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Hi, I’m Shusuke Ioku, a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at the University of Rochester. I specialize in historical political economy, studying popular resistance and political extremism in Japanese history by integrating formal theory with detailed micro-level historical data.

My research explores how societies respond to state authority—examining the ways in which populations constrain, negotiate with, or fall under the control of ruling powers. I investigate how mass exit served as an alternative to direct resistance, disciplining feudal authorities in early modern Japan, as well as how ideological narratives helped ignite fascist mobilization in the interwar Japan.

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