Japan in the Post-Cold War World
October 7, 2002
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About This Seminar
Ambassador Hisashi Owada is President of the Japan Institute of International Affairs and is Professor of International Law and Organization at Waseda University. He also is Senior Advisor to the President of the World Bank and Advisor to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan. Ambassador Owada has lectured at Tokyo University for more than 25 years and is on the faculty of New York University Law School. He has had a distinguished career in the Foreign Ministry. Among his many high-ranking posts were Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs and, as Ambassador, he was Permanent Representative of Japan to the OECD and to the United Nations. Ambassador Owada graduated from the University of Tokyo and undertook post graduate studies at Cambridge University. He is the author of numerous books and articles on international legal, economic and political issues, including Diplomacy (1996) and From Involvement to Engagement-New Foreign Policy Directions of Japan (1994).