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Matsuoka Misato

    Department of Language Studies Associate Professor
Contact： mmatsuokamain.teikyo-u.ac.jp
Last Updated :2025/05/01

Researcher Information

Affiliation

    Department of Language Studies Associate Professor

Degree

  • Ph.D (Politics and Intl Studies)（University of Warwick）

URL

Research funding number

  • 60823177

ORCID ID

J-Global ID

Profile

  • Born in the US, she lived in the US until the age of 9. Graduated from Sophia University with a B.A. in Comparative Culture (currently the Faculty of Liberal Arts) and completed a master's degree in Global Studies at Sophia University. During this time, she interned with the Northeast Asia Team in the Department of Political Affairs at the United Nations Headquarters. She obtained Ph.D. degree in Political Science and International Relations from the University of Warwick, while affiliated with the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Warwick. She taught political science and other courses at universities and graduate schools in the UK and returned to Japan in the spring of 2016, teaching at several universities (using English as a primary language). She specializes in international relations, U.S.-Japan relations, security, and East Asia/Asia Pacific/Indo-Pacific. Her teaching interests include English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI).

Research Interests

  • International relations   Security   Hegemony   East Asia・Asia-Pacific・Indo-Pacific   US Diplomacy   Think tanks   US-Japan relationship   

Research Areas

  • Humanities & social sciences / International relations

Academic & Professional Experience

  • 2024/04 - 2025/04  Aoyama Gakuin UniversityLecturer (Non-Full-time)
  • 2024/04 - Today  Kanazawa University
  • 2023/10 - Today  Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific UniversityLecturer (Non-Full-time)
  • 2022/04 - Today  Teikyo UniversityCenter for Teaching and LearningSoTL Senior Fellow
  • 2021/04 - Today  Teikyo UniversityFaculty of Language StudiesAssociate Professor
  • 2024/04 - 2025/03  Aoyama Gakuin UniversityGraduate School of International Politics, Economics and Communication
  • 2017/07 - 2024/03  University of TsukubaGraduate School of Business Sciences, Humanities and Social SciencesLecturer (Non-Full-time)
  • 2021/04 - 2022/03  Aoyama Gakuin UniversitySchool of International Politics, Economics and Communication
  • 2018/04 - 2021/03  Teikyo UniversityFaculty of Language StudiesLecturer
  • 2016/12 - 2018/03  International Christian UniversityCollege of Liberal Arts
  • 2016/04 - 2018/03  Tokai UniversitySchool of Humanities and Culture, Department of International Studies
  • 2016/09 - 2018/02  Meiji Gakuin UniversityFaculty of International Studies

Education

  • 2011/10 - 2015/04  University of Warwick  Politics and Intl Studies (Ph.D.)
  • 2009/04 - 2011/03  Sophia University  Graduate School of Global Studies  Master's(Doctoral) Program in Global Studies
  • 2005/04 - 2009/03  Sophia University
  • 2007/08 - 2008/06  University of California, Berkeley (Peace and Conflict Studies)
  • 2002/04 - 2005/03  Toin Gakuen

Association Memberships

  • 日本国際政治学会   Association for Asian Studies (AAS)   British International Studies Association (BISA)   Higher Education Academy (HEA)（Associate）   European International Studies Association (EISA)   International Studies Association (ISA)   European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJS)   British Association for Japanese Studies (BAJS)   

