Education

• 1988

  BA in Economics, Kyoto University

• 1997

  MA in Economics, Aoyama Gakuin University (Part-time)

• 2000

  MSc in Development Economics, University of London (SOAS)

Selected Publications

English

• "Prospect of Demographic Trend, Economic Hegemony and Security: From the mid-21st to 22nd Century"

  NIDS Briefing Memo (May, 2016).

• "The Trend of the Private Military & Security Companies (PMSCs): Terrorist Threat and the Economic Point of View"

  NIDS Briefing Memo (December, 2015).

• "Recent Trend of Naval Vessel Medical Equipment Improvements"

  NIDS Briefing Memo, no.187 (May, 2014).

• "Piracy off the Coast of The Somali and Indian Ocean, and Anti-Piracy Operation by Private Military and Security Companies (PMSCs)"

  NIDS Briefing Memo, no.175 (April, 2013).

• "Civil-military medical assistance cooperation after the Great East Japan Earthquake: Experiences and lessons"

  The Liaison, vol.5 (Center of Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance, October, 2012).

• "Cooperation between the Self-Defense Force (SDF) and Civil-sector Medical Institutions: Lessons from the Great East Japan Earthquake"

  NIDS Briefing Memo, no.167 (July, 2012).

• "The State of the Child Soldier Problem and Related Issues"

  NIDS Briefing Memo, no.153 (April, 2011).

• "The New Trend of the Regulation and Administration of Private Military and Security Companies (PMSCs): Toward the Establishment of a 'Global Code of Conduct'"

  NIDS Briefing Memo, no.145 (July, 2010).

• "The Relationship between the Financial Crisis and Security/Military Issues"

  NIDS Briefing Memo, no.135 (August & September, 2009).

• "Japan Self-Defense Forces and their Reconstruction Support Operations in Iraq"

  The Liaison vol.4 no.1 (Center of Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance, July 2008).

• "Post-Conflict Reconstruction and the Private Security Company (PSC)"

  NIDS Briefing Memo, no.122 (June, 2008).

• "Armed Force's Contribution to Peace Support Operations (PSOs): Debates over 'Oil-spot Strategy' "

  NIDS Briefing Memo, no.111 (May, 2007).

• "The Siberian Intervention and Japanese Society"

  Oliviero Frattolillo and Antony Best eds., Japan and the Great War (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).

• "Total War from the Economic Perspective"

  NIDS ed., The Pacific War as Total War: NIDS International Forum on War History: Proceedings (March, 2012)

• "The War, Military Expenditures and Postbellum Fiscal and Monetary Policy in Japan"

  Kowner, Rotem ed. Rethinking the Russo-Japanese War 1904-5, vol.1 (Folkestone: Global Oriental, 2007).

• "Japan's Monetary Mobilization for War"

  Wolff, David, et al ed. The Russo-Japanese War Global Perspective, vol. 2 (Leiden: Brill, 2007).

• "Japan's Financial Power Mobilising for Military Build-up towards the Russo-Japanese War"

  Moroccan Commission of Military History ed., ACTA, 30th International Congress of Military History: The Economic Aspects of Defence through Major World Conflicts, (Rabat: Moroccan Commission of Military History, 2005).

• "The Food Problem and Security"

  NIDS ed. East Asian Strategic Review 2009 (Tokyo: Japan Times Ltd., 2009).

• "Economic Impact of the 9.11 Terrorist Attack"

  NIDS ed., East Asian Strategic Review 2002 (Tokyo: Japan Times Ltd., 2002).

• "The Asian Currency Crisis and Japan"

  NIDS ed., East Asian Strategic Review 1998-1999 (Tokyo: Japan Times Ltd., 1999).

Japanese

• "Funso fairon: Shonenhei mondai no kanten kara [Arms conflict overview: Child Soldiers]"

  Medemiru WHO [Journal of WHO Association, Japan], no.56 (January, 2015).

• "Byoinsen kara Tamokuteki Kanteie: Rekishiteki Kousatsu to Kongo no Tenbou [From Hospital Ships to Multipurpose Military Vessels: Historical and Future Perspectives]"

  The Journal of Military History, vol.49, no.3 (December, 2013).

• "Minkan Gunjikaisya niyoru Kaizoku Taisyo: Sono Kanousei to Kadai [Anti-PiracyServices by Private Military and Security Companies (PMSCs): Its Potential and Problems]"

  The Journal of International Security, vol.40, no.3 (December, 2012).

• "Minkan Gunjikaisya no Kanri Kisei ni Kansuru Saikin no Doko [Recent Trend of regulating Private Military and Security Companies]"

  The Journal of Ground Warfare, vol.58, no.684 (September, 2010).

• "Kodomo heishi mondai no kaiketsu ni mukete: Gorisei haijyo ni muketa kento to kongo no kadai: Resolving the Child Soldier Issue: A Review to Eliminate its Rationality and Problems to be Solved]"

  NIDS Security Studies, vol.12, no.1 (December, 2009).

• "Minkan Gunjikaisya no Jittai to Houtekichii: Jikkousei no aru Kisei Kantokukyouka ni Mukete [Actual and Legal Status of Private Security and Military Companies: Toward an effective regulation and monitoring]"

  International Affairs, no.587(December, 2009).

• "Tero Yobosyudan toshite no Seifu Kaihatsu Enjyo [Official Development Assistance as a Tool for Preventing Terrorism]"

  NIDS Security Studies, vol.10, no.3 (March, 2008).

