Yoichi Masuzoe Official Website
Home Profile Japanese
Profile
As of December, 2005
NAME MASUZOE, Yoichi
E-Mail info@mipe.co.jp
ADDRESS 3-48-1 Daita, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 155-0033
POSITION Senator
Director, Masuzoe Institute of Political Economy
DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH November 29, 1948, Fukuoka Prefecture
EDUCATION Tokyo University, Tokyo, JAPAN Bachelor of Law, Politics.
June 1971 Major : Law, Political Science & History
Experience:
Nov/ 2005- Present: Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defense,President
July/ 2001- Present: SENATOR (Member of the House of Councillors of Japan)
August/1989- Present: Director, Masuzoe Institute of Political Economy
April/1979-July/1989 : Associate Professor of Political Science & History, University of Tokyo
July/1976-June/1978 : Research Fellow, L'Institut d'Hautes Etudes Internationales, University of Geneva
July/1973-June/1975 : Research Fellow, L'Institut d'Histoire des Relations Internationales Contemporaines, University of Paris
July/1971-June/1973 : Research Fellow, University of Tokyo
June/1981-April/1984 : Adviser, "JAPAN-FRANCE WISEMEN'S COMMITTEE" (Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
April/1984-March/1997: Adviser, "THE COMMITTEE FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES" (Prime Minister's Office)
September/1984- March/1997: Member, Editorial Board of "JAPAN ECHO"
Octorber/1987- Present: Member, "THE COMMITTEE FOR ENERGY POLICY PROMOTION"
April/1997- June/2001: Member,"THE COMMITTEE FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES" (Prime Minister's Office)
April/1998- June/2001: Editor in Chief, "CAHIERS DU JAPON"
July/ 2001- Present: SENATOR (Member of the House of Councillors of Japan)
   -Director of the Committee on Budget
   -Research Commissoin on the Constitution , Director
Oct/ 2006- Present:    -Chairman,LDP Policy Board in the Senate
Language:
JAPANESE, ENGLISH, FRENCH, GERMAN, SPANISH, RUSSIAN, ITALIAN
Books
"Akai bara wa saitaka (Politics in France)", Tokyo, Kobundo, 1983
"Les relations franco-japonaises, Bilan et perspectives, Rapport du Comite des Sages", La Documentation Francaise, Paris, Avril 1984, pp. 3-165 "Gendai Kokusai Seiji Nyumon (International Politics)", Tokyo, PHP-Kenkyujyo, 1986
"Sengyo to siteno seijika (Political Leadership)", Tokyo, Asuka Shinsha, 1989
"Sengo Nihon no Gen'ei (Dangerous Cult)", Tokyo, Gendai Shorin, 1995
"20 Seiki Enerugi Kakumei no Jidai (The Meaning of the 20th Century)", Tokyo, Chuoh Koronsha, 1998
"YEARS OF TRIAL : Japan in the 1990s", Tokyo, Japan Echo Inc, 2000
Articles
"Security and Coercion-Foreign Policy of Aristide Briand in 1921 and 1922 with Special Reference to His Politics toward Germany", Comparative Studies of Culture, No. 16, College oF General Education, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 1977, pp. 29-40
"Homogeneite et Heterogeneite: Introduction aux etudes comparatives du Japon et de la Suisse", Comprative Studies of Culture, No. 17, College of General Education, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 1978, pp. 1-27
"The Soviet perception of security: Some changes in foreign policy?", The Proceedings of The Department of Social Sciences, No. 30, College of General Education, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 20 August 1980, pp. 227-251
"La politique exterieure japonaise et les contraintes internes", Politique etrangere, 1/85, Institut francais des relations internationales, Paris, Printemps 1985, pp. 85-95
"Japan's Defense Posture: Toward A Close Cooperation with the United States" in Claude A. Buss, ed., National Security Interests in The Pasific Basin, Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, Stanford, California, 1985, pp. 60-70
"Technology Transfer and Technical Cooperation in Regional Development: Increasing Japan's Role" in Robert A. Scalapino, ed., Economic Development in the Asia-Pacific Region: Appropriate Roles for Japan and the United States, Institute of East Asian Studies. University of California. Berkeley. 1986. pp. 68-8
Copyright : The 28th Upper House Tokyo Branch,LDP