Research Activity Information

Published Papers

Books etc

  • 「戦争」が溢れる時代 (猿田 佐世, 巖谷 陽次郎 編集, 戦争を回避する「新しい外交」を切り拓く：10年間の実践を踏まえて)
    松岡美里 (Contributor)かもがわ出版 2025/01 9784780313536
  • Misato Matsuoka (Contributor)Routledge 2025
  • International Relations (Hiroko Takeda & Mark Williams 編集 “Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Japan”)
    with Christopher W. Hughes (Joint work)Routledge 2020/09
  • Amae as Emotional Interdependence: Analyzing Japan’s Nuclear Policy and US-Japan Nuclear Cooperation Agreement (Felix Roesch & Atsuko Watanabe編集 “Modern Japanese Political Thought & International Relations”)
    Misato Matsuoka (Contributor)Rowman & Littlefield 2018/09
  • Hegemony and the US-Japan Alliance
    Misato Matsuoka (Single work)Routledge 2018/07
  • Embracing Vulnerability?: Reflection on My Academic Journey as a Japanese Feminist Early Career Research Abroad (Rachel Thwaites & Amy Pressland編集 “Being an Early Career Feminist Academic Global Perspectives, Experiences and Challenges”)
    Misato Matsuoka (Contributor255-265)Palgrave Macmillan 2016/11

