Professor, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo

Senior Associate Member of ROLES

Shin Kawashima is the professor of the Department of International Relations, the Graduate School of Arts &  Sciences, the University of Tokyo.

His research covers Chinese/Taiwanese diplomatic history and the contemporary international relations in East Asia. His first book, Formation of Chinese Modern Diplomacy (2004) was awarded the Suntory Academic Prize in 2004. He received Foreign Minister’s Award in 2023.

Aside from his academic positions, he is involved in policy think tanks, including Nakasone Peace Institute (NPI) as Executive Director of Research. and JICA Ogata Sadako Research Institute for Peace and Development as Visiting Fellow.  He is Senior Associate Member of ROLES and has been committed to ROLES activities since its establishment in 2020 as a group leader of several research groups on China, Eurasia and the Indo-Pacific.  

He earned his Ph.D. in Literature from Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, the University of Tokyo in 2000. He was an associate professor at Hokkaido University (1998-2006) and at the University of Tokyo (2006-2015), and then as professor in 2015.

He was engaged in education and research at Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica (Taipei), Beijing Center for Japanese Studies, Peking University, National Chengchi University (Taipei), and Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

He is Visiting Professor at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken) appointed in 2026. 

Yuka Tsuchiya Moriguchi, Shin Kawashima, Somei Kobayashi eds., Knowledge Production In Cold War Asia: US Hegemony and Local Agency, Indian University Press, 2025.

Ryosei Kokubun, Yoshihide Soeya, Akio Takahara, Shin Kawashima, Japan–China Relations. in the Modern Era, Routledge, 2017.

 

Shin Kawashima, “The Evolution of Japanese Perceptions of China since 1945”,

 Asia Pacific Review, 2023, 30(2), pp. 148-166.

Shin Kawashima, “War in Ukraine from China’s Perspective: Limited Options for State that Cannot Reject Existing Policies”, Asia Pacific Review, 2022, 29(2), pp. 35–55

Shin Kawashima, “Taiwan and International Relations in the Western Pacific”, in Kitaoka. Shinichi, eds., A Western Pacific Union: Japan’s New Geopolitical Technology, Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture, 2023, p. 372-405.

Shin Kawashima, “Historical Policy of the Xi Jinping Administration: Four Histories and “Ma Project”, Asia Pacific Review, vol.28-2, pp.57-76

Shin Kawashima, “Chinese New Terminology: “World Order” and “International Order”, in. Axel Berkofsky and Giulia Sciorati eds., Mapping China’s Global Future: Playing Ball or Rocking the Boat?, ISPI Report, p.37-49.

Shin Kawashima, “Xi Jinping’s Diplomatic Philosophy and Vision for International Order: Continuity and Change from the Hu Jintao Era”, Asia Pacific Review, Volume 26, 2019, pp. 121-145.

Shin Kawashima’s articles published at Think China (Singapore online media)
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Shin Kawashima’s articles published at The Diplomat (Australian online media)
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Shin Kawashima’s articles published at East Asian Forum (online media)
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