Books By Akihiro Iwashita, Yong-ch'ul Ha, Edward Boyle - Author

Akihiro Iwashita is a professor at the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University. His research focuses on the Sino-Russian borderlands and on the Japan-Russia "Northern Territories" issue. He has authored and edited several books and numerous articles, notably Japan's Border Issues: Pitfalls and Prospects (Routledge, 2016) and A 4,000 Kilometer Journey Along the Sino-Russian Border (Slavic Research Center, 2004). He served as Coordinator of Border Region in Transition XII Conference (Fukuoka-Busan: 2012) and as President of Association for Borderlands Studies (2015-2016). He has received many grants and fellowship, including at the Brookings Institution's Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies (2007-2008), and prizes, such as IBRU's 2nd Milefsky Award (2019), the 24th Regional Publication Prize (2011), and the 4th Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Prize (2007). He was also nominated for the Asahi Newspaper's 6th Osaragi Jiro Prize for Commentary