Dr. JO Yang Hyeon is a Professor at the Department of Asian and Pacific Studies, and the Director of the Center for Japanese Studies, Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security (IFANS), Korea National Diplomatic Academy. He received his B.A. from Seoul National University, and M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo. He was an academic Associate of the Program on U.S.-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 Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize in 2010. He is the co-author of Japan and East Asia: Regional Cooperation and Community Building (2011); Power Shift in East Asia and Changes in Japan’s External Strategy (2014); National Identity of Japan and International Relations in Northeast Asia (2019); Cross-border Crisis, Diplomatic and Institutional Response (2020); The Political Economy of North Korea (2022); Foreign Policy and Foreign Relations of South Korea (2023); Understanding the Security of ROK (2025).