Asia Rising: A Handbook of History and International Relations in East, South and Southeast Asia

Ryo Sahashi is an Associate Professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia at the University of Tokyo. Dr. Sahashi specializes in international politics in East Asia. His recent book is US-China Rivalry: A Shift of American Strategy and Divided Worlds (Tokyo: Chuko, 2021) and In a Search for Coexistence: the United States and Two Chinas during the Cold War (Tokyo: Keiso, 2015), and he edits East Asian Order in the Post-Cold War Era (Tokyo: Keiso, 2020). In English, his recent articles appear on Pacific Affairs, China International Strategy Review, Contemporary Politics, and Journal of Contemporary China. He has been a visiting scholar at Stanford University, Wilson Center, Georgetown University, and Seoul National University. He was a Professor at Kanagawa University. He received his B.A. from International Christian University and his Ph.D. from the Graduate Schools for Law and Politics at the University of Tokyo.

Yasuhiro Matsuda is a Professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia at the University of Tokyo. He received his Ph.D. in law from the Graduate School of Law at Keio University in Tokyo. He spent sixteen years in the National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS) and Japan Defense Agency (later, Ministry of Defense), as Assistant and Senior Research Fellow. He moved to the Institute of Oriental Culture (later, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia) of the University of Tokyo in 2008. He specializes in the political and diplomatic history of Asia, politics and foreign relations in the PRC and Taiwan, the Cross-Strait Relations, and Japan's foreign and security policies. He was a Member of the Council on Security and Defense Capability in the New Era, the advisory group of the Prime Minister in 2010. He is the winner of the seventh Yasuhiro Nakasone Award of Excellence in 2011. He has published numerous books and articles in Japanese, English, and Chinese. His most recent publications in English are the following. "China's UN Peacekeeping Operations Policy: Analysis of the Factors behind the Policy Shift toward Active Engagement," March 2016. "The Taiwan Policy of the Xi Jinping Administration in its Second Term: An Outlook on Cross-Strait Relations in the 'New Era, '" Society of Security and Diplomatic Policy Studies (SSDP), September 2018. "Changes in the Dynamics of the Taiwan Strait due to Taiwan's Success in Controlling the Novel Coronavirus," Asia-Pacific Review, Volume 27, 2020, December 11, 2020, pp. 57-79.

Waka Aoyama is a Professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia at the University of Tokyo. She was a Visiting Researcher at the Joint Ateneo Institute for Mindanao Economics at Ateneo de Davao University, Philippines, from 2018 to 2019. Her research interests include Davao/Mindanao Studies; Studies on the Sama-Bajau in the urban Philippines; and an oral history of a Cebuano woman living in a low-income area of Davao City. Her approach includes ethnographic fieldwork and oral history. She has published several articles and books in English and Japanese including An Ethnography of Poverty: Socio-economic Life of Five Sama Families in Davao City, Philippines; and An Intimate Journey: Finding Myself Amongst the Sama-Bajau. She is a translator of the Japanese version of Anthony Reid's A History of Southeast Asia: Critical Crossroads. Moreover, she is a recipient of several academic prizes such as the Ohira Masayoshi Memorial Prize, the Daido Life Area Research Encouragement Award, and the Japan Science Promotion Society Prize.

Ryo Sahashi 是東京大學亞洲高等研究所的副教授。Sahashi 博士專注於東亞的國際政治。他最近的著作包括《美中競爭：美國戰略的轉變與分裂的世界》（東京：中公，2021）和《尋求共存：冷戰期間的美國與兩個中國》（東京：慶應，2015），並編輯《冷戰後時代的東亞秩序》（東京：慶應，2020）。他的近期英文文章發表在《太平洋事務》、《中國國際戰略評論》、《當代政治》和《當代中國期刊》。他曾在史丹佛大學、威爾遜中心、喬治城大學和首爾國立大學擔任訪問學者。他曾是神奈川大學的教授。他在國際基督教大學獲得學士學位，並在東京大學法學與政治學研究所獲得博士學位。

Yasuhiro Matsuda 是東京大學亞洲高等研究所的教授。他在東京的慶應義塾大學法學研究所獲得法學博士學位。他在國防研究所（NIDS）和日本防衛廳（後來的防衛省）工作了十六年，擔任助理和高級研究員。2008年，他轉至東京大學的東方文化研究所（後來的亞洲高等研究所）。他的專業領域包括亞洲的政治與外交歷史、中國大陸與台灣的政治與外交關係、兩岸關係，以及日本的外交與安全政策。他曾是2010年新時代安全與防衛能力委員會的成員，該委員會是首相的諮詢小組。他是2011年第七屆中曾根康弘優秀獎的得主。他已發表多部書籍和文章，涵蓋日文、英文和中文。他最近的英文出版物包括《中國的聯合國維和行動政策：政策轉變背後因素的分析》（2016年3月）、《習近平政府第二任期的台灣政策：新時代兩岸關係的展望》（安全與外交政策研究學會，2018年9月）、《台灣成功控制新冠病毒後台灣海峽動態的變化》（亞太評論，2020年12月11日，第27卷，頁57-79）。

Waka Aoyama 是東京大學亞洲高等研究所的教授。她曾於2018年至2019年擔任菲律賓達沃大學聯合阿特內奧經濟研究所的訪問研究員。她的研究興趣包括達沃/棉蘭老島研究；城市菲律賓的Sama-Bajau研究；以及生活在達沃市低收入區的宿霧女性的口述歷史。她的研究方法包括民族誌田野調查和口述歷史。她已發表多篇英文和日文的文章和書籍，包括《貧困的民族誌：菲律賓達沃市五個Sama家庭的社會經濟生活》和《親密的旅程：在Sama-Bajau中尋找自我》。她是安東尼·瑞德的《東南亞歷史：關鍵交叉路口》日文版的翻譯者。此外，她還獲得了多項學術獎項，如大平正芳紀念獎、大同生命區域研究鼓勵獎和日本科學促進會獎。