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Ass.-Prof. Dr. Hanno Jentzsch , MA
Hanno Jentzsch
Department of East Asian Studies
Spitalgasse 2
1090 Wien
Room: 2K-O1-06
T: +43-1-4277-43804
Hanno Jentzsch holds a MA in East Asian Politics (Ruhr-University Bochum, 2011) and received his PhD from the University of Duisburg-Essen in March 2016. From October 2016 to March 2020, he held a position as a senior research fellow at the German Institute for Japanese Studies in Tokyo, and worked as a university assistant (post-doc) at the University of Vienna (April 2020 - December 2022) and as a lecturer for "Global Political Economy of Japan" at Leiden University (January 2023 - August 2024). His first monograph “Harvesting State Support” (University of Toronto Press, 2021) analyzes institutional change in Japanese agriculture. His research interests further include decentralization, the political economy of “rural revitalization” in Japan, the Japanese welfare state, and the role of informal institutions in processes of institutional change in advanced political economies. Currently he his working on a monograph that investigates the relationship between the local state and community-level self-governance organizations in rural Japan.
Profile photoHanno Jentzsch
Department of East Asian Studies
Email: hanno.jentzsch@univie.ac.at

Research interests

Japanese political economy

Institutional change

Rural Japan

Agricultural politics

Welfare regimes

Varieties of capitalism

 

Bio

Hanno Jentzsch holds a MA in East Asian Politics (Ruhr-University Bochum, 2011) and received his PhD from the University of Duisburg-Essen in March 2016. From October 2016 to March 2020, he held a position as a senior research fellow at the German Institute for Japanese Studies in Tokyo, and worked as a university assistant (post-doc) at the University of Vienna (April 2020 - December 2022) and as a lecturer for "Global Political Economy of Japan" at Leiden University (January 2023 - August 2024). His first monograph “Harvesting State Support” (University of Toronto Press, 2021) analyzes institutional change in Japanese agriculture. His research interests further include decentralization, the political economy of “rural revitalization” in Japan, the Japanese welfare state, and the role of informal institutions in processes of institutional change in advanced political economies. Currently he his working on a monograph that investigates the relationship between the local state and community-level self-governance organizations in rural Japan.

 

Current research projects

Governing decline - Changing Patterns of Local Governance in Japan's Rural Peripheries

Extemely Lonely? Subjective Loneliness and Attitudes towards Diversity in Japan (with Wolfram Manzenreiter) 

 

Recent publications (selected)

Jentzsch, Hanno and Kostyantin Ovsiannikov. 2025. "In decline, but not left behind? Electoral behavior in Japan's depopulating regions". Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties

Jentzsch, Hanno and Sebastian Polak-Rottmann. 2024. "Community-Based Care During COVID-19: Balancing Social Distancing and Social Care in Rural Japan – The Case of the Aso Region". The Asia-Pacific Journal - Japan Focus, 22 (3).

Jentzsch, Hanno and Sonja Ganseforth (eds.) 2021. Rethinking Locality in Japan. London and New York: Routledge 

Jentzsch, Hanno. 2021. Harvesting State Support: Institutional Change and Local Agency in Japan’s Agricultural Support and Protection Regime. Toronto: Toronto University Press.

Special Issue in Pacific Affairs: Renegotiating Social Risk Shifts in the People's Republic of China and Japan (co-edited with Alison Lamont).

Jentzsch, Hanno. 2020. "Japan's Changing Regional World of Welfare: Agricultural Reform, Hamlet-based Collective Farming, and the Local Renegotiation of Social Risks." Pacific Affairs, 93 (2): 327–351.

Jentzsch, Hanno. 2020. "Regional Revitalization as a Contested Arena: Promoting Wine Tourism in Yamanashi". In Japan's New Ruralities, ed. Wolfram Manzenreiter, Ralph Lützeler and Sebastian Polak-Rottmann. Abingdon, Oxon, New York, NY: Routledge: 159–174.

 

