Amy CatalinacAmy Catalinac is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Government at Harvard University, Massachusetts. She earned her Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University in 2011 and was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Program on US-Japan Relations at Harvard Univesity, as well as an Assistant Professor at Australian National University, Canberra. She has taken ten years of training in the Japanese language and has spent five years in Japan, where she has observed the election campaigns of politicians all over Japan and has conducted more than one hundred interviews with political actors at all levels of the Japanese government. Her earlier research was published in Foreign Policy Analysis, Politics and Policy, Japan Forum and Political Science. Read More Read Less