My Take
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.
Overview
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.
1. Profile
- 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
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Active years
- Unknown
- Occupation
- Political scientist / Historian / University professor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
- Debut
- Unknown
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
- Official sitehttp://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
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.