Dr. Soeya is Professor of political science and international relations at the Faculty of Law of Keio University. He concurrently serves as the Director of the Center for Contemporary Korean Studies of the Institute of East Asian Studies at Keio. Dr. Soeya also serves on the Council of the Japan Association of International Studies and the Japan Association for Asian Studies. Additionally, he is a member of the Council of the International House of Japan and the International Council of the Asia Society in New York. Previously, he served as a member of the “Prime Minister’s Commission on Japan’s Goals in the 21st Century” (1999-2000) and as a member of “the Council on Security and Defense Capabilities in the New Era” (2010), both in the Prime Minister’s Office. His major publications in English include “A ‘Normal’ Middle Power: Interpreting Changes in Japanese Security Policy in the 1990s and After,” in Yoshihide Soeya, Masayuki Tadokoro, and David A. Welch, eds, Japan as a ‘Normal Country’?: A Country in Search of its Place in the World (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011); and Japan’s Economic Diplomacy with China, 1945-1978 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998). He received a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1987.