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SMITH Nathaniel Michael

Department / Course College of International Relations Department of International Relations

Title / Position Associate Professor

Other Affiliations
1.	Graduate School of International Relations

Academic background
1.	2011 Degree Acquisition	PhD, Anthropology (Yale University)
2.	2006 Degree Acquisition	MPhil, Anthropology (Yale University)
3.	2004 Degree Acquisition	MA, East Asian Studies (Yale University)
4.	2003 Degree Acquisition	MA, International Relations (Waseda University)
5.	2000 Degree Acquisition	BA, Foreign Language (Japanese and Spanish) (University of California, Riverside)
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Business career
1.	2021/04 ～	Associate Professor │ College of International Relations Department of International Relations │ Ritsumeikan University
2.	2019 ～ 2021	Visiting Scholar │ Graduate School of Asia Pacific Studies │ Waseda University
3.	2013 ～ 2021	Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies and Anthropology │ Department of East Asian Studies │ University of Arizona
4.	2011 ～ 2013	Japan Foundation Faculty Fellow in the Anthropology of Japan │ Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies │ University of California, Santa Barbara
5.	2007 ～ 2008	│ Institute of Social Science │ The University of Tokyo

Research activities
1.	2004 ～	American Anthropological Association
2.	2004 ～	Association for Asian Studies

Present specialized field
Cultural anthropology and folklore, Japanese history, Politics, Tourism studies, Area studies (Keyword：cultural anthropology,far right political activism,nationalism,social movements,civil society,urban studies,ethnicity,subculture,sound studies and visual culture,US-Japan relations)

Books
1.	2026/01/01	National(ist) media: Platform, participation, and the rise of digital populism in JapanThe Digital Rise of the Far Right in Japan │ 0 (0),pp.0-0

Papers
1.	2026/03/19	Platforms and Populism and Political Change │ 立命館国際研究 │ 38 (4)
2.	2020/01/02	Vigilante video: digital populism and anxious anonymity among Japan’s new netizens │ Critical Asian Studies │ 52 (1),pp.67-86
3.	2018/12	Review (invited) of The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Protest Music after Fukushima by Noriko Manabe New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. 464 pp. │ American Anthropologist │ 120 (4),pp.863-864
4.	2018/08/22	Fights on the Right: Social Citizenship, Ethnicity, and Postwar Cohorts of the Japanese Activist Right │ Social Science Japan Journal │ 21 (2),pp.235-257
5.	2015/08	Review (invited) of Taiko Boom: Japanese Drumming in Place and Motion. By Shawn Bender. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012. 280 pp. $65.00 (cloth); $29.95 (paper). │ The Journal of Asian Studies │ 74 (3),pp.749-750
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Academic conference presentation
1.	2024/02/28	Finding Kabukicho
2.	2023/11/19	Martyrdom and Lionization of Activists on the Right in Japan
3.	2023/06/11	(Anti)-Authoritarianism and New Populist Movements in Japan
4.	2023/03/19	Fellow Travelers, Competitive Conservatives: New Religion and Japan’s New Right
5.	2023/03/19	Panel Co-organizer and Chair: Religion and Politics in Japan after the Abe Assassination
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Competitive grants, etc. (exc. KAKENHI)
1.	2019/08 ～ 2020/07	Kabukicho Renaissance: Multiculturalism, Marginality, and Urban Renewal in Tokyo │ Research by External Competitive Fund │ Japan Foundation Japan Studies Long-term Research Fellowship

Subject
1.	Advanced Seminar
2.	Advanced Seminar
3.	Introduction to Japan Studies
4.	IR18‐HE301 Advanced Seminar
5.	IR18‐HE301 Advanced Seminar
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External Researcher ID
ORCID ID
0000-0001-7238-0418