This visualization examines which academic institutions have been represented at Association for Asian Studies (AAS) conferences through panels and papers on Japan. Data spans 1995–2025, covering 21 conference years.
Three complementary views reveal different aspects of institutional participation:
The sidebar provides concentration metrics (top-5 share by era), geographic breakdowns (US, Japan, and international), and new institutional appearances each year. Institutions are colored with their official university brand colors where available.
Institution data comes from presenter self-reported affiliations in AAS conference programs and proceedings.
Raw institution strings are processed through a multi-stage pipeline: alias lookup (~200 canonical mappings), prefix normalization for university systems (UC, SUNY, etc.), and artifact removal (trailing colons, concatenated titles, role prefixes). Entries that are clearly not institutions (independent scholars, freelance, etc.) are excluded.
The top institutions receive colors matching their official brand palettes. Colors adjust for dark mode to ensure visibility. Institutions without defined brand colors appear in grey.
The top-5 concentration percentage shows what share of all institutional presentations came from the five most active institutions in each era. Higher values indicate more concentrated participation.