Professor Masayoshi Matsumura
Professor Matsumura entered the Foreign Service in 1952 after graduating from Tokyo University, and held posts in London and New York. In 1975 he moved to the Japan Foundation, where he later became director of the Audio-Visual Affairs Department and also director of the Washington and New York offices. He was awarded an LL.D. from Keio University in 1979, and from 1985-88 he was engaged as a visiting researcher at the East Asian Institute of Columbia University, New York. From 1988-98 he lectured in International Relations at as a Professor at Teikyo University, and since then has been a lecturer at the College of International Relations of Nihon University at Mishima. His publications (in Japanese) include: The Russo-Japanese War and Baron Kentarô Kaneko (1980), The Road to Portsmouth: Baron Suyematsu in London (1987), and The History of International Exchange in Modern Japan (1996).