Ambassador
Kitaoka Shinichi is Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
and Deputy Permanent Representative of Japan to the United Nations.
Previously he was a Professor of Political Science at the University
of Tokyo and a Professor at Rikkyo University. Ambassador Kitaoka
also has been a member of the Prime Minister’s Task Force
on Foreign Relations, the Japan-India Wisemen Group, and the Advisory
Committee for Prime Minster Keizo Obuchi’s “Vision
of Japan in the 21st Century.” He has received many awards,
including the Yomiuri Prize for the Opinion Leader of the Year
and the Suntory Prize for Liberal Arts. Ambassador Kitaoka received
both a B.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo. He has published
many books and articles, including Dokuritsujison: Fukuzawa
Yukichi no cho-sen (Pride and Self-Independence: The Challenge
of Fukuzawa
Yukichi, 2002), Futsu no kunie (Toward a “Normal Country,” 2000),
and in English, “Is Nationalism Intensifying in Japan?: Focus
on Recent Change in Security Policy,” Journal of Japanese
Trade and Industry (2002).
Ambassador Rust Deming is Distinguished
Visiting Fellow at the Institute for National Strategic Studies,
National Defense
University. He joined the INSS Directorate in September 2003 on the
completion of his tour as U.S. Ambassador to Tunisia. Prior to that,
he served as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East
Asian and Pacific Affairs. He has also been Senior Advisor to the
Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs and the East
Asian and Pacific Affairs Bureau’s Senior Advisor to the United
Nations General Assembly. Ambassador Deming has spent much of his
career dealing with Japanese affairs, having served in Japan as Charge
d’Affaires, ad interim, and as Deputy Chief of Mission. He
has received numerous awards, including the Secretary of State’s
Career Achievement Award in 2003. Ambassador Deming received a B.A.
from Rollins College and an M.A. in East Asian studies from Stanford
University. He is also a graduate of the National War College.
Dr. G. John Ikenberry is
the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International
Affairs at Princeton University. Previously he taught at Georgetown
University. Dr. Ikenberry also has been a Senior Associate at
the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a Fellow at
the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars. He earned
his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. Dr. Ikenberry is the
author of numerous publications, including State Power and
World Markets: The International Political Economy (2002), After
Victory: Institutions, Strategic Restraint and the Rebuilding
of Order after Major Wars (2000), and Reasons of State:
Oil Politics and the Capacities of American Government (1988).
