OHTOMO Takafumi

Affiliation
Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences
Official title
Associate Professor
Research fields
International relations
Research keywords
International Relations Theory
International Security
Alliance Politics
Research projects
Alliance Politics1998-04 -- (current)/
Alliance and Balance of Power1998-04 -- (current)/
U.S.Grand Strategy and Overseas Military Presence2000-04 -- (current)/
Unipolar Politics2003-04 -- (current)/
A Comparative Study of U.S. Overseas Military Presence2007 -- 2010-03Takafumi OHTOMOJapan Society for the Promotion of Science/Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)3,540,000Yen
Career history
2014-04 -- (current)University of Tsukuba, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Associate Professor
2011-10 -- 2014-03University of Tsukuba, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Assistant Professor
2011-01 -- 2011-09University of Tsukuba, Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Doctoral Program in International and Advanced Japanese Studies, Assistant Professor
2008-04 -- 2010-12University of Tsukuba, Department of Global Activities, Assistant Professor
2007-04 -- 2008-03University of Tsukuba, Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Assistant Professor
2004-04 -- 2007-03University of Tsukuba, Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Instructor
2003-10 -- 2004-03University of Tsukuba, Institute of Social Sciences, Instructor
Academic background
1998-04 -- 2003-09University of Tsukuba , Graduate School of International Political Economy , International Political Economy (completed course work)
1994-10 -- 1996-08University of Chicago , Committee on International Relations (Specialization: International Political Economy)
1990-08 -- 1994-08Valparaiso University , Department of Political Science
Degree
2013-07Ph.D. (International Political Economy)University of Tsukuba
2000-03Master of Arts (International Political Economy)University of Tsukuba
1996-08Master of Arts (International Relations)University of Chicago
Academic societies
2000 -- (current)Japan Association of International Relations
1995 -- (current)American Political Science Association
2005 -- (current)International Studies Association
2006 -- (current)Japanese Political Science Association
2004 -- 2005Association for Asian Studies
Articles
  • "Book Review, Shinji Kawana, Kichi no Seijigaku: Sengo Beikoku no Kaigai Kichi Kakudai Seisaku no Kigen [Base Politics: The Origins of the Postwar U.S. Overseas Base Expansion Policy] (Tokyo: Hakuto Shobo, 2012). "
    大友貴史
    Leviathan: The Japanese Journal of Political Science/(55)/pp.158-161, 2014-10
  • "U.S. Military Bases and Force Realignments in Japan and Germany."
    Takafumi Ohtomo
    Journal of International and Advanced Japanese Studies (University of Tsukuba)/(6)/pp.17-34, 2014-01
  • "The Corporatist System and Social Organizations in China."
    Kazuko Kojima; Jae-Young Choe; Takafumi Ohtomo; Yutaka Tsuji...
    Management and Organization Review/8(3)/p.609-628, 2012-11
  • "Understanding U.S. Overseas Military Presence after World War II."
    Takafumi Ohtomo
    Journal of International and Advanced Japanese Studies (University of Tsukuba)/4/pp.17-29, 2012-03
  • "Predominance of U.S. Global Military Presence: Personnel, SOFAs, and the Command Structure."
    Takafumi Ohtomo
    Area Studies Tsukuba (University of Tsukuba)/31/p.93-112, 2010-03
  • "Book Review, Kent E. Calder, Embattled Garrisons: Comparative Base Politics and American Globalism (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007)."
    Takafumi Ohtomo
    International Relations of the Asia-Pacific: A Journal of the Japan Association of International Relations/9(1)/p.197-200, 2009-01
  • "Afurika Kaigin to Tsukuba Daigaku ga Renkei Oboegaki wo Teiketsu [African Development Bank and the University of Tsukuba to sign an MOU]."
    橘田正造; 大友貴史; 柏木健一
    Kokusai Kaihatsu Jyanaru [International Development Journal]/620/p.58-59, 2008-07
  • "Nihon no Shimin shakai Kozo to Seiji sanka: Jichikai, Shakaidantai, NPO no Zentaizou to Sono Seiji kanyo [The Structure of Civil Society in Japan and Political Participation: The Overall Picture of Neighborhood Associations, Social Associations, and Nonprofit Organizations and their Political Engagement]."
