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MASARU
TAMAMOTO
Senior
Fellow
Expertise Japan-China relations; Japan international relations; Japan
politics and society;
Japan-US relations;
National identity issues
Experience
Masaru
Tamamoto
writes on
Japanese national identity and international relations. He is
currently a visiting scholar in the Faculty of Asian and Middle
Eastern Studies at the University of Cambridge. His permanent home
is Yokohama, Japan. He has taught at American University (Washington
DC) and Ritsumeikan University (Kyoto), and has received fellowships
from Princeton, Harvard, and Tokyo Universities.
Dr. Tamamoto has been Visiting
Professor, Faculty of Law, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto (1998-1999);
Visiting Research Fellow, Florida International University (winters,
1998, 1999);
Assistant Professor, School of International Service,
American University (1990-95);
Visiting Fellow, Institute of Oriental
Culture, Tokyo University (1994-95); Advanced Research Fellow,
Center
for International Affairs, Harvard University (1993-94);
Visiting
Fellow, Center of International Studies, Princeton University (1988-90).
Has presented numerous talks at universities in the United States,
Japan, and Korea.
Honors
& Affiliations:
Pan-Pacific
Project, Ritsumeikan University;
Political Philosophy Association,
Tokyo;
Screening Committee, Social Science Research Council (1993);
Curriculum Development Award, American University (1992);
John D.
And Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in International
Peace and Security (1988-89)
Education
Ph.D. with
distinction, International Relations, Johns Hopkins University
M.A., Johns
Hopkins University
Independent
Research, American University in Cairo
B.A., International
Relations, Brown University
Languages
Fluent in
Japanese
Contact
kotanu(at)gmail.com
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
"How
Japan Imagines China and Sees Itself," Japan Institute of
International Affairs, 2006 and
World Policy Journal Vol. XXII, No. 4 Winter 2005/06.
Japanese Discovery of
Democracy, JIIA Commentary, The Japan Institute of
International Affairs, April 26, 2006.
"How
Japan Imagines China and Sees Itself," World Policy Journal,
Winter 2005/2006.
Review. John Swenson-Wright, "Unequal Allies? United States Security
and Alliance Policy Toward Japan, 1945-1960." Pacific Affairs, Fall 2005
"Sino-Japanese Pride and Prestige," Far Eastern Economic Review,
June 2005.
"After
the Tsunami, How Japan Can Lead," Far Eastern Economic Review,
January/February 2005.
"The
Uncertainty of the Self: Japan at Century's End, " World Policy
Journal, Summer 1999. An
expanded version appears in Michael Matanduno and John Ikenberry,
eds. The Emerging International Relations of the Asia Pacific
Region (Columbia University Press, 2004).
"A Nationalist's Lament: The Slippery Slope of Koizumi's Foreign
Policy" in The People vs. Koizumi?: Japan-U.S. Relations and
Japan's Struggle for National Identity, Asia Program Special
Report, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, February
2004.
"Ambiguous Japan: Japanese National Identity at Century's End,"
(Chapter 5) in International Relations Theory and the
Asia-Pacific. G. John Ikenberry and Michael Mastanduno (eds),
(Columbia University Press, 2003).
"A
Land without Patriots: The Yasukuni Controversy and Japanese
Nationalism," World Policy Journal, Fall 2001.
"Groping for an International Political Role: Japan and Humanitarian
Intervention in Self-Determination Conflicts, " The Ritsumeikan
Journal of International Studies, March 2001.
Reprinted in Dean Collinwood, ed., Global Studies: Japan and the
Pacific Rim, sixth edition (McGraw Hill, 2001).
"Japan
and Its Discontents: A Letter from Yokohama," World Policy
Journal, Fall 2000.
"The
Making of a Liberal Japan: A Silent Revolution, " SAIS Policy
Forum Series, November 1999.
"Seiki matunihon
no nationaru aidentiti" (book chapter, 1999)
"Japan's Search for
Recognition and Status" (Chapter 1) in
Japan's Quest: The Search for International Role, Recognition and
Respect
edited by Warren S. Hunsberger
1997
"The
Privilege of Choosing: The Fallout from Japan's Economic Crisis, "
World Policy Journal, Fall 1998.
"Japan's Search for Recognition and Status" in Warren Hunsberger,
ed., Japan's Quest: The Search for International Role,
Recognition, Respect (M.E. Sharpe, 1997).
"Reflections on the Postwar Japanese State: Amorphous yet Dominant,"
Daedalus, Spring 1995.
"Village Politics: Japan's Prince of Disorder," World Policy
Journal, Spring 1995.
"Japan's Willful Innocence: Political Thought and International
Relations Since 1945, " Occasional Papers, Program on U.S.-Japan
Relations, Harvard University, 1994.
"The
Ideology of Nothingness: Meditation on Japanese National Identity,"
World Policy Journal, Spring 1994.
"The
Japan that Wants to be Liked: Society and International
Participation" in Daniel Unger and Paul Blackburn, eds., Japan's
Emerging Global Role (Lynne Reinner, 1993).
"The Japan that Wants to be Liked:
Society and International Participation" (book chapter) in
Japan's Emerging Global Role
edited by Daniel Unger and Paul
Blackburn
Lynne Reinner, 1993
"After Communism: Democracy, Authoritarianism, Anarchy or More
Communism?" (Association of Third World Affairs, 1992).
"A New Order in Asia?: Japan's Uncertain Role," World Policy
Journal, Fall 1991.
"Japan
Plays Follow the Leader" in Jo Dee Catlin Jacob, ed., Beyond the
Hoppo Ryodo: Japanese-Soviet-American Relations in the 1990s
(American Enterprise Institute, 1991).
"In Search of Post-Containment Stability in the Pacific" in
Preparing for a Pacific Century (Commission on U.S.-Japan
Relations for the Twenty First Century, 1991).
"Trial of an Ideal: Japan's Debate on the Iraqi Crisis," World
Policy Journal, Winter 1990-1991.
Revised and reprinted in Wolfgang
Danspeckgruber and Charles Tripp, eds., The Kuwait Crisis and its
Implications for the Emerging Order (Westview Press, 1996); and
in Herbert Blumberg and Christopher French, eds., Persian Gulf
War: Views from the Social and Behavioral Sciences (University
Press of America, 1993).
Chikyu-kajidai no nichibei kankei
(coeditor, 1991)
"Japan's Search for a World Role," World Policy Journal,
Summer 1990.
Revised and reprinted in Henry Bienen, ed., Power, Economics and
Security (Westview Press, 1992); and in Glenn Hastedt and Kay
Knickrem, eds., Toward the Twenty-First Century: A Reader in
World Politics (Prentice-Hall Canada, 1994).
LECTURES & APPEARANCES
Spoke about "Japan's Politics of Cultural Shame" at an East Asian
Institute Lecture at the University of Cambridge, January 28, 2008.
Delivered the Alumni and Friends Lecture on "Japan
and the World: Perspectives of a Changing Country" on January
22, 2008 at the
MCI Management
Center Innbruck, Austria University of Applied Sciences.
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