Go ITO is one of Japan’s leading experts on international relations of the Asia-Pacific, and covers such issues as US-China-Japan triangular relations, China-Taiwan cross-strait issues, the ASEAN centrality, Australia’s middle power strategy, Canada’s peacekeeping operations, and Japan’s role in the world.
As a prolific writer, he has published: Alliance in Anxiety (Routledge), “Redefining Security Goals: Japan’s Response to the September 11 Terrorism,” Journal of East Asian Studies, “Leadership in Bandwagon,” Policy and Society, “The Self-Defense Forces Overseas: Japan’s Lessons from the Indian Ocean Tsunami Assistance,” Liaison, “Japan’s Participation in UN Peacekeeping Operations,” Mike Mochizuki et. al., Japan in International Politics: The Foreign Policy of an Adaptive State (Lynne Rienner), “The Changing Domestic Governance in Japan and Its Impact on Foreign Policy,” Ka Ho Mok and Ray Forrest (eds.), Changing Governance and Public Policy in East Asia (Routlede), “A New Pro-Asia Doctrine?: Japan’s Approach to East Asian Regionalism,” Yang Razali Kassim (ed.), Strategic Currents: Emerging Trends in Southeast Asia, “Japan in Global Governance: War and Peace,” Purnendra Jain (ed.), Japan: Still an Asian Giant? (Sage), “The Senkaku/Diaoyu Territorial Dispute: Legal, Historical, and Political Perspectives,” David Walton and Emilian Kavalski (eds.), Power Transition in Asia (Routledge), and other numerous articles.
He has a dual role as a professor of international relations at Meiji University, and the director of research at the Japan Forum on International Relations. He received his Ph.D. at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver, Colorado, USA.