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My research is in the area of public international law. I am particularly interested in issues of arms control, international security as well as the law of armed conflict. I am interested in contemporary arms control regimes based on multilateral treaties, including the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. I've recently wrote a book review on Annie Jacobsen's Nuclear War: A Scenario. Though not an academic book, it provides much food for thought for all of us.

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Publication

List of my main publication as of summer 2025.

The list of main publication including my articles in Japanese is here. 

Main publication (freely) available online includes:

"Economic Sanctions against Russia: Questions of Legality and Legitimacy" (2024), a co-authored work in a special issue on "The War in Ukraine and International Law" of the International Community Law Review.

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"Russia: The Crimea question and Autonomous Sanctions" (2019), a chapter in an edited book.

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 "Disarmament Debates around the 1899 Hague Peace Conference and the 1921–1922 Washington Conference: Community-Oriented Aspirations and Individual Security Concerns" (2022), Journal of the History of International Law, vol. 24, issue 4. 

More on ORCID 0000-0003-3927-1927.

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CV

• LLB, Kyoto University

• Diplôme, Ecole Nationale d'Administration (France) - now gone (replaced by INSP)!

• MA, University of Tokyo

• JSPS Research Fellow, 2000-2003

• Joined GSICS, Kobe University, in 2003
  
  Similar information on the GSICS webpage

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