Tsuneo Watanabe joined the Japan Chair in February 1995. He has provided analysis on Japanese domestic politics in a rapidly changing Japan and their policy implications. In April 2005, he joined the Mitsui Global Strategic Studies Institute in Tokyo. He is currently researching U.S.-Japan relations, Japan’s security policy, and North and South American regional studies as a senior fellow of the global economics and industry analysis department. He also focuses on Japanese civil-military relations. His recent publications on Japan’s foreign and security policy include The Challenge of 9/11 Terrorism to Japan: Warning from a U.S. Think Tank [in Japanese] (Zaikai21, 2002); “Changing Japanese Views of China: A New Generation Moves toward Realism and Nationalism” in The Rise of China in Asia: Security Implications (Strategic Studies Institute, 2002); “Japan’s Policy toward the Korean Peninsula from 1999 to 2002: Conflicts over DPRK Policy Require Trilateral Coordination” in Strengthening U.S.-ROK-Japan Trilateral Relations (CSIS, 2002); and “Prevent Tyranny of Pneuma by Improving Civil-Military Relations” in Big Bang in Security Policy [in Japanese] (Yomiuri Shimbun, 1998). Watanabe received his D.D.S. from Tohoku University in Japan and his M.A. in political science from the New School for Social Research in New York. He speaks fluent English and Japanese.
