Yasuhiro Matsuda
is a Japanese professor of international politics at the University of Tokyo. Biography 
Matsuda 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 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. History

Education
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
1997 Ph.D. Candidate (Law), Graduate School of Law, Keio University, Tokyo
2003 Ph.D. (Law), Graduate School of Law, Keio University, Tokyo

Academic career
1992-93 Assistant,  1st Research Office, 2nd Research Department, the National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS)
1993-99 Assistant, 3rd Research Office, 2nd Research Department, NIDS
1999-04 Senior Research Fellow, 3rd Research Office, 2nd Research Department, NIDS
2004-08 Senior Research Fellow, 6th Research Office, Research Department, NIDS
2008-09 Associate Professor, Institute of Oriental Culture, the University of Tokyo
2010-11 Associate Professor, Institute of Oriental Culture, the University of Tokyo
2011-12 Professor, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, the University of Tokyo
2012-15 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)
2015 Professor, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, the University of Tokyo

