Tomohiko TANIGUCHI

Tomohiko TANIGUCHI 
Professor, Graduate School of SDM, Keio University

Other positions

Special Advisor to the Cabinet of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe

Biography

20 years in business journalism. stint for 3 years in London. One time President at the Foreign Press Association in London. Spent sabbaticals at Princeton University (Fulbright visiting fellow), Shanghai Institute for International Studies, and at the Brookings Institution as a CNAPS Fellow before joining Ministry of Foreign Affairs as Deputy Press Secretary. Since August 2008 held professorships at Keio and Meiji, and taught international political economy and media studies. On 1 February 2013 rejoined the government as Councillor, Cabinet Secretariat. Assumed current positions both at the SDM and at the Prime Minister's Office, effective 1 April 2014.

Educational Policy

Students will be led to equip themselves with a skill-set always to take dual perspectives to see: politics and economy; history and present; Japan and the world.

Research Interests

  • U.S.-led International System: Genesis and Evolution
  • Japan's Post-war Economic Development: International Context
  • International Currency Regime: Transformation and Future
  • Japan's Diplomacy: Politico-Economic Conditions
  • Public Diplomacy for Democratic Nation-States

Areas of expertise

International Political Economy (Currency Regime, International Financial System), Japan's Diplomacy, Public Diplomacy

Books and publications

"Currency Drama: A Contemporary History of the Yen, Yuan, Dollar and Euro" (Nikkei); "The New Shanghai: Economic Growth Viewed from the Back Alleys" (Chuokoron-Shinsha) etc.

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