Thank you for visiting my profile. I am a DPhil student reading Politics at St Antony's College. I recently completed the DPIR's MPhil course in Politics (Comparative Government) with Distinction at St Hugh's College. My substantive research interests primarily lie in how political elites and parties behave within the constraints of electoral, party and legislative institutions in parliamentary democracies, and how their behaviour influences voters' evaluation of elites and democratic institutions. Methodologically, I am interested in the application of causal inference designs, experiments and Natural Language Processing techniques in conducting research related to my substantive interests.
Prior to joining the DPIR, I received a Bachelor of Liberal Arts from the University of Tokyo with a major in British Area Studies and a minor in Interdisciplinary Social Sciences. My undergraduate thesis on contemporary British parliamentary reform was awarded the First National High School Memorial (Dean's) Award. I also completed the European Studies Programme at SciencesPo, Paris during my undergraduate study.
Research interests
Institutional determinants of accountability
Descriptive and substantive representation
Voters' policy preferences and democratic attitudes
UK, Japanese, German and European politics
Computational text analysis
Degrees
MPhil in Politics (Comparative Government), St Hugh's College, University of Oxford (2024, Distinction)
Bachelor of Liberal Arts (Area Studies major and Interdisciplinary Social Sciences minor), University of Tokyo (2022, Dean's Award)
Training
Oxford Spring School in Advanced Research Methods (2025)
Summer Institute in Computational Social Science, Tokyo (online, 2023)
European Studies Programme, SciencesPo, Paris (2020, Grade A+)
Languages
English (professional)
Japanese (native)
French (intermediate)
German (intermediate)
Awards
Oxford-Berlin Research Partnership Flexible Fund Award (2025)
First National High School Memorial (Dean's) Award (2022)
Japan Private High School Federation Chair Award (2018)
