Yunchen Tian (or just Tian for short) is Program-Specific Associate Professor at Kyoto University’s Faculty of Law. Their primary research interests include migration governance and politics, the political economy of migration, and theories of the state. They were recently awarded the 2023 ISS/OUP Prize in Modern Japanese Studies for their article “Workers, Neighbours, or Something Else? Local Policies and Policy Narratives of Technical Intern Training Program Participants”.
Forgotten philosopher and political prisoner Tosaka Jun (1900-1945) can help us understand the discourse of Japan's "foreigner problem."
