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Yasuo specializes in political history, taking particular interest in analyzing the rise of the Japanese army’s power. The true charm of researching political history can be found in the careful reading of a large number of politicians’ diaries and letters, and developing new grand frameworks of history along the way. At present Yasuo researches the history of Sino-Japanese relations, expanding on previous research. It appears that China is bigger now, and Japan is on the decline. However, we also know that China in the Qing dynasty once collapsed but was then restored to a great power about a century later. Yasuo therefore believes that Japan can learn a lot from China, and that is why he is currently examining an enormous corpus of papers from China and Chinese Taipei.