Parul Bakshi is presently a third year PhD student at the Japanese Division of Centre for East Asian Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. She is working on research titled, “Japan’s Post-Fukushima Energy Transition Towards Renewable Energy: Lessons from German Energiewende.” Parul has been awarded the Mitsubishi Cooperation International Scholarship in recognition for excellence in Japanese language and was part of a Study Tour organised by Japan Foundation in 2014 to visit Japan.