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Yasushi Watanabe is a Professor at Keio University in Japan, affiliated with the Graduate School of Media and Governance and the Faculty of Environment and Information Studies. His academic career began with a doctoral dissertation submitted to Harvard University in 1996, offering an ethnographic analysis of white upper-middle-class “Boston Brahmins” and lower-middle-class “Boston Irish” communities. Since then, his fieldwork has spanned a wide range of regions across the United States, maintaining a sustained focus on the intersections of race, class, religion, and community in American public life. His major publications include The Paradox of American Democracy (in Japanese), among other works critically examining these sociocultural dynamics. In parallel, he has developed a robust body of interdisciplinary scholarship that integrates social anthropology with political science and international relations, exploring the complex nexus of culture, diplomacy, security, and human security. Representative works include Culture and Diplomacy: The Age of Public Diplomacy (in Japanese) and the Handbook of Cultural Security, both of which have contributed to shaping the emerging field of cultural security studies. He has held visiting appointments at several leading academic and policy institutions, including Harvard University, the University of Cambridge, the University of Oxford, Sciences Po, Peking University, the College of Europe, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. In recognition of his scholarly contributions, he was awarded the Japan Academy Medal—the most prestigious national honor conferred upon mid-career researchers in Japan.