Ryo Hinata-Yamaguchi

2012 Ph.D. – Politics, University of New South Wales, Canberra

2005 M.A. – Strategic and Defence Studies, Australian National University

2002 B.A. – Security Analysis, Australian National University

Defense Strategy and Planning, Security in the Indo-Pacific, Transport Security

2023 – Present Associate Professor, Tokyo International University

2023 – Present Nonresident Senior Fellow, Indo-Pacific Security Initiative, Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, Atlantic Council

2023 – Present Adjunct Senior Fellow, Pacific Forum

2022 – Present External Lecturer, Command and Staff College, Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force

2021 – 2024 Project Assistant Professor, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Tokyo

2014 – 2021 Visiting Professor, Department of Global Studies, College of Economics and International Trade, Pusan National University

2013 Visiting Lecturer, Faculty of Social and Political Science, University of Muhammadiyah Malang

2013 – 2023 Adjunct Fellow, Pacific Forum

2012 – 2013 Resident Vasey Fellow, Pacific Forum

2022-2025 Principal Investigator: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Transport Security: Developments and Issues in the Indo-Pacific Region, grant number: 23K22086

2009 Postgraduate Research Support Scheme

2008-2011 KF/KSAA Graduate Studies Scholarship

2006-2007 Korea Foundation Fellowship for Korean Language Training

Books

• Defense Planning and Readiness of North Korea: Armed to Rule, Oxfordshire, UK and New York, NY: Routledge, 2021.

Journal Articles

• “Optimizing Joint Operational Readiness: Lessons for Japan”, Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Command and Staff College Review, 13:2, Mar 2024.
• “Civil Aviation Governance in North Korea”, ROLES Review,2, Sep 2022.
• “Japan’s Defense Readiness: Prospects and Issues in Operationalizing Air and Maritime Supremacy”, Naval War College Review, 71:3, Summer 2018, pp. 41-60.
• “New Chapter in the Japan-US Alliance? Developments and Challenges in Japan’s Role”, International Public Policy Studies, 22:2, Mar 2018, pp.40-61.
• “Airpower Modernization in East Asia: Evolving Capabilities and Impact on Regional Security”, Akita International University Global Review, 9, 2017, pp.26-50.
• “North Korea’s Transport Policies: Current Status and Problems”, Journal of International Relations, 19:2, Dec 2016, pp.67-94.
• “Prospects and Issues in Systemizing Ecological Defense Planning: Case Study of Korea”, Pacific Focus, 31:3, Dec 2016, pp.383-402.
• “Completing the U.S.-Japan-Korea Alliance Triangle: Prospects and Issues in Japan-Korea Security Cooperation”, Korean Journal of Defense Analysis, 28:3, Fall 2016, pp. 383-402.

Selected Chapters in Edited Volumes

• “The Japan Self-Defense Forces: Developments and Transformation” in Handbook on Japanese Security, edited by Leszek Buszynski, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2023.
• “Comparing Military AI Strategic Perspectives: Japan and South Korea” in The AI Wave in Defence Innovation: Assessing Military Artificial Intelligence Strategies, Capabilities, and Trajectories, edited by Michael Raska and Richard Bitzinger, Routledge, 2023.

Selected Policy Briefs/Reports

Emerging Technologies and the Future of US-Japan Defense Collaboration (Coauthored with Tate Nurkin), Atlantic Council Snowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, Apr 17, 2020.

“The US and Japan are Upgrading their Security Alliance. Here’s What Needs to Come Next”, The Atlanticist, April 2024.

“Japan: Defense Planning in Transition”, DGAP Report, Sep 2022.

“Developments in Japan’s Defense Strategies and Readiness: Is the Glass Half-Full or Half-Empty?”, Asie.Visions, 124, Oct 2021.

“Flying Blind at Sea: Growing Japan’s Naval Aviation Capability”, Texas National Security Review, (policy roundtable), Oct 1, 2020.