Project Members
Leader:
Satoru MORI
(Professor, Hosei University)
Dr. Satoru MORI is currently Professor at the Department of Global Politics, Faculty of Law, Hosei University. Professor Mori’s fields of interest are U.S. foreign policy and international politics. He received his LLB from Kyoto University, and his LLM from Kyoto University as well as Columbia Law School. He received his Ph.D. from the Graduate Schools for Law and Politics at the University of Tokyo in 2007. His Ph.D. dissertation was published from the University of Tokyo Press in August 2009 titled The Vietnam War and Alliance Diplomacy: the Impact of British and French Peace Initiatives on U.S. Policy, 1964-1968 (Awarded the Hiroshi Shimizu Prize by the Japanese Association for American Studies and the Sakuradakai Political Studies Prize from the Sakuradakai Foundation). Prior to his current position, Dr. Mori served in the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1996-2001) and was a research fellow at the International Center for Comparative Law and Politics at the University of Tokyo. He received a security studies fellowship from the Research Institute for Peace and Security (RIPS), 2002-2004.
Sub-Leader:
Ryo SAHASHI
(Associate Professor, Kanagawa University/ Senior Research Fellow, the Sasakawa Peace Foundation)
Dr. Ryo SAHASHI is currently Associate Professor at Kanagawa University. Sahashi specializes in international politics and is currently focusing on regional security architecture in Asia as well as Japanese security policy. He received his B.A. from the International Christian University and his Ph.D. from the Graduate Schools for Law and Politics at the University of Tokyo in 2008. Previously, he served as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of International Relations of the Australian National University as well as Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Public Policy (GraSPP), the University of Tokyo. He was also an assistant professor at the Policy Alternatives Research Institute (PARI), University of Tokyo and joined Kanagawa University in April 2010. His publications include “Conceptualizing Three-Tier Approach to Analyze Security Arrangements in Asia-Pacific,” Security and Defense Studies Center Working Paper (Australian National University, December 2009). Sahashi won the “Minister of Foreign Affairs Award” and of the “Japan Association of Taiwan Studies Distinguished Paper Award.” He has also received a security studies fellowship from the Research Institute for Peace and Security (RIPS), 2006-2008, and Tokyo Foundation-German Marshall Fund of the United States fellowship, 2010-2011.
 
Member:
Shoichi ITOH
(Senior Researcher, International Strategy Analysis Group, Strategy and Industry Research Unit, The Institute of Energy Economics, Japan (IEEJ))
Mr. Shoichi ITOH is currently Senior Researcher, International Strategy Analysis Group, Strategy and Industry Research Unit, The Institute of Energy Economics, Japan (IEEJ). He is also Non-resident Fellow at the Institute for Security and Development Policy (Stockholm) and Asia Fellow of the Asahi Shimbun Asia Network. He previously worked as Associate Senior Research Fellow at Economic Research Institute for Northeast Asia (ERINA) in Japan, Visiting Fellow at the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies, the Brookings Institution; Visiting Fellow at Russia and Eurasia Program, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and Visiting Associate Professor at Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University.; and Itoh specializes in energy security and International Politics. He received his master’s degrees both from the University of London (1993) and the University of Tsukuba (1998). Before assuming his post at ERINA, he worked at the General-Consulate of Japan in Khabarovsk in 2000-2003. He publications include Energy and Security Cooperation in Asia: Challenges and Prospects (Institute for Security and Development Policy, 2009) ; Energy and Environment in Slavic Eurasia: Toward the Establishment of the Network of Environmental Studies in the Pan-Okhotsk Region (Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, 2008); Security Challenges in the Post-Soviet Space (The Polish Institute of International Affairs & Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, 2007) and others.
 
Member:
Tetsuo KOTANI
(Special Research Fellow, the Okazaki Institute)
Mr. Tetsuo KOTANI is a special research fellow at the Okazaki Institute. His research focus is strategic implication of forward deployment of U.S. carriers in Japan. His other research interests include U.S.-Japan relations and maritime security. He is a member of the International Advisory Council, Project 2049 Institute, and the Book Review Editor of the Journal of the Indian Ocean Region. He was a visiting fellow at the US-Japan Center at Vanderbilt University. He received a security studies fellowship at Research Institute for Peace and Security (RIPS), 2006-2008. He won the 2003 Japanese Defense Minister Prize. His English publications include “Presence and Credibility: Homeporting USS MIDWAY at Yokosuka” in the Journal of American-East Asian Relations (Vol. 15, 2008).
 
Member:
Yoshihito YASAKI
(Associate Professor, Kogakuin University)
Dr. Yoshihito YASAKI is currently Lecturer at the School of Global Engineering, Kogakuin University. Yasaki specializes in industrial organization, the economics of innovation, and the economics of IT sectors. Yasaki holds a B.A. (Hons) from the University of Cambridge and received his Ph.D. from Hitotsubashi University in 2008. Before his current position, Yasaki was a research associate at the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Tokyo (2002-2006), adviser to the Permanent Delegation to the OECD (1999-2001), and research fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (1997-1999). His publications include ‘Contribution-Proportional Remuneration Rule for Employee Inventions and Its Effects on Effort and Investment Incentives,’ (Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 2006, with Akira Goto), ‘Promoting University-Industry Linkages in Japan: Faculty Responses to a Changing Policy Environment,’ (Prometheus, 2008, with John P. Walsh, Yasunori Baba, and Akira Goto), and Economic Analysis of the Broadband Market (Keio University Press, 2008, written in Japanese, with Tatsuo Tanaka and Reiko Murakami).

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