Robert D Eldridge
Born in 1968. Ph.D. in Political Science. After graduating from Lynchburg University, he studied the history of Japanese politics and diplomacy at Kobe University Graduate School. After working as an associate professor at Osaka University (public policy) since 2001, he has been in charge of base policy and regional relations since 2009 as deputy director of the Political and Foreign Affairs Department of the Marine Corps in Japan (until 2015). During that time, he was involved in the planning and implementation of U.S. military relief activities in the Great East Japan Earthquake, making use of his experiences of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake that he experienced while attending school. He currently serves as representative of Eldridge Research Institute Co., Ltd., Director of the Global Risk Mitigation Foundation (in charge of North Asia), and senior researcher at the Japan Policy Research Forum. His major publications include “The Origin of the Okinawa Problem” (Suntory Prize for Arts and Sciences and the Asia-Pacific Prize), “The Relationship between Japan and the United States between Iwo Jima and Ogasawara”, “The Origin of the Senkaku Issue” (Ohira Masayoshi Memorial Prize, Kokkiken Award), “Okinawa Theory”, “Operation Tomodachi”, “Population Decline and the Self-Defense Forces”, ”Escape from the Educational Recession”, and many more.
Book Information
Escape from the Educational Recession – The Choice of a Japanese Quarter System – Book (Koyo Shobo) – 2020/7/10
Population Decline and the Self-Defense Forces (Fusosha Shinsho)– 2019/3/2
Operation Tomodachi Kesennuma Oshima and the Miraculous “Bond” of the U.S. Marine Corps (Shueisha Bunko)– 2017/2/17
Preparing for the Next Great Earthquake: A New Way of Military-Civilian Cooperation Proposed by Those Who Have Experience In Operation Tomodachi of the U.S. Marine Corps (Modern Fire Department New Book) – 2016/5/1
Who Kills Okinawa The Strange Structure Of “Poor” People (PHP Shinsho)– 2016/4/15
Okinawan Theory Confession of Former Marine Corps Executives in Okinawa (Shincho Shinsho)– 2016/1/15
U.S.-Japan Relations between Iwo Jima and Ogasawara (Ogasawara Series 5)– 2008/8/30
Amami Return and U.S.-Japan Relations: The Occupation of Amami and Okinawa in the Postwar United States and the Asian Strategy– 2003/8/15
The Origins of the Okinawa Problem: Okinawa in Postwar U.S.-Japan Relations 1945-1952 – 2003/6/23
