National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) International Liaison Office

Dear SSJ-Friends,

We are pleased invite you to the next GRIPS Forum at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies on November 11.

*Please register at gripsforum[at]grips.ac.jp by November
8 (Fri) without changing the title.
*If you are arriving by a private car, please let us know the car information (type, color, and number) in advance so that we can register it for campus entry permission.

Date: Monday, 11　November, 2013
Time: 16:40-18:10
Venue: GRIPS　Sokairo Hall, 1st Floor
Speaker: Mr. Shotaro Yachi, Special Advisor to the Cabinet
Theme: “The Abe administration's diplomatic strategy”
Language: Japanese (English simultaneous interpretation
provided)
Fee: Free

In foreign affairs, Mr. Shinzo Abe who became Prime Minister of Japan last Dec. has been developing his positive approach called “diplomacy of bird’s eye view of globe”. He has also been promoting the diplomacy of proactive contribution to peace by expanding Japan’s diplomatic horzto the universal values such as freedom, human rights, democracy and rule of law, and by firmly maintaining its position as a sea power. In this lecture, due consideration will be given to the future foreign policy of Prime Minister Abe who made courageous decisions one after another on Futenma base, TPP and the consumption tax raise.

Speakers’ Profile:
Special Advisor to the Cabinet
Former Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs Professor, Institution of Japan-US Studies, Organization for Japan-US Studies, Waseda University Guest Professor (Part-time), Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University Part-time Lecturer, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo Visiting Professor, Art Innovation Center, Tokyo University of the Arts
Education: MA from the University of Tokyo Graduate School for Law and Politics in March 1969

Shotaro Yachi was born in Kanazawa City on January 6,
1944 and raised in Toyama. He entered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in April 1969, and retired from the Ministry in January 2008. In Japan he worked in the Ministry’s Asian Affairs Bureau, North American Affairs Bureau, Treaties Bureau (four times), as Director of the Personnel Division, Director-General of the Treaties Bureau, Director-General of the Foreign Policy Bureau, Assistant Chief Cabinet Secretary, and Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs. Overseas he served twice at the Embassy of Japan in the USA, and at the Embassy of Japan in the Philippines, at the mission of Japan to the EC, and as Consul General in Los Angeles.
Yachi undertook research at The Fletcher School from
1970 to 1972 and at the Center for International Affairs at Harvard University as a fellow, from 1987 to 1988. He taught as a part-time lecturer at Waseda University’s International Division (1986), at Sophia University’s Faculty of Law (1993, 1994), at Seinan-gakuin University’s Department of Law (1993), at Keio University’s Faculty of Law (1996), and at Chuo University’s Faculty of Law (2001-2003).

His publications include, “Essays: Japan's diplomacy and comprehensive security,” “Japan’s Diplomatic Strategy and Aspiration,” “Diversifying International Threat and Japan, in Security in the age of New-type War,” supervised by Akihiko Tanaka.

*** GRIPS Forum ***
Since its establishment in 1997, the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), as the only graduate school in Japan specializing in policy research, has promoted education and research on a wide range of policy issues.
Utilizing our vast policy network, this Forum invites leaders from various fields including government, academia and business, as well as staff from our own faculty, to deliver lectures on current policy concerns.
The Forum welcomes attendance of GRIPS faculty and students as well as participants from outside the university. Simultaneous interpretation will be available (Japanese/English).

For Access & Map to the GRIPS campus:
http://www.grips.ac.jp/en/about/access/
National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS)
7-22-1 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-8677

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