Political Science

Professor Kimiya teaches comparative politics in the University of Tokyo’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. He received his M.A. in Politics from the University of Tokyo and his Ph.D. in Comparative Politics from Korea University. His past research has focused on the political economy of South Korea and Northeast international relations. He has also done research on Taiwan, the United States, China, North Korea and Russia.

As a professor of political science, Dr. Huan has done extensive research on the German Green Party and the European Greens as a whole. He is a leading scholar on environmental politics in China. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Shandong University in 1997. Supported by the EU-China Higher Education Cooperation Programme and the DAAD-K.C. Wong Research Fellowship respectively, he studied at Luneburg University between 1998-99 and at Dusseldorf University in 2002.

Nishino Junya is Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Law and Politics, Keio University. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Yonsei University. His research focuses on contemporary Korean politics, international relations of East Asia and Japan-Korea relations. Previously he served as a Special Analyst on Korean Affairs in the Intelligence and Analysis Service of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2006-2007), and was a Special Assistant on Korean Politics at the Japanese Embassy in Seoul (2002-2004).

GAO Ming received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from Peking University. In 2011, he joined the master's program of Regional Studies - East Asia at Harvard University. His academic interests range from the sovereignty debt problem and the international monetary system to the financial crisis, in the perspective of international political economy.

Kim Sung Ho (Ph.D., U. Chicago, 1997) teaches political philosophy and constitutional theory at Yonsei University (Seoul, Korea). He was previously a professor of political science at the University of California and Williams College. His studies in German political thought have been published as Max Weber’s Politics of Civil Society (Cambridge University Press, 2004/2007). Constitutionalism and democratic theories are his recent research concerns. At HYI, he focused on a comparative-constitutional investigation of how liberal-democratic constitutionalism was transplanted—or “imposed” in the parlance of late— under the US military tutelage in occupied Japan (1946) and postcolonial Korea (1948).