{"id":209,"date":"2009-10-21T10:13:36","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T14:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?page_id=209"},"modified":"2025-04-14T17:49:25","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T21:49:25","slug":"jacob-kovalio","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/people\/jacob-kovalio\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacob Kovalio"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"website\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Website<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The website&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/freeandopenindopacific.net\/\">FREE &amp; OPEN INDO-PACIFIC.net<\/a>&nbsp;launched in September 2021, and is inspired by the legacy in Japanese, Asian and global international relations of Abe Shinz\u014d \u2013 the longest-serving Prime Minister of Japan (2006-7 &amp; 2012-20).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"research-interests\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Research Interests<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Japanese diplomatic history, foreign policy, political culture, nationalism and antisemitism, Chinese&nbsp; hegemonism,&nbsp; international relations in the Indo-Pacific&nbsp; area in the 21<sup>st<\/sup>&nbsp;century.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pan-Asianism and Asian international relations<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hugh Keenleyside, Kenneth P. Kirkwood, Herbert Norman and Japan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"honours-and-awards\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Honours and Awards<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>2021 Recipient of the 2021&nbsp;<em>Order of the Rising Sun Gold Rays with Rosette<\/em>&nbsp;from the Government of Japan for promoting the study of Japan in Canada and Canadian-Japanese relations.<br>2014, September: recipient of a Foreign Minister of Japan\u2019s Commendation for contributions to the study of Japan in Canada and to Canadian-Japanese friendship.<br>2013, 2007: Finalist for the National Capital Region Excellence in Teaching Award.<br>2004 (May): Korea Foundation Short-Term Visiting Fellow<br>2002: Japan Foundation Research Fellowship<br>2001 [April]: Head of Canadian Asia specialists\u2019 delegation to the Republic of China [Taiwan].<br>2000, 1998, 1991: Excellence in Teaching Awards<br>2000 [April]: Invited lecturer at the Center for&nbsp; Strategic and International Studies [CSIS]&nbsp; of the People\u2019s Liberation Army [PLA] , Beijing.<br>1996 [to 2002]: Japan Foundation Research Fellowships.<br>1992-93: President of the&nbsp;<em>Japan Studies Association of Canada<\/em>&nbsp;[JSAC].<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"conferences-symposia-organizer\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Conferences\/Symposia Organizer<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Organizer of the 25<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;Annual Conference of the&nbsp;<em>Japan Studies Association of Canada<\/em>&nbsp;[JSAC], October 2012, Carleton University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>International Conference on Canada-Japan relations, 2002, Carleton University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Organizer of the 5<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;Annual Conference of the&nbsp;<em>Japan Studies Organization of Canada<\/em>&nbsp;[JSAC], October 1992, Carleton University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"select-publications\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Select Publications<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFour decades since the publication of E.W. Said\u2019s Orientalism: brief comments on its ideological roots and impact on Japan and Japan-related scholarship,\u201d in 2019, Japan\u2019s World and the World\u2019s Japan: Conference Proceedings of the 2018, 31st Annual Conference of the Japan Studies Association of Canada [JSAC] University of Alberta, Edmonton, Aya Fujiwara and James White eds., pp. 109-125, JSAC website, 2018&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/buna.yorku.ca\/jsac\/jsac2018\/jsac2018_%20proceedings.pdf\">publication link<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cA Liberal China policy for Canada\u2019s&nbsp; majority Conservative administration?\u201d at&nbsp; Japanpacificworldconsulting.com, July 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cUnderstanding Chinese&nbsp;<strong><em>Confucommunism<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d at Japanpacificworldconsulting.com, 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Russian Protocols of Zion in Japan : YUDAYAKA\/Jewish Peril Propaganda and Debates in the 1920s<\/em>&nbsp;.New York: Peter Lang, 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe tumultuous Kanreki of the Koizumi administration,\u201d&nbsp;<em>CANCAPS Bulletin<\/em>, November 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAbusing History for Political Ends,\u201d&nbsp;<em>GLOCOM.COM<\/em>, Japan, April 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201dSecurity issues in US-China relations at the dawn of the 21st century,\u201c in&nbsp;<em>Jahrbuch f\u00fcr internationale Sicherheitspolitik<\/em>&nbsp;,2000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cGendai Nihonron\u201d [Modern Japanese Studies] in Kat\u014d Hiroaki ed.&nbsp;<em>Eriyastadey ny\u016bmon chiiki kenky\u016b<\/em>&nbsp;[Area Studies-Introduction to Regional Studies] (Ky\u014dto: Sh\u014dwad\u014d, May 2000).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Japan in Focus<\/em>&nbsp;, ed. 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