Education and Work Experience

• 2010

  Bachelor of Law, College of Law, Nihon University.

• 2012

  Master of Arts (M.A.) in Political Science, Graduate School of Political Science, Waseda University.

• 2012-

  Officer, Japan Air Self-Defense Force, Japan Ministry of Defense.

• 2022

  Command and Staff Course (CSC), Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) Command and Staff College.

• 2023-2026

  Staff Officer/Researcher, Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) Air and Space Studies Institute (JASI), JASDF Command and Staff College.

• 2026

  Master of Policy Studies, Graduate School of Policy Studies, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS).

• 2026-

  Research Fellow, National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS).

Publications

• "Factors Behind the DDV Concept and the Conversion of the DDH Izumo: A Military Strategic Perspective"

  Hōyū, Vol. 47, No. 4, 2022, pp. 9–36.

• "Russian Air Power in the Battle of Kyiv: Aspects of Russian Strategic Bombing and the Failure of the Kyiv Occupation,"

  JASI Research Memo, R6-04, 2024.

• "Japan Air Self-Defense Force Leader Biography (11): Former Air General Akio Nasu, Former Commander of the Air Training Command (4th Class of the National Defense Academy): The MiG-25 Incident and the Introduction of the E-2C“

  Hōyū, Vol. 51, No. 4, 2025, pp. 45–64.

• "The Accommodation of the “Basic Defense Force Concept” by Uniformed Officials: A Study Based on Oral History“

  Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Command and Staff College Review, Vol. 15, No. 1, 2025, pp. 61–81.

• "The Past, Present and Future of Air Power Studies“

  Air and Space Power Studies, Vol. 13, 2026, pp. 31–46.

• "Mutual Air Denial and Military Innovation: Drones and Russia–Ukraine War“

  Master’s Thesis, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), 2026.

• "The Past, Present and Future of Air Power Studies“

  Contemporary Issues in Air and Space Power, Vol. 4, Issue. 1, 2026. English-language translation of Ea Pawā kenkyū no Koremade to Shōrai, originally published in Air and Space Powers Studies, Vol.13, 2026, pp. 31–46.

Conference Presentation and Lectures

• “Air Denial”

  Air and Space Power Symposium 2025, Hotel Grand Hill Ichigaya, March 2025.

• “Role of Air Power in Deterrence by Denial”

  2025 Annual Conference of the Japan Association for International Security, Nagoya University, December 2025.

• “Rethinking Air Base Defense,”

  24th Annual Conference of the Japan Society of Strategic Studies, Meiji University, April 2026.