Kyoko Kuwahara (Japan)

Research Fellow, Japan Institute of International Affairs; Fellow, Macdonald-Laurier Institute

Kyoko specializes in public diplomacy, strategic communications, disinformation, foreign information manipulation and interference, and soft power strategies. She is a research fellow at the Japan Institute of International Affairs and a fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. She was a research fellow at the Sasakawa Peace Foundation in 2017-2018, serving as an officer at the Office for Strategic Communication Hub at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan in 2018-2019. Now back in Tokyo, she conducts research on disinformation and foreign information manipulation and interference countermeasures in Japan and abroad.

Her recent publications include the chapter “Disinformation in Japan: Overview and Response” In Disinformation: A Multi-Disciplinary Analysis (2026); Disinformation Warfare (Japanese), co-author (2023); Why is Japan's "Righteousness" Difficult to Convey to the World? Image Competition between Japan, China, and South Korea (Japanese) (2020); and After Sharp Power (Japanese), co-author (2019).