My name is Isami Romero. I am an Associate Professor in 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 my M.A. from the University of Tokyo in 2004. Finally I recived my Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo in 2024. In this research, I analysed the Japan's foreign policy towards Cuba in the 1960s. I explained why Japan maintains an "autonomus diplomacy" towards the United States.

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

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

In terms of 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 relations with Cuba (this research will be published in a book in the future). I have also done research on Mexico's foreign policy towards Central America.

I am currently researching on Japan's "food diplomacy" in the 1950s and 1960s, focusing on sugar and whale meat.

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