Education

• 2007

  Bachelor of Laws, Department of Political Science Keio University

• 2009

  Master of Arts in Strategic Studies, Graduate Studies in Strategy and Defence, The Australian National University

• 2010

  Research Fellow, The National Institute For Defense Studies

• 2014 to 2015

  Deputy Director, International Policy Division, Bureau of Defense Policy, Ministry of Defense

• 2023

  PhD, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, The Australian National University
  
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  Renegotiating Japan’s Postwar Bargains: The Transformation of Japanese Foreign Policy and the Pluralisation of the U.S. Hegemonic Order in the 1970s

Selected Publications

• "Japan’s Grand Strategy as a Declining Power,"

  East Asian Forum, June 18, 2023.

• "Japan’s New Defense Direction and Its Indo-Pacific Policy: Each has implications for the other"

  The Diplomat, February 5, 2023.

• (Sections 1&2) "World Politics amid Great Power Competition,"

  East Asian Strategic Review 2021, Tokyo, Japan Times, May 2021.

• "Japan and the Origin of ASEAN Centrality"

  Journal of Law, Politics, and Sociology, Vol. 94, No. 2, (February 2021), pp. 496-471.

• "Japan's National Security in 2013"

  Security Outlook of the Asia Pacific Countries and Its Implications for the Defense Sector: NIDS Joint Research Series, No. 11, October 2014, pp. 123-148.

• "Japan-Australia Defense Cooperation in the Asia Pacific Region"

  ANU-NIDS Joint Research: Beyond Hub and Spokes, Tokyo:NIDS, March 2014, pp. 93-122.

• "Japan-Australia Security Relations and the Rise of China"

  UNISCI Discussion Papers, No.32, May 2013, pp.81-98.

• "America's Rebalance to Asia and its Implications for Japan-US-Australia Security Cooperation"

  (co-authored with Tomohiko Satake) Asia-Pacific Review, 19:2 (November 2012), pp. 6-25.