Education

• 1989

  BA, Kagoshima University

• 1991

  MA in Economics, Yamaguchi University

• 2000

  LL.M., Kansai University

• 2013

  Ph. D. in International Criminal Law, Yokohama National University

Publications

Books and Monographs

• "Disinformation and the Law of Armed Conflict",

  Security and Strategy, Vol.5, No. 1 (December 2024) *Japanese

• "Special Provisions on Punishment in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court: Provisions concerning Superior Orders and Responsibility of Superiors",

  Defense Law Studies, No. 48 (October 2024) *Japanese

• "Required Account for Use and Development of Naval Mines"

  Security and Strategy, Vol.1, No.1 (August 2020) *Japanese

• "Military Activities in Exclusive Economic Zone: Restriction of Coastal States, and Implications of the Legal Meaning and Concepts of 'Due Regard' on Third States",

  Journal of Japan Society of Ocean Policy, No.9(November 2019) *Japanese

• An analysis of Superior responsibility under Article 28 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court

  (Naigai-Shuppan, Inc., 2014) *Japanese

Other Publications

• "Assesment of China’s claims in the Light of International Law: On the Cases of the Violation of the Air Space and the Entry into the Territorial Sea of Japan",

  NIDS Commentary (No.355, October 2024) *Japanese

• "The challenge to Japan’s maritime strategy in Indo-Pacific: efforts necessary to ensure the stable use of sea lanes,"

  Études Marines, Centre d’études stratégiques de la Marine, No25 - Décembre 2023.

• "Russia’s Agression of Ukrine and International Court – Problems concerning the case to ICJ and the isuuance of Warrant of Arrest against Putin by ICC,"

  NIDS Commentary (No. 265, July 2023) *Japanese

• "Permissibility under International Law of Military Exercises and Practices - Focusing on the Case of the Ballistic Missile Fallout"

  NIDS Commentary (No. 236, August 2022) *Japanese

• "Status as Combatants of Foreign Members of Armed Forces - The Issue of Law on Ukraine Conflict"

  NIDS Commentary (No. 234, August 2022) *Japanese

• "Territorial Security - The Concept and the Legal Regime"

  NIDS Commentary (No.169, June 2021) *Japanese

• "Flag State Principle and National Security"

  NIDS Commentary (December 2020)

• "Fleet reviews - Features of the Imperial Japanese Navy, Maritime Self-Defense Forces, and Foreign Navies"

  NIDS Commentary (No.106, December 2019)

• "The Significance of the "Rule of Law" in the International Community"

  Briefing Memo (December 2018)

• "Maritime Security: Policies and Measures seen in the Third basic Plan on Ocean Policy and their Charactaristics, etc"

  NIDS Commentary (No.81, August 2018)

• "Maritime Security: Significance of the Freedom of Navigation and Related Challenge"

  EAST ASIAN STRATEGIC REVIEW 2018 (NIDS, August 2018)[co-authored with HARADA Yu]

• "Protection of Maritime Interest"

  The 20th Symposium (FY 2017), "Maintaining Maritime Order in the Asia-Pacific"（July 19, 2017）

• A Suit and Alternative Dispute Resolution"

  NIDS Briefing Memo (May 2017)

• "Rules in International Law on Marine Research"

  Hatou, no. 216 (September 2011) *Japanese

• "Response to Violation in International Waters"

  Hatou, no. 208 (May 2010) *Japanese

• "Specific Regime on Passage of Straits"

  Hatou, no. 205 (November 2009) *Japanese