My name is Isami Romero. I am Associate Professor of the Department of Human Sciences at Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine. These pages contain my publications and my current projects.

I earned a B.A from from Centro de Investigación y Docencias Económicas (CIDE) in 1999 and an M.A. from University of Tokyo in 2004. Finally I earned my Ph.D. form University of Tokyo in 2024. In this research, I analyzed the Japan's foreign policy toward Cuba during the 1960s. I explained why Japan maintain an "autonomus diplomacy" toward the United States.

Before joining Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, I taught at the undergraduate level in Mexico City and several universities in Tokyo and Kanagawa, worked as a Research Associate for El Colegio de Mexico and CIDE in Mexico City. Also, I worked as a Research Associate of Department of Area Studies at University of Tokyo and more recently I have been a Assistant Professor at the School of International Liberal Studies of Waseda University.

My research is abobut diplomatic history and it is based on primary sources, but also, it uses a theoretical framework. For a list of my publications and presentations I have given, please click the link of research.

As for my academic interests, I am interested in the diplomatic history of Japan and Latin America during the Cold War. Since 2012, I have been analyzing Japan's relations with Latin America, mainly Japan's relationship with Cuba (this reaserch will be published in a book in the future). Also, I have done research on Mexico's foreign policy towards Central America.

Currently, I am undertaking research on Japan's "food diplomacy" during the 1940s and 1950s, focusing on sugar and whaling.

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