Yasuhiro Matsuda

Yasuhiro Matsuda is exactly the kind of person who makes you feel slightly bad about how you spend your days — a political scientist and historian out of Hokkaido who put in the work at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies and eventually landed at one of Japan's most prestigious research institutions. No flashy TV appearances, no viral moments, just decades of quietly building a body of scholarly work on East Asian politics and security. Born in 1965, so he came of age during the Cold War's final act and watched the whole regional order shift in real time — that kind of long view tends to produce the most grounded analysis. I have genuine respect for academics who resist the temptation to become pundits and instead stay in the weeds where the actual thinking happens. Matsuda feels like that type to me: slow, careful, deliberate — the intellectual version of someone who always shows their work.

Yasuhiro Matsuda is a Japanese political scientist and historian born on January 1, 1965, in Hokkaido, Japan. He studied at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies and went on to pursue an academic career in political science and history. Affiliated with the University of Tokyo's Institute of Oriental Culture, he maintains a research profile accessible through the institute's official website.

Name (English)

Yasuhiro Matsuda

Name (Japanese)

松田康博

Reading

まつだ やすひろ

Born

January 1, 1965 (age 61)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Snake (mi)

Origin

Hokkaido, Japan

Occupation

Political scientist / Historian / University professor

University

Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttps://www.ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~ymatsuda/en/index.html
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%BE%E7%94%B0%E5%BA%B7%E5%8D%9A

Tags

• from Hokkaido
• political scientist
• historian
• university professor

Last updated

2026-06-02

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