Sakata Yasuyo

Professor at Kanda University of International Studies and research fellow at the Research Institute for Peace and Security (Tokyo). Specializes in international relations and security on the Korean Peninsula. Graduated from Keiō University, received her Master of Arts in political science. She was a visiting fellow at the Yonsei University’s Graduate School of International Studies and at George Washington University’s Sigur Center for Asian Studies; served as a member of the Central Deliberation Council on Defense Facilities of the Japan Ministry of Defense and as vice chair of the NHK World (Japan International Broadcasting Inc.) Program Deliberation Committee. Co-authored publications include Chōsen Hantō no chitsujo saihen (Changing Order on the Korean Peninsula) (Keiō University Press) and Trilateralism and Beyond (Kent State University Press).