Education

• 2008

  B.A. in Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University

• 2011

  M.A. in Graduate School of Law, Keio University

• 2009-
  2010

  Visiting Student in Beijing University

• 2011-
  2013

  Research Fellow in Japan Society for Promotion of Science

• 2013-
  2015

  Researcher in Consulate General of Japan in Hong Kong

• 2016-
  2021

  Research Fellow in the National Institute for Defense Studies

• 2018-
  2019

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

• 2020-
  2022

  Adjunct Lecturer in Hosei University

• 2022-
  2023

  Visiting Fellow in Australian Strategic Policy Institute

• 2021-

  Senior Research Fellow in the National Institute for Defense Studies

Publications

• " (with Tilla Hoja, Albert Zhang) “China’s militarisation of meteorological balloons”"

  Strategist, 20 Feb 2023.

• "China’s military-civil fusion promotes militarisation of meteorological balloons"

  Think China, 14 Feb 2023.

• "How China’s maritime militia takes advantage of the grey zone"

  Strategist, 16 Jan 2023.

• "(With Shinji Yamaguchi and Rira Momma) China’s Quest for Control of the Cognitive Domain and Gray Zone Situations: China Security Report 2023"

  NIDS, Nov 2022.

• "(With Thomas Wilkins) “Cementing Australia–Japan ties: Japan’s National Institute for Defense Studies marks 70 years”"

  Strategist, 14 Nov 2022.

• "“CCP constitutional change strengthens Xi’s power but avoids total personality cult”"

  Strategist, 4 Nov 2022.

• "“Xi’s CCP congress speech indicates a major push towards military intelligentisation”"

  Strategist, 21 Oct 2022.

• "“China faces major challenges in achieving goal of global technological pre-eminence”"

  Strategist, 13 Oct 2022.

• "“Will China become an ‘empire by invitation’ in the Middle East?”"

  Think China, 7 Sep 2022.

• "China's Efforts to Seize Control of Discourse Power in Cyberspace"

  Asia-Pacific Review, Vol.29, No. 1, pp.13-31.

• "PLA's Intellingentized Warfare: The Politics on China's Military Strategy"

  Security & Strategy, Volume 2 January 2022, pp.17-36.

• "Can China Practice Major Power Diplomacy in the Middle East?"

  JIIA Research Report, 28th June 2021.

• "China's Way for an Innovation -Driven PLA"

  NIDS Commentary, No. 166, 20th May, 2021.

• "Examining the importance of the Middle East in Chinese Foreign Policy"

  The Changing Security Environment in the Middle East: China's Expansion, Security-development Nexus, and the Possibility of US-Japan Cooperation (JIME Center, April 2021), pp.6-15.

• "Can the PLA succeed in its smart warfare transformation?"

  Think China, 17 December 2020.

• (Lead Author) NIDS China Security Report 2021: China's Military Strategy in the New Era

  November 2020.

• "China's 2019 National Defense White Paper and Intelligent Warfare"

  NIDS Commentary, No. 105, 10th October, 2019.

• "China-US Cyber Relations"

  China Security Report 2018, National Institute for Defense Studies, pp. 68-70.

• "China's Basic Awareness of Cybersecurity"

  NIDS Commentary, No. 60, May 24.

• "China's Advance into the Sea and the Maritime Militia"

  NIDS Commentary, No. 53, July 2016.