Profile and Academic CV
松田 康博
（まつだ やすひろ）（MATSUDA, Yasuhiro）
Profile
Yasuhiro MATSUDA (1965- ) is a professor of international politics at the University of Tokyo Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies (concurrently held the post of professor, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia). He received his Ph.D. in law from Graduate School of Law at Keio University in Tokyo. He spent sixteen years in the National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS), Japan Defense Agency (later, Ministry of Defense), as an assistant and a senior research fellow. He moved to the Institute of Oriental Culture (later, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia) of the University of Tokyo in 2008. He is specializing in political and diplomatic history of Asia, politics and foreign relations in the PRC and Taiwan, the Cross-Strait Relations, and Japan’s foreign and security policies. He was a member of the Council on Security and Defense Capability in the New Era, the advisory group of the Prime Minister in 2010. He is the winner of the seventh Yasuhiro Nakasone Award of Excellence in 2011. He has published numerous books and articles in Japanese and English. His recent publication in English is “Taiwan in the China-Japan-US Triangle,” Gerald Curtis, Ryosei Kokubun, and Wang Jisi eds., Getting the Triangle Straight: Managing China-Japan-US Relations, New York: Japan Center for International Exchange, 2010.
Academic CV
Name 松田 康博 （まつだ やすひろ）（MATSUDA, Yasuhiro）
Current Position Professor, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia (name-changed from “Institute of Oriental Culture” in 2010), the University of Tokyo
Expertise Political and diplomatic history of Asia, politics and foreign relations in the PRC and Taiwan, the Cross-Strait Relations, and Japan’s foreign and security policies
All Experience
- 1965 Being Born in Hokkaido
- 1988 B.A. (Literature), Department of Foreign Language, Reitaku University, Chiba-ken
- 1990 M.A. (International Studies), Graduate School of Area Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo
- 1992 Assistant, the National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS)
- 1994 Visiting Research Fellow, the Consulate-General of Japan in Hong Kong.
- 1997 Ph.D. Candidate (Law), Graduate School of Law, Keio University, Tokyo
- 1999 Concurrently hold the post of staff official, Office of Strategic Studies, Defense Policy Division, Bureau of Defense Policy, Japan Defense Agency
- 1999 Senior Research Fellow, NIDS
- 2003 Ph.D. (Law), Graduate School of Law, Keio University, Tokyo
- 2003 Concurrently hold the post of Assistant Counselor, Cabinet Secretariat (National Security Affairs and Crisis Management)
- 2007 Senior Research Fellow, NIDS
- 2008 Associate Professor, Institute of Oriental Culture, the University of Tokyo
- 2011-12 Professor, Institute of Oriental Culture, the University of Tokyo (On December,2011)
- 2012- Professor, The University of Tokyo Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies (Concurrently held the post of Professor, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, the University of Tokyo)
Major Publications
- Satu P. Limaye and Yasuhiro Matsuda eds., Domestic Determinants and Security Policy-Making in East Asia, The National Institute for Defense Studies and Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, Honolulu, 2002.
- 松田康博『台湾における一党独裁体制の成立』慶應義塾大学出版会 2006年。
- 家近亮子・松田康博・段瑞聡編『岐路に立つ日中関係―過去との対話・未来への模索―』晃洋書房 2007年。
- 川島真・清水麗・松田康博・楊永明共著『日台関係史―1945-2008―』東京大学出版会、2008年。
- 家近亮子・唐亮・松田康博編『【改訂版】５分野から読み解く現代中国―歴史・政治・経済・社会・外交―』晃洋書房、2009年。
- 松田康博編著『NSC 国家安全保障会議―主要国の危機管理・安保政策統合メカニズム―』彩流社、2009年。