Professor, Kyoritsu Women's University
Professor, Faculty of International Studies, Kyoritsu Women's University, Tokyo, Japan, 2017-
Associate Professor, School of International Studies, Kwansei Gakuin University, Nishinomiya, Japan, 2012 - March 2016
Editor, IAFOR Journal of Politics, Economics & Law, 2013 -
Lecturer, Department of Modern History, Politics & International Relations, Faculty of Arts, Macquarie University, 2008-2012
Associate Lecturer, School of Social Sciences & International Studies (Politics & International Relations), Faculty of Arts, UNSW, 1999-2008
PhD, UNSW, 2005
Master of Arts (International Relations), Australian National University, 1993
Bachelor of Arts (Honours), University of Sydney, 1992
Certificate of Teaching English as a Second Language (TESOL), University of New South Wales, 1999
From Five Eyes to Six? Japan's push to join the West’s intelligence alliance
Apr 23, 2021 11:58 am UTC| Insights & Views
As tensions with China continue to grow, Japan is making moves to join the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing alliance. This week, Japans ambassador to Australia, Shingo Yamagami, told The Sydney Morning Herald he was...
Why are Japan's leaders clinging to their Olympic hopes?
Jan 22, 2021 07:48 am UTC| Politics Sports
With the spread of COVID-19 steadily worsening in Japan since the onset of winter daily records for infections and deaths continue to be broken the fate of the Tokyo Summer Olympics is again very much in doubt. This...
As tensions in the region rise, Japan again debates its pacifist constitution
May 16, 2017 14:09 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Japan could finally be gearing up for the first-ever change to its constitution. In a recent video address to a pro-constitutional revision lobby group on the Constitution Day public holiday, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe...
What South Korean president Park’s political demise means for the region's geopolitics
Apr 02, 2017 02:41 am UTC| Insights & Views
South Koreas former president, Park Geun-hye, has been arrested on charges including extortion, bribery and abuse of power over an influence-peddling scandal that led to her impeachment by the National Assembly in December...