Tosh Minohara

Professor, Graduate School of Law and Politics, Kobe University

Chairman, Research Institute for Indo-Pacific Affairs (RIIPA)

Honorary Consul of the Republic of Kosovo for Kansai

Tosh Minohara is from Irvine, California. He earned his bachelor’s degree in international relations from the University of California, Davis, and later obtained his Ph.D. in Political Science and Diplomatic History from Kobe University. Since 1999, he has been teaching at the Graduate School of Political Science at Kobe University and has held his current position since 2007. He also has a joint appointment at the Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies, Kobe University, and in the past has lectured at the Command and Staff College for Japan’s Air and Maritime Self-Defense Forces.

Most recently, he was invited as a visiting fellow at the Library & Archives of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. In 2019, he founded the Research Institute for Indo-Pacific Affairs (RIIPA), a Cabinet Office-certified non-profit organization, and currently serves as its chairman. From March 2026, he was appointed as the Honorary Consul of the Republic of Koso for Kansai.

He is an expert in U.S.-Japan relations, American foreign policy, international politics, and international security, and has authored many books, chapters, and articles. In 2024, he served as editor and contributor of The Handbook of Japan’s Foreign and Domestic Policies During the Decade of Abe (MHM and Amsterdam University Press, 2024). He regularly contributes to various domestic and international media outlets, and his academic achievements have been recognized as a recipient of the Shimizu Hiroshi Prize and the Japan Research Prize.