Emeritus Fellows
Emeritus Fellows are persons who have held the Office of Warden or who having held a Governing Body Fellowship in St. Antony's College have retired and have been elected to an Emeritus Fellowship by the Governing Body of the College.
Arthur Stockwin was founding Director of the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies. He also held the positions of Nissan Professor of Modern Japanese Studies, Director of the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies and Professorial Fellow of St. Antony’s College between 1982 and his retirement in 2003. He came from the Australian National University in Canberra, where he had spent the previous 21 years, first as a doctoral student and then teaching in the Department of Political Science. As Director of the Nissan Institute, he taught the politics of modern and contemporary Japan at undergraduate level and supervised graduate students in the same field. He was responsible for launching the Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies Series, which, since 1986 has published over 70 books on aspects of Japan.
In 2003, he was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbons by the Japanese government for achievements in Japanese Studies in the UK.
His publications include: The Japanese Socialist Party and Neutralism (1968), Dynamic and Immobilist Politics in Japan (edited and part wrote, 1988), Dictionary of the Modern Politics of Japan (2003), and Governing Japan (4th edition, 2008). Some of his journal articles and papers are brought together in Collected Works of J.A.A. Stockwin (2004). In retirement he continues to study actively the politics of Japan. In late September 2008 he spoke at a symposium in Tokyo comparing the parliaments of Britain and Japan, and in Busan, South Korea, on relations between Korea and Japan.
In 2009 he received an OBE for services to academic excellence and the promotion of UK-Japanese understanding and the Japan Foundation London announced that he will be awarded the Japan Foundation Award for Japanese Studies and Intellectual Exchange for the year 2009 in a ceremony to take place on the 6th of October in Tokyo. Professor Stockwin can still be contacted at: arthur.stockwin@nissan.ox.ac.uk
Ann Waswo, Emeritus Fellow, come to the Nissan Institute from Princeton University in mid-January 1982 to take up the newly created post of Lecturer in Modern Japanese History. She retired in September 2007. During her tenure, she published four books: a translation of Nagatsuka Takashi's The Soil, Modern Japanese Society, 1868-1994, Housing in Postwar Japan: A Social History and (co-edited with Nishida Yoshiaki) Farmers and Village Life in Twentieth-century Japan. She supervised nine DPhil students, all of them now in academic employment, and taught at least 300 undergraduate historians an intensive one-term option on modern Japanese history. She served as Director of the Nissan Institute 2003-2006 and Senior Editor of Japan Forum 2004-2007. Since retiring, she has seen her last-ever DPhil student through his viva in September. She then swatted up on lighthouses and wrote a piece for the online DNB about Richard Henry Brunton, the Scots engineer who oversaw the construction of some thirty of them and established a modern lighthouse service in Japan in the years immediately following the Meiji Restoration of 1868. As directed by the editor, she painstakingly and painfully cut some 800 words from her essay on ‘Housing Culture’, which has now been published in The Cambridge Companion to Modern Japanese Culture. She is organizing an international workshop on ‘machines that changed their worlds: the social history of the sewing machine and the bicycle in Britain and Japan’, to be held in Oxford in early July. All this academic activity has slowed progress on her Oxford mystery novel, which now languishes at chapter 8. The Warden of Thaddeus Hall and his Japanese house guest Akiko Sugiyama are sitting comfortably on the train to London talking about the one death that has already occurred in the college and the stresses within the academic profession that led to it. Neither of them can imagine, of course, that another and far more grisly death will occur in just a few days’ time. Dr Waswo can still be contacted at: ann.waswo@nissan.ox.ac.uk