Conference Activities & Talks

  • トランプ時代のあるべき日米外交とは:『戦争を回避する「新しい外交」を切り拓く』出版記念  2025/04
  • Hegemony, Counter-Narratives, and Knowledge Production in Japanese Foreign Policy: The Role of Experts and Think Tanks in a Shifting Global Landscape
    International Studies Association (ISA)  2025/03
  • Forward-looking Rapprochement?: The Role of Empathy in the Case of Japan’s Foreign Policy Towards South Korea
    Emotions in Japanese Foreign Policy Workshop  2024/11
  • Reimagining Heritage and Activism: Okinawan Youth Challenging Social Division
    "Diversifying Heritage and Remembrance in Contemporary Japan" workshop  2024/10
  • Policy Knowledge Production in Japan's Security and Foreign Policy Discourses
    17th Pan-European Conference on International Relations  2024/08
  • Emerging Powers and Multilateralism in Question: The Case of the Indo-Pacific
    17th Pan-European Conference on International Relations  2024/08
  • 英語必修科⽬における多読（ER）と協同学習 （collaborative learning)の実践と効果の検証
    三村明; 程文清; 松岡美里
    第7回研究交流シンポジウム  2024/08
  • Unraveling the China Threat: Perspectives from US and Japanese Think Tanks in a Multipolar World
    ISA 2024 Virtual Conference  2024/08
  • Power and Insecurity in East Asia: Exploring the Relevance of “Progressive Realism”
    Progressive Realism: A Global Agenda? (Australian National University (ANU))  2024/07
  • Forward-looking South Korea-Japan Rapprochement?: Remembering through Empathy
    Emotions in Japanese Foreign Policy (Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI))  2024/05
  • Japan-ASEAN Relations
    YCAPS-JICUF Indo Pacific Dialogue  2024/01
  • Cultivation of solidarity and soft power: Ukrainian President Zelensky’s 2022 speech to Japan
    Misato Matsuoka; Rieko Matsuoka
    War in Words (UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES))  2023/11
  • The role of policy advisers and think tanks in Japan: examining the practice turn and de-centering Western agency in security policymaking
    16th Pan-European Conference on International Relations  2023/09
  • 16th Pan-European Conference on International Relations  2023/09
  • 英語必修科目における多読（ER）の実践と協同学習（Cooperative Learning）の試み
    三村明; 程文清; 松岡美里
    第6回帝京大学研究交流シンポジウム  2023/08
  • The Entrenched Ideology of “Ie (Family)” as an Obstacle to Gender Equality in Japan
    ISA Asia-Pacific 2023  2023/08
  • Resilience and Vulnerabilities: A Critical Examination of Japan’s Resilience Governance
    ISA Asia-Pacific 2023  2023/08
  • ISA 2023 Virtual Conference  2023/08
  • TIU Global Dialogue  2023/05
  • International Studies Association (ISA)  2023/03
  • Japan's Responses and Adaptations to the Changing Security Environment and Global Order
    IPERID Global Trends 2023  2023/03
  • 日本の安全保障の選択肢－抑止の限界と外交の可能性－
    NDイベント  2022/11
  • Challenging Academic and Pedagogical Environment with Social Acceleration: from the Viewpoint of an Early Career Female Researcher
    The 2022 Annual Convention of the Japan Association of International Relations (JAIR)  2022/10
  • 15th Pan-European Conference on International Relations  2022/09
  • European Workshops in International Studies (EWIS)  2022/07
  • International Studies Association (ISA)  2022/03
  • SoTLプロジェクト2020・2021 成果報告会  2022/02
  • The Sigur Center for Asian Studies, George Washington University  2021/11
  • エネルギー基本計画と使用済燃料問題（原子力政策はどうなる？―エネルギー基本計画の改定と原発・再処理の行方）
    NDオンラインイベント  2021/06
  • International Studies Association (ISA)  2021/04
  • Japan’s Diplomatic and Security Practice under Abe Shinzō (Roundtable)
    International Studies Association (ISA)  2021/04
  • コロナ感染症の爆発的流行が日米同盟の抑止力に及ぼした影響
    松岡美里
    航空研究センター・シンポジウム  2021/03
  • US Foreign Policymaking toward Asia: the Indo-Pacific and the Rise of China
    Misato Matsuoka
    9th Biennial Oceanic Conference on International Studies (OCIS)  2020/12
  • Japan's foreign and economic policies after Abe
    Online inter-university roundtable discussion (Warwick, Sheffield, ICU, Hosei, Daito Bunka, Teikyo)  2020/11
  • むつ市の中間貯蔵施設（六ケ所再処理工場の本格稼働がもたらす課題：青森と世界の視点）
    ND online event  2020/11
  • US Foreign Policy After the Presidential Election: The Prospect of East Asia and US-Japan Relations
    新潟県立大学  2020/11
  • Critical take on the U.S.-Japan alliance: uncommunicative actions between Japan and Okinawa
    松岡美里
    13th Pan-European Conference on International Relations  2019/09
  • "Rule of law" and US-led liberal international order: the case of US-Japan alliance
    松岡美里
    13th Pan-European Conference on International Relations  2019/09
  • Reexamining US-led alliances and liberal international order: the case of the U.S.-Japan alliance.
    松岡美里
    International Studies Association (ISA) Asia-Pacific  2019/07
  • Reframing the Region? Japan’s Strategy Toward the Indo-Pacific.
    British International Studies Association  2019/06
  • Reexamining US-led alliances and liberal international order
    松岡美里
    European Workshops in International Studies (EWIS)  2019/06
  • Reshaping Japanese Diplomacy?: Reconsidering the Roles of Think Tanks
    松岡美里
    International Studies Association (ISA)  2019/03
  • The US-Japan Alliance in the Indo-Pacific Region: Continuity and Change
    Misato Matsuoka
    What is Japan's Place in a Changing Global Order?  2018/12
