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Position

Associate Professor at Institute of Japan Studies

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Field

International Politics / Political and Diplomatic History of Japan

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How has Japan viewed the world and Asia?

Different people respond differently to the same situation, but the same person will consistently respond the same way when placed in situations similar to those they have already experienced. I have spent a number of years researching the origins and development of the academic study of international politics in Japan. It is an engaging topic, because it is akin to exploring the thought patterns that determine people's behavior, which are individual to each person and at the same time also somewhat fixed.

In my book Jink��, Shigen, and Ry��do: Kindai Nippon no Gaik�� Shis�� to Kokusai Seijigaku ("From Darwinism to Geopolitics: The Modern Japanese Obsession with the Equilibrium Between Population, Resources, and Territory"), published in August 2015, I describe the origins of international politics as a field of study, with a particular focus on the acceptance and development of Darwin's theory of evolution. As terms such as