmaking of a Welfare Quarter”. In: Rethinking Locality in Japan, eds. Sonja Ganseforth and Hanno Jentzsch, London and New York: Routledge, 117-134.
• Jentzsch, Hanno and Sonja Ganseforth. 2022. “Introduction: Rethinking Locality in Japan.” In: Rethinking Locality in Japan, eds. Sonja Ganseforth and Hanno Jentzsch, London and New York: Routledge, 1-18.
• Jentzsch, Hanno. 2020. “Fieldwork in Japan and Beyond”. In: Studying Japan: Research Designs, Fieldwork and Methods, eds. Nora Kottmann and Cornelia Reiher, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 177-183. 
• Jentzsch, Hanno. 2020. San’ya 2020 – From Building to Hosting the Tokyo Olympics. In: Japan through the Lens of the Tokyo Olympics, eds. Barbara Holthus, Wolfram Manzenreiter, Franz Waldenberger and Isaac Gagné. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 54-58. 
• Jentzsch, Hanno. 2020. “Regional Revitalization as a Contested Arena – Promoting Wine Tourism in Yamanashi”. In: Japan’s New Ruralities: Coping with Decline in the Periphery, eds. Ralph Lützeler, Wolfram Manzenreiter and Sebastian Polak-Rottmann. London and New York: Routledge, 159-174.
• Jentzsch, Hanno. 2017. “Subsidized Tradition, Networks, and Power: Hamlet Farming in Japan’s
• Changing Agricultural Support and Protection Regime”. In Feeding Japan, eds. Andreas Niehaus and Tine Walravens. New York: Palgrave Macmillan: 413–442.

Other Publications (selected)

• Jentzsch, Hanno. Forthcoming. “Book Review: Betting on the Farm: Institutional Change in Japanese Agriculture, by Patricia L. Maclachlan and Kay Shimizu”. Social Science Japan Journal.
• Jentzsch, Hanno. 2023. “Book Review: Japan’s Living Politics: Grassroots Action and the Crises of Democracy, by Tessa Morris-Suzuki”. Pacific Affairs, 96 (1).
• Jentzsch, Hanno. 2021. “Die Grenzen der Deregulierung – Die Japanische Landwirtschaft zwischen Organisation und Chaos“. Zoll+ Landschaft und Freiraum 39.
• Jentzsch, Hanno. 2017. “Book Review: The Political Economy of Japanese Trade Policy, ed. Aurelia George Mulgan and Masayoshi Honma”. Pacific Affairs, 90 (2): 352-354.