Profile of Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs Akiko YAMANAKA

November 2005

Akiko YAMANAKA
Liberal Democratic Party
Member of the House of Representatives
Elected from Chiba Prefecture District No.2 (Elected 2 times)

Curriculum Vitae

6 November 1945	Born
1968	Graduated from Department of English, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Tsuda College
1968	Teaching Assistant, Department of Economics, Hokkaido University
1982	Lecturer, Seishu Junior College
1987	Assistant Professor, Hokkai-Gakuen University
1990	Professor, Hokkai-Gakuen Univeresity
1996	Member of the House of Representatives (until June 2000)
2000	Senior Adviser, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), U.S.A.
2001	Visiting Professor, Graduate School of International Media and Communication, Hokkaido University; Visiting Professor, United Nations University
2003	Council, Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA)
2004	Senior Associate Member, St. Antony's College, University of Oxford
2005	Member of the House of Representatives; Special Adviser to the Rector, United Nations University; Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs (November)

Intercultural Studies, International Peace-Building and Preventive State Theory, International Negotiation and Strategic Studies
Member of the Japan Association of International Relations
Visiting researcher and visiting professor at:
Royal Institute of International Affairs (U.K.), German Society for Foreign Affairs (DGAP), Stockholm Environmental Problem Research Institute (Sweden), Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia), Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard University (U.S.), Brookings Institution (U.S.), and Tama University (Japan).

Member of the Chief Cabinet Secretary's Advisory Group on International Cooperation for Peace (AGICP)
World Conference Chair of the International Federation of University Women
Vice President of the International Federation of Business and Professional Women (IFBPW)