Dr. KIMIYA Tadashi is now a professor emeritus of the University of Tokyo. He retired in March, 2025. He graduated from the Faculty of Law, the University of Tokyo in 1983. He received his Ph.D. from the Graduate School of politics and international relations at Korea University in 1992. He became an associate professor, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the University of Tokyo in 1996, a professor in 2010.
He has developed his study focusing on the Korean politics and diplomacy including Korea-Japan relations, the U.S.-Korea relations, the inter-Korean relations not only during the cold war in the second half of the 20th century but also the post cold war in the first quarter of 21st century. His Japanese works are The History of the South Korea-Japan Relations (2021), which was the winner of the Ohira Masayoshi Memorial Prize in 2022, South Korea’s Contemporary History in International Politics (2012), ROK – Its Dynamism of Democratization and Economic Development (2003). His Korean works are Political Choice of the Park Chung Hee Government: Its Export-led Industrialization and the Cold War regime during the 1960s (2008). His English articles are included in Reassessing the Park Chung Hee Era, 1961-1979: Development, Political Thought, Democracy, and Cultural Influence (2011).