Research Theme :
Politics and Foreign Relations in China and Taiwan, Cross-Strait Relations

Yasuhiro Matsuda is Associate Professor of the Institute for Advanced
Studies on Asia (Previously Institute of Oriental Culture) of the
University of Tokyo. He spent sixteen years in the National Institute
for Defense Studies, Japan Defense Agency/Ministry of Defense, as
Assistant or Senior Research Fellow. In 2008, he moved to the
Institute of Oriental Culture of the University of Tokyo. He received
his Ph.D. in Graduate School of Law at Keio University, in Tokyo. In
the meantime, he has served as a visiting research fellow at the
Consulate-General of Japan in Hong Kong (1994-96), Asia-Pacific Center
for Security Studies or APCSS in Hawaii (2000), the Henry L. Stimson
Center in Washington, DC (2000), Division of Strategic and
International Studies, Taiwan Research Institute in Taipei (2001),
US-Asia Institute in Washington, DC (2006), and Center for Japanese
Studies, Fudan University in Shanghai (2007). He is specializing in
political and diplomatic history of Asia, politics and foreign
relations in the PRC and Taiwan, and the Cross-Strait Relations.
Detailed Information:
Official Website of Yasuhiro Matsuda's Lab