We are delighted to welcome Dr. Fiona Adamson (SOAS) and Dr. Eiko Thielemann (LSE) to RCAST on Nov. 2 (the day after JAIR in Makuhari) for a workshop on “Migration and Security in and around Europe.” Please register and join us! All are welcome! www.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/news/even...

Just 2 days to go until Dr. Ieva Birka (University of Latvia) speaks on “The Missing Link in Whole-of-Society Defense.” A timely discussion on societal resilience, hybrid threats, and public preparedness. Everyone is welcome to join—registration required! www.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/news/even...

It was a very short but nice trip to Riga, observing and interacting with the upcoming Latvian election campaign.

Thanks to @ipsarc14.bsky.social, @ipsa.org, @euracminorities.bsky.social, @autonomyexperience.bsky.social, I had a great time attending the IPSA RCs/RC14 Colloquium in Bolzano/Bozen! I really enjoyed valuable research exchanges, reconnected with old friends, and met new people. #ipsarc14bz

On my last way to IPSA RCs Colloquium Bolzano/Bozen "Minorities under Siege? Plural Societies Facing Plural Challenges". It has already taken more than 24hrs from Japan, but no fatigue, im excited join it! #ipsarc14bz @ipsarc14.bsky.social

We're looking forward to welcoming participants to Bolzano/Bozen for our @ipsa.org Research Committees Colloquium starting on Tuesday! If you're live-skeeting the event, please tag in @ipsarc14.bsky.social, @euracminorities.bsky.social and @autonomyexperience.bsky.social and use #ipsarc14bz.

rc14.ipsa.org - Bolzano/Bozen 2026

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I’m very honoured that my manuscript on Latvia–Japan relations has been published in the 2026 Yearbook of the Latvian Institute of International Affairs (LIIA) — Latvia’s leading think tank. My sincere thanks to the editors who made this possible. liia.lv/en/publicati...

and then we will soon have another distinguished speaker, Dr Régis Dandoy, a specialist of electoral studies and electoral observation\monitoring. It features electronic voting!

though it happened last month, we were very honored to host a talk by Dr. Una Aleksandra Bērziņa-Čerenkova, one of Latvia’s top strategic minds and the leading China expert in the Baltic States.

Had an opportunity to share my own career experiences with the younger generation of JSPS research fellows

On March 10, We welcomed Dr. Vytautas Kuokštis (Vilnius University, TSPMI) for the RCAST Security Seminar at the University of Tokyo, titled ‘The Political Economy of the Lithuanian Growth Puzzle’. roles.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/news/2025...

Report of RCAST Security Seminar ‘The Political Economy of the Lithuanian Growth Puzzle’

On10MarchtheResearchCentreforAdvancedScienceandTechnology(RCAST)attheUniversityofTokyodivisio...

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visiting Tallinn (then Rīga later) to see the post "Baltic Synchro" society.

If you've been interested in public opinion surveys on Japan's diplomacy and security, here we have one (The University of Tokyo, ROLES, SAFER project). We will continue this on a regular basis in the future, sometimes including survey experiments. roles.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/publicati...

UTokyo ROLES Survey – Oct 2024

UTokyoROLESSurvey: SecurityAllianceandForeignEngagementResearch(SAFER)projectAimandScopeofthi...

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Fresh from the oven! My article about Nationalism and environmentalism from the global perspective: A comparative survey analysis of eco‐nationalism, in @n_nationalism (Nations and Nationalism) doi.org/10.1111/nana...

Nationalism and environmentalism from the global perspective: A comparative survey analysis of eco‐nationalism

This study examines the relationship between environmentalism and nationalism, including eco-nationalism, from comparative empirical survey studies. This study uses the Integrated Value Survey datase....

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Wishing you all a good holiday season.