Hitoshi Tanaka is Senior Fellow at the Japan Center for International Exchange
and was Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan until August 2005.
He has also been a visiting professor at the Graduate School of Public
Policy, University of Tokyo, since April 2006. He had previously been Director-General
of the Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau (2001–02) and the Economic
Affairs Bureau (2000–01); Consul-General in San Francisco (1998–2000);
and Deputy Director-General of the North American Affairs Bureau (1996–98).
He was Director for Policy Coordination of the Foreign Policy Bureau, Political
Minister at the Japanese Embassy in London (1990–93), a research
associate at the IISS, London (1989–90), Director for North East
Asian Affairs (1987–89), and Director for North American Affairs
(1985–87). He has a B.A. in law from Kyoto University and B.A./M.A.
in PPE from Oxford University. Mr. Tanaka has contributed many articles
to publications including GAIKO Forum, Bungei Shunju, Gendai, and various
newspapers. His latest publication is Kokka to gaiko [The Nation and Diplomacy]
(2005).
Randall G. Schriver is a founding partner of Armitage International LLC and a Senior Associate
at the Center for Strategic and International
Studies. Previously, he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for
East Asian and Pacific Affairs. Before that, he served for two years as Chief
of Staff and Senior Policy Advisor to Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage.
He has worked as a civil servant in the Department of Defense on East Asian
affairs, and was a Navy Intelligence Officer for nearly eleven years. His
political experience includes service on the Bush-Cheney Defense Transition
Team, and work on the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign as a member of the Asia Policy
Team. He holds a master’s degree in public policy from Harvard University.
This event is supported in part by a grant from The Sasakawa Peace Foundation, Japan.