Research Interests

Major Field of Study

Political and Economic Issues in Korean Peninsula, Diplomatic Policy of East Asia

Ph.D. Thesis Topic

Economic policy of North Korea

Education

March 2000 B.A. School of Letters, Arts and Sciences I, Waseda University
March 2002 M.A. Area Studies, Graduate School of Area Studies, M.A. program, Tsukuba University
March 2005 M.A. Political Science, Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Ph.D. program, Tsukuba University
March 2009 Ph.D. Political Science, Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Ph.D. program, Tsukuba University

Career

February 2003-March 2004 AIEJ Scholar, Korea University, ROK
April 2006-March 2008 Fellow (DC2), Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS)
April 2008-March 2010 Research Collaborator, Japan-ROK Joint Historical Studies
April 2009-March 2010 Research Fellow, Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Tsukuba University

Publication

• "Economic Policy of Korean Workers' Party: Attempts to maintain the Socialistic Economy System and its Consequences." Ph.D. Thesis, Tsukuba University (2009)
• "Theory and Actual Condition of the Propaganda Campaign Concerning the "Seon-gun Cheong-chi" " East Asian Area Studies. No 9(July 2002), pp.66-84.
• "Origin and Policy Process of North Korean Agricultural Policy" The Journal of Contemporary Korean Studies. No 2 (February 2003), pp.41-57.
• "The Saemaul Movement in ROK and the Impact by North Korea" East Asian Area Studies. No 13 (July 2006), pp.1-24.
• "North Korean Economy under the "Seon-gun Cheong-chi" and the New Administration of South Korea" East Asia. No 490(April 2008), pp.32-42.
• "Yuko Manabe, Koshu-Jiken-de-Yomu-Gendai-Kankoku (Heibonsha,2000)" Tsukuba Annals of Sociology. No 14(October 2002), pp.114-117. (Book Review)

Presentations

• "The Historical Process of North Korean Agricultural Policy" at the Annual Meeting of Association for East Asian Area Studies, March 2002, at Tsukuba University.
• "Origin and Policy Process of North Korean Agricultural Policy" at the Annual Meeting of Association for Contemporary Korean Studies in Japan, July 2002, at Tokyo University.
• "The Agricultural Policy of ROK and its Impact to Foreign Policy" at the Annual Meeting of Association for East Asian Area Studies, March 2005, at Dentsu-Kaikan, Tokyo.
• "An Analysis on the Actual Situation of North Korean Economy through the Official Publications" at the Annual Meeting of Association for East Asian Area Studies, November 2005, at Tsukuba University.
• "The Policy Process of the "Three Revolution Group Movement" in North Korea" at the General Meeting of Association for East Asian Area Studies, July 2006, at Tsukuba University.
• "The Historical Process of the "Three Revolution Group Movement" in North Korea" at the Annual Meeting of Association for Contemporary Korean Studies in Japan, April 2009, at Keio University.
• "The Basic Structures and Characteristics of Present Textbooks in ROK" at the Joint Meeting of Japan-ROK Joint Historical Studies, December 2009, at Seoul.

Research Grants and Fellowships

2006-2007 JSPS Fellowship
2009 The Matsushita International Foundation Research Grant

Memberships

• Japan Association for Asian Studies
• Association for Contemporary Korean Studies in Japan
• Association for Korean History