ABOUT ME
I am an associate professor at the Osaka School of International Public Policy, Osaka University in Japan. My area of research includes interstate conflict, foreign policy, bureaucratic decision-making, and statistical and computational methods. My works appear in the American Political Science Review, Journal of Peace Research, Journal of East Asian Studies, and others.
I received a B.A. and LL.M. from the University of Tokyo and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Stanford University in 2016. I was also a postdoctoral fellow in the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University and the Computational and Historical Resources on Nations and Organizations for the Social Sciences (CHRONOS) project funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation. I previously served as an assistant professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore from 2018 to 2022. Prior to pursuing my academic career, I worked for the Japanese foreign service for six years as a diplomatic official in Tokyo and Washington D.C.
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