William Grimes is an associate professor in the Department of International Relations at Boston University, where he has taught since 1996 and received tenure in 2003. In 2008, he was appointed to be the founding director of the Boston University Center for the Study of Asia. In past years, he has served as associate chair and director of graduate studies of International Relations.  At BU, he is also an affiliate of the Department of Political Science. He has also been active in the Japanese studies community at Harvard, where he is affiliated with the Program on US-Japan Relations and Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies and serve as the coordinator of the Reischauer Institute’s Contemporary Japanese Politics Study Group.