Takako Hikoya
Professor, Center for Global Education, The University of Tokyo
Professor, Center for Global Education, The University of Tokyo
She specializes in Civil-Military Relations, Japanese Politics, Foreign Policy, and Security Policy
Academic Positions:
1995–1999: Assistant Professor, Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University
1999–2017: Lecturer and Associate Professor, Department of Public Policy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Defense Academy of Japan
2016–2021: The Gerald L. Curtis Associate Professor of Modern Japanese Politics and Foreign Policy at Columbia University
2021-2025: Professor at Gakushuin University International Centre
2025- : Professor, Center for Global Education, The University of Tokyo
She specializes in Civil-Military Relations, Japanese Politics, Foreign Policy, and Security Policy
Academic Positions:
1995–1999: Assistant Professor, Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University
1999–2017: Lecturer and Associate Professor, Department of Public Policy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Defense Academy of Japan
2016–2021: The Gerald L. Curtis Associate Professor of Modern Japanese Politics and Foreign Policy at Columbia University
2021-2025: Professor at Gakushuin University International Centre
2025- : Professor, Center for Global Education, The University of Tokyo
Activities
Projects / Working Groups
Achievements
Co-author
"Japan's New Executive Leadership: How Electoral Rules Make Japanese Security Policy" (Margarita Estevez-Abe, Toshio Nagahisaと共著) Japan in the World: Japan's Contemporary Geopolitical Challenges, Yale University Council on East Asian Studies, 2009.
Paper
"The Japanese Diet and Defense Policy Making." International Affairs, 94:1, 2018.
"Trump's Gift to Japan: Time for Tokyo to invest in the Liberal Order." Foreign Affairs, September/October 2017.