  • The (Re-)Rising of China as a Crisis?: Redefining the US-Japan Alliance in a Precarious Triangle
    Misato Matsuoka
    British Association for Japanese Studies (BAJS) Conference 2018  2018/09
  • Whose Development? Critical Examination of Japan’s ‘Developmental State’ Model
    Misato Matsuoka
    International Initiative for Promoting Political Economy (IIPPE) Conference  2018/09
  • (Re-)Rising China and Japan’s Shifting Security Policymaking.
    Misato Matsuoka
    International Studies Association's (ISA) 59th Annual Convention  2018/04
  • Academics as informal political actors in Japanese security policymaking: linking theory to practice
    Japan's Changing Diplomatic and Security Practice
  • Emerging Think Tanks in Japan: Reconsidering the Role of Think Tank through the Lens of International Practice Theory
    Misato Matsuoka
    11th Pan–European Conference on International Relation 2017  2017/10
  • 日本の『価値外交』の展開――批判的アプローチから見るアジア太平洋地域におけるアメリカ覇権
    松岡美里
    日本国際政治学会（2017年度研究大会）  2017/10
  • Hegemony and the US-Japan Alliance
    Misato Matsuoka
    Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University  2017/09
  • East Asia after Trump
    2017/09
  • Encircling China?: Japan's Responses to China's Regional Agenda
    Misato Matsuoka
    Association for Asian Studies (AAS)-in-Asia 2017  2017/06
  • Rethinking Hegemony and Crisis in the Case of the US-Japan Alliance and US Hegemony
    松岡美里
    International Studies Association (ISA) Asia-Pacific  2017/06
  • Amae as a Particular or Universal Concept? Exploring the Process of Knowledge Production Locally and Globally
    Misato Matsuoka
    Fifth Global International Studies Conference, World International Studies Conference (WISC)  2017/04
  • Japan’s Proactive Pacifism and the ODA Policy: Changing Foreign and Security Policymaking?
    Misato Matsuoka
    2nd European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJS) Japan Conference  2016/09
  • Amae: A Particular or Universal Concept?
    Misato Matsuoka
    International Studies Association Asia-Pacific Conference 2016  2016/07
  • Pacifism in Japan: Reinvigorating or Withering?
    Misato Matsuoka
    International Studies Association’s (ISA) 57th Annual Convention  2016/03
  • Intellectuals and their Influences on Japanese Security Policymaking
    Misato Matsuoka
    White Rose East Asia Centre (WREAC) Workshop, Univesity of Sheffield  2016/01
  • Denial of Human Security?: "Okinawan Issues" and the U.S.-Japan Alliance
    Misato Matsuoka
    2015 Millennium Conference, LSE  2015/10
  • Exploring the Role of Violence: US bases in Okinawa in the Context of the US-Japan Alliance
    Misato Matsuoka
    9th Pan–European Conference on International Relation 2015  2015/09
  • Investigating Common Sense through Popular Culture: Development of Japanese Security Policymaking
    Misato Matsuoka
    9th Pan–European Conference on International Relation 2015  2015/09
  • Defining East Asia, Identifying Liminal Spaces
    Misato Matsuoka
    International Studies Association's (ISA) 56th Annual Convention  2015/02
  • Organic Intellectuals in Japanese Foreign Policymaking
    Misato Matsuoka
    White Rose East Asia Centre (WREAC) Conference, University of Sheffield  2015/01
  • Taiwan-Japan Relations after 2013 Fisheries Agreement: Road to 'Japan’s TRA'?
    Misato Matsuoka; Michal Thim
    56th Annual Conference of the American Association for Chinese Studies  2014/10
  • US-Japan Relations
    Misato Matsuoka
    Political Studies Association (PSA) Workshop ‘Japan in its Region: Balancing Trilateral and Regional Concerns  2014/09
  • "Breaking Away from the Postwar Regime"? – The Abe Administration’s Foreign Policy Agenda Through the Neo-Gramscian Window
    Misato Matsuoka
    14th International Conference of European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJS)  2014/08
  • The US-Japan Alliance as Smart Power? Examining US Rebalancing Strategy
    Misato Matsuoka
    23rd International Political Science Association (IPSA) World Congress of Political Science  2014/07
  • Japan’s Democracy in Peril?: The Curious Case of "Designated Secrets Protection Bill
    Misato Matsuoka
    2nd European Workshops in International Studies (EWIS)  2014/05
  • Re-investigation on the Nature of US Hegemony in the Asia-Pacific Region: A Neo-Gramscian Approach to the US-Japan Alliance
    Misato Matsuoka
    The 8th Pan-European Conference on International Relation 2013  2013/09
  • Cold War Legacy Still Remains in East Asia?: The Role of US and its ‘Pivot to Asia’
    Misato Matsuoka
    Joint East Asian Studies (JEAS) Conference 2013  2013/07
  • Strengthening or Deepening US Hegemony in the Asia-Pacific Region?: A Neo-Gramscian Perspective on the Role of the US-Japan Alliance
    Misato Matsuoka
    British International Studies Association (BISA) Annual Conference 2013  2013/07
  • U.S.-Japan Alliance: the Role of Consensual Aspect of US Hegemony
    Misato Matsuoka
    British Association of Japanese Studies (BAJS) Mini-Conference  2012/11
  • Japan’s Embrace of “Universal Values”?: the US-Japan Alliance and US Hegemony
    Misato Matsuoka
    British Association for Japanese Studies (BAJS) Conference 2012  2012/09

