Work Profile

Education

• 2018-2023

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

• 2016-2020

  M.A., Graduate School of International Cultural Relations, Gakushuin Women’s College.

• 2012-2016

  B.A., Department of Intercultural Communication, Gakushuin Women’s College.

Work Experience

• 2024.10-11

  Visiting Scholar, Hudson Institute

• 2023

  Speechwriter and policy advisor, International Security Policy Office, Indo-Pacific Regional Policy Division, Bureau of Defense Policy, Ministry of Defense

• 2021-

  Research Fellow (permanent position), The National Institute for Defense Studies, the Ministry of Defense

• 2021

  Policy Research Fellow, The Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies, at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)

• 2018-2019

  Research Intern, Hudson Institute

• 2017-2018

  Research Assistant, Gakushuin Women's College

• 2016-2018

  Teaching Assistant, Gakushuin Women's College

Academic Honors

• 2020

  Japan-US Partnership Program, The Research Institute for Peace and Security

• 2018-2020

  YKK Group's Yoshida Scholarship Foundation

• 2019-

  Young Leader Program, the Pacific Forum (Non-residential)

• 2017

  Abe Tadanori Research Fellowship

Publications and others

Selected Papers

• “Torampu seiken wa ‘sekai sensō e no hatten o keikai’: Kyōi bunseki kara mieru koto”
  [“The Trump Administration Is Wary of Escalation into World War: Insights from Threat Analysis”],

  Interview by Yoshihiro Makino, Asahi Shimbun Digital, April 17, 2025.

• “Chūgoku, Roshia, Iran, Kita Chōsen ni yoru aratana suujiku?: Taikō seiryoku-kan no renkei o meguru Beikoku seifu no ninshiki to seisaku giron”
  [“A New Axis of China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea?: U.S. Government Views and Policy Debates on Adversarial Cooperation”],

  Japan Institute of International Affairs, Research Report, March 31, 2025.

• “Beikoku no ‘Hitotsu no Chūgoku Seisaku’ ni okeru Heiwateki Shudan, Buryoku Kōshi, Kyōsei”[“Peaceful Means, Use of Force, and Coercion in the U.S. ‘One China’ Policy”],

  Nakasone Peace Institute, NPI Commentary, March 31, 2025.

• “Ukuraina teisen, kagi nigiru Worutsu-shi: [Ronten chokugen] Dainiji Torampu seiken no yosōzu”
  [“Ukraine Ceasefire: Waltz Holds the Key – [Key Points] Outlook for a Second Trump Administration”],

  Interview by Mizuki Okada, Sankei News, January 12, 2025.

• “Dainiji Torampu seiken no yosōzu: Ro no teisen, kagi wa Worutsu-shi”
  [“Outlook for a Second Trump Administration: Waltz as the Key to a Russian Ceasefire”],

  Interview by Mizuki Okada. Sankei Shimbun, January 12, 2025, morning edition, p. 13.

• "Trump 2.0 Administration's Diplomatic and Security Policies: The Rise of the 'Prioritizers'?"

  IINA, Sasakawa Peace Foundation, November 6, 2024.

• " Trump Seiken 2.0 no Gaiko Anzen Hosho Seisaku wo Kangaeru: ‘Prioritizer’ ha no Taito? [Trump 2.0 Administration’s Diplomatic and Security Policies: The Rise of the ‘Prioritizers’?]"

  IINA, Sasakawa Peace Foundation (October 23, 2024).

• "Japanese Ministry of Defense’s ‘Defense Diplomacy’: Revitalized Engagement with ASEAN and Pacific Island Countries"

  NIDS Commentary, no. 342, July 22, 2024.

• "Revitalization of the U.S.-Japan Alliance and a Rising China: Adjusting Engagement and Balancing Policies during the Clinton Administration"

  Master's thesis, the George Washington University, 2023

• "Reframing the Indo-Pacific and Managing Relations with Like-Minded Countries."

