Soeya Yoshihide

Session 4 - "The New Normal in Korea-Japan Relations"

Dr. Soeya Yoshihide is Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the Faculty of Law of Keio University. He also serves as Director of the Center for Contemporary Korean Studies of the Institute of East Asian Studies at Keio University. His areas of interest are politics and security in East Asia, and Japanese diplomacy and its external relations in the region and the world. 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 (University of Toronto Press, 2011); and “The Evolution of Japan’s Public Diplomacy: Haunted by its Past History,” in Jan Melissen and Yul Sohn, eds., Understanding Public Diplomacy in East
Asia: Middle Powers in a Troubled Region 
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). Dr. Seoya received a B.A. and an M.A. from Sophia University and his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.