Yanghyeon Jo is a Professor at the Department of Asian and Pacific Studies, and the Head of the Center for Japanese Studies, Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security (IFANS), Korea National Diplomatic Academy. He received his BA from Seoul National University and MA and PhD from the University of Tokyo. He was an academic Associate of the Program on US-Japan Relations, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University in 2011, and a visiting fellow of the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore in 2018. His research field includes Japanese foreign policy, international relations, and diplomatic history of Asia Pacific. His major publication is Asian Regionalism and U.S. Asian Policy: International Relations in the Asia-Pacific during the Vietnam War (University of Tokyo Press, 2009), which won the Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize in 2010. He is the co-author of Introduction of Modern Foreign Policy (2007); Multilateral Diplomacy: A Passage toward Great Power (2009); Release of Diplomatic Documents and Reinterpretation of the Korean-Japanese Conference (2010); Japan and East Asia: Regional Cooperation and Community Building (2011); Institutionalization of Multilateral Cooperation in East Asia (2012); Power Shift in East Asia and Changes in Japan’s External Strategy (2014); How to Fix the Imperiled Korea-Japan Relations (2015); Regional Characteristics of Global Cold War (2015); Foreign Policy 21 Century (2016); Korea-Japan Relations in Fetters (2017); National Identity of Japan and International Relations in Northeast Asia (2019); Foreign Relations and Diplomatic History of Korea (2019); Cross-border Crisis, Diplomatic and Institutional Response (2020); Contending Views of History and History Reconciliation (2020).