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MASARU TAMAMOTO
Senior Fellow

 

 

Expertise Japan-China relations; Japan international relations; Japan politics and society; Japan-US relations; National identity issues

 

Experience
Masaru Tamamoto
writes on Japanese national identity and international relations.  He is currently a visiting scholar in the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Cambridge. His permanent home is Yokohama, Japan. He has taught at American University (Washington DC) and Ritsumeikan University (Kyoto), and has received fellowships from Princeton, Harvard, and Tokyo Universities.

 
Dr. Tamamoto has been Visiting Professor, Faculty of Law, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto (1998-1999); Visiting Research Fellow, Florida International University (winters, 1998, 1999); Assistant Professor, School of International Service, American University (1990-95); Visiting Fellow, Institute of Oriental Culture, Tokyo University (1994-95); Advanced Research Fellow, Center for International Affairs, Harvard University (1993-94);
Visiting Fellow, Center of International Studies, Princeton University (1988-90).
 

Has presented numerous talks at universities in the United States, Japan, and Korea. 

 

 

Honors & Affiliations: 
Pan-Pacific Project, Ritsumeikan University;
Political Philosophy Association, Tokyo;
Screening Committee, Social Science Research Council (1993);
Curriculum Development Award, American University (1992);
John D. And Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in International Peace and Security (1988-89)
 

 

 

Education 
Ph.D. with distinction, International Relations, Johns Hopkins University 
M.A., Johns Hopkins University 
Independent Research, American University in Cairo 
B.A., International Relations, Brown University 

 

 

Languages
Fluent in Japanese 

 

Contact kotanu(at)gmail.com

 

 

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

 
"How Japan Imagines China and Sees Itself," Japan Institute of International Affairs, 2006 and World Policy Journal Vol. XXII, No. 4 Winter 2005/06.

 

Japanese Discovery of Democracy, JIIA Commentary, The Japan Institute of International Affairs, April 26, 2006.
 

"How Japan Imagines China and Sees Itself," World Policy Journal, Winter 2005/2006.
 

Review. John Swenson-Wright, "Unequal Allies? United States Security and Alliance Policy Toward Japan, 1945-1960." Pacific Affairs, Fall 2005
 

"Sino-Japanese Pride and Prestige," Far Eastern Economic Review, June 2005.

 

"After the Tsunami, How Japan Can Lead," Far Eastern Economic Review, January/February 2005.

"The Uncertainty of the Self: Japan at Century's End, " World Policy Journal, Summer 1999. An expanded version appears in Michael Matanduno and John Ikenberry, eds. The Emerging International Relations of the Asia Pacific Region (Columbia University Press, 2004).

 

"A Nationalist's Lament: The Slippery Slope of Koizumi's Foreign Policy" in The People vs. Koizumi?: Japan-U.S. Relations and Japan's Struggle for National Identity, Asia Program Special Report, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, February 2004.
 

"Ambiguous Japan: Japanese National Identity at Century's End," (Chapter 5) in International Relations Theory and the Asia-Pacific. G. John Ikenberry and Michael Mastanduno (eds), (Columbia University Press, 2003).

 

"A Land without Patriots: The Yasukuni Controversy and Japanese Nationalism," World Policy Journal, Fall 2001.
 

"Groping for an International Political Role: Japan and Humanitarian Intervention in Self-Determination Conflicts, " The Ritsumeikan Journal of International Studies, March 2001.
 

Reprinted in Dean Collinwood, ed., Global Studies: Japan and the Pacific Rim, sixth edition (McGraw Hill, 2001).

 

"Japan and Its Discontents: A Letter from Yokohama," World Policy Journal, Fall 2000.
 

"The Making of a Liberal Japan: A Silent Revolution, " SAIS Policy Forum Series, November 1999.
 

"Seiki matunihon no nationaru aidentiti" (book chapter, 1999)

 
"Japan's Search for Recognition and Status" (Chapter 1) in Japan's Quest: The Search for International Role, Recognition and Respect

edited by Warren S. Hunsberger

1997

 

 


 

"The Privilege of Choosing: The Fallout from Japan's Economic Crisis, " World Policy Journal, Fall 1998.
 

"Japan's Search for Recognition and Status" in Warren Hunsberger, ed., Japan's Quest: The Search for International Role, Recognition, Respect (M.E. Sharpe, 1997).

"Reflections on the Postwar Japanese State: Amorphous yet Dominant," Daedalus, Spring 1995.

"Village Politics: Japan's Prince of Disorder," World Policy Journal, Spring 1995.
 

"Japan's Willful Innocence: Political Thought and International Relations Since 1945, " Occasional Papers, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University, 1994.
 

"The Ideology of Nothingness: Meditation on Japanese National Identity," World Policy Journal, Spring 1994.
 

"The Japan that Wants to be Liked: Society and International Participation" in Daniel Unger and Paul Blackburn, eds., Japan's Emerging Global Role (Lynne Reinner, 1993).

 

"The Japan that Wants to be Liked: Society and International Participation" (book chapter) in Japan's Emerging Global Role

edited by Daniel Unger and Paul Blackburn

Lynne Reinner, 1993


"After Communism: Democracy, Authoritarianism, Anarchy or More Communism?" (Association of Third World Affairs, 1992).

"A New Order in Asia?: Japan's Uncertain Role," World Policy Journal, Fall 1991.
 

"Japan Plays Follow the Leader" in Jo Dee Catlin Jacob, ed., Beyond the Hoppo Ryodo: Japanese-Soviet-American Relations in the 1990s (American Enterprise Institute, 1991).

"In Search of Post-Containment Stability in the Pacific" in Preparing for a Pacific Century (Commission on U.S.-Japan Relations for the Twenty First Century, 1991).

"Trial of an Ideal: Japan's Debate on the Iraqi Crisis," World Policy Journal, Winter 1990-1991.
     Revised and reprinted in Wolfgang Danspeckgruber and Charles Tripp, eds., The Kuwait Crisis and its Implications for the Emerging Order (Westview Press, 1996); and in Herbert Blumberg and Christopher French, eds., Persian Gulf War: Views from the Social and Behavioral Sciences (University Press of America, 1993).

 

Chikyu-kajidai no nichibei kankei (coeditor, 1991)
 

"Japan's Search for a World Role," World Policy Journal, Summer 1990.
     Revised and reprinted in Henry Bienen, ed., Power, Economics and Security (Westview Press, 1992); and in Glenn Hastedt and Kay Knickrem, eds., Toward the Twenty-First Century: A Reader in World Politics (Prentice-Hall Canada, 1994).

 

 

 

LECTURES & APPEARANCES

 

Spoke about "Japan's Politics of Cultural Shame" at an East Asian Institute Lecture at the University of Cambridge, January 28, 2008.

 

Delivered the Alumni and Friends Lecture on "Japan and the World: Perspectives of a Changing Country" on January 22, 2008 at the MCI Management Center Innbruck, Austria University of Applied Sciences.

 

 

 

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