Yoshinori Takeda (born 1973) is a Japanese diplomat. After graduating from Waseda University and pursuing graduate studies at the University of Tokyo, he joined Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2000. He later completed a master’s degree at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations and has held posts at the Japanese Embassy in Russia and within the ministry’s divisions for Central Asia, intelligence, and press relations. In “Roshia no Ronri: Fukkatsu Shita Taikoku wa Nani o Mez asu ka,” he draws on his experience in Russia to examine the distinctive rules shaping the Putin government’s domestic politics, diplomacy, and natural-resource strategy.