Japanese political economy

Institutional change

Rural Japan

Agricultural politics

Welfare regimes

Varieties of capitalism

Bio

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. His dissertation analyzed the process of institutional change in Japan’s agricultural support and protection regime. His research interests further include central-local political relations, 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.  

Current research project

Governing decline - Changing Patterns of Local Governance in Japan's Peripheries

Recent publications

Jentzsch, Hanno. Forthcoming. Harvesting State Support: Institutional Change and Local Agency in Japan’s Agricultural Support and Protection Regime. Toronto: Toronto University Press.

Special Issue in Pacific Affairs: Renegotiating Social Risk Shifts in the People's Republic of China and Japan (co-edited with Alison Lamont).

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. 2020. "Regional Revitalization as a Contested Arena: Promoting Wine Tourism in Yamanashi". In Japan's New Ruralities, ed. Wolfram Manzenreiter, Ralph Lützeler and Sebastian Polak-Rottmann. Abingdon, Oxon, New York, NY: Routledge: 159–174.

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. His dissertation analyzed the process of institutional change in Japan’s agricultural support and protection regime. His research interests further include central-local political relations, 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.  

Current research project

Governing decline - Changing Patterns of Local Governance in Japan's Peripheries

Recent publications

Jentzsch, Hanno. Forthcoming. Harvesting State Support: Institutional Change and Local Agency in Japan’s Agricultural Support and Protection Regime. Toronto: Toronto University Press.

Special Issue in Pacific Affairs: Renegotiating Social Risk Shifts in the People's Republic of China and Japan (co-edited with Alison Lamont).

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. 2020. "Regional Revitalization as a Contested Arena: Promoting Wine Tourism in Yamanashi". In Japan's New Ruralities, ed. Wolfram Manzenreiter, Ralph Lützeler and Sebastian Polak-Rottmann. Abingdon, Oxon, New York, NY: Routledge: 159–174.