Experts
Research Fellow
Tom Sutton

Affiliation
Scholarship Unit
Sasakawa Scholarship Program
Japan-U.S. and Security Studies Unit
General Affairs and Networking Program
Expertise/Areas of interest
US military bases in Okinawa/Japan-US-China relations/Indo-Pacific Security/Japanese Intelligence and Counter-intelligence/British foreign policy
Languages
English (Native)/Japanese/Cantonese/French
Academic/Professional Background
Tom Sutton is a research fellow at the Sasakawa Peace Foundation, having joined in 2023. He previously earned a BA in Japanese Studies with first-class honours from the University of Durham in 2020, and subsequently progressed to the University of Oxford, where he attended as a fully funded Daiwa Scholar in Japanese Studies and earned an MPhil in Japanese Studies with distinction in 2022. He also spent a year studying at the University of Tokyo in 2018.