2025.6.17 Fueling Sovereignty has won the 46th Institute for Developing Economies’ Award for the Promotion of Studies on Developing Countries. https://www.jetro.go.jp/news/releases/2025/177da2e32ce30ba9.html
2025.1.27 The Japanese version of my book, Fueling Sovereignty, has been published. https://www.keio-up.co.jp/np/isbn/9784766430042/
2024.3.21 My book, Fueling Sovereignty, has been published. https://t.co/P9CD37bgpj
2023.4.26 Signed a contract with Cambridge University Press to publish my book, "Fueling Sovereignty: Colonial Oil and the Creation of Unlikely States," as part of the LSE International Studies series.
2023.4.6 My article "Colonial Oil and State-Making: The Separate Independence of Qatar and Bahrain" has been published online in Comparative Politics. https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cuny/cp/pre-prints/content-jcpo22216
2022.11.1 My article "The Eastern cousins of European sovereign states? The development of linear borders in early modern Japan" has been published online in European Journal of International Relations. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/13540661221133206
2022.8.1 Appointed as an Associate Professor of Security Studies at the Institute for Future Initiatives, the University of Tokyo.
2021.6.1 Started my postdoc at Cambridge.
2021.2.25 Passed the viva with no corrections; I am a PhD!
2021.1.15 Submitted my dissertation.
2020.11.8 Received an honorable mention for the Best Graduate Student Paper Award of the HIST section of the International Studies Association.
2020.10.1 For the academic year of 2020-21, I will be an OxPo visiting PhD student at the Center for International Studies, SciencePo Paris.
2019.10.14 My article "Colonial origins of the resource curse: endogenous sovereignty and authoritarianism in Brunei" has been published online in Democratization. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13510347.2019.1678591
2019.5.9 Awarded a research grant from Takanashi Foundation for Historical Science.
2018.12.21 My review article on the resource curse has been published in アジア経済 (Ajia Keizai).
2018.11.29 Awarded a research grant from the Royal Historical Society.
2018.6.17-30. Participated in the the Institute for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research Summer School (IQMR) 2018.
2018.4.8 Received the 10th Ishibashi Tanzan Young Researcher Award from Ishibashi Tanzan Memorial Foundation. http://www.ishibashi-mf.org/prize/fresh/10st.html
2018.4.1 Received Research Grant for Groundbreaking Young Researchers from Suntory Foundation. https://www.suntory.co.jp/sfnd/research/list_wakate/2017.html
2017.10.28 Received the 10th JAIR Best Paper Award from the Japan Association of International Relations. http://jair.or.jp/committee/jair-award/3014.html
2017.10.1 Started my doctoral study at the University of Oxford, Department of Politics and International Relations.
2017.4.12 My paper "Consequences of third-party intervention in history issues" has been published in Kokusai Seiji (International Relations).
2016.12.26 Awarded a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (DC1).
2016.1.2 Opened my website.