Public Writing

Kiyoteru Tsutsui. “Kokorono Tamatebako.” Nikkei. December 2025.

Kiyoteru Tsutsui. “Universities in the U.S. under President Trump.” Chuokoron. November 2025.

Kiyoteru Tsutsui. “Japan’s Path for Sustaining the International Liberal Order.” Wedge. October 2025.

Kiyoteru Tsutsui. “Gender Gap and Japanese Minds.” Mainichi Newspaper. November 15, 2024.

Kiyoteru Tsutsui. “Fight Over Names Highlights Split in Japan’s Leadership Race.” Bloomberg. September 25, 2024.

Kiyoteru Tsutsui. “Challenges on the World Stage for Japanese Youths.” Wedge. August 2024.

Kiyoteru Tsutsui. “Startup Ecosystem in Japan.” Tokyo Foundation Report. March 2024.

Kiyoteru Tsutsui. “The Liberal Democratic Party’s Bold Strategy of Fielding Female Candidates: A ‘Survival Instinct’ Consistent with Voters’ Desires.” Asahi Newspaper. February 26, 2024.

Kiyoteru Tsutsui. “Do Japanese People Envision the Ideal Political Leaders as Females in Their 30s or 40s? Stanford Japan Barometer Finds Out.” Asahi Newspaper. February 26, 2024.

Kiyoteru Tsutsui. “How Question Framing Changes the Results of Public Opinion Polls: Japan Barometer’s Attempt to Get at the ‘True Feelings’ of Survey Respondents.” Asahi Newspaper. February 26, 2024.

Kiyoteru Tsutsui. “Koyusho: Faster than Before.” Nikkei Shinbun. October 27, 2023.

Kiyoteru Tsutsui. “Human Rights and the State: The Power of Ideas and the Reality of International Politics.” Re-Haq. September 18, 2023.

Kiyoteru Tsutsui. “The Cost of Taiwan Contingencies and Japan’s Determination.” Toyo Keizai Shinpo. August 5, 2023.

Kiyoteru Tsutsui. “Japan Studies Today: Despite the Popularity of Anime and Manga.” Asahi Shinbun. July 24, 2023.

Kiyoteru Tsutsui. “Another World: Silicon Valley.” TV Asahi. June 28, 2023.

Kiyoteru Tsutsui. “E-Nyuushi: Stanford University.” NHK Broadcasting. June 19, 2023.

Kiyoteru Tsutsui. “Analyzing ‘Samurai Japan’ from a Sociological Perspective.” Ushio. June 2023.

Kiyoteru Tsutsui. “Developed Nations Have to Focus on Rebuilding Democracy.” Asahi Shinbun. April 5, 2023.

Kiyoteru Tsutsui. “The Importance of Human Rights, and a Greater Importance of Human Rights Capacity.” Ushio. April 2023.

Kiyoteru Tsutsui. “The Arch of History Bends Toward Democracy Again.” Chuo Koron. March 2023.

Kiyoteru Tsutsui. “The Gay Marriage Fight Gets a Lift from Japan’s Biggest Companies.” Bloomberg. March 2, 2023.

Kiyoteru Tsutsui. “Subaru, Nintendo Step Up for LGBTQ Workers in Conservative Japan.” Bloomberg. March 1, 2023.

Kiyoteru Tsutsui. “Concerns about the Spread of Democracy Denialism.” Kyodo Tsushin. November 12, 2022.

Kiyoteru Tsutsui. “The ‘Crisis’ for Liberal Democracy: The Long-Term Trend Is Still in Democracy’s Favor.” Nikkei Keizai Kyoshitsu, Nikkei Newspaper. October 13, 2022.

Kiyoteru Tsutsui. “Japan, S. Korea Seek to Secure Chips Industry amid US–China Rivalry.” The Straits Times. September 3, 2022.

Kiyoteru Tsutsui and Yasumasa Yamamoto. “The Potential of Web3.0 to Change Politics and Society.” In Yasumasa Yamamoto, Web3 and Blockchain. PHP Publications. July 2022.

Kiyoteru Tsutsui. “Reflections on the Assassination of Former Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe.” Stanford APARC. July 2022.

Kiyoteru Tsutsui. “Authoritarian Challenges to Liberalism.” Yomiuri Newspaper. June 23, 2022.

Kiyoteru Tsutsui. “‘Culture War’ That Even Disney Struggles with and the ‘Human Rights Capacity’ of Corporations.” Nikkei Business. May 26, 2022.

Kiyoteru Tsutsui. “Protecting Liberal Values in Asia and Beyond.” In US–Japan Cooperation in an Age of Disruption. Hoover Institution. May 2022.

Kiyoteru Tsutsui. “How to Nurture the Next Generation of Japan Scholars after the Post-COVID Reopening.” Wedge. May 2022.

Kiyoteru Tsutsui. “The Unexpected Tailwind for Democracy and Human Rights that Ukrainians Created for the World.” Ronza, Asahi Newspaper. April 26, 2022.

Kiyoteru Tsutsui. “The Role of Global Human Rights Ideas in Countering Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine.” Kodansha Gendai Business. March 18, 2022.

Charles Crabtree and Kiyoteru Tsutsui. “China Looms Large, Despite a Strong US–Japan Alliance.” The Hill. May 14, 2021.

Kiyoteru Tsutsui. “U.S. and Japan Gear Up for a New Era of Competition with China.” Nikkei Asia. April 21, 2021.

Kiyoteru Tsutsui. “The Declining Presence of Japan Studies in the U.S.” (in Japanese) Wedge. April 2021.

Kiyoteru Tsutsui. “What Japan and the U.S. Can Learn from Each Other.” Nikkei Asia. March 23, 2021.

Charles Crabtree and Kiyoteru Tsutsui. “Japan’s Challenges in the Next Year are Greater than its Opportunities.” The Hill. January 4, 2021.

Charles Crabtree and Kiyoteru Tsutsui. “Let’s Keep it the ‘Free and Open’ Indo-Pacific.” The Hill. January 4, 2021.

Kiyoteru Tsutsui. “Japan’s Three Most Consequential Events of 2020.” Nikkei Asia. January 4, 2021.

Charles Crabtree and Kiyoteru Tsutsui. “Don’t Take Our Allies for Granted, Even Japan.” The Hill. July 19, 2020.

Kiyoteru Tsutsui. 2019. “Japan’s Modern History and the University of Michigan.” (in Japanese) Asteion 90: 200–203. Reprinted in Newsweek Japan, September 2019.

Kiyoteru Tsutsui. 2016. “Commentary on How the Subaltern Took Agency in the United Nations.” Journal of Law, Property, and Society 2: 135–139.

Kiyoteru Tsutsui. 2012. “Ainu Indigenous Rights Movement.” In David Snow, Donatella della Porta, Bert Klandermans, and Doug McAdam (eds.), The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements. Blackwell, pp. 29–30.

Kiyoteru Tsutsui. 2012. “International Human Rights Law.” In George Ritzer (ed.), The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Globalization. Blackwell, pp. 1130–1133.

Kiyoteru Tsutsui. 2010. “The Power of Global Human Rights.” International Connections. Winter.

Kiyoteru Tsutsui. 2009. “Human Rights and Democracy as Global Ideal.” Journal of the International Institute 16(2).