Rumi Aoyama is Professor at the Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies at Waseda University, and director of Waseda Institute of Contemporary Chinese Studies. She has been a visiting scholar at...
Professor Jenny Corbett is Emeritus Professor in the Crawford School of Public Policy and the inaugural Rio Tinto Fellow for the Foundation for Australia-Japan Studies, based at the University of...
Judith is the current Executive Director of the Australian and New Zealand Chamber of Commerce in Japan and has been in the role since January 2018. Prior to this she was posted to the New Zealand...
Daniel Hurst is a freelance journalist based in Tokyo whose reporting interests include politics, climate change, international affairs, social issues and education. His news and feature articles...
Dr Akira Igata is currently a Visiting Professor at the Center for Rule-making Strategies, Tama University. He is also a Senior Adjunct Fellow at Pacific Forum, a US-based think tank. He advises...
Hisakazu Kato is the professor of the School of Political Science and Economics, Meiji University since 2005. He graduated from Keio University in 1981 and completed graduate school at the...
Tove Kinooka founded Global Perspectives K.K. in 2015 with her business partner Gavin Dixon. Over the last 20+ years Tove has designed and delivered programs to leaders and teams at every level of...
Robin works as a consultant at the World Bank’s Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (part of the Climate Change Group) and runs an organisation called Social Innovation Japan – a...
Dr. Jonathan Luckhurst is Associate Professor of International Relations, at the Graduate School of International Peace Studies of Soka University in Tokyo. Before moving to Tokyo in 2018, he...
Elizabeth Masamune is based in Tokyo, has over 25 years’ experience living and working in Asia, and is a fluent Japanese linguist. She is a former Australian trade envoy and diplomat. She is...
Cristina currently serves as Head of Customer Relations for Rugby World Cup 2019, Official Hospitality Programme. Previously she worked as Executive Director of the Australian and New Zealand...
Lully Miura is a political scientist and President of Yamaneko Research Institute, Inc. She graduated from the University of Tokyo and the Graduate School of Public Policy and earned her PhD from...
Nobuko is a Labor Economist who graduated with a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Tokyo in 1995. She has written about work, family and social policy from an Asian perspective, comparing...
Midori Okabe is Professor of International Relations in the Department of International Legal Studies, Faculty of Law, Sophia University, Tokyo, JAPAN. Currently, she is also a member of the Global...
Yuma joined the Australia-Japan Youth Dialogue in 2019 and has served in logistics, partnerships, and programme officer positions.
Yuma is a Kyoto-based scholar working on International...
Tomohiko Satake is a senior research fellow at the policy simulation office of the National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS) located in Tokyo. He specializes in alliance studies, Japanese...
Jake Sturmer is the ABC's North Asia Correspondent based in Tokyo. He is in charge of the office and reports from across Japan and the wider region. His work features across the ABC’s TV, online...
Kaori Takahashi is Senior Staff Writer and Deputy Editor of the International News Department at Nikkei Inc. Before taking the role this year, she spent five years as Nikkei's first female Sydney...
Born in Toronto in 1985, Yoshiki spent his childhood in Toronto and New York until moving to Japan at the age of 10. For post-secondary education, Yoshiki studied at the University of Sydney and...
