Notes de la FRS

Challenges and global answers for Japan’s post-Covid-19 security strategy

Publication générique pour un programme/observatoire n°00/2021
Hideshi Tokuchi
December 8, 2021 Download (PDF)

Professor Hideshi Tokuchi joined the Defense Agency (the predecessor of the Ministry of Defense) of Japan in 1979 and served as Japan’s first-ever Vice-Minister of Defense for International Affairs from 2014 to 2015 after completing several senior assignments including the Director-General of four bureaus: Operations; Personnel and Education; Finance and Equipment; and Defense Policy.

He is the President of the Research Institute for Peace and Security (RIPS) and teaches international security studies as a visiting professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS).