GUC26SI101C | Sustainability and Tourism: Internship Experience in Okinawa
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About the lecturer
| Takako Hikotani is a Professor and Head of the International Support Division at the Center for Global Education, the University of Tokyo, and a Senior Fellow with the Asia Society Policy Institute in Tokyo. From 2016 to 2021, she served as the Gerald L. Curtis Associate Professor of Modern Japanese Politics and Foreign Policy at Columbia University, and prior to that she taught at the National Defense Academy of Japan. Her research focuses on civil-military relations, Japanese domestic politics, and Japanese foreign policy. Her recent publication in English include: “Revisiting negative externalities of US military bases: the case of Okinawa,” International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, 23-2, May 2023; “How the Ukraine War is Changing Japan,” Foreign Affairs, April 28, 2022. Professor Hikotani received her BA from Keio University, MAs from Keio University and Stanford University, and PhD in Political Science from Columbia University, where she was a President's Fellow. | ![]() |
| Professor Takako HIKOTANI |
Introduction video
Syllabus
UTokyo GUC Internship Experience Program
International Education Promotion Group, Education and Student Support Department
The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8652 JAPAN
For inquiries regarding GUC Internship Experience Program, kindly direct them to the following email address:
utokyo-guc-intern.adm(at)gs.mail.u-tokyo.ac.jp *Please change (at) to @
