Dr Silvia Zanlorenzi is currently Teaching Assistant at the Department of Political Sciences of the University of Padova, Italy. She completed her MA at the School of Oriental and African Studies and her PhD at the University of Trieste. She was awarded two Japan Foundation Fellowships at the University of Tokyo for her ongoing research on the alliance between Italy and Japan in the Axis. She is a tutor for the MUN Model United Nations ’programme and is involved in diverse humanitarian issues including Human Rights and Cultural Heritage’ Protection.