Tokuchi Hideshi

Professor Tokuchi Hideshi joined the Defense Agency (the predecessor of the Ministry of Defense) of Japan in 