About Me

Welcome! I am a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Political Science at Washington University in St. Louis. I was previously a Research Fellow for Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.

My research examines how international conflict shapes social cohesion and security attitudes. Across contexts, I study how people experience war—through sacrifice, victimization, collective memory, and media—and how these experiences reshape political identities, group boundaries, and views of the outside world. My dissertation focuses on unequal wartime burdens across subnational groups and their consequences for national cohesion, state-society relations, and intergroup relations. Methodologically, I draw on survey experiments, causal inference, and computational methods. My work has been published or is forthcoming in peer-reviewed journals, including Journal of Peace Research and BMC Public Health.

I received my BA (2019) and MA (2021) in Political Science from Waseda University, Japan. Outside of academic work, I enjoy playing the violin and cheering for the Cardinals.