Welcome! I am a sixth-year Ph.D. candidate at Yale University’s Department of Political Science, with a focus in comparative politics. I also have affiliation with Waseda University’s Institute of Political Economy and the Yale University Council on East Asian Studies.

My research centers on political communication and comparative political behavior, with emphasis on Japan. I am interested in how shifts in mass communication shape public opinion, voter mobilization, and interparty competition. My dissertation uses observational text analysis, interviews, and an experiment to demonstrate the incumbency advantage of Japanese media strategies. Other recent work concerns digital fieldwork, soft power, and public diplomacy.

Before entering academia, I worked as a reporter and as a salaryman in Tokyo. I received a Master of Arts degree in East Asian Studies from Yale, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and East Asian Studies from Wesleyan University, with additional coursework at Waseda University and the Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies.