Education
October 2007
Ph.D., International Relations, The University of Tokyo
Septermber 2002-June 2003
Visiting Fellow at Yale Center for International and Area Studies, Yale University.
March 1998
M.A., International Relations, The University of Tokyo.
March 1995
B.A., International Relations, Tsuda College.
Employment
2020-present
Professor, Department of Political Science, School of Political Science and Economics, Tokai University
2012-2020
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, School of Political Science and Economics, Tokai University
2011-2012
Academic Researcher, The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
2011-2012
Part-time Lecturer on Politics, School of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University
2009 - 2011
Assistant Professor, School of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University
Graduate Teaching: Master Thesis Supervision
Undergraduate Teaching: Politics
Undergraduate Teaching: Freshman Seminar, 2009-2011.
Winter 2007 - Winter 2009
Part-time Lecturer on Politics of Developed Countries A (American Politics) at The Open University of Japan
Summer and Winter 2008
Part-time Lecturer on International Relations at Toyo University
Summer 2008
Part-time Lecturer on International Cooperation at Sophia University
Summer and Winter 2007
Part-time Lecturer on International Relations at Chiba Keizai University
Winter 1998/99
Teaching Assistance for Professor Yoshiko Kojo's course on International
Politics at Tokyo University
Fellowships and Grants
April 2025
●Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) from JSPS KAKENHI, Grant Number JP25K04965, as a Principal Investigator: "Norm Dynamics in a Multipolar World: Bridging Constructivism and Neorealism.”
April, 2023
●Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) from JSPS KAKENHI, Grant Number JP23K25486, as a member: "Complex Processes and Mechanisms of Global Governance: Macro-Micro Feedback."
●Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) from JSPS KAKENHI, Grant Number JP23K25487 as a member: "Democratic transformation of global governance through reflexivity."
April, 2022
●Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) from JSPS KAKENHI, Grant Number JP23K22091, as a member: "A Study on the Interconnectedness of Transformation of International Development Assistance Regimes and National Governance in Developing Countries."
April, 2021
●Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) from JSPS KAKENHI, Grant Number JP21K01375, as a Principal Investigator: "The Effectiveness of International Norms in a Multipolar World: the Sustainable Development Goals and Japan"
●Grants of Special Research Period (Long-term) from Tokai University
April, 2017
●Grants for domestic and international research dispatch programs from Tokai University
April, 2013
●Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) from JSPS KAKENHI, Grant Number JP25245027, as a member: "Economic Interdependence between States in Discord: the impacts of heterogenization in dense systems."
●Grants for Research and Education from Tokai University
June, 2012
●Grants for Research and Education from Tokai University.
April 2010
● Grants-in-aid for Publication of Scientific Research Results (Scientific
Literature), from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
June 2009
●Grants for Special Research Projects from Waseda University
October 2005
●Grants for Encouragement of Research from Tokyo University
May 2004
●Grants for Encouragement of Research from The Graduate School
of Tokyo University
September 2002-June 2003
● Fellowship from Fox International Foundation of Yale University
April 2001-March 2002
●Fellowship from Matsushita International Foundation
Memberships
International Studies Association
The Japan Association of International Relation
Japanese Political Science Association
Japanese Society of International Law
Japan Association for United Nations Studies
Japan Association of Global Governance
Japan Society for International Development