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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Professor, Graduate School of Law and Politics, Rikkyo University
Senior Associate Member of ROLES

Deputy-Director, Southeast Asian Studies Group I, Area Studies Center, Japan External Trade Organization, Institute of Developing Economies

Professor, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University

Professor, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University

Professor, Faculty of Political Science & Economics, Seigakuin University
Visiting Senior Fellow, RCAST of the University of Tokyo
Senior Associate Member, ROLES

Professor, Ph.D.
The Institute for Oriental Studies, Daito Bunka University (Tokyo, Japan)

Takashi Suzuki is a professor at Daito Bunka University. He specializes in Chinese politics, especially domestic trends. He received his Ph.D. degree from Keio University in Japan. Before current position, he worked at The Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA) as a research fellow and Aichi Prefectural University as an associate professor on the Chinese politics and its foreign policy. He was also a visiting researcher at the Russian National University of St. Petersburg.
Dr. Suzuki’s current research interests include Xi Jinping’s personal study, the future prospect for Xi era, and Sino-Russian relations. Using a lot of PRC’s internal resources 内部資料, he just finished writing a book on Xi’s personal history, political career and his leadership style. The book written in Japanese will be soon published by the University of Tokyo Press in 2024. He has published many articles and books. His book, titled The Rule and Power of the Chinese Communist Party in the 21st Century (in Japanese, 2012) was received Award for the Promotion of Studies on Developing Countries of IDE-JETRO. And he is a co-author of Xi Jinping’s China (The University of Tokyo Press, 2023); Governance and Peace in Asia (Yushindo, 2023) etc.
Details for his publications and research and educational activities are consulted from his researchmap page.

Professor, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, The University of Tokyo

Shinji YAMAGUCHI is a Senior Research Fellow in the Regional Studies Department of the National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS), Ministry of Defense, Japan, located in Tokyo, and was a Visiting Scholar at Sigur Center for Asian Studies of George Washington University. He specializes in Chinese politics, China’s security policy, and contemporary Chinese history. He earned his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from Keio University. His publications include “Strategies of China’s Maritime Actors in the South China Sea: A Coordinated Plan under the Leadership of Xi Jinping?” China Perspective, 2016 No.3, (October 2016), pp.23-31; Mou Takuto no Kyokoku ka Senryaku (Mao’s Grand Strategy to Build Strong Country) (Keio University Press, 2021, winner of the 34th Mainichi Shimbun Asia Pacific Grand Prix Award). He is a co-author of the NIDS China Security Report 2012, 2013, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2023.

Professor at the Institute of Global Studies of Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

Professor, Faculty of Education and Integrated Arts and Sciences, School of Education of Waseda University

Associate Professor, School of Arts and Sciences, Tokyo Woman's Christian University

Senior Program Coordinator

Project Researcher of RCAST, University of Tokyo

Founding Chair of ROLES and Professor of Religion and Global Security of RCAST of the University of Tokyo

Satoshi Ikeuchi is Professor of the Division of Religion and Global Security at the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST) of the University of Tokyo. He is the founding chairperson of the RCAST Open Laboratory for Emergence Strategies (ROLES).

He is a scholar on Islamic political thought and the Middle East politics. As a leading public intellectual in Japan, he has been vigorously publishing on the Middle East and Islamic affairs.

His first publication based on his doctoral studies, Gendai Arabu-no Shakai Shiso: Shumatsuron-to Isramu-shugi (Contemporary Arab Social Thought: Eschatology and Islamism), was published in 2002 and earned Osaragi Jiro Prize for Critical Works. He also earned Suntory Prize for Social Sciences and Humanities in 2009 for his book Islamu Sekai-no Ronjikata (Methods of Discussing Islam).

His book on the Islamic State Isulamu Koku no Shogeki (The Impact of the Islamic State) published in January 2015 was a nation-wide best seller in Japan and awarded Mainichi Publishing Cultural Prize. His recent publication includes Saikusu Piko Kyotei: Hyakunen no Jubaku (Sykes-Picot Agreement: One Hundred Years of Obsession) in 2016 and Shiiaha to Sunniha (Shite and Sunnite) in 2018 both published from Shinchosha. He is the recipient of the 12th Nakasone Yasuhiro Prize in 2016 for his academic works and social engagements.

His collection of literary essays and book reviews Shomotsu not Unmei (The Fate of Books) published in 2006 and earned Mainichi Book Review Award for the year.

He was a visiting professor at the Alexandria University 2007-2008, Japan Scholar chair visiting scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in 2009 and Visiting Fellow at the Clare Hall, University of Cambridge in 2010. 

For the year 2022-2023, he was Senior Visiting Scholar in Residence at the Moshe Dayan Center (MDC) for Middle Eastern and African Studies of Tel Aviv University. He was also affiliated with the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) as a Senior Visiting Fellow on July 2023.

Project Researcher of RCAST, University of Tokyo
Ph.D. in International Public Policy (Osaka University)

-Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Geopolitics Initiative, based in the University of Oxford
-Refugee Examination Counsellor, Immigration Services Agency of Japan, Ministry of Justice

Specialized in international relations, conflict studies, European & former Soviet studies.

Dr. Shu Uchida Joined the University of Tokyo RCAST as a project researcher after diverse professional experiences in diplomacy and academia, including service as an Attaché at the Embassy of Japan in Georgia; a Short-Term Observer for an OSCE/ODIHR mission; a Visiting Fellow at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University; a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow of the European Union at the Centro de Estudos Sociais, Universidade de Coimbra; and an Assistant Professor at the Organization for Regional and Inter-regional Studies, Waseda University. 

online CV is available here