Iku Tsujihiro

Iku Tsujihiro is a research associate with Hudson’s Japan Chair.

At Hudson, she researches various topics including the United States’ extended deterrence in Northeast Asia, Taiwan contingency readiness, and Indo-Pacific economic security. She received her MA in the Security Studies Program (SSP) at the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. She was selected to be a 2024 Nuclear Scholars Initiative fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies’ Project on Nuclear Issues.

She grew up in Tokyo and moved to the United States to study on her own at the age of 12.