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Andrew DeWit is Professor in the School of Economic Policy Studies at Rikkyo University and an Asia-Pacific Journal editor. His publications include "Japanese Smart Cities and Communities: Integrating Technological and Institutional Innovation for Society 5.0," in Smart Cities for Technological and Social Innovation, Elsevier (Hyung Min Kim, Soheil Sabri and Anthony Kent, eds.) forthcoming 2020 (with Brendan Barrett and Masaru Yarime); “Japan’s (re)integration of energy in industrial policy,” in Critical Issues in Contemporary Japan, 2nd Edition, Routledge (Jeff Kingston, ed.) 2019; “Energy,” in Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Japan, Routledge (Hiroko Takeda and Mark Williams, eds.) forthcoming January 2020.

Saki Isetani, Satoka Shimizu, Andrew DeWit and Rajib Shaw

Indo-Japanese Collaboration on Energy Security and Critical Raw Materials (CRM)

Decarbonization and Critical Raw Materials: Some Issues for Japan

The Japan Renewable Energy Institute’s “Proposal for the 2030 Energy Mix”

Japan’s Integration of All-Hazard Resilience and Covid-19 Countermeasures

Andrew DeWit, Riyanti Djalante and Rajib Shaw

Building Holistic Resilience: Tokyo’s 2050 Strategy

Is Japan a Climate Leader? Synergistic Integration of the 2030 Agenda

Japan’s Integrated Approach to Human Security

Hioki’s Smart Community and Japan’s Structural Reform

Are Asia’s Energy Choices Limited to Coal, Gas or Nuclear?

Japan’s “National Resilience” and the Legacy of 3-11

Watching “The Burden: Fossil Fuel, The Military, and National Security”

Japan’s Dangerous Nuclear Waste on the Cutting Board? Towards a Renewables Future

Japan’s Bid to Become a World Leader in Renewable Energy

Komatsu, Smart Construction, Creative Destruction, and Japan’s Robot Revolution ､

Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience as Structural Reform in Abenomics

Japan's 'National Resilience Plan': Its Promise and Perils in the Wake of the Election

Japan’s Resilient, Decarbonizing and Democratic Smart Communities

Japan's Radical Energy Technocrats: Structural Reform Through Smart Communities, the Feed-in Tariff and Japanese-Style 'Stadtwerke' (FiT)Stadtwerke （）

A New Japanese Miracle? Its Hamstrung Feed-in Tariff Actually Works

Hiroshima's Disaster, Climate Crisis, and the Future of the Resilient City

US Pacific Command, Climate Change and Collaborative Society

Three Cheers for Abe's High-Tech CLT Wooden Arrow: The Future of Japanese Construction

Could a US-Japan “Green Alliance” Transform the Climate-Energy Equation?

Sven Steinmo, Ismail Emre Bayram and Andrew DeWit

The Bumble Bee and the Chrysanthemum: Comparing Sweden and Japan’s Responses to Financial Crisis

Japan’s Energy Policy Impasse

How Important is the Tokyo Gubernatorial Election?

Can Abenomics Cope With Environmental Disaster?

Spinning the Tokyo Metro Election

'Data Will Change ICT,' But Will it Change the Abe Regime?

Fukushima, Fuel Rods, and the Crisis of Divided and Distracted Governance

Water, Water Everywhere: Incentives and Options at Fukushima Daiichi and Beyond

In the Dark With Tepco: Fukushima’s Legacy for Nuclear Power

Abe, Big Data and Bad Dreams: Japan’s ICT Future?

Just Gas? Smart Power and Koizumi’s Anti-Nuclear Challenge？

Green Shoot: Abenomics and the 3rd Arrow

Japan's Rollout of Smart Cities: What Role for the Citizens?

Abenomics Needs a Reboot Rather than Nuclear Restarts

An Emerging Fukushima Model?

Christopher Hobson and Andrew DeWit

Abe at Ground Zero: the consequences of inaction at Fukushima Daiichi

Abenomics and Energy Efficiency in Japan

The US Military, Green Energy, and the SPIDERS at Pearl Harbor

Japan's Richest Man Challenges Nuclear Future

Japan’s Nuclear Village Wages War on Renewable Energy and the Feed-in Tariff

Japan, the Pentagon, and the Future of Renewable Energy: Battle Lines Form−−

Will Escalating LNG Imports Really Ruin Japan?

Japan's New Green Political Innovators Respond to Government Attempts to Restart Nuclear Power Plantso

Bloom Energy Japan Versus Abe’s Road: What Energy Future for Japan?

The End of Japan’s Nuclear Power Mirage? Tokyo’s Green Olympics in 2020？2020

Abe and Pro-Active Pacifism in the Face of Climate Change

Abe and Abbot Out under Australia's Midday Sun

Distributed Power and Incentives in Post-Fukushima Japan

Japan: Building a Galapagos of Power?

Japan’s Energy Policy at a Crossroads: A Renewable Energy Future?

Japan’s Remarkable Renewable Energy Drive—After Fukushima−−

Megasolar Japan: The Prospects for Green Alternatives to Nuclear Power−−

Peter Lynch and Andrew DeWit

Feed-in Tariffs the Way Forward for Renewable Energy

Fallout From the Fukushima Shock: Japan’s Emerging Energy Policy−−

Son Masayoshi and Andrew DeWit

Creating a Solar Belt in East Japan: The Energy Future−−

Sven Saaler and Andrew DeWit

Political and Policy Repercussions of Japan's Nuclear and Natural Disasters in Germany

The Earthquake in Japanese Energy Policy

Iida Tetsunari and Andrew DeWit

The “Power Elite” and Environmental-Energy Policy in Japan

Elliot Brownlee and Andrew DeWit

Revisiting Postwar Taxation in Japan and its Contemporary Implications

Get FIT: Public Policy, the Smart State and the Energy-Environmental Revolution−−

Jonathan Watts and Andrew DeWit

Clean Coal and The Two Faces of China's Coal Industry

Regime Change Short-Circuited: Carbon Emissions and Japan's Feed-in Tariff System

Iida Tetsunari and Andrew DeWit

Is Hatoyama Reckless or Realistic? Making the Case for a 25% Cut in Japanese Greenhouse Gases

Japan's Response to Financial-Economic-Environmental Crisis

Joseph Wong, Ito Peng and Andrew DeWit

East Asian Welfare Regimes

T. Harris and Andrew DeWit

Japan's Twenty Year Response to Economic Crisis

Japan on the Brink of the Abyss? [Updated]

Kaneko Masaru and Andrew DeWit

Subprime Learning: Positive and Negative Lessons of the Japanese Bubble for Americans

The G8 Mirage: The Summit and Japan's Environmental Policies

J L Sawin and Andrew DeWit

Are Renewable Energy Sources Approaching a Tipping Point?

What Me Worry? Japan Blithely Ignores the Warnings of Peak Oil Analysts

Peak Oil and Japan's Food Dependence Available in Japanese Translation

Yukiko YAMAZAKI and Andrew DeWit

Flawed Political Economy of Decentralization

Scientific Stereotypes East and West (available in Spanish)

Yukiko YAMAZAKI and Andrew DeWit

Fiscal Cuts or Common Sense? Fiscal Decentralization in Japan

Japan's Third Way: A Public Intellectual Confronts Japan's Economic Stagnation