Yuta Beppu
Graduate Student
Bio
Yuta Beppu is an M.A. student in East Asian Studies with a focus on Japanese foreign policy. His research interests lie in Japan’s roles in the shifting power dynamics of the East Asian region. He is particularly interested in the domestic and foreign factors that shape Japan’s external orientation and policy stances. He completed his B.A. in International Studies at Kwansei Gakuin University in Hyogo, Japan, where his study focused on the late-Abe administration’s core pillars of foreign policy and its consequential impacts on the pursuit of ambitious policies by succeeding administrations. During his undergraduate studies, he also spent a year at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, where he studied in the political science department as an exchange student. At this time, he primarily studied the subfields of International Relations, Political Economy, and Comparative Politics. At the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, he will take on the position of Assistant Instructor in the East Asian Language and Cultures department while engaging in his studies and research.
