Seiko Mimaki
Professor, Graduate School of Global Studies, Doshisha UniversitySeiko Mimaki is a professor in the Graduate School of Global Studies, Doshisha University. She specialises in US diplomatic history and International Relations. She received her BA, MA, and Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo, and was a visiting fellow at Harvard University (2013–14), Johns Hopkins University (2014–15), Assistant Professor at Kansai Gaidai University (2015–17), and Associate Professor at Takasaki City University of Economics (2017–22). Her publications include “Law Against Empire, or Law for Empire? – American Imagination and the International Legal Order in the Twentieth Century”, The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (2021); and International Society in the Early Twentieth Century Asia-Pacific (Routledge, co-authored, 2020). She is an occasional contributor to the Asahi shimbun and Yahoo! Japan News.
Articles by Seiko Mimaki
Economy
Trump’s trade war is testing Japan — and America’s alliances
As the 1 August deadline for negotiations on US global tariffs looms, the US has recently struck a deal with Japan. Could this be a model for the US’s negotiations with other countries? Japanese academic Seiko Mimaki analyses the situation.
Seiko Mimaki
24 Jul 2025
Politics
Japanese academic: Trump 2.0 a turning point for diplomacy
Democratic candidate Kamala Harris lost the US presidential election as she was not able to convince voters that the Democratic Party could cater to their interests, says Japanese academic Seiko Mimaki. In the coming era of Trump 2.0, various countries would need to change their mindset and work with “America First”.
Seiko Mimaki
19 Nov 2024
