Rafael Zorzano

Graduate in International Relations with honorable mention from the UNAM School of Political and Social Sciences and master’s in international Relations Studies with honorable mention from the Postgraduate Program in Political and Social Sciences of UNAM. His line of research has been the Japanese security environment, focusing on the Self-Defense Forces of that country and on the security alliance that Japan maintains with the United States. He was in charge of the Asia section in the student magazine El Panóptico from 2005 to 2006. He taught the session End of the Tokugawa Period, Meiji Era, political and economic processes in the interwar period of the Diploma course in Asian Studies organized by the University Seminar of Asian Studies, UNAM in August 2016. In May 2017 he presented the session History of Ancient Japan: From the Nara Period to the Meiji Renewal at the Mexican Japanese High School A.C. and in August of that year he joined La Salle University, Central Campus, as a Subject Professor.