{"id":10,"date":"2019-02-19T15:09:20","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T15:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/jaws\/?page_id=10"},"modified":"2019-02-26T16:51:12","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T16:51:12","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/jaws\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Japan-America Women Political Scientists Symposium (JAWS) is a reoccurring program that promotes scholarly exchange between Japan and the US, supports the advancement of women in the profession of political science, and highlights research on issues of contemporary importance in both the US and Japan. With support from the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jusfc.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission<\/a>\u00a0(JUSFC), the women of this network have\u00a0hosted panels, roundtables, and short courses at several of APSA\u2019s recent Annual Meetings (2000, 2003, 2007,\u00a02010, 2018). Similarly, several JAWS presentations and meetings held in Japan (2002, 2009, 2017)\u00a0offered a public forum in which to discuss research findings and identify\u00a0areas for collaboration.\u00a0As a professional network of women political scientists,\u00a0the JAWS community bridges national boundaries and produces research of significant value to teaching and public affairs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.apsanet.org\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-33 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/jaws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2019\/02\/Regular-APSA-Blue-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/jaws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2019\/02\/Regular-APSA-Blue-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/jaws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2019\/02\/Regular-APSA-Blue-768x433.png 768w, https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/jaws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2019\/02\/Regular-APSA-Blue-1024x577.png 1024w, https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/jaws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2019\/02\/Regular-APSA-Blue.png 1059w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jusfc.gov\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-32 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/jaws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2019\/02\/JUSFC_logo-300x190.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/jaws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2019\/02\/JUSFC_logo-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/jaws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2019\/02\/JUSFC_logo-768x488.jpg 768w, https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/jaws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2019\/02\/JUSFC_logo.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Japan-America Women Political Scientists Symposium (JAWS) is a reoccurring program that promotes scholarly exchange between Japan and the US, supports the advancement of women in the profession of political science, and highlights research on issues of contemporary importance in both the US and Japan. With support from the\u00a0Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission\u00a0(JUSFC), the women of this &#8230; <a title=\"About\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/jaws\/about\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about About\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25307,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/jaws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/jaws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/jaws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/jaws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/jaws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/jaws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/jaws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}