Tatsuya Sugiyama graduated from the University of Tokyo with a B.A. in Liberal Arts, concentrating in North American Studies and receiving the Thompson Award for Best Senior Thesis. He spent the 2023–24 academic year as an exchange student at Johns Hopkins University studying political science and economics, and attended the LSE Summer School in 2023 as a fully-funded Tazaki Foundation Scholar. He is also a member of the U.S.-ROK-Japan Trilateral Next-Gen Study Group.
At Georgetown, Tatsuya’s research interests center on U.S.-Japan relations, alliance politics, and economic security in emerging technology domains such as outer space. Most recently, Tatsuya worked as an Analyst at The Asia Group’s Tokyo office, supporting research on Japanese political economy and security, with one of his reports published by the Hinrich Foundation. Earlier, he interned at the Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies at Johns Hopkins SAIS, where he authored and published a policy monograph on U.S.-Japan cooperation in space debris mitigation and presented it at a SAIS symposium. He also interned at the First North America Division of Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2024. In 2021, he served as a Torchbearer representing Tokorozawa City in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Torch Relay. Tatsuya speaks Japanese and English. In his spare time, he enjoys watching movies and spending time with his dog.
Concentration: Politics and Security
Hometown: Tokyo, Japan
Academic Background: B.A. in Liberal Arts, University of Tokyo