Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies GRIPS) 
ROLES Senior Associte Member

Yoko Iwama is Professor of National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS). She is also the director of Security and Strategy Program (SSP) at GRIPS.

 

Born in Kobe in year 1964, she graduated from Kyoto University in 1986 and earned her PhD in Law at the University. She was a student at the Free University of Berlin between 1989-1991.

 

Having served as Special Assistant of the Japanese Embassy in Germany (1998–2000), she joined GRIPS in 2000 and was appointed Professor in 2009. She is single with two children. Her specialty is international security and European diplomatic history centering on NATO, Germany, and nuclear strategy including nuclear sharing. She has served on numerous government committees and is a regular contributor to major newspapers.

 

Her publications include John Baylis and Yoko Iwama (eds.) Joining the Non-Proliferation Treaty: Deterrence, Non-Proliferation and the American Alliance, (Routledge 2018); Pascal Lottaz and Yoko Iwama (eds.) Neutral Europe and the Creation of the Nonproliferation Regime:1958-1968 (Routledge, 2024); Yoko Iwama (ed.) The Realities of Nuclear Sharing: NATO’s Experience and Japan (Shinzansha, 2023 in Japanese). She received the 2022 Inoki

Masamichi Prize of Japan Society for Security Studies for her book, The 1968 Global Nuclear Order and West Germany (Yuhikaku, 2021 in Japanese). 

Professor, Kanagawa University

Areas of specialization: Mongolian constitutional history, comparative law, and legal history

Professor, Kyushu University


Chisako T. MASUO is a Professor of international relations at the Faculty of Social and Cultural Studies, Kyushu University and an Adjunct Fellow at the Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA), who focuses on Chinese foreign and maritime policies. 

 

She was given the Nakasone Yasuhiro Award of Excellence in 2021 for her contribution to China studies and policy discussions regarding China’s Coast Guard Law. She worked with late Harvard professor Ezra F. Vogel as his research assistant before obtaining the Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo in 2008 and served as his coordinate research scholar at Harvard-Yenching Institute in 2014-15. 

 

She had visiting fellowship at Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and at China Foreign Affairs University in 2019. She has written papers and conducted extensive research activities not only in Japanese, but also in English and Chinese.

 

[Recent Publications] 

 

1. Chisako T. Masuo, “Fighting Against Internal and External Threats Simultaneously: China’s Police and Satellite Cooperation with Autocratic Countries”, IAI Papers, Istituto Affari Internazionali (Rome), Jan. 10, 2023,
link.

2. Chisako T. Masuo, “China’s ‘National Spatial Infrastructure’ and Global Governance: Chinese Way of Military–Civil Fusion (MCF) over the Ocean”, Maritime Affairs (Journal of the National Maritime Foundation of India), 17:2 (27 Jan 2022), pp. 27-42. 

3. 益尾知佐子 (Chisako T. Masuo), 『中国の行動原理：国内潮流が決める国際関係』(China’s Behavioural Principles: International Relations Determined by the Domestic Currents), 中公新書 (Chuko Publishing), 2019.

Associate Professor, Iwate Prefectural University


Current Faculty Position
・ Iwate Prefectural University, Faculty of Policy Studies, Japan [Sep 2021-present]
Tenured Associate Professor of International Development. Teach International Development,Law and Practice, International Development Seminar.

Education

・ Ph.D., Graduate School of International Development, University of Nagoya, Japan, 2005

・ LL.M., Faculty of Law, University of Malaya, Malaysia, 2007

・ M.A., Graduate School of International Development, University of Nagoya, Japan, 1996

・ Diploma in Communicative Arabic, SOAS, University of London, 2004

Recent Publications

◯Books
・Masanori Aikyo, Yuzuru SHIMADA & Naoko KUWAHARA (eds.) Rule of Law Projects in Asia, Junpo-do, 2021.

◯Articles and Book Chapters
・ “Constitutional Politics Affecting Religious Minorities under Constitutionalization of Islam after the Iraq War”, The Journal of Sophia Asian Studies, No. 39, 2021, pp. 117-135.

・ “Malaysian Constitution” in Masanori Aikyo et al. (eds.), Collection of Asian Constitutions, new edition, Akashi-Shoten, 2021, pp. 509-626.

・ “Singapore Constitution” in Masanori Aikyo et al. (eds.), Collection of Asian Constitutions, new edition, Akashi-Shoten, 2021, pp.867-972.

・“Legal Assistance Projects toward ‘Poverty’ Reduction: Human Rights Based Approach and Catalyst of Market Economy Approach” in Naoko Kuwahara et al. (eds.) Legal Assistance Project in Plural Legal World, Junposha, 2021, pp. 69-155.

・ “International Development and Islamic Law” in Naoko Kuwahara et al. (eds.) Legal Assistance Project in Plural Legal World, Junposha, 2021, pp.361-388.

・ “Making Islamic Finance as Intellectual Activity of Jurist: ‘Just’ Trade under the God’s Law”, Hogaku-Kyoshitsu, No.495, 2021, pp.4-7.

Kei koga is associate professor of Nanyang Technological University.

Associate Professor, Kyoto University


Dr. Pascal Lottaz is an Associate Professor at Kyoto University where he investigates neutrality in international relations and directs the research network neutralitystudies.com. He received his MA and PhD from the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) and previously researched and taught at Waseda University and Temple University (Japan Campus). His recent books include Sweden, Japan, and the Long Second World War (Routledge, 2022), Neutral Beyond the Cold: Neutral States and the Post-Cold War International System (Lexington Books, 2022), and Notions of Neutralities (Lexington Books, 2019). He also wrote articles on “Neutrality Studies” for Oxford Encyclopedia and “The Politics and Diplomacy of Neutrality” for Oxford Bibliography. He can be followed on
youtube.: youtube.com/@neutralitystudies.

Professor, Nagoya University of Economics

Project Researcher of RCAST, University of Tokyo

Professor, Graduate School of Law, Hitotsubashi University

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 head of the RCAST Open Laboratory for Emergence Strategies (ROLES).

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.

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. 

He specializes in Middle East politics and Arab-Islamic Thought, particularly on global Jihadism and its implications for international security.

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