  U.S.-Japan Alliance Cooperation in the Post-Pandemic World, ed. by Yuki Tatsumi and Pamela Kennedy(Washington D.C.: Stimson Center, 2022), 11-23.

• "Koramu 1: Ukuraina sensō ga jakki suru Chūgoku shidōbu no fuan" [Column 1: Chinese Leadership Unsettled by Ukraine War]

  Ukuraina sensō no shōgeki [Impact of Ukraine War], ed. by Masayuki Masuda (Tokyo: the National Institute for Defense Studies, 2022),21-24.

• "Strategies for Preventing PRC Illicit Technology Transfer from Japanese Academia"

  Capstone Project, 2020 (co-authored.)

• "The Roles and Importance of U.S. Alliances and Friends in U.S. National Security Strategies after the Cold War: From the George H.W. Bush Administration to the Barack Obama Administration"

  B.A. Thesis, 2016

Research Projects

• ・2023-2025 Member of Diplomacy and Security Survey Research Project FY2023-2025: Building Response Procedures and a Multilateral Joint Posture to Deter a Taiwan Contingency at Nakasone Peace Institute (NPI).

• ・2023-2025 Member of Diplomacy and Security Survey Research Project FY 2023-2025: Current Security Risks in the Asia-Oceania Region (Traditional Security Risks Team) at the Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA).

• ・2023-2025 Member of Joint Research Project on the Utility of Force in Contemporary Diplomacy: A Diachronic and Synchronic Approach to Middle-Range Theory.

Presentations and Lectures

• “Torampu seiken to Roshia–Ukuraina sensō” [“The Trump Administration and the Russia–Ukraine War”],

  Presentation at the National Security Senior Strategist Studies Program, NIDS, April 9, 2025.

• Torampu daitōryō shūnin-go no wagakuni o torimaku anzen hoshō kankyō to sono shōrai” [“Japan’s Security Environment after the Inauguration of President Trump and Its Future”],

  Lecture for Base Affairs Division, Kanagawa Prefecture, March 21, 2025.

• “Security Environment in the Indo-Pacific Region,”

  Briefing for Mr. Paweł Zalewski, Secretary of State, Ministry of National Defence, Republic of Poland at NIDS, February 27, 2025.

• “Torampu seiken no taigai seisaku” [“The Trump Administration’s Foreign Policy”],

  Presentation at the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force Narashino Garrison, February 13, 2025.

• “JMOD’s Defense Cooperation and Exchanges,”

  Briefing for the delegation from the National Defense College of Thailand, January 20, 2025.

• “Ukuraina shinkō-go no Beikoku no Chūgoku–Taiwan kanren giron” [“U.S. Debates on China and Taiwan after the Invasion of Ukraine”],

  Presentation at the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Tateyama Air Base, June 26, 2024.

• "U.S. Security Policies Regarding Taiwan,"

  Oversea Security & Crisis Management Association, the 17th Diplomacy and Security Summer Seminar, September 14, 2024.

• "U.S. Policy toward China and the Use of Military Power after the Post-Cold War Era,"

  Toyo University, September 6, 2023.

• "U.S. Evaluation of China and Policy Discussions on Taiwan in Response to the Russian Invasion of Ukraine,"

  NIDS Brown Bag Seminar, August 18, 2022.

• "Reframing the Indo-Pacific and Managing Relations with Like-Minded Countries,"

  Stimson Center, March 7, 2022.

• "U.S.-China ‘Cooperation’ and ‘Competition’,"

  at the meeting on the Russian War of Aggression against Ukraine and its Impact on Japan’s Foreign Policy, Adam Mickiewicz University, December 7, 2022.

Translation

• Kathryn Ibata-Arens et al.,21st Century Technologies, Geopolitics, and the US-Japan Alliance: Recognizing Game-changing Potential

  ed. Brad Glosserman,Crystal Pryor, and Riho Aizawa, Issues & Insights Special Report Vol. 21, SR1,Pacific Forum, April 2021,