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Biodata of Masashi Nishihara
Masashi Nishihara is President of the Research Institute for Peace and Security. Until March 2006 he had served as President of the National Defense Academy, Yokosuka, for six years. In 1977-99 he was Professor of International Relations at the Academy. During that period, he also served as Director of the First Research Department of the National Institute for Defense Studies, Tokyo, in 1993-95, and as Head of its School of Social Sciences of the Academy in 1996-2000.
After graduating from the Law Department of Kyoto University in 1962, he received his M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from the University of Michigan. He was associated with Kyoto University's Center for Southeast Asian Studies in Jakarta in 1970-72, and taught at Kyoto Sangyo University in 1973-77. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University, Canberra, in 1979, and at the Rockefeller Foundation, New York, in 1981-82.
Among others, Dr. Nishihara is a member of the Trilateral Commission and of The U.K.-Japan 21st Century Group. In 1986-95 he also served on the Council of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), London. In January 1990 he testified before the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee on the impact of the end of the cold war upon East Asia. In 2001-2004 he was a member of Prime Minister Jun'ichiro Koizumi's Task Force on External Relations. In 2004-2006 he also served as a member of the Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission, chaired by Hans Blix of Sweden.
He is the author of many works on Japanese foreign and security policy issues, including The Japanese and Sukarno's Indonesia (1976), East Asian Security and the Trilateral Countries (1985), Senryaku kenkyuu no shikaku (An angle on strategic studies) (1988), U.N. Peacekeeping: Japanese and American Perspectives (co-editor, 1995), Vietnam Joins the World (co-editor, 1997), Nichibei doomei Q&A 100 (The Japanese-U.S. Alliance:100 questions and answers)(co-editor, 1998), and The Japan-U.S. Alliance: New Challenges for 21st Century (co-editor, 2000). He has also contributed to international newspapers such as The International Herald Tribune and The Washington Post.
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