Shinichi Kitaoka
{{Short description|Japanese political scientist}}
{{Expand Japanese|topic=bio|北岡伸一|date=February 2009}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Shinichi Kitaoka
{{nihongo2|北岡 伸一}}
| office = Special Adviser to the President of the Japan International Cooperation Agency
| term_start = April 2022
| term_end =
| predecessor =
| successor =
| office2 = President of the Japan International Cooperation Agency
| term_start2 = 1 October 2015
| term_end2 = 31 March 2022
| predecessor2 = Akihiko Tanaka
| successor2 = Akihiko Tanaka
| office3 = President of the International University of Japan
| term_start3 = 2012
| term_end3 = September 30, 2015
| predecessor3 = Masakatsu Mori
| successor3 = Kimio Kase
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1948|4|20}}
| birth_place = Yoshino, Nara, Japan
| nationality = {{JPN}}ese
| alma_mater = University of Tokyo
| religion =
| image = Shinichi Kitaoka.jpg
}}
{{nihongo|Shinichi Kitaoka|北岡 伸一|Kitaoka Shin'ichi|born 20 April 1948}} is a Japanese political scientist. He has held many roles such as the president of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), president of the International University of Japan, professor at Japan's GRIPS-Tokyo School of Security and International Studies, and Japanese ambassador to the United Nations. His area of expertise is the history of Japanese politics and diplomacy, as a political scientist and a historian.
Early life
Kitaoka was born in Yoshino, Nara Prefecture. His family owned a sake brewing business and both his father and grandfather had served as the mayor of Yoshino.{{Cite news |date=2012-12-28 |title=私と司馬さん 歴史の道を走り回った高校時代 北岡伸一さん |pages=99 |work=Shukan Asahi |publisher=Asahi Shimbun}} His great uncle was Juitsu Kitaoka, economist and former official of the Ministry of Labor.{{Cite web |date=2018-07-10 |title=「官より民」で世界めざせ JICA理事長 北岡伸一さん（もっと関西） |url=https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXMZO32769190Z00C18A7AA2P00/ |access-date=2022-05-08 |website=The Nikkei |language=ja}}
Kitaoka graduated with a B.L. in June 1971 and received his Ph.D. of Law from the University of Tokyo in September 1976. While studying at the University of Tokyo he lived at the all-male dormitory Wakeijuku.{{Cite web|url=https://diamond.jp/articles/-/214975|title=全共闘ストを尻目に学問に没頭、Jica理事長が語る和敬塾の思い出}}
Career
Kitaoka took a lecturership at Rikkyo University; he became a full professor there in 1985. In 1997, he moved to a position at the University of Tokyo.
In 2004, he was appointed as Japan's ambassador and deputy permanent representative to the United Nations, a position he held until 2006 when he returned to academia.[http://www.wreac.org/events/all-events/details/15-lecture-security-cooperation-in-east-asia.html#kitaoka Biography of Kitaoka]{{dead link|date=November 2014}}, White Rose East Asia Center.{{citation|title=Japan Names Tokyo Univ. Prof. Kitaoka as U.N. Amb.|date=April 2, 2004|publisher=Jiji Press}}[http://www.un.int/japan/aboutus/kitaoka.htm Permanent mission of Japan to the United Nations: About us] https://web.archive.org/web/20110606115828/http://www.un.int/japan/aboutus/kitaoka.htm, retrieved August 18, 2008.
In 2006-2010, Kitaoka was the Japanese chair of the Japan-China Joint History Research Committee. Among other topics, the committee investigated the Nanking Massacre.{{citation|title=Nanking efforts examine massacre, seek healing|last=Leow|first=Jason|journal=The Wall Street Journal|date=August 3, 2007|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB118695989609895471}} From 2009-2010, he chaired a Ministry of Foreign Affairs committee on the so-called Secret Agreements between the U.S. and Japan on the introduction of nuclear weapons into Japanese territory.
Kitaoka was the Deputy Chairman of the Advisory Panel on Reconstruction of the Legal Basis for Security, an advisory panel to Prime Minister Abe on the possibility of re-interpreting constitutional provisions to allow for collective self-defense.
