Director, Center for Military History
ISHIZU Tomoyuki
Military History - Areas of Expertise
Areas of Expertise
Philosophy of War and Peace War Studies the First World War

Education Education

  • 1985
    B.A., Dokkyo University, Japan
  • 1986-87
    M.A., SOAS, University of London
  • 1987-91
    M.Phi/Ph.D Course, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London
  • 1991
    M.A., King's College London, University of London
  • 1997-99
    Swire Scholar, St.Antony's College, University of Oxford
  • 1997-98
    Honorary Visiting Fellow, Department of War Studies, King's College London (from January to April 1998, KCL Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Fellow)
  • 2007-08
    Visiting Fellow, Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies (RUSI)
  • 2014
    Visiting Professor, National University of Singapore

Selected Publications Selected Publications

  • "'The Japanese Way in Warfare': Japan's Grand Strategy for the 21st Century"
    Korean Journal of Defense Analysis Vol. XII, No. 1 (Summer 2000)
  • "Air Power in Japan's National Strategy"
    RUSI Journal , Vol. 153, No. 5 (October 2008)
  • "The Rising Sun Strikes"
    Daniel Marston, ed., The Pacific War Companion: From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima (Oxford: Osprey, 2005)
  • Conflicting Currents: Japan and the United States in the Pacific
    Santa Barbara: Praeger, 2009. (co-edited with Professor Williamson Murray)
  • "The Japanese Airpower"
    John A. Olsen, ed., Routledge Handbook of Air Power (Oxford: Routledge, 2018)
  • The Effectiveness of Aero-Space Power and "The Japanese Way in Warfare"
    Air Power studies vol.4[December 2017]
  • 1914-1918 Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
    Berline:Freie universität Berlin,2014~
  • Sharing Experiences in the 20th Century
    NIDS Joint Research Series No.19, 2022