Hosoya, Yuichi

Yuichi Hosoya is a professor of international politics at Keio University, Tokyo. His research focuses on postwar international history, British diplomatic history, Japanese foreign and security policy, and contemporary East Asian international politics.

His most recent publications include Security Politics: Legislation for a New Security Environment (Tokyo: JPIC, 2019); History, Memory & Politics in Postwar Japan (co-edited with Lynne Rienner: Boulder, 2020); “Japan’s Security Policy in East Asia” in Yul Sohn and T.J. Pempel’s (eds.) Japan and Asia’s Contested Order: The Interplay of Security, Economics, and Identity (Palgrave, 2018); and Modern Japan’s Place in World History: From Meiji to Reiwa (co-editor, Springer: Singapore, 2023).

He received the Yomiuri Yoshino Sakuzo Prize (Chuokoron Shinsha) in July 2010, the Sakurada Prize for a Book on Political Science (Sakurada-kai) in 2010, and the Suntory Prize for Social Sciences and Humanities (Suntory Foundation) in December 2003.

Professor Hosoya is Director of International House of Japan and Director of Research of Asia Pacific Initiative, Tokyo. He is also a Senior Researcher at the Nakasone Peace Institute (NPI), a Senior Fellow at The Tokyo Foundation for Policy Research, and Senior Adjunct Fellow at the Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA). He was a member of the Prime Minister’s Advisory Panel on Reconstruction of the Legal Basis for Security (2013–14) and the Prime Minister’s Advisory Panel on National Security and Defense Capabilities (2013).

Professor Hosoya studied international politics at Rikkyo (BA), Birmingham (MIS), and Keio (Ph.D.). He was visiting professor and Japan Chair (2009–2010) at Sciences-Po in Paris (Institut d’Études Politiques), visiting fellow (Fulbright Fellow, 2008–2009) at Princeton University, and visiting fellow at Downing College, the University of Cambridge (–July 2022).

Hans Kundnani is an associate fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) in London, where he was previously director of the Europe programme. Before joining Chatham House as a senior research fellow in 2018, he was a senior Transatlantic fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States and research director at the European Council on Foreign Relations. In 2016 he was a Bosch Public Policy Fellow at the Transatlantic Academy in Washington, D.C. He is also an associate fellow at the Institute for German and European Studies at Birmingham University.

Hans is the author of Utopia or Auschwitz. Germany’s 1968 Generation and the Holocaust (2009), The Paradox of German Power (2014), which has been translated into German, Italian, Japanese, Korean and Spanish, and Eurowhiteness. Culture, Empire and Race in the European Project (forthcoming 2023). He studied German and philosophy at Oxford University and journalism at Columbia University in New York, where he was a Fulbright Scholar. He tweets @hanskundnani.