• "Beigun Kindaika to Sakusen Keihi Sakugenkoka: 03-nen Iraku ni Taisuru Gunjisakusen no Kosatsu [U.S. Military Modernization and its effect on the Operational Cost Reduction: Analysis on Operation Iraqi Freedom ''03]"

  NIDS Briefing Memo, no.98 (March, 2006).

• "Gunji Kodo ni Kakawaru Keihi Bunseki: 2003nen Iraku ni taisuru Gunjisakusen no Senpi ni tsuite [Cost Analysis of the U.S. Military Operations in Iraq]"

  NIDS Security Studies, vol.8, no.2 (February, 2006).

• "ASEAN Syokoku no Kokuboushisyutsu Ketteiyouin [Determinants of Defense Expenditure of ASEAN Countries]"

  Journal of World Affairs, vol.47, no.9 (September, 1999).

• "Kinyu Kiki to Anzenhosyo: Chunanbei Ruiseki Saimukiki to Asia Tsukakiki no Hikakubunseki no Kokoromi [Financial Crisis and Security Affairs: Analysis Trial for Comparison between Accumulated Debt Crisis of Latin America and Asian Currency Crisis]"

  NIDS Security Studies, vol.1, no.2 (December, 1998).

• "Reisen Syuryo to ASEAN no Heikishijyo [The End of the Cold War and the ASEAN Arms Market: A Statistic Analysis of Arms Transfers to ASEAN]"

  The Journal of National Defense, vol.26, no.1 (June, 1998).

• "Seinan Senso no Senpi Chotatsu seisaku Saiko [The Meiji Government's Policy to Finance the Civil Conflict with the Satsuma Rebels Reconsidered: A Comparison with the American Civil War]"

  The Journal of Military History, vol.52, no.3 (December, 2016).

• "Revisitation of Political Power Establishment and Junior Officers Dominate in the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) during the 1930s: The Consequence of IJA officers as 'Knowledge workers'"

  The Journal of Strategic Studies, no.19 (October, 2016).

• "Soyokusen to Tsuka Kiyu seisaku [The Total War and Monetary & Financial Policy of the Two World Wars]"

  The Journal of Military History, vol.51, no.3 (December, 2015).

• "Daiichiji Sekai Taisen ga wagakuni no Senso Keizaishiso ni ataeta eikyo: Nakayama Ichiro no shiso wo chushin ni [The Influence of the First World War on Japan's Wartime Economic Thought: The Case of Nakayama Ichiro]"

  The Journal of Military History, vol.50, no.3&4 (March, 2015).

• "Daiichiji Taisen Shiveria Shuppei no Senpi to Taishoki no Gunji Shishutsu: Kokusaihikaku to Macurokeizai no Shiten karano Kousatsu [The Rise and Fall of Japan's Military Expenses in the Taisho Period: World War, Siberian Expedition and Arms Buildiup]"

  NIDS Military History Studies Annual, no.17(March, 2014).

• "Senpiwo Meguru Kobo: Kinyu Shijyo deno Shori [Japan's Struggle in the Financial Market: Another Victory of the Russo Japanese War]"

  Eurasian Studies, no.49 (November, 2013).

• "Soryokusen ni muketa Nihon no Keizairyoku doin: Kokuminsyotoku to Gunjishisyutsu no kanten kara [Japanese effort to mobilize its economic power towards the total warfare: From the perspective of National Income and Military Expenditure]"

  Miyake Masaki et al. eds., Soryokusen no Jidai: Taiheiyo Senso to sono senryaku [The Age of the Total Warfare: The Pacific War and Strategy] (Tokyo: Chuokoron-shinsha, 2013).

• "Hachi-hachi Kantaikeikaku to Taishoki no Zaiseiseisaku: Washintonkaigi mae no Kenkankyoso no Jizokukanousei [The 8-8 Fleet Plan and the Financial Policy during the Taisho Era: The Possibility to Continue the Struggle for Naval Build-up before the Washington Conference]"

  The Journal of Military History, vol.48, no.2 (September, 2012)

• "Zendokyuu toshiteno Fuji-gata Senkan: Gijyutsumen deno Kokusaihikaku no Kanten kara [A Study of the "Fuji-Type" Pre-Dreadnought Battleships: International Comparison of Technology]"

  The Journal of Military History, vol.46, no.4 (March, 2011).

• "Meiji Makki no Gunjishisyuts to Zaisei Kinyu: Senji Sengo Zaisei to Tenikoka no Kosatsu [Military Expenditures and Fiscal and Monetary Policy in the end of Meiji Period: A Discussion on Displacement Effect in Japan]"

  NIDS Military History Studies Annual, no.11 (March, 2008).

• "Roku Roku Kaintai Koso no Keizaiteki Bunseki [Economic Analysis of Japanese Fleet Building before the Russo-Japanese War]"

  The Journal of Strategic Studies, no.3 (December, 2005).

• "Nichiro Senso no Senpi to Zaisei Kinyu Seisaku [Japan's Financial and Monetary Policy to Finance the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905)]"

  New Perspectives for the Research on the Russo-Japanese War (Yokohama: Seibun-sya, 2005).

• "Nisshin Sengo Keieiki no Gunjishisyutsu to Zaiseiseisaku [Japan's Financial Power Mobilisation for Arms Build-up towards the Russo-Japanese War]"

  The Journal of Military History vol.40, no.2&3 (December, 2004).

• "Kokusai Keizai: Keizaiseisaku to Haken no Hensen [International Economy: Economic Policy and the Transition of Economic Hegemony]"

  Fundamental Politics(Tokyo: Hokuju Syuppan, 2010).