Personal Datum Current Positions
Director general, Belt and Road Initiative Japan Research Center (BRIJC)
President, Global Asia Institute of Research Alliance (GAIA) Foundation
Professor Emeritus, University of Tsukuba
President, International Academic Society for Asian Community (ISAC)
Vice President of Council of East Asian Community (CEAC)
Senior Adviser, United Nations ECOSOC/DEVNET JAPAN
President of Social Welfare Foundation Jiyo-kai
Born in Hokkaido, Japan. Studied at Kyoto Univ.(MA,LLD,1996), Johns Hopkins Univ. School of Advance International Studies, Princeton University Department of History.
Honor; Yoshida Shigeru Prize, Prince Higashikuni Prize
Professional Career Datum
Associate Professor, Univ. of Tsukuba Graduate School of Social Sciences (1975~90), Professor (1991~2003), and Dean (1997~99), Professor and Director of Edogawa Univ. Global Asia Center (2003~08).and Adjunct Professor of Waseda University Organization of Asia Studies (OAS) (2008~2011),
Academic Career
Research Fellow at Princeton Univ., Harvard Univ. Warren Center of American History, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, SAIS, Oxford Univ. Yonsei Univ., Malaysia Institute of Strategic and International Studies ,U.S.Institute of Peace .
Visiting Professors of Austin College, El Collegio de Mexico, Simon Fraser University, Copenhagen University, Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong
Prize
YoshidaSigeruPrize,FulbrightFellowship,FordFoundationFellowship,WoodrowWilson International Scholars Fellowship, Royal Denmark Fellowship and others.
Publication
The author of more than 25 books in Japanese, including The Illusion of Japan-US Axis (2018), The End of American Empire: The Rising Asia and the Emerging Multilateral World (2017), The Century of Asian Power (2013), International Public Policy; Theories and Practices (2010), How to Create an East Asian Community (2007), The Divided Territories (2004), Beyond Globalism (2003), The Cotemporary International Relations; Theories, Histories and Policies (2001), The Origins of the Defeat (2000, translated in Korean), America; the Twilight of Empire (1994, translated in Chinese), The Dynamism of Contemporary Armaments (1988) , The Politics of Non-polar World (1988), The Structure of Contemporary Conflict (1987) and others.
Editor of more than 20 books in Japanese including From Belt and Road to the New Eurasian Century (2018), In Search of Connecting East Asia- Energy, Food and Environment(2017), In Defense of Okinawa-Self Determination (2015), and others.
