Takashi Inoguchi is President of the University of Niigata Prefecture and Professor Emeritus of the University of Tokyo. He holds a B.A. and M.A. from the University of Tokyo and a Ph.D. from MIT. He specializes in political science, international studies, and Japanese politics. He has published more than 100 books and numerous articles on a broad range of subjects, but focuses mostly on Japan and international affairs. The latest include The Troubled Triangle: Economic and Security Concerns for The United States, Japan and China, (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming in 2013). Political Parties and Democracy: Contemporary Western Europe and Asia, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). He is the founding editor of The Japanese Journal of Political Science (Cambridge University Press) and International Relations of the Asia-Pacific (Oxford University Press) and director of The AsiaBarometer Project. He can be reached at inoguchi@ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp.