Forum Contributors

Tom Le (USJLP 2022, 2023) is an associate professor of politics at Pomona College and research affiliate at the PRIME Institute at Meiji Gakuin University. He is author of Japan’s Aging Peace: Pacifism and Militarism in the Twenty-First Century (Columbia University Press, 2021). The Japanese translation, 日本 老いと成熟の平和 was published by Misuzu Shobo in June 2025. His work on the demographics and security, Japanese security, war memory and reconciliation, and smart cities has been published by the Journal of Asian Studies, The Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, among others.