About
I am a Ph.D. student at the University of Michigan. My research is situated at the intersection of public opinion, comparative politics, and international relations, with a regional focus on East Asia and the Indo-Pacific. Anchored in Japan, and in comparison with South Korea and Taiwan, I currently study how historical legacies, such as wars, colonialism, and nation-building, shape the contemporary perspectives of citizens toward the military and the state. I also study research methods, with a primary focus on measurement and scaling techniques. I have also published a few papers on the use of AI in the social sciences, examining its accuracy in predicting and classifying political phenomena.
