Wataru YAMAGUCHI

Senior Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law Department of Political Science, Teikyo University

Chairperson,  Sub-unit "International Politics and Leadership"

Wataru Yamaguchi is a senior assistant professor at Teikyo University.

His research interests include history of the U.S.-Japan relations. He won the Inoki Masamichi Award for US-Japan Relations in the Sunset of the Cold War.

His Ph.D. in Political Science is from Doshisha University. He skipped his senior year of undergraduate studies and entered the Graduate School of Law at the university. He was a visiting researcher with the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University and was an assistant professor at the International Institute of American Studies, Doshisha University.

Activities

Working Group

Single Author

Single Author

US-Japan Relations in the Sunset of the Cold War: Diversifying Comprehensive Security (Tokyo: Yoshikawa Koubunkan, 2023)

Coauthor

Shiro Sato, Shinji Kawana, Tomoya Kamino, Kousuke Saito, Wataru Yamaguchi eds. Japan's Contemporary  Diplomacy: Issues and Debates (Kyoto: Horitsu Bunka Sha, 2024)

Papers

"The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Shift in Japanese Diplomacy at the Beginning of the Second Cold War, 1979: A New Look," The Journal of American-East Asian Relations, Vol. 19, No. 3-4 (2012), pp. 311-338. (The Frank Gibney Award)