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 summary of his address.

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 Adviserfor 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.

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 summary of his address.

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 Adviserfor 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.