# Susan J. Pharr Senior Adviser, Program on US-Japan Relations; Faculty Associate (emerita). Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, Emerita, Department of Government, Harvard University. ![Woman with short hair smiling.](/sites/g/files/omnuum8891/files/styles/hwp_4_5__320x400/public/wcfia/files/pharr_susan.jpg?itok=0T-sOXpd) location\_on 1730 Cambridge Street, S238, Cambridge, MA 02138 smartphone [(617) 496-8083]() email [susan\_pharr@harvard.edu](mailto:susan_pharr@harvard.edu) laptop\_windows [Personal Website](http://scholar.harvard.edu/spharr/home) **Research interests:** The social basis of democracy; Japanese politics; politics and society in East Asia; civil society and the state; women and politics; and environmental politics. - ## People Categories [Affiliates](/affiliates) [Faculty Associates](/affiliates/faculty_associates) [Faculty Emeriti](/people-categories/faculty-emeriti) [Program on US-Japan Relations](/affiliates/us_japan)