Takashi Terada is a professor of international relations at Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan. Before taking up his current position in April 2012, he was an assistant professor at the National University of Singapore and associate and full professor at Waseda University. He also has served as a visiting fellow at the University of Warwick, U.K. and as a Japan scholar at Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington D.C. His areas of specialization include the international political economy in Asia and the Pacific, theoretical and empirical studies of Asian regionalism and domestic and international policies of Japan. He received a Ph.D. from the Australian National University, Australia.