Abstract
The “Golden Age” of Japan Studies in the United States has passed. Various forces, economic and intellectual, have operated to reduce the impact of Japanese Studies. Within the broad field of Japan Studies, political science has been in decline with History and Cultural Studies becoming more popular in recent years. While the study of Japanese politics can be found in large state universities and elite private universities, it is absent in many of the country’s institutions of higher education. If a student seeks to study of Japanese politics at the graduate level, it must be done at one of the twenty of so elite state or private universities with the resources necessary for MA and PhD study.
