At the 122nd GRIPS Forum on April 18, 2016, Mr. Hideshi Tokuchi, Senior Fellow of GRIPS ALLIANCE, Former Vice-Minister of Defense for International Affairs gave a lecture titled “The Defense Force Awakens”.

Please click here to see the video of the Forum.

You can see the summary of his address here.
 

Abstract

Last year the Government of Japan established new institutional frameworks of Japan’s national security and Japan-US Alliance. In the acute regional security environment, Japan should assume a greater role in the international efforts to restore balance of power and to uphold the rules-based order, capitalizing on these achievements. This lecture examines some basics related to this challenge from a Japanese view-point. 

Speakers’ Profile:

Mr. Hideshi TOKUCHI entered the Japan Defense Agency in 1979　as a civilian and assumed the position of the first Vice-Minister of Defense for International Affairs in 2014 until retiring from the Ministry of Defense in 2015.

Mr. Tokuchi also worked for the US National Defense University in 1995-1996 as a Visiting Fellow. He taught Japan’s national security policy at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) for many years. He now works as a Senior Fellow for GRIPS Alliance and as a Visiting Fellow for the Institute of International Relations, Sophia University and as a Senior Research Adviser for the Institute for International Policy Studies.

Mr. Tokuchi was born in 1955. He earned a degree of Bachelor of Laws at the University of Tokyo in 1979 and a degree of Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy (MALD) at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in 1986.