Ryuji HATTORI

I was born in Tokyo and earned my bachelor's degree at Kyoto University. I received an MA and a Ph.D. in political science from Kobe University and an MA from Johns Hopkins University in international relations.
My primary publications in English have been the following.

• Japanese Diplomacy and East Asian International Politics, 1918-1931. London: Routledge, 2024.
• Fighting Japan’s Cold War: Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone and His Times. Leonard. London: Routledge, 2023.
• Japan and the Origins of the Asia–Pacific Order: Masayoshi Ohira’s Diplomacy and Philosophy. Singapore: Springer, 2022.
• China-Japan Rapprochement and the United States: In the Wake of Nixon’s Visit to Beijing. London: Routledge, 2022.
• Japan at War and Peace: Shidehara Kijūrō and the Making of Modern Diplomacy. Canberra: Australian National University Press, 2021.
• Eisaku Satō, Japanese Prime Minister, 1964–72: Okinawa, Foreign Relations, Domestic Politics and the Nobel Prize. London: Routledge, 2021.
• Understanding History in Asia: What Diplomatic Documents Reveal. Tokyo: Japan Publish Industry Foundation for Culture, 2019.