Research Papers:

"Gendering the Varieties of Capitalism: A Study of Occupational Segregation by Sex in Advanced Industrial Societies," World Politics (October, 2006). Winner of the Sage Award for the Best Comparative Politics Paper, presented at 2005 APSA.

"Gendering the Varieties of Capitalism: Gender Bias in Skills and Social Policy," forthcoming in Frances Rosenbluth ed. The Political Economy of Japan's Low Fertility (Stanford University Press, 2006).

"Japan's Shift Toward A Westminster System: A Structural Analysis of the 2005 Lower House Election," Asian Survey vol. 46, no.4 (2006).

"Japan's Shift Toward A Westminster System: A Structural Analysis of the 2005 Lower House Election," Politics of Modern Japan: Critical Concepts in the Modern Politics of Asia (Routledge, forthcoming).

"Gender Bias in Skills and Social Policies: The Varieties of Capitalism Perspective on Sex Segregation," Social Politics vol.12, no. 2 (2005).

"Feminism as Industrial Policy in Japan," Amy Thernstrom ed. Japanese Women: Lineage and Legacies (D.C.: Woodrow Wilson International Center 2005).

"How Should the Role of Citizen be Designed and Performed? Social Justice and the Varieties of Capitalism: Individuality, Flexibility and Social Well-Being," The International Studies Review , vol.7. no.3 (October 2005).

"State–Society Partnership in the Japanese Welfare State," in Frank Schwartz and Susan Pharr eds. The State of Civil Society in Japan( Cambridge University Press, 2003).

"Review of The Real Worlds of Welfare Capitalism by Robert Goodin et al.," British Journal of Industrial Relation, 41 (2003). Book review.

"Negotiating Welfare Reforms : Actors and Institutions in the Japan ese Welfare State," in Sven Steinmo and Bo Rothstein eds. Restructuring the Welfare State: Political Institutions and Policy Change (Palgrave 2002).

" The Forgotten Link : The Financial Regulation of Japanese Pension Funds in Comparative Perspective " in Philip Manow and Bernhard Ebbinghaus eds. The Varieties of Welfare Capitalism: Social Policy and Political Economy in Europe, Japan and the USA (London: Routledge, 2001).

"Social Protection and the Formation of Skills: A Reinterpretation of the Welfare State, " co-authored with Torben Iversen and David Soskice in Peter Hall and David Soskice eds. Varieties of Capitalism: The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage (London: Oxford University Press, 2001).

"Review of Kigyôôka no Ronri to Taisei no Kôzu by Jun Watanabe," Social Science Japan Journal , 4(2):287-330 (2001), book review.

"Review of Bicycle Citizens: The Political World of the Japanese Housewife by Robin M. LeBlanc," Women and Politics 22(3): 103-104 (2000), book review.

"Multiple Logics of the Welfare State," working paper, The US-Japan Program, Harvard University , 2000 .

"Political Women in Japan: A Case Study of the Seikatsusha Network Movement," co–authored with Joyce Gelb , Social Science Japan Journal (Oxford University Press), vol.1, No.2 (1998).

"Seijigaku kara mita Kanryosei (Politics of the Japanese Bureaucracy)," in Shiroyama and Hosono eds., Chuo Kancho no Seisaku Keisei Katei (Inside the Japanese Bureaucracy) (Chuo University Press, 1998).

"Seimei Hokengyo to Biggu Ban (Life Insurance Industry and the Big Bang)," in Haruo Sasaki ed., Kisei Kanwa to Nihon no Sangyo (Japanese Industries and De-regulation). (Keio University Press, 1998).

NTT Vs Yuseisho (Ministry of Post and Telecommunications) , (Tokyo: PHP, 1996), co–authored with Hiroshi Kato and et.al. Contributed a chapter comparing the telecommunications regulatory regimes in the UK, US, and Japan.