Education

• 1991

  B.A. in International Relations, University of Tsukuba

• 1996

  M.A. in International Relations, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University

Selected Publications

English

• "Japan: National Defense Program Guidelines and Defense Capabilities for the 21st Century"

  The National Institute for Defense Studies, East Asian Strategic Review 2005 (Tokyo: The Japan Times, 2006), chap. 8

Japanese

• "Reisen no Shuketsu to Soren Rosia Gun no Kyoininshikihenka" [The Perception of Security Threat within the Russian (Soviet) Military after the Cold War]

  Shin Boeironshu [The Journal of National Defense], vol. 26, no. 2 (September 1998).

• "Reisengo no Kakuheikikoku no Kakusenryaku" [The Post-Cold War Nuclear Strategy of the Nuclear-Weapon States]

  Boeikenkyujo Kiyo [NIDS Security Reports], vol. 3, no. 1 (August 2000) (coauthored)

• "Beigun no Kyodoenshu no Keikou to Ajia Taiheiyo no Anzenhosho" [U.S. Approach to International Military Exercises and Asia-Pacific Security]

  Boeikenkyujo Kiyo [NIDS Security Reports], vol. 6, no. 2 (December 2003).

• "Iraku no Jiyu Sakusen no Beigun no Toransufomeshon ni Taisuru Eikyo" [Operation Iraqi Freedom and Its Implications for US Military Transformation]

  Boeikenkyujo Kiyo [NIDS Security Reports], vol. 8, no. 3 (March 2006)