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Gregory James Kasza (born in 1951) is an American political scientist and Japanologist.

Early Life
Gregory J. Kasza was born and grew up in Los Angeles, California. He graduated from Georgetown University (B.A. in Foreign Service) in1971. After graduating Georgetown, he spent two years (1971-1974) in Japan as an English teacher. Coming back to the United States, Kasza obtained a Master's degree in Government from Claremont Graduate School in 1975 and a PhD in Political Science from Yale University in 1983. For his PhD dissertation research, Kasza spent two years (1980-1982) in Tokyo University (Faculty of Law) as a foreign research fellow.

Career
Kasza started teaching at Whitman College as an assistant professor in 1983. He moved to Indiana University Bloomington in 1985, and taught there until he became an emeritus in 2014. His research interests include the media, fascism, and welfare policy in prewar Japan. Kasza is also known as a strong supporter of the Perestroika Movement in the discipline of Political Science, which started in 2000.

Books

 * One World of Welfare: Japan in Comparative Perspectives (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2006).
 * The Conscription Society: Administered Mass Organizations (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995).
 * The State and the Mass Media in Japan, 1918-1945 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988).

Book Chapters

 * "The Rise (and Fall?) of Social Equality: the Evolution of Japan's Welfare State," in Alisa Gaunder, ed., A Handbook of Japanese Politics (Routledge, 2011).
 * "Fascism from Above? Japan's Kakushin Right in Comparative Perspective," in Stein Ugelvik Larsen, ed., Fascism Outside Europe (Boulder Colorado: Social Science Monographs, distributed by Columbia University Press, 2001).
 * "Methodological Bias in the American Journal of Political Science," in Kristen Renwick Monroe, ed., Perestroika! The Raucous Rebellion in Political Science (New Heaven: Yale University Press, 2005).
 * "Weapons of the Strong: Organization and Terror," in H.E. Chehabi and Alfred Stepan, eds., Politics, Society, and Democracy, Essays in Honor of Juan J. Linz (Boulder, Colorado: Westview, 1995).

Journal Articles

 * "War and Welfare Policy in Japan," Journal of Asian Studies, 61:2 (May 2002), pp. 417-435.
 * "Mishima Yukio to Murayama Masao: senzen riberaisumu hikaku ron" [Mishima Yukio and Murayama Masao: a comparative study of prewar liberalism], Leviathan 4 (Spring 1989), pp. 147-167.
 * "Bureaucratic Politics in Radical Military Regimes," American Political Science Review, 81:3 (September 1987), pp. 851-872.
 * "Democracy and the Founding of Japanese Public Radio," Journal of Asian Studies, 45:4 (August 1986), pp. 745-767.
 * "Fascism from Below? A Comparative Perspective on the Japanese Right, 1931-1936," Journal of Contemporary History, 19:4 (October 1984), pp. 607-629.