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This page provides an overview of the Abe Fellowship Program, its purpose and research agenda: "The Abe Fellowship Program Committee seeks applications for research explicitly focused on policy-relevant and contemporary issues with a comparative or transnational perspective that draw the study of the United States and Japan into wider disciplinary or theoretical debates" (Policy-Relevant, Contemporary, and Comparative or Transnational Research, ¶2) from eligible candidates every year by September 1st.

"The number of upper secondary school graduates in Japan has declined by 38 per cent since 1990, when the country's previously booming economy began to flatline, and job vacancies outnumber applicants by more than 60 per cent. Such factors have prompted questions about the country's ability to maintain a workforce capable of paying off the world's largest public debt; Japan's government owes around two-and-a-half times what its entire economy produces each year" (¶4, 2018.11.26).