Professor Paul Midford is director of the Japan Program at the Norwegian University for Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim. He received his PhD in Political Science from Columbia University in 2001. He is the author of Rethinking Japanese Public Opinion and Security: From Pacifism to Realism? (Stanford University Press, 2011) and co-editor with Espen Moe of The Political Economy of Renewable Energy and Energy Security: Common Challenges and National Responses in Japan, China and Northern Europe (Palgrave, 2014).