Dr. Stronach earned his M.A. MALD, and Ph.D. at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and Harvard University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in 1980 after completing his B.A. at Keene State College in 1974. He has spent his entire career in Japanese and American institutions of higher education, including serving as an assistant professor at Tokyo’s Keio University and as a researcher at Keio’s Shimbun Kenkyujo and Sangyou Kenkyujo; professor of Japanese Studies and dean of the International Relations program at the International University of Japan; COO, provost, and acting president of Becker College in Worcester, Massachusetts; president of Yokohama City University; and dean of Temple University’s campus in Japan (TUJ). Among other positions, he has also served as the vice chair of the Japanese University Accreditation Association; Advisory Group Member at the United Sates – Japan Conference on Educational and Cultural Interchange (CULCON) Education Task Force; and as a member of the Tsukuba University Advisory Council. Dr. Stronach has authored and co-authored several books and numerous articles on Japan and Japanese higher education, including The History of Temple University Japan: An Experiment in International Education (2023), Globalization: The Future of Japan and the World (2022), and Beyond the Rising Sun: Nationalism in Contemporary Japan (1995). Dr. Stronach was appointed president of Showa Boston Institute in 2023.