=Awards=
In 2011 he was awarded the Medal with Purple Ribbon for his academic contributions.{{Cite web|url=https://www.jica.go.jp/english/about/president/profile.html|title = Profile of JICA President | About JICA | JICA}}
=Publications=
Japanese language
- {{cite book | title= Nishitaiheiyō rengō no susume: Nihon no "atarashii chiseigaku" | location=Tokyo | publisher=Tōyō Keizai | year=2021| url=https://str.toyokeizai.net/books/9784492444634/}}
- {{cite book | title= Meiji Ishin no imi | location=Tokyo | publisher=Shinchosha | year=2020 | url=https://www.shinchosha.co.jp/book/603853/}}
- {{cite book | title= Sekai chizu o yominaosu: Kyōryoku to kinkō no chiseigaku | location=Tokyo | publisher=Shinchosha | year=2019 | url=https://www.shinchosha.co.jp/book/603840/}}
- {{cite book | title= Nihonseijishi: Gaikō to kenryoku zōho-ban | location=Tokyo | publisher=Yuhikaku | year=2017 | url=http://www.yuhikaku.co.jp/books/detail/9784641149199}}
- {{cite book | title= Kanryō-sei toshite no Nipponrikugun | location=Tokyo | publisher=Chikuma Shobo | year=2012 | url=https://www.chikumashobo.co.jp/product/9784480864062/}}
- {{cite book | title= Jimintō: Seiken tō no 38-nen | location=Tokyo | publisher=Chuokoron-Shinsha | year=2008 | url=https://www.shinchosha.co.jp/book/603853/}}
- {{cite book | title= Kokuren no seiji rikigaku: Nihon wa doko ni iru no ka | location=Tokyo | publisher=Chuokoron-Shinsha | year=2007 | url=https://www.chuko.co.jp/shinsho/2007/05/101899.html}}
- {{cite book | title= Kiyosawa Kiyoshi zōho-ban: Gaikō hyōron no unmei | location=Tokyo | publisher=Chuokoron-Shinsha | year=2004 | url=https://www.chuko.co.jp/shinsho/2004/07/190828.html}}
English translations
- {{cite book | title= A Western Pacific Union: Japan's New Geopolitical Strategy | location=Tokyo | publisher=Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture | year=2023 | url=https://www.jpicinternational.com/books/politicalscience/2eec48c6a7a57ef6bbdc94afe661551c4b8eed0f.html}}
- {{cite book | title= From Party Politics to Militarism in Japan, 1924–1941 | location=Boulder, CO | publisher=Lynne Rienner | year=2021 | url=https://www.rienner.com/title/From_Party_Politics_to_Militarism_in_Japan_1924_1941}}
- {{cite book | title= Gotō Shinpei, Statesman of Vision: Research, Public Health, and Development | location=Tokyo | publisher=Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture | year=2021 | url=https://www.jpicinternational.com/books/biography/3ac1720dd13c6beaa01219df60f2a99a60961dc2.html}}
- {{cite book | title= The Political History of Modern Japan: Foreign Relations and Domestic Politics | location=London | publisher=Routledge | year=2018 | url=https://www.routledge.com/The-Political-History-of-Modern-Japan-Foreign-Relations-and-Domestic-Politics/Shinichi/p/book/9781138337671}}
- {{cite book | title= Self-Respect and Independence of Mind: The Challenge of Fukuzawa Yukichi | location=Tokyo | publisher=Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture | year=2017 | url=https://www.jpicinternational.com/books/biography/001823.html}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.grips.ac.jp/list/en/facultyinfo/kitaoka_shinichi/ Kitaoka's GRIPS web page], retrieved May 15, 2014.
- [http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/asia-paci/china/meet0612.html "The First Meeting of The Japan-China Joint History Research Committee (Summary)," December 2006"]
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Category:Academic staff of the International University of Japan
Category:People from Nara Prefecture
Category:University of Tokyo alumni
Category:Academic staff of the University of Tokyo
Category:Academic staff of Rikkyo University
Category:Academic staff of National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies
Category:Japanese political scientists
Category:20th-century Japanese historians