Security Studies Unit (SSU)

Event

SSU Forum

SSU Forum/Roundtable Discussion “The UK-led Carrier Strike Group 25 (CSG25) deployment to the Indo-Pacific”: what it means for relations with Japan, Europe, and partners beyond the US.”
Speaker: Dr. Philip SHETLER-JONES (Senior Research Fellow in Indo-Pacific Security, RUSI)
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SSU Forum/Tobunken Seminar “Thai Perceptions of the International Order since the Pre-Modern Era: Shaping and Shifting Its Relations with China, Japan, and the US into the 21st Century”
Speaker: Kitti Prasirtsuk (Professor of Political Science, Thammasat University)

Book Launch Event: SSU Forum/GraSPP Research Seminar “Japan’s Aging Peace”
Speaker: Tom Phuong Le (Associate Professor, Pomona College)

SSU Forum/GraSPP Research Seminar “Book Launch Event: Global Maritime Military Strategy”
Speaker 1 : USHIROGATA Keitaro (Captain, Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Command and Staff College)
Speaker 2: KITAGAWA Keizo (Captain (rtd), Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force/Professor, Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University)
Speaker 3: HENG Yee-Kuang (Director of Security Studies Unit (SSU) and Professor, Graduate School of Public Policy, The University of Tokyo)

SSU Forum/GraSPP Research Seminar “The EU as a security actor – implications for the Japan-EU partnership”
Speaker: Tania Lațici (Political Assistant to the Managing Director for Peace, Security and Defence European External Action Service (EEAS))
Speaker 1: John Nilsson-Wright (Associate Professor, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (FAMES), University of Cambridge)
Speaker 2: Yee-Kuang Heng (Professor, Graduate School of Public Policy, The University of Tokyo)

SSU Forum before FY2024

Korea-Japan Economic Security, Science and Technology Workshop

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Science and Technology seminar

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Japan-Korea Dialogue

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Five-University Network

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Books

  • Naosuke Mukoyama Fueling Sovereignty: Colonial Oil and the Creation of Unlikely States Cambridge University Press, 2024.
  • Heng, Yee-Kuang, “Japan’s Self-Defence Forces and military evolution in the regional and domestic context” in Nicole Jenne and Alan Chong (eds), Asian Military Evolutions, Bristol University Press, 2023
  • Kiichi Fujiwara, “Hiroshima, Nanjing, and Yasukuni: Contending Discourses on the Second World War in Japan,” in Michael D. Gordin and G. John Ikenberry, eds.,The Age of Hiroshima, Princeton University Press, 2020, pp.431(pp.201-218).

Papers


Report and Column

Essays and Working Papers


Presentations

  • Naosuke Mukoyama (2023). “The Bottom-Up Formation of Territory Conflicting spatial ideologies of the shogunate, domains, and villages in early modern Japan.” International Studies Association, Montreal.
  • Naosuke Mukoyama (2021). “The Eastern Cousins of European Sovereign States?: Territory and borders in early modern Japan.” International Studies Association, online.