Profile

Education

• 2017

  PhD in Law (International Relations Program)
  Hitotsubashi University

• 2011

  MA in Law (International Relations Program)
  Hitotsubashi University

• 2009

  BA in Sociology
  Hitotsubashi University

Employment

• Apr. 2022 to
  present

  Senior Fellow
  Policy Simulation Division, National Institute for Defense Studies

• Aug. 2021 to
  present

  Senior Fellow
  Asia and Africa Division, Area Studies Department, National Institute for Defense Studies

• Jul. 2019-
  Mar. 2020

  Visiting Scholar
  Sigur Center for Asian Studies, George Washington University

• Apr. 2015-
  Aug. 2021

  Research Fellow
  Asia and Africa Division, Area Studies Department, National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS)

• June 2018

  Visiting Fellow
  Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies, UK

• Apr. 2013-
  Mar. 2015

  Researcher
  Foreign Affairs and Defense Division, Research and Legislative Reference Bureau, National Diet Library

Publications

Research Interests

Selected Publications in English

• "China's Kashmir Policy since the Mid-2010s: Ramifications of CPEC and India's Kashmir Reorganization."

  Asian Security 18: 56-74. *peer reviewed. 2022.

• "How Far Away from Non-interference? A Case Study of China's Development Initiative in Pakistan."

  Journal of Contemporary China 31: 285-300. *peer reviewed. 2022.

• "Strategic Stability in Changing Nuclear South Asia: Emerging Risks."

  NDA-FOI Joint Seminar: Nuclear Threshold Lowered?, eds. Hideya Kurata and Jerker Hellstrom. Yokosuka: National Defense Academy, 63-76, 2021.

• "Japan's India-plus Strategic Engagement with South Asia"

  South Asian Voices (May). 2020.

• "The Belt and Road Initiative and South Asia: Increasing Uncertainty in Sino-Indian Relations."

  NIDS China Security Report 2019: China's Strategy for Reshaping the Asian Order and its Ramifications, ed. The National Institute for Defense Studies, ed. National Institute for Defense Studies. Tokyo: Japan Times, Ltd., 49-71, 2019.

• "China-India Relationship and Nuclear Deterrence."

  NIDS Journal of Defense and Security 18 (December): 37-61, 2018.

• "Making a "Responsible" Nuclear State: Lessons from Two Decades of American Engagement with South Asia."

  Balancing between Nuclear Deterrence and Disarmament: Views from the Next Generation, eds. Yuki Tatsumi and Pamela Kennedy. Washington, DC: The Stimson Center, 39-55, 2018.

• "Nuclear Power Play: How North Korea Uses U.S. Fears to Gain Leverage."

  The National Interest (October). 2017.

• "Discussion on the Reconsideration of "No First Use" in India's Nuclear Doctrine."

  Briefing Memo (July): 1-5, 2017.

• Kurita, Masahiro and Mari Izuyama. "Security in the Indian Ocean Region: Regional Responses to China's Growing Influence."

  East Asian Strategic Review 2017, ed. National Institute for Defense Studies. Tokyo: The Japan Times, Ltd., 37-69, 2017.

• "The "Pakistan Factor" in China-Indian Relations."

  NIDS Commentary 48 (July): 1-6, 2015.

Selected Publications in Japanese

• "Indo Pakisutan: "Yokushi no Tame no Heiki no Niju-nen [India-Pakistan: The 20 Years of 'Weapons for Deterrence']."

  Kaku no Bokyaku no Owari: Kakuheiki Fukken no Jidai [The End of Nuclear Forgetting: Revival of Nuclear Weapons], eds. Nobumasa Akiyama and Sugio Takahashi. Tokyo: Keiso Shobo, 137-177, 2019.

• Kaku no Risuku to Chiki Hunso: Indo Pakisutan Hunso no Kiki to Antei [Nuclear Risk and Regional Rivalry: Crises and Stability in the India-Pakistan Rivalry].

  Tokyo: Keiso Shobo. 2018.

• "Chugoku Kaigun no Indoyo Shinshutsu to Guwadaru ko: "Kichika" no Kyojitsu [Chinese Navy's Advance into the Indian Ocean and Gwadar: Fact and Fiction of the Militarization of the Port]."

  Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 531 (January): 83-94, 2018.

• "Indo no Kaku Dokutorin ni okeru Senseikougeki Opushon no Kanousei [Feasibility of Nuclear First Strike Option in India's Nuclear Doctrine]."

  Journal of International Security 45 (March): 86-105. *peer reviewed. 2018.

• "Indo Pakisutan no Senso Hoho: Kaku no Moto deno Tsujosenso wo meguru Ugoki [Indian and Pakistani Ways of War: Pursuing Conventional Options under Nuclear Shadow]."

  Atarashi Senso toha Nanika: Hoho to Senryaku [A New Kind of Warfare: Methods and Strategies], ed. Takashi Kawakami. Tokyo: Minerva Shobo, 260-276, 2016.

• "Iran Kaku Goui to Minami Asia: Pakisutan no Shiten kara [The Iran Nuclear Deal and South Asia: Pakistan's Perspective]."

  Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 525 (January): 65-74, 2016.

• "Saiba kougeki ni taisuru "Yokushi" no Genjo: Beikoku no Anzenhosho Seisaku no Jirei kara [Deterrence in Cyberspace: A Case Study on the US Security Policy]."

  In Joho Tsushin wo meguru Shokadai [Challenges in Information and Communication], ed. Research and Legislative Reference Bureau, National Diet Library. Tokyo: National Diet Library, 157-180, 2015.

• "Doumei to Yokushi: Shudanteki Jieiken Giron no Zentei toshite [Alliance and Deterrence: A Prerequisite for the Debate on the Right of Collective Self-Defense]."

  The Reference 770 (March): 9-23, 2015.

• "Nichibei Doumei no Yokushi Taisei wo meguru Genjo to Kadai [Deterrence Posture of the Japan-US Alliance: Current Status and Challenges]."

  ISSUE BRIEF 860 (March): 1-13, 2015.

• "Pakisutan no Kaku Sekyuriteli wo meguru Beipa Kankei: Kyocho to Saigishin no Kessetsuten? [US-Pakistan Nuclear Security Relationship: An Intersection of Cooperation and Suspicion?]"

  Journal of World Affairs 62 (March): 20-30, 2014.

• "Chuin Kokkyo Mondai no Genjo: Nikokukan Kankei no Zentai Kozo no Shiten kara [Current Situation of the Sino-Indian Border Issue: In Terms of the Overall Structure of the Bilateral Relationship]."

  The Reference 754 (November): 43-69, 2013.

• "Chokyori Dageki Nouryoku niyoru "Tekichi Kougeki" Koso": Beikoku to Kankoku no Jirei kara [Offensive Strike with Long-Range Strike Capability: A Comparative Case Study of the United States and the Republic of Korea]."

  The Reference 752 (September): 79-101, 2013.

• "Nichoten Kiki Iko no Pakisutan no Kaku Senryaku ni kansuru Kosatsu [Pakistan's Nuclear Strategy after the Twin Peak Crisis]."

  Journal of International Security 40 (June): 19-34. *peer reviewed. 2012.

• ""Antei Huantei no Paradokkusu" no Chiki Hunso ni okeru Datosei: Indo Pakisutan no Kakuhoyu to Kashimiru Hunso wo Rei toshite [Validity of the "Stability/Instability Paradox" in Regional Rivalries: A Case Study of Indian and Pakistani Nuclearization and the Kashmir Conflict]."

  Journal of Disarmament Studies 3 (June): 44-60. *peer reviewed. 2012.