Ph.D. Elena Korshenko
Ostasiatisches Seminar / Japanologie
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin
Politik und Wirtschaft Japans
Sprechstunde
Sommersemester 2026
vor Ort oder online nach Vereinbarung per E-Mail (elena.korshenko@fu-berlin.de)
EDUCATION
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10/2015 – 02/2025 |
PhD in Japanese Studies Graduate School of East Asian Studies (GEAS), Freie Universität Berlin Dissertation title: Perpetual Instability? Life Cycles of New and Minor Parties in Japan, 2005-2016. Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Verena Blechinger-Talcott and Prof. Gregory Noble |
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09/2012 – 09/2013 |
MA in Pacific Asian Studies School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London Thesis title: Japanese Visions of China: Press Images of 1972 Supervisor: Dr. Martyn Smith |
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09/2006 – 07/2011 |
BA in Asian and African Studies, Japanese Studies major Institute for Asian and African Studies (IAAS), Moscow State University |
RESEARCH AND WORK EXPERIENCE
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05/2020 – present |
Researcher
Institute of Japanese Studies, Freie Universität Berlin |
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09/2019 – 11/2019 |
Tutor for colloquium and institutional theory |
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05/2019 – 08/2019 |
Consultant on Japan for the Leibniz Competition project IMISEM
GIGA, Berlin |
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10/2018 – 03/2019 |
Visiting Researcher
Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo |
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04/2017 – 10/2017 |
Visiting Researcher
Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo |
FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS
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Japanese-German grant of the Humboldt Society in Japan for a research project “The legislative role of opposition parties in the Japanese one-party dominant system” (with Daizo Kojima) (09/2023)
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German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) STIBET grant for teaching (09/2019-11/2019)
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Japan Foundation Japanese Studies Pre-Doctoral Fellowship (10/2018-04/2019)
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German Research Foundation (DFG) PhD fellowship (10/2015-09/2018)
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Japanese Student Services Organization (JASSO) Scholarship (09/2009-08/2010)
TEACHING
PhD courses
- GEAS colloquium tutorial (winter 2019)
MA courses
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Gender and politics in Japan (research seminar, summer 2025)
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On the road to Westminster democracy? Change and continuity in Japan’s political system (research seminar, summer 2023)
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Global Japan: Japan’s transregional foreign policy (research seminar, summer 2020)
BA courses
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Whose voice matters? Representation and exclusion in Japanese politics and society (seminar, winter 2025/26)
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Democracy without competition? Party politics and government in contemporary Japan (seminar, summer 2024)
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Gender and politics in contemporary Japan (seminar, winter 2023/24)
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Alternative Japan: Lifestyles, subcultures and activism (research seminar, winter 2022/23, winter 2024/25)
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Representation and accountability in Japan (seminar, summer 2022)
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Politics and gender in Japan (research seminar, winter 2021/22)
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The dynamics of party politics in contemporary Japan (seminar, summer 2021)
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Still “Unnormal”? Japan’s traditional and non-traditional Security (research seminar, winter 2020/21)
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Gender and politics
- Legislative politics
- Comparative party politics
PUBLICATIONS
Monographs and book chapters
(forthcoming in 2026). (with Jaemin Shim). “Substantive Representation of Women in the Japanese Diet: The Role of Female Legislators,” in Handbook of Women and Power in Japan (ed. Emma Dalton). Amsterdam University Press.
(2024). “Perpetual Instability? Life Cycles of New and Minor Parties in Japan, 2005-2016.” [Online]. Berlin: Freie Universität Berlin. https://doi.org/10.17169/refubium-47649
Other publications and media appearances
(2026). “Takaichi whirlwind,” in Sidecar (New Left Review). https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/takaichi-whirlwind
(2025). “Right populism comes to Japan,” in Compact (USA). https://www.compactmag.com/article/right-populism-comes-to-japan/
(2017). Personal interview by Harakawa Takao. “’Yatō daiittō ga dekitabakari no shintō ni kyūshū sekai mitemo arienai’ – minshintō bunretsu ni odoroki” [‘The main opposition party being absorbed by a newly formed party is unheard of anywhere in the world’ — astonishment at the Democratic Party's split], in Sankei Shimbun (Japan). https://www.sankei.com/article/20171006-SEG3O6UY4NMMZJTWUGVRFER4VQ/