Yoshihide Soeya is Professor of political science and international relations at the Faculty of Law of Keio University. He served as the Director of the Institute of East Asian Studies of the same university for six years until September 2013. Most recently, Dr. Soeya was a Japan Scholar of the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. from September 2013 to January 2014, and a Korea Foundation Fellow affiliated with the ASAN Institute in Seoul in March-May 2014.
His areas of interest are politics and security in East Asia, and Japanese diplomacy and its external relations. Dr. Soeya received a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1987, majoring in world politics.
Dr. Soeya currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Japan Association of International Studies, the Japan Association of Asian Studies, the International House of Japan, and the International Council of the Asia Society in New York.
Previously, he was a member of the Council of Defense Facilities of the MOD (2000-2009) and the Advisory Group of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2003-2013). He also served, in 1999-2000, as a member of the “Prime Minister's Commission on Japan's Goals in the 21st Century,” and, in 2010, of “the Council on Security and Defense Capabilities in the New Era,” both in the Prime Minister’s Office.