About
About the Stanford Japan Barometer
The Stanford Japan Barometer (SJB) is a multi-wave public opinion survey run by the Stanford Japan Program at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford University.
The project tracks Japanese public opinion on national security, foreign policy, and social policy — including Taiwan contingency scenarios, defense spending, immigration preferences, and gender and family policy. Each wave embeds original survey experiments (conjoint analyses, vignette experiments) to identify causal mechanisms behind public attitudes.
People
Kiyoteru Tsutsui is the Henri H. and Tomoye Takahashi Professor and Senior Fellow in Japanese Studies at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC), the director of APARC and of the Japan Program at APARC, co-director of the Southeast Asia Program at APARC, executive director of the Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies, co-director of the Center for Human Rights and International Justice, senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, and professor of sociology, all at Stanford University.
Charles Crabtree is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in the School of Social Sciences at Monash University and K-CLUB Professor in the University College at Korea University. His research interests include intergroup relations and conflict with regional focuses on the Asia-Pacific and the former Soviet Union. He has published numerous articles at top journals in political science and other fields.
Sho Miyazaki is a Ph.D. Student (Fall 2026–) in Public Policy at Harvard University and former predoctoral research fellow at Stanford University.
See Methods for details on survey design and experimental approach.