    辻中豊; 崔宰英; 山本英弘; 三輪博樹; 大友貴史
    Leviathan: The Japanese Journal of Political Science, 2007-10
  • "Exploring the Realities of Japanese Civil Society and Politics through Comparison.”
    Yutaka Tsujinaka; Jae-Young Choe; Takafumi Ohtomo
    Asian: The German Journal of Contemporary Asia/105/p.16-32, 2007-10
  • "Bandwagoning to Dampen Suspicion: NATO and the U.S.-Japan Alliance after the Cold War"
    Takafumi Ohtomo
    International Relations of the Asia-Pacific: A Journal of the Japan Association of International Relations/3(1)/p.29-55, 2003-02
  • "Reisengo no Doumei to Beigun Kaigaikichi Tenkai [U.S. overseas military bases and alliances after the Cold War],"
    大友貴史
    Kokusai Seijikeizaigaku Kenkyu [International Political Economy] (University of Tsukuba)/10/p.63-71, 2002-10
  • "Relative Gains versus Bargaining: Explaining Obstacles to Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific, 1989-1996."
    Takafumi Ohtomo
    International Political Economy (University of Tsukuba)/7/p.43-64, 2001-03
  • "Kankoku no seijitaisei to chihouseiji [Political Regimes and Local Government: The Case of South Korea]." (translated from English to Japanese with Seong-Bin Pak)
    趙 昌鉱; 大友貴史; 朴盛彬
    Leviathan: The Japanese Journal of Political Science/23/p.151-164, 1998-10
Conference, etc.
  • "When the protégé is facing the fear of abandonment, can a patron also face the same fear? U.S.-Japan alliance dilemma during the Cold War."
    OHTOMO Takafumi
    Paper prepared for presentation at the International Studies Association, Annual Virtual Conference/2024-07-30--2024-08-02
  • “From Entrapment to Abandonment to Entrapment Plus Abandonment: Understanding Japan’s Fears in the U.S.-Japan Alliance.”
    Ohtomo Takafumi
    Paper prepared for presentation at the International Studies Association, Asia-Pacific Region Conference, Waseda University/2023-08-08--2023-08-10
  • "Alliance Dilemma after the Cold War: Comparing the U.S.-Japan Alliance and the U.S.-Korea Alliance."
    Ohtomo Takafumi
    Annual Meeting of the Korean Political Science Association (virtual)/2021-12-04--2021-12-04
  • "Reisengo no Beikoku gurando sutorategi [U.S. Grand Strategy after the Cold War]."
    大友貴史
    Japan Association for International Security Annual Conference 2020 (virtual)/2020-12-05
  • "Unipolarity and International Politics."
    大友貴史
    Komaba International Politics Workshop/2015-06-12--2015-06-12
  • Roundtable Discussion of the 2014 Lower House Election
    Anand Rao; Ohtomo Takafumi; Robert Pekkanen
    Japan Political Studies Group/2015-03-28--2015-03-28
  • "Association Politics in Times of Political Change in Japan: Evaluating Successive Administrations by Major Association Leaders."
    Tsujinaka Yutaka; Yoshiaki Kubo; Ohtomo Takafumi
    Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Chicago, IL, USA, March 26-28/2015-03-26--2015-03-29
  • "American Unipolarity?"
    Ohtomo Takafumi
    The 1st National Taiwan University and University of Tsukuba Joint Faculty Conference/2014-02-22--2014-02-22
  • "Understanding U.S. Overseas Military Presence: How It Starts, Ends, and Endures."
    Takafumi Ohtomo
    Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, New Orleans, LA, USA, February 17-20, 2010/2010-02
  • "Exploring the Realities of Japanese Civil Society and Politics through Comparison: Comparing Japan, South Korea, US, Germany, China, Turkey, Russia, the Philippines, Brazil and Bangladesh in the JIGS Surveys."
    Yutaka Tsujinaka; Jae-Young Choe; Takafumi Ohtomo
    Paper presented at International Studies Association 49th Annual Convention at Hilton San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA, March 26-29, 2008 (Panel TB51: Civil Society Organizations and the State in Comparative and Interdisciplinary Perspective)/2008-03
  • "Explaining the Differences of Subjective Influence in Seven Countries: Comparing Japan, South Korea, Germany, China, Turkey, Russia, and the Philippines in the JIGS First Round Surveys."