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Jentzsch, H. (Accepted/In press). Crowdfunding for Sustainability? The Emerging Link between the “Hometown Tax” and Sub-municipal Civic Self-governance in Rural Japan. In K. Sakamoto, J. Raymond , & T. Keiko (Eds.), Building Sustainable Agrifood Systems and Resilient Rural Communities in Japan Lexington Books, a Division of Rowman&Littlefield Publishers.
Jentzsch, H., & Ovsiannikov, K. (2025). In decline, but not left behind? Electoral behavior in Japan's depopulating regions. Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties, 1-26. https://doi.org/10.1080/17457289.2025.2513295
Jentzsch, H., & Polak-Rottmann, S. (2024). Community-Based Care During COVID-19: Balancing Social Distancing and Social Care in Rural Japan – The Case of the Aso Region. Asia Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, 22(3), Article 5835.
Jentzsch, H. (2024). Robots won’t save Japan: An ethnography of eldercare automation. Contemporary Japan: journal of the German Institute for Japanese Studies Tokyo, 36(2), 291-293.
Jentzsch, H. (2023). Betting on the Farm: Institutional Change in Japanese Agriculture. Social Science Japan Journal, 26(1), 153-155. https://doi.org/10.1093/ssjj/jyac030
Jentzsch, H. (2023). JAPAN’S LIVING POLITICS: Grassroots Action and the Crises of Democracy | By Tessa Morris-Suzuki. Pacific Affairs: an international review of Asia and the Pacific, 96(1).
Jentzsch, H., & Ganseforth, S. (2022). Introduction: Rethinking Locality in Japan . In S. Ganseforth, & H. Jentzsch (Eds.), Rethinking Locality in Japan (pp. 1-18). Routledge, Taylor & Francis.
Jentzsch, H. (2022). Koizumis Werk und Abes Beitrag: Abenomics in der Landwirtschaftspolitik . In D. Chiavacci , & I. Wieczorek (Eds.), Japan 2022: Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft (pp. 83-91). Iudicium Verlag.
Ganseforth, S., & Jentzsch, H. (Eds.) (2022). Rethinking Locality in Japan. Routledge, Taylor & Francis. Nissan Institute / Routledge Japanese Studies Series
Jentzsch, H. (2022). San'ya: The Making and Unmaking of a Welfare Quarter. In S. Ganseforth , & H. Jentzsch (Eds.), Rethinking Locality in Japan Routledge, Taylor & Francis.
Jentzsch, H. (2021). Die Grenzen der Deregulierung. Zoll + : österreichische Schriftenreihe für Landschaft und Freiraum, 39(31).
Jentzsch, H. (2021). Harvesting State Support: Institutional Change and Local Agency in Japanese Agriculture . University of Toronto Press.
Jentzsch, H. (2020). Building Arguments on National Policies from Everyday Observations. In N. Kottmann, & C. Reiher (Eds.), Studying Japan : Handbook of Research Designs, Fieldwork and Methods (pp. 169-173). Nomos Verlag.
Jentzsch, H., & Lamont, A. (2020). Renegotiating Social Risks in The People’s Republic of China and Japan. Pacific Affairs: an international review of Asia and the Pacific, 93(2), 265-279. https://doi.org/10.5509/2020932265
Jentzsch, H. (2020). Japan's Changing Regional World of Welfare: Agricultural Reform, Hamlet-Based Collective Farming, and the Local Renegotiation of Social Risks. Pacific Affairs: an international review of Asia and the Pacific, 93(2), 327-351.
Jentzsch, H. (2020). Regional Revitalization as a Contested Arena: Promoting Wine Tourism in Yamanashi . In W. Manzenreiter , R. Lützeler , & P.-R. Sebastian (Eds.), Japan's New Ruralities: Copung with Decline in the Periphery (pp. 159-174). Routledge, Taylor & Francis.
Jentzsch, H. (2020). San'ya 2020: From Building to Hosting the Tokyo Olympics. In H. Barbara, G. Isaac , W. Manzenreiter , & F. Waldenberger (Eds.), Japan Through the Lens of the Tokyo Olympics (pp. 54-58). Routledge, Taylor & Francis.
Jentzsch, H. (2017). Abandoned land, corporate farming, and farmland banks: A local perspective on the process of deregulating and redistributing farmland in Japan. Contemporary Japan: journal of the German Institute for Japanese Studies Tokyo, 29(1), 31-46. https://doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2017.1256977
Jentzsch, H. (2017). Subsidized Tradition, Networks, and Power: Hamlet Farming in Japan’s Changing Agricultural Support and Protection Regime. In A. Niehaus , & T. Walravens (Eds.), Feeding Japan : The Cultural and Political Issues of Dependency and Risk (pp. 413-442). Palgrave Macmillan.
Jentzsch, H. (2017). Tracing the Local Origins of Farmland Policies in Japan: Local-National Policy Transfers and Endogenous Institutional Change. Social Science Japan Journal, 20(2), 243-260.
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Crowdfunding for sustainability? The intersection between the “hometown tax” program and community-level self-governance in rural Japan

Jentzsch, H. (Speaker)

17 Nov 2024

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Governing in-migration: Regional management organizations as gatekeepers and agents of integration for urban-rural migrants

Jentzsch, H. (Speaker)

1 Nov 2024

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

The National Promotion of Local Self-Help: Decentralization and Civic Self-Governance in Japan’s Peripheries

Jentzsch, H. (Speaker)

10 Jul 2021

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Sanya 2020: Tokyo's Tagelöhnervierter vor den Olympischen Spielen

Jentzsch, H. (Speaker)

5 Feb 2020

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public

Governing the “Man-Made Disaster” – Town-Building and Local Self-Governance in the Peripheries of Amalgamated Municipalities in Japan

Jentzsch, H. (Speaker)

15 Jul 2019 → 19 Jul 2019

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Japan’s Changing Agricultural Welfare State – Struggling Cooperatives, Collective Farming, and Village Institutions

Jentzsch, H. (Speaker)

23 Jun 2018 → 25 Jun 2018

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Defensive Institution-Building and Changing Social and Political Boundaries: Local Agricultural Regimes and Agricultural Reform in Japan

Jentzsch, H. (Speaker)

3 Jun 2018 → 6 Jun 2018

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Department of East Asian Studies

Spitalgasse 2
1090 Wien
Room: 2K-O1-06

T: +43-1-4277-43804

hanno.jentzsch@univie.ac.at

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