He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University. He has formerly taught at Princeton University, Aoyama Gakuin University, and the University of Tokyo. He has been a pre-doctoral fellow at Brookings Institution, a visiting scholar at University of California, Berkeley, and an academic associate in the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations at Harvard University.

• Selected publications

International Monetary Cooperation among the United States, Japan and Germany (1999)
Legalization and Japan: The Politics of WTO Dispute Settlement (2006)
International Political Economy (in Japanese, 2007)
The Future of Economic Hegemony (in Japanese, 2013)
Japan’s Security and Economic Dependence on China and the United States (2017)

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