{"id":438,"date":"2014-05-28T16:07:54","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T16:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.jsis.washington.edu\/japan\/?p=438"},"modified":"2022-04-28T17:39:36","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T17:39:36","slug":"lecture-series-shinichi-kitaoka-east-asian-security-challenges-and-japans-new-strategy-under-abe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/japan\/news\/lecture-series-shinichi-kitaoka-east-asian-security-challenges-and-japans-new-strategy-under-abe\/","title":{"rendered":"Lecture Series: Shinichi Kitaoka on &#8220;East Asian Security Challenges and Japan&#8217;s New Strategy under Abe&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Renowned author, diplomat and scholar, Dr. Shinichi Kitaoka delivered a talk for the 2013-2014 Mitsubishi Corporation Lecture Series. The focus was on\u00a0Japan\u2019s first-ever National Security Strategy, as well as the restructuring of the legal basis for Japan\u2019s national security.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2cY9Z9_h99E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Shinichi Kitaoka is a professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, and Executive Director of Research for the Institute for International Policy Studies (IIPS). He is a leading scholar in modern Japanese political and diplomatic history and has published on topics such as security issues, foreign policy, domestic politics, constitutional revision, and the United Nations. He earned degrees from the University of Tokyo (BA 1971, MA 1973, and Ph.D. 1976) and was a visiting fellow at Princeton University (1981-83). Dr. Kitaoka\u2019s activities as a public intellectual include the participation in bilateral talks with the U.S., China (Japan-China 21st Century Friendship Committee), Korea (Japan-Korea Joint Study of History), Germany, India, and Singapore. Currently he is the Chairman of the Japanese scholars in Japan-China Joint Study of History that was established by President Hu Jintao and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in 2006.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renowned author, diplomat and scholar, Dr. Shinichi Kitaoka delivered a talk for the 2013-2014 Mitsubishi Corporation Lecture Series. The focus was on\u00a0Japan\u2019s first-ever National Security Strategy, as well as the restructuring of the legal basis for Japan\u2019s national security. 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