Works

MISC

  • 「留学経験を展示会に」ー"Experiencing the Worlds ー 2023 GCP Study Abroad Program Exhibition"を振り返って
    程文清; 三村明; 松岡美里  帝京大学総合博物館 館報  (7)  138  -143  2025/03
  • リベラルな日米同盟と「自由で開かれたインド太平洋（FOIP）」の意義―安倍政権の安保政策を振り返る（３）
    松岡美里  シノドス  2021/03  [Refereed][Invited]
  • 核燃料サイクル政策とむつ市の中間貯蔵施設 ― 民意なき合意形成（コンセンサス）
    松岡美里  ND Policy Brief Vol.8  2020/11
  • Book review: Shinzo Abe's sudden resignation leaves a legacy unfinished
    Misato Matsuoka  Nikkei Asia  2020/09  [Invited]
  • ポストコロナ時代の日米同盟――先鋭化する米中対立、揺らぐ米軍の抑止力
    松岡美里  シノドス  2020/06  [Refereed][Invited]
  • Japan’s Development Cooperation Charter - Towards Proactive Pacifism?
    松岡美里  MUN (Model United Nations) Planet  2016/10  [Refereed][Invited]
  • Japan, the UN and "Proactive Pacifism"
    松岡美里  MUN (Model United Nations) Planet  2016/02  [Refereed][Invited]
  • Transforming IR Education in Japan
    松岡美里  E-International Relations (E-IR)  2015/07  [Invited]
  • The Islands In-between
    松岡美里  China Policy Institute Blog  2014/10  [Invited]
  • Politicisation of Gender Issues in Japan: the 'Shiomura Incident'
    Misato Matsuoka  China Policy Institute Blog  2014/07  [Invited]
  • The Odd Couple: Japan and Taiwan's Unlikely Friendship
    松岡美里  The Diplomat  2014/05  [Refereed][Invited]
  • Japan's Relations with Russia in the Midst of the Ukraine Crisis
    松岡美里  China Policy Institute Blog  2014/03  [Invited]
  • Unofficially Official: The US Rebalance to Asia-Pacific and the US-Japan-Taiwan Alliance
    松岡美里; ith Michal Thi  China Policy Institute Blog  2013/10  [Invited]
  • Repositioning Japan on the Global Stage: the Nature of the Shinzo Abe Administration
    松岡美里; ith Miriam Grinberg  Warwick Knowledge Centre Article  2013/07  [Refereed][Invited]

Research Grants & Projects

Teaching Experience

  • Research MethodResearch Method Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University
  • Regional Systems in the Asia-PacificRegional Systems in the Asia-Pacific Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University
  • Comparative Politics (Intensive Course)Comparative Politics (Intensive Course) Kanazawa University
  • Life DesignLife Design Teikyo University
  • International RelationsInternational Relations Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University
  • Foreign PolicyForeign Policy Aoyama Gakuin University
  • History of Japanese Foreign RelationsHistory of Japanese Foreign Relations Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University
  • Foreign Policy of JapanForeign Policy of Japan Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University
  • International SecurityInternational Security Aoyama Gakuin University

