Hitotsubashi University Specially Appointed Lecturer (Junior Fellow), Graduate School of Law, Hitotsubashi University
Academic Achievement
Field of specialisation
History of International Relations, Modern History of Okinawa
Kind of researcher I want to be
I aim to become a researcher and educator who can delve deeply into the questions I have held while growing up in Okinawa, and disseminate them at an international research standard.
My central research topic is to clarify how we can understand the base issue in Okinawa and Japan, which is closely related to my own origins, and what possibilities for resolution can be conceived. At the same time, I would like to examine from a historical and international political perspective what the US-Japan security arrangement, which forms one of the pillars of this country’s security system, should look like in the future.
Introduction to your research theme
Analyzing the international relations of the Asia-Pacific region during the Cold War, focusing on the US military nuclear strategy in the Okinawa reversion period of the 1960s and 1970s, and exploring the possibility of resolving historical conflicts and national security issues in Asia that continue to this day.
Tentative title for your upcoming working paper
Okinawa Reversion as Japan-U.S. Reconciliation