SHIRAISHI, Takashi
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- Position:
President
- Degree:
Ph.D. (History), Cornell University
- Speciality:
Area studies, International Relations, Politics
- Current Research Interests:
Regional Formation in East Asia, International Relations and Politics in East Asia
- Professional Career:
Shiraishi Takashi, born in 1950 in Ehime, has taught at the University of Tokyo (1979-1987), Cornell University (1987-98), Kyoto University (1996-2005), and National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) in Tokyo (2005-2009). He served as Standing Executive Member, Council for Science and Technology Policy (CSTP), Cabinet Office (2009-2010). He currently serves as President, GRIPS (since 2011), President, Institute of Developing Economies-JETRO (since 2007), and Non-Standing Executive Member, CSTP, Cabinet Office (since 2011).
- Selected publications:
An Age in Motion: Popular Radicalism in Java 1912-1926 (Ithaca, Cornell University Press,1990, Ohira Masayoshi Asia Pacific Award)
Indonesia: Kokka to Seiji (Government and Politics in Indonesia, Tokyo: Libroport, 1990, Suntory Academic Award)
Umi no Teikoku (The Making of a region, Tokyo: Chuokoron, 2000, Yomiuri-Yoshino Sakuzo Award)
Network Power: Japan and Asia (jointly edited with Peter J. Katzenstain, Ithaca, Cornell University Press,1997)
Beyond Japan: The Dynamics of East Asian Regionalism (jointly edited with Peter J. Katzenstain, Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 2006)
- Social contributions:
Awarded the Japanese Medal of Honor with Purple Ribbon in 2007.
