Profile

Professor, Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security in Korea

Born in 1959. He graduated from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in 1983 and received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Keio University, Japan in 1991. He has been a professor in Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security in Korea since 2000. He was a Visiting Professor in Keio University in 2002-2003. He has been appointed as an advisory committee member of National Security Council in Korea and a member of Presidential Council for Future & Vision in Korea. His areas of specialization are U.S.-Korea-Japan security relations and North Korean politics.

Professor Emeritus, Waseda University

Kazuko Mori was a researcher at Japan Institute of International Affairs (1965-1987) . She was a professor at Faculty of International Studies, University of Shizuoka, Faculty of International Culture Studies, Yokohama City University and Faculty of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University. She has been appointed as a Professor Emeritus of Waseda University since 2010.

Her majoring fields are modern China and international relationship of East Asia.

She has published "Path to China as a World Power"(2009), "Sino-Japanese Relationship-From Post-World War II to the New Stage"(2006), "Politics of Contemporary China –New Version"(2004).

She received Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize (Academic Research, 2010), The Daido Life Foundation Regional Research Award (2007), Ishibashi Tanzan Memorial Award (2007), The Medal with Purple Ribbon (2003).

Professor, Graduate School of Policy and Management, Doshisha University

Director of Research, Hyogo Earthquake Memorial 21st Century Research Institute

Toshihiko Hayashi, Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University. Born in 1943. Graduated from Kyoto University and Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University. Has been a faculty member at Kobe University of Commerce, Osaka University and the Open University of Japan. Now a professor of policy studies at Doshisha University. Also affiliated with Hyogo Earthquake Memorial 21st Century Research Institute (HEM21) as Director of Research overseeing researches for safer and securer society.

Recent books include "Economic Policy", "Japan in a World Perspective", "The Political Economy of Japan (English)", and "Economics of Emergency".

Professor, Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies, Kobe University

After studying doctoral course at the Law School of Kyoto University, he joined the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University as research associate in 1981. He then moved to the Faculty of General Education, Okayama University as associate professor in 1987. In 1993 he joined the Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies, Kobe University as associate professor and as professor since 1996. He served as dean to the same graduate school between January 2004 and December 2005.

He was seconded to the Japanese Embassy in the Philippines twice. The first assignment was political attaché between April 1992 and March 1994 and the second was Minster in charge of research and study between September 2008 and March 2010. He is specialized in Southeast Asian politics centering on the Philippine.