Born in Tokyo, 1966. He specializes in theoretical and empirical analyses of international politics, global governance, and European integration. His publications include The Presidency of the European Commission: The Politics of Shared Leadership (Macmillan, 1999); and Togo no Shuen (The End of Integration) (Iwanami, 2014), for which he was awarded the 2015 Yomiuri-Yoshino Sakuzo prize. He also served as a commissioning editor of Nihon no anzen hosho (Japan’s Security) (8 vols, Iwanami, 2014–15) and, since 2015, as an advisory board member of policy evaluation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan.

Born in 1968. She specializes in international relations and the politics in East Asia and Asia-Pacific, in particular the development of regionalism in this region as well as theories of regional integration and regionalism. She obtained her M.A and Ph.D. at the University of Tokyo. She has written several articles and books, including “Further development of Asian regionalism: institutional hedging in an uncertain era,” in the Journal of Contemporary East Asian Studies, 2019. She received the 21st Ohira Masayoshi Memorial Prize from the Ohira Masayoshi Memorial Foundation (2005), the 6th Okita Commemorative Award for Policy Research from the National Institute for Research Advancement (NIRA) (2005), and the 11th Nakasone Yasuhiro Incentive Award (2015).

She specializes in US diplomatic history and International Relations. She received her BA, MA, and Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo, and was a visiting fellow at Harvard University (2013–14), Johns Hopkins University (2014–15), Assistant Professor at Kansai Gaidai University (2015–17), and Associate Professor at Takasaki City University of Economics (2017–22). Her publications include “Law Against Empire, or Law for Empire? – American Imagination and the International Legal Order in the Twentieth Century,” The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (2021); and International Society in the Early Twentieth Century Asia-Pacific (Routledge, co-authored, 2020). She is an occasional contributor to the Asahi shimbun and Yahoo! Japan News.

Received her Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo in 2013. She specializes in Latin American comparative politics, with particular reference to Mexican party politics and drug war. Served as researcher at the Institute of Developing Economies (IDE-JETRO) before conducting research at the Hokkaido University (2016–present). Her publications include Power and Institutional Change: Re-Reforms of Latin American Pension Systems in a Comparative Perspective; Increasing Multiplication of Small and Local Armed Groups: Mexican Drug War in a New Phase; and Party System Change in Mexico.

Born in Osaka, 1970. He earned a doctoral degree in economics from Kobe University and specializes in modern Chinese economics. His publications include Political Economy of Reform in China (co-authored with Tomoki KAMO, Springer, 2022), The Fiscal and Financial System in Modern China: The Economics of Globalization and Central-Local Relations (The University of Nagoya Press, 2011), and other works.

Born in 1965. Graduated from the Faculty of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University in 1987 and completed her master’s degree at the Graduate School of Commerce of Waseda University in 2005. She joined Industrial Bank of Japan (currently, Mizuho Financial Group) and entered NLI Research Institute in 2001 and then assumed the present post in 2019. She has also served as part-time lecturer at the Faculty of Commerce of Waseda University, research committee member at the 21st Century Public Policy Institute (Keidanren), research member of “Competition for U.S.-China Hegemony and Indo-Pacific Geoeconomics” Study Group, the Japan Forum on International Relations, etc. Her publications include EU to atarashii kokusaichitsujo (EU and the new international order, co-authored) and Shizumanu yuro (Unsinkable euro, co-authored).

Born in 1986. She specializes in sociological theories. Her research themes are research on participants in social movements in modern Japan and analysis of the causes of social movement avoidance in postwar Japan. After completing the master’s and doctoral programs at the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, the University of Tokyo, served as a Research Fellow (PD, Postdoctoral Fellow) at the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, and then assumed the present post in 2015. Her publications include Shakaiundo no sabukaruchaka (Subculture of social movements) and Shakaiundo to wakamono (Social movements and young people).

She is a writer/editor who specializes in Japanese arts. She is known for her contributions to major newspapers/magazines and for her appearances on arts programs on NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation). Her publications include Kazaru Nihon (Decorate Japan, Iwanami Shoten); Bijutsu de tadoru Nihon no rekishi (Japanese history traced by art, 3 volumes, Chobunsha Publishing); Kyoto de Nihon bijutsu wo miru [Kyoto Kokuritsu Bijutsukan] (Appreciation of Japanese arts in Kyoto [Kyoto National Museum], Shueisha Creative Publication); Kawari Kabuto Sengoku no COOL DESIGN (Kawari Kabuto, Cool design of the Sengoku period, Shinchosha Publishing); Shungart (co-authored, Shogakukan); Gensun bijutsukan 100% Hokusai! (Full-scale museum, Hokusai 100%!, co-authored, Shogakukan); and Nihon bijutsu zenshu Vol. 20 (Complete collection of Japanese Art Vol. 20, Shogakukan, edited).