Education

• 1998

  B.A. in International Politics, Hiroshima Shudo University

• 2000

  M.A. in Media & Governance, Keio University

Selected Publications

• "Japan's Changing ODA Policy towards China"

  China Perspectives, Number 47 (May-June 2003)

• "North Korea's Recent Nuclear Diplomacy and Newly Emerging Multilateralism in the Asia-Pacific Region"

  Papers presented for an international symposium on Nuclear Issues in the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asian Security, (Beijing: China, September 2004)

• "Japan's Leading Role in East Asian Regionalism: toward Building an East Asian Community"

  The National Institute for Defense Studies ed., East Asian Strategic Review 2005 (Tokyo: The Japan Times, 2005).

• "PSI and East Asia: Expanding and Deepening of Cooperation"

  Strategy 21, Number 15 (Summer 2005).

• "China: Achievements and Challenges of 'Neighboring Diplomacy'"

  The National Institute for Defense Studies ed., East Asian Strategic Review 2006 (Tokyo: The Japan Times, 2006).

• "Futatsu no shinario ga kosakusuru nicchukankei (Two Scenarios of Japan-China Relations)"

  Toa (East Asia), number 453 (March 2005).