Research areas	Cold War History, British Diplomacy
Keywords	Cold War, Culture, Americanization
Themes	My first book examined the British government’s policy toward détente, focusing on the Western alliance politics during the late 1960s and early 1970s. I demonstrated both the Wilson government and the Heath government prioritized the Atlantic alliance as the basis from which to pursue easing of tension with the Eastern bloc, while they put emphasis on cultural dimension of the Cold War, differentiating British attitude to détente from those of the United States, France and the Federal Republic of Germany. The second book explored the British propaganda policy during the first 15 years since the end of the Second World War. Introducing the concept of the ‘theatricality’ of the Cold War, I investigated the real politics of cultural exchange with allied as well as communist countries. In this context, the British Foreign Office’s Information Research Department, which was established in 1948, was closely analyzed. The propaganda aspect of the Cold War led me to yet another project of Cold War studies: jazz diplomacy. My most recent publication, titled The Global Politics of Jazz in the Twentieth Century: Cultural Diplomacy and “American Music” contextualized the American jazz diplomacy from the viewpoint of the 20th century global history. I examined, on the one hand, how the jazz discourse of the mid-1930s equalizing jazz with ‘American music’ evolved into a discursive weapon of the Cold War diplomacy, while on the other hand it was analyzed that jazz’s acceptance outside of America engendered a variety of jazz interpretation that were not necessarily same with the ‘American music’ discourse. My current research is propaganda politics in Cold War Japan. Combining social, cultural, political and diplomatic history’s viewpoints, this attempt looks at how the Japanese domestic politics interacted with the propaganda dimension of the Cold War.
Major publications	The Global Politics of Jazz in the Twentieth Century: Cultural Diplomacy and "American Music" (London: Routledge, 2019). The Cold War History of Cultural Infiltration: British Propaganda Policy in Europe and Theatricality (Keiso shobo, 2013) in Japanese Transformation of the Cold War and British Diplomacy (Minerva shobo, 2006) in Japanese On other research works, please see (http://kyouindb.iimc.kyoto-u.ac.jp/e/lM3nF)
Professional societies/Research and synergic activities	Japan Association of International Relations Japanese Society of International Law
Teaching Areas	Undergraduate courses International Relations, IA, IB Seminar on International Relations, I, II Introduction on Inter-civilization Graduate courses (Master's program) International Politics I International Politics II Seminar on International Society, III Graduate courses (Doctor's program) Undergraduate courses open to all departments International Politics, I, II Seminar on International Politics, I, II Politics I, II
Background	Degrees Kobe University Ph.D. in Political Science (2005) University of Warwick M.A. in International Relations (2003) Kobe University M.A. in Political Science (2002) Kobe University B.A. in Law (2000) Posts Associate Professor 2013- Present Kyoto University Associate Professor 2009- 2013 Kanazawa University JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow 2008- 2009 Kyoto University COE Research Fellow 2005- 2007 Kyoto University Reception of JSPS Grant-in-Aid ・Principal Investigator Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) 2017 - 2021 Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) 2013 - 2016 Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B) 2010 - 2013 Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows 2008 ・Co-researcher Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) 2011 - 2013 Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) 2010 - 2012 Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) 2010 - 2012 ・Co-Investigator Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) 2007 - 2009