Naoki Soda Author

Naoki Soda is Professor at the Institute of Global Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. He specializes in modern Southeast Asian history and Malaysian political and social history. After completing a Master's degree at Kyoto University, he studied abroad at the National University of Malaysia (UKM) from 1996 to 1999. He received his PhD in Area Studies from Kyoto University in 2008, and served at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies as Lecturer in 2002 and as Associate Professor in 2006, before taking up his current position in 2019.