About Me

Current Affiliation

Professor

College of Global Liberal Arts

College of International Relations

Ritsumeikan University

Australian Center on China in the World

The Australian National University

Visiting Fellow

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Global China Studies

  • Belt and Road Initiative

  • China and the Global South

  • Global Investment and Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Framework

  • Sino-Japanese relations

  • China’s Foreign Policy

  • China’s Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief

  • China’s Peacekeeping/Peacebuilding Operations

EDUCATION

Ph.D. (2007)

The Australian National University (International Relations)

  • PhD Dissertation, ‘The “Civilising Missions” on the Periphery?: Change and Continuity in the Encounter between International Religious Agencies and Ethnic Communities in China’ (Passed without any correction. Examined by Dr Anthony Langlois and Professor Jean-Paul Wiest) 

  • Supervised by Dr Katharine Morton, Professor Nicholas Tapp, Professor Christian Reus-Smit, and Professor Yongjin Zhang. 

M.A. (2001)

Keio University (Political Science)

  • MA Dissertation, ‘Sino-British Relations in Tibet’ (supervised by Professor Kanji Akagi) 

B.A. (1999)

Keio University (Political Science)

  • BA Dissertation, ‘“Being Born in the Imperial County” Yoshida Shoyin and Japan’s Nation Building’ (supervised by Professor Kanji Akagi) 

Curriculum Vitae

My Curriculum Vitae can be downloaded from below.

Last updated: August 2027

Curriculum Vitae