Visiting scholar, Iwamoto Yukiko (岩本由起子) has registered at Center for Chinese Studies on January 13, 2025. She is a Japanese scholar who is a researcher at the Security Strategy Research Institute of Japan, Japan. Dr. Iwamoto's research period in Taiwan is from January to September, at the Institute for National Defense and Security Research (INDSR). Her research topic is "Strengthening Democratic Civil Resilience: A Comparative Study of Taiwan's All-Out Defense and Lithuania's Total Defense Systems – With Strategic Implications for Japan".