Dear SSJ-Friends,

We are pleased to invite you to the next GRIPS Forum at the National
Graduate Institute for Policy Studies on April 18.

*Please register at Registration Form

by April 15 (Fri)17：00.

*If you can’t open the registration form, please send an email to
gripsforum@grips.ac.jp with your name,
affiliation, job title, phone number or email address 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, 18 April, 2016
Time: 16:40-18:10

Venue: GRIPS　Sokairou Hall, 1st Floor

Speaker: Mr. Hideshi Tokuchi, Senior Fellow of GRIPS ALLIANCE, Former
Vice-Minister of Defense for International Affairs

Theme: The Defense Force Awakens

Language: English (Japanese simultaneous interpretation provided)

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 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.

*** 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).

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For registration and inquiries, please contact: Ms. Oshikawa
gripsforum@grips.ac.jp

http://www.grips.ac.jp/

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