These are ongoing projects that are currently under development or review. To avoid any unintended influence on the peer-review process, full titles and manuscripts are not publicly listed. Please contact me if you're interested in learning more.
A paper examining and comparing humans' and ChatGPT's interpretations of “discrimination” using comparable vignette experiments with hypothetical discriminatory scenarios (with Akira Igarashi and Yoshinobu Kano, under review).
A paper investigating how party and ideology cues impact ideological consistency among Japanese citizens, providing insights into the origins of their ideological beliefs (under review).
A paper providing measures of parties' ideal points over six decades in postwar Japan, using legislative speech data (with Tomoki Kaneko and Taka-aki Asano, under review).
A paper investigating how the block vote system affects voter preferences for female candidates in Japan, using a survey experiment (with Yoshikuni Ono and Yuko Kasuya, under review).
A paper revealing how partisan motivated reasoning and majoritarian views of democracy lead to voter acceptance of executive power grabs, using a survey experiment in Japan (with Ikuma Ogura and Yuko Kasuya, under review).
A paper arguing for country-specific measures of symbolic and operational ideology in cross-national research, based on original surveys conducted in both Western and non-Western countries (with Ikuma Ogura, Tetsuro Kobayashi, and Yuko Kasuya, under review).
A paper testing the impact of corrective information on gender misperceptions and policy attitudes, based on survey experiments in South Korea and Japan (with Min Hee Go, Yesola Kweon, and Yoshikuni Ono, under review).
A paper examining the impact of social conformity pressure on support for sexist politicians, using Rodrigo Duterte's “rape joke” in the Philippines as a case study (with Yuko Kasuya and Cleo Anne Calimbahin, under review).
A paper showing how long-term disinformation campaigns have manufactured authoritarian nostalgia in the Philippines, using survey and experimental data from the 2022 presidential election (with Yuko Kasuya, Kota Mori, and Ikuma Ogura, under review).
A paper examining the influence of soft news consumption on ideological voting using both observational and experimental methods in Japan (with Shoko Omori, in progress).
A paper examining how gender asymmetry in socioeconomic partner preferences influences spouse selection in Japan, using a conjoint survey experiment (with Fumiya Uchikoshi, Yoshikuni Ono, and James M. Raymo, in progress).
A paper examining the rally 'round the flag effect in Japan with weekly polling data (with Tomoya Sasaki, in progress).
A paper proposing new measures of affective polarization in multi-party system countries (with Ikuma Ogura and Yuko Kasuya, in progress).
A paper proposing a mixture model to identify individuals with belief systems similar to political elites, applying it to elite and mass surveys in the United States and Japan (in progress).
A paper demonstrating how the Japanese government strategically times death penalty executions based on its approval rating (in progress).
A paper proposing a novel approach to estimate the ideological positions of political pundits from their publication patterns in opinion magazines, demonstrated through its application to over 1,000 pundits in Japan (with Shoko Omori, in progress).
A paper showing that the racial hierarchy in the United States is not mirrored in Japan, using a conjoint experiment with facial photographs (with Akira Igarashi and Yoshikuni Ono, in progress).
A paper investigating the significance of partisanship for voters in five countries through conjoint experiments (with Ikuma Ogura, in progress).
A paper proposing a novel framework to aggregate poll results across a wide range of topics and question wordings, using text embeddings and a customized IRT model to measure latent public opinion moods (with Akira Nakada and Yoshinobu Kano, in progress).