Education

• 1988

  B.A., Sophia University

• 1990

  M.A. in International Relations, Sophia University

• 1999

  Ph.D. in International Relations, Sophia University

Selected Publications

English

• British and Japanese Military Leadership in the Far Eastern War, 1941-1945

  London: Frank Cass, 2003 (co-ed.)

• Japanese Sea Power: A Maritime Nation's Struggle for Identity

  Canberra: Sea Power Center, 2009 (co-authored)

• "Independence Movement in Vietnam and Japan during WWII"

  NIDS Security Reports, no. 2 (2001)

• "The Treatment of Prisoners of War by the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy Focusing on the Pacific War"

  NIDS Security Reports, no. 9 (2008)

• "Significance of the Pacific War for Southeast Asia"

  The Legacy and Implications of the Pacific War (NIDS International Forum on War History: Proceedings), (2013)

• "Japanese Pre-War Military Attaché System"

  NIDS Journal of Defense and Security, no. 16 (December 2015)

• "Yasu Butai : The Covert Special Unit of the Japanese Army behind the Coup de Force of March 9, 1945"

  Masaya Shiraishi, Nguyen Van Khanh and Bruce M. Lockhart (eds.), Vietnam-Indochina-Japan Relations during the Second World War: Documents and Interpretations, Waseda University Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies (February 2017)

• "The Japanese Army's Measures against Guerrilla Activities in the Philippines in the First Half of the Pacific War"

  Security & Strategy, vol. 2 (January 2022)

Japanese

• Dainiji sekaitaisen to Furansu ryo Indoshina: "Nichi-futsu kyoryoku" no kenkyu [Franco-Japanese Collaboration in French Indochina during World War II]

  Tokyo: Sairyusha, 2000

• "Indoshina zanryu Nippon hei no kenkyu" [A Study of Japanese Deserters in French Indochina]

  Senshi Kenkyu Nenpo [Military History Annual], No. 5 (2002)

• "Furansu kara mita Nichi-ro senso" [Lessons of the Russo-Japanese War: The French Army's Case], Nichi-ro senso to sekai: Hyaku nen go no shiten kara [The Russo-Japanese War and the World: A Centennial Perspective]

  NIDS International Forum on War History: Proceedings (2005)

• "Senso shido hoshin kettei no kozo: Taiheiyosenso ji no Nippon wo jirei toshite" [The Making of the Guidelines for War Conduct of Japan during the Pacific War]

  Senshi Kenkyu Nenpo [Military History Annual], No. 13 (2010)

• "Tonan Ajia ni totte no Taiheiyosenso" [Significance of the Pacific War for Southeast Asia], Taiheiyosenso no isan to gendaiteki igi [The Legacy and Implications of the Pacific War]

  NIDS International Forum on War History: Proceedings (2013)