Fumiaki Kubo

Fumiaki Kubo is the president of the National Defense Academy of Japan and an emeritus professor in the graduate schools for law and politics at the University of Tokyo, where he taught for eighteen years. Prior to this role, he was a professor at the Department of Law of Keio University for fifteen years, a Japan Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center in 2014, and the President of the Japanese Association for American Studies in 2016-2018. Earlier in his career, he was a Visiting Scholar at The Johns Hopkins University and an assistant professor or visiting scholar at many other U.S. and Japanese universities. He earned a B.A. and a Ph.D. in Law from the University of Tokyo. Dr. Kubo is an expert on the United States, U.S. foreign policy, and the U.S.-Japan relationship. The views expressed above do not represent those of the government of Japan.