益尾知佐子 / Chisako T. MASUO / 蘇琪（Su Qi）
Chisako T. MASUO is a Professor of international relations at the Faculty of Social and Cultural Studies, Kyushu University, who focuses on Chinese foreign and maritime policies. She was given the Nakasone Yasuhiro Award of Excellence in 2021 and IHJ Opinion Award of Journalism in 2026 for her analysis on on China’s maritime activities. She worked with late Harvard professor Ezra F. Vogel as his research assistant before obtaining a Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo, and served as his coordinate research scholar at Harvard-Yenching Institute in 2014-15. She had visiting fellowships at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and China Foreign Affairs University in 2019. She regularly contributes essays to Shukan Toyo Keizai (Asian Economics Weekly) and comments on Nihon Keizai Shinbun (Nikkei), Yahoo! Japan News and Asahi Shimbun on official bases. She has written papers and conducted extensive research activities not only in Japanese, but also in English and Chinese.
●Major Publications● For more information, please see Publications.
“China’s Maritime Governance under Xi Jinping and Its Implications for the International Community,” James Kraska, Ronán Long and Raul ‘Pete’ Pedrozo eds., Challenges in Oceans Law and Policy: The South Pacific and Latin America, Oceans Law and Policy (Series), vol. 26 (2026), pp. 153-184, ISBN: 9789004760806, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004760806_008.
“Japan’s Relations with China”, Tosh Minohara ed., Handbook of Japan’s Foreign and Domestic Policies During the Decade of Abe, MHM Limited, September 2024, pp. 20-39.
“China’s Digitalized Fishery Reforms and Its Implications on the East Asian Maritime Order”, Paul Midford, Jennifer L. Bailey, Espen Moe and Katja Levy eds., Navigating East Asian Maritime Conflicts: Technological Change, Environmental Challenges, Global and Regional Responses, Palgrave Macmillan, August 2024, pp. 295-315.
Principles of Chinese Behaviors: International Relations decided by Domestic Social Tyde（Chuokoron-Shinsha, 2019, sole-authored）
China Looks Back: Mao’s Legacy in the Open-Door Era（University of Tokyo Press, 2010, sole-authored）
A Diplomatic History of China（University of Tokyo Press, 2017, co-authored）
China and Japan : Facing History（translation, authored by Ezra F. Vogel, Nikkei Publishing, 2019）
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China（Volume 1; Volume 2）（co-translated, authored by Ezra F. Vogel, Nikkei Publishing, 2013）
I was born in Kyushu. However, as I became an exchange student to the U.S. (Syracuse, NY) for a year from Kokura High School, and to Peking University from the University of Tokyo, I have lived my life with the help with many people from various countries. I am a mix product of those and not really sure where I belong to. Maybe I am a “frontier citizen.” Besides Japanese, I also speak and write in English and Chinese. I get used to the local food no matter where I go, so I believe I can live anywhere.
My favorite things: seas, volcanoes, chilly weather, frontiers, outdoors, Fuqi feipian (a kind of Sichuan cuisine), handicrafts, plants (especially white dandelions, ferns, hostas, bougainvillea, wild roses).
And I’m really into gardening, especially the roses. I was deeply inspired by them in Weihai, Shandong!
Photo taken in Center for Northeast Asia Research of Shandong University, 2019.
It seems that you can deepen your understanding if you were there.
