{"id":5504,"date":"2025-04-14T16:17:25","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T14:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ludovikafesztival.uni-nke.hu\/lsz-eloado-2025\/hideshi-tokuchi\/"},"modified":"2025-04-15T09:54:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T07:54:27","slug":"hideshi-tokuchi","status":"publish","type":"lsz-eloado-2025","link":"https:\/\/ludovikafesztival.uni-nke.hu\/en\/lsz-eloado-2025\/hideshi-tokuchi\/","title":{"rendered":"Hideshi Tokuchi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hideshi Tokuchi joined Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA (Sasakawa USA) in September 2016 following a 36-year career of service to the government of Japan, most recently as the nation\u2019s first vice-minister of defense for international affairs. During most of his service, Tokuchi focused on Japan-U.S. defense cooperation, security-related legislation, defense buildup programs, and operations of the Japanese Defense Forces. He participated in the review work of Guidelines for Japan-U.S. Defense Cooperation twice (in 1997 and 2015), and in the establishment of National Defense Program Guidelines twice (in 2004 and 2013), and also in security-related legislation, including Peace-Keeping Operations Law, a set of legislation to deal with contingency, Counter-Piracy Law, and most recently the new security legislation to put the new interpretation of the Japanese Constitution into practice. He was a visiting senior research fellow at the Institute for National Strategic Studies (INSS) of the U.S. National Defense University (NDU).  He taught a course on Japan\u2019s national security policy at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) in Tokyo for 14 years from 2002 to 2015 as a visiting professor, and has been teaching Japan\u2019s defense policy at Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo since 2006 as a part-time instructor.<br \/>\nHe holds several positions in other academic and research institutions: senior fellow at GRIPS, visiting fellow at the Institute of International Relations of Sophia University, senior research advisor at the Institute for International Policy Studies (IIPS); research committee member at Research Institute for Peace and Security (RIPS); and non-resident fellow at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy of Tufts University. Tokuchi received his bachelor of laws degree from the University of Tokyo in 1979, and received a master of arts in law and diplomacy at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in 1986.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5053,"template":"","class_list":["post-5504","lsz-eloado-2025","type-lsz-eloado-2025","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ludovikafesztival.uni-nke.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsz-eloado-2025\/5504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ludovikafesztival.uni-nke.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsz-eloado-2025"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ludovikafesztival.uni-nke.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/lsz-eloado-2025"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ludovikafesztival.uni-nke.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ludovikafesztival.uni-nke.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}