President of the Hiroshima Peace Institute

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　

Biography: Motofumi ASAI

Date of Birth：July 3, 1941

Email：asai@peace.hiroshima-cu.ac.jp


Education and employment

1960-63 Student in Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo
1962 Pass in foreign service examination, Class I
1963-90
 Service at the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA)
1965-66
 MOFA trainee student at Harvard University
1966-68
 Officer, MOFA Division of Chinese Affairs, Bureau of Asian Affairs
1968-71
 Officer, MOFA Division of Treaties, Bureau of Treaties
1971-73
 Second Secretary, Japanese Embassy in Canberra, Australia
1973-75
 First Secretary, Japanese Embassy, Moscow, USSR
1975-78
 Officer, MOFA Division of Analysis, Bureau of Research
1978-80
 Director, MOFA Division of International Agreements, Bureau of Treaties
1980-83
 Councilor, Japanese Embassy, Beijing, People's Republic of China
1983-85
 Director, MOFA Division of Chinese Affairs, Bureau of Asian Affairs
1985-86
 Director, MOFA Division of Regional Policy, Bureau of Asian Affairs
1986-88
 Minister, Japanese Embassy, London, United Kingdom; Guest scholar, International Institute of Strategic Studies
1988-90
 Professor, Faculty of Liberal Arts, University of Tokyo (on secondment from MOFA)
1990
 Voluntary retirement from MOFA
1990-92
 Professor, Faculty of Law, Nihon University
1992-2005. Mar
 Professor, Faculty of International Studies, Meiji Gakuin University
(1993-95
 Director, International Peace Institute, Meiji Gakuin University)
2005.Apr-
 President, Hiroshima Peace Institute

Major Publications (Unofficial tranlations of titles)
　*Sole-authored books

  • State to go to war, or not to go to war (Aoki shoten, 2004)
  • Right to collective defense and the Japanese constitution (Shueisha, 2002)
  • A pacific great power or a military great power? (Kindai bungeisha, 1997)
  • A non-nuclear Japan, a non-nuclear world (Jumposha, 1996)
  • "UN-centrism" and the Japanese constitution (Iwanami booklet, 1993)
  • "International contributions" and Japan (Iwanami junior shinsho, 1992)
  • The new world order and the UN (Iwanami seminar books, 1991)
  • Japanese foreign policy: Reflections and turnaround (Iwanami shinsho, 1989)
  • (12 other books)
　*Co-authored books
  • A-bomb Drawings by Survivors, ed. Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum (Iwanami Shoten, 2007)
  • The Age of 'New Wars', ed. Osamu Watanabe, Michio Goto (Otsuki Shoten, 2005)
  • Examining the emergency laws, ed. Toshihiro Yamauchi (Horitsu bunkasha,2002)
  • The new guidelines for US-Japanese security cooperation and the surrounding areas law, ed. Toshihiro Yamauchi (Horitsu bunkasha, 1999)
  • Ask about Japan, ask of Japan, ed. Ronald Dore (Iwanami shoten, 1997)
  • The "affluence" of East Europe, the "poverty" of Japan, ed. Japan Congress of Journalists (Liberta shuppan, 1990)
  • (6 other books)
　*Articles
  • "A-bombing can never be Justified," Disarmament (September 2007)
  • "Normalize the entangled relations between Japan and two Koreas," Disarmament (December 2006)
  • "Exposed Immaturity and Fragility of Japan's diplomacy," Sekai (September 2006)
  • "Peace Constitution: Backbone of my political thought," Disarmament (May 2006)
  • "Use of military force in the 21st century," Disarmament (November 2005)
  • "The Bush strategy and the emergency laws," Disarmament (February 2003)
  • "The US global strategy and the problem of peace," Democratic literature (February 2002)
  • "9/11: The US retaliation and the overseas deployment of Japanese troops," Politique (2001)
  • "International developments in 2000 and the task of abolishing nuclear weapons," Atomic bomb survivor studies (July 2000)
  • "Japanese diplomacy and strategy for peace," Social democracy (September 1999)
  • "Debate 97: Should the US-Japan mutual security treaty be maintained as it is?" Imidas 97
  • "It is time to return to the constitution," Sekai (June 1993)
  • (Numerous other articles)

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