Tomohiko Satake, BA (Keio) and MA (Keio). Tomohiko started his PhD in March 2006, with the support of 2006 Endeavour Japan Award. Tomohiko's thesis compares the US-Japan alliance to the US-Australia alliance in the context of ‘alliance burden-sharing’. He is particularly interested in how the international structural change after the Cold War changed both the meaning and the pattern of burden-sharing in these alliances. His research interests lie primarily in areas of theories of international relations, alliance politics, Asia-Pacific security, and security policies in Japan and Australia. His publication includes 'Nakasone Koso no Sai-Kento [Rethinking the "Nakasone Plan": Nakasone Yasuhiro's Defense Strategy as the Director General of Japanese Defense Agency in 1970-1971]' Hogaku Seijigaku Ronkyu [Journal of Law and Political Studies], No. 68, Spring 2006.