    Yutaka Tsujinaka; Jae-Young Choe; Takafumi Ohtomo; Hir...
    Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies at Boston Marriott Copley Place, Boston, USA March 22-25, 2007 (Panel 212, East Asian Civil Society Organizations in Com-parative Perspective)/2007-03
  • "U.S. Military Bases and Force Realignments in Japan."
    Takafumi Ohtomo
    Paper presented at the conference, "Managing the Medusa Project: U.S.-Japan Alliance Relations in Comparison with US-UK and US-Germany Ties," Hokkaido University, August 29-30, 2006./2006-08
  • "Interest Groups, Civil Society Groups and Policy-Making in Asia."
    Robert Pekkanen; Yutaka Tsujinaka; Ohtomo Takafumi
    Paper presented at the 20th International Political Science Association World Congress, Fukuoka, Japan, July 9-13, 2006 (Panel SS01.584: Interest Groups, Civil Society Groups and Policy-Making in Asia)/2006-07
  • "Which Civil Society Organizations in Which Countries are Enjoying Policy-Making Processes and Why: Comparing 7 Countries (Japan, South Korea, Germany, China, Turkey, Russia, and the Philippines) in JIGS Survey."
    Yutaka Tsujinaka; Jae-Young Choe; Takafumi Ohtomo; Hir...
    Paper presented at the 20th International Political Science Association World Congress, Fukuoka, Japan, July 9-13, 2006/2006-07
  • "Civil Society Groups and Policy-Making in Contemporary Japan."
    Yutaka Tsujinaka; Robert J. Pekkanen; Takafumi Ohtomo
    Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Chicago, IL, USA/2005-03
Teaching
2024-04 -- 2024-08Research Program Development 5University of Tsukuba.
2024-10 -- 2025-02Research Program Development 3University of Tsukuba.
2024-04 -- 2024-08Specially Arranged Research Development 1University of Tsukuba.
2024-04 -- 2024-08Research Program Development Basic 1University of Tsukuba.
2024-04 -- 2024-08Project Seminar 2University of Tsukuba.
2024-10 -- 2025-02Project Seminar 2University of Tsukuba.
2024-04 -- 2024-08Internship IIUniversity of Tsukuba.
2024-10 -- 2025-02Internship IIUniversity of Tsukuba.
2024-10 -- 2025-02Research Program Development Basic 4University of Tsukuba.
2024-10 -- 2024-12International Studies IUniversity of Tsukuba.
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Other educational activities
2023-03 -- 2023-03Guest Speaker, "Alliance Dilemma in the U.S.-Japan Alliance" (virtual)Universitas Gadjah Mada (Indonesia), "Global Public Policy," Undergraduate Program in Public Policy and Management
Talks
  • How Can Japan and Europe Manage US Alliance Dilemmas?
    Krauss E.; Hughes C.; Berger T.; Leheny D.; Hummel H...
    International Symposium, "How Can Japan and Europe Manage US Alliance Dilemmas?"(University of Tokyo, Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, Endowed Course, "Politics and Mass Media," Asahi Shimbun), JR Tower Hotel Nikko Sapporo/2006-08-31--2006-08-31
University Management
2023-10 -- 2024-09"Invitation to Arts and Sciences" Course Planning CommitteeMember
2021-10 -- 2022-09"Invitation to Arts and Sciences" Course Planning CommitteeMember
2021-04 -- 2023-03Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Research Promotion CommitteeMember
2019-09 -- 2021-03North America Regional Advisory BoardMember
2016-04 -- 2017-03Tsukuba Global Science Week (TGSW) 2016 Planning CommitteeMember
2016-01 -- 2017-03Semi-hardball Baseball ClubClub Activities Advisor
2015-04 -- 2016-03Tsukuba Global Science Week (TGSW) 2015 Planning CommitteeMember
2015-04 -- 2016-03Inter-University Exchange Project (Russia)Member
2013-04 -- 2016-03Model UN TsukubaSupervisor
2012-04 -- 2017-03Program in Economic and Public Policy Management CommitteeMember
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Other activities
2015-04 -- 2021-08US-Japan Research Institute, Operating Advisor
2014-11 -- 2014-11SCUSA (Student Conference on US Affairs) 2014 at the United States Military Academy (West Point, NY), "Fukushima Future Group," Co-chair

(Last updated: 2025-03-04)