Social Contribution

  • She Leads Here Advocates
    Date (from-to) : 2023/01-Today
    Sponser, Organizer, Publisher  : Canadian Embassy
  • 安全保障をみるプリズム（安全保障研究報告シリーズ）
    Date (from-to) : 2020/01-Today
    Category : Internet
    Event, Program, Title : シノドス
  • Japan's Indo-Pacific Policy
    Date (from-to) : 2025/01/08
    Sponser, Organizer, Publisher  : Direk Jayanama Research Center (The Faculty of Political Science, Thammasat University)
    Event, Program, Title : Direk Podcast
  • ポスト真実時代の政治：分断と対立の行方（第1回目 (6/22): トランプとアメリカ：分断の深化と国際関係への影響、第2回目 (7/6): グローバルサウスと民主主義：揺らぐ国際秩序と日本の選択)
    Date (from-to) : 2024/06/22-2024/07/05
    Sponser, Organizer, Publisher  : 鵠沼公民館（神奈川県藤沢市）
  • Non-Western Nations and the Liberal International Order
    Date (from-to) : 2023/09/23
    Sponser, Organizer, Publisher  : Saitama University
  • ウクライナ侵攻から１年国際社会の「今」（第1回目 (6/30): 各国の姿勢、反応と関係性、第2回目 (7/14): 日本の安全保障環境と実態)
    Date (from-to) : 2023/06/30-2023/07/14
    Category : Others
    Sponser, Organizer, Publisher  : 鵠沼公民館（神奈川県藤沢市）
  • アメリカからみた中国
    Date (from-to) : 2023/05/13
    Sponser, Organizer, Publisher  : 異文化交流同好会（湘南国際村）
  • Konfliktregion Pazifik: Japans neue Sicherheitspolitik
    Date (from-to) : 2023/01/23-2023/01/23
    Category : Media report
    Event, Program, Title : Deutschlandfunk
  • The Ukraine War and the World: National, Regional, and International Orders
    Date (from-to) : 2022/11/18
    Sponser, Organizer, Publisher  : The Korea Association for Eurasian Studies, Hanshin University Eurasia Institute
  • 国際社会で起きていること（第1回目 (5/28): ロシアのウクライナ侵攻から考える、第2回目 (6/24): アメリカの視点から見える冷戦後から今日まで、第3回目 (7/16): 国連・国際法の役割とは)
    Date (from-to) : 2022/05/28-2022/07/16
    Sponser, Organizer, Publisher  : 鵠沼公民館（神奈川県藤沢市）
  • The World this Weekend
    Date (from-to) : 2022/03/19
    Category : Media report
    Event, Program, Title : CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation)
  • Indo-Pacific Futures – Geoeconomics
    Date (from-to) : 2021/09/01
    Event, Program, Title : The National Security Podcast (Australian National University, National Security College)
  • UPF Panel discussion / East Asia after Trump
    Date (from-to) : 2019/09/06
    Category : Seminar
    Sponser, Organizer, Publisher  : Lund University
  • US-Japan alliance and hegemony: Neo-Gramscian view on the US-Japan relations
    Date (from-to) : 2018/02/23
    Category : Lecture
    Sponser, Organizer, Publisher  : New Diplomacy Initiative
  • Current International Affairs
    Date (from-to) : 2017/07/09
    Category : Seminar
    Sponser, Organizer, Publisher  : VAC Shonan（V Age Club）
  • Current International Affairs from young scholar's viewpoint
    Date (from-to) : 2017/05/24
    Category : Seminar
    Sponser, Organizer, Publisher  : Kugenuma Community Center (Fujisawa city, Kanagawa)
  • Exchanges: Warwick Research Journal
    Date (from-to) : 2014/10-2016/04
    Category : Pr
    Sponser, Organizer, Publisher  : University of Warwick
  • Tutor for PAIS Widening Participation
    Date (from-to) : 2016/01/27
    Category : Seminar
    Sponser, Organizer, Publisher  : University of Warwick
  • East Asia Study Group (EASG)
    Date (from-to) : 2013/10-2015/07
    Sponser, Organizer, Publisher  : University of Warwick

Media Coverage

Others

  • 2022/06 Guest Speaker
  • 2021/07 -2021/07 Guest Lecture