Japanese (1)Specialized fields Suicidology and Suicide Prevention, Public Health, Social Epidemiology, American Political Institutions, Legislative Elections, Representation and Electoral Systems (2)Biography Michiko Ueda is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Political Science and Economics at Waseda University. Prior to joining Waseda, she was a research assistant professor at Syracuse University and an assistant professor at the California Institute of Technology and a visiting researcher at the University of Tokyo, Waseda University, and the Economic and Social Research Institute in the Cabinet Office. Although she is a political scientist by training, she is also interested in suicide prevention, and has published articles in the areas of suicide prevention, public health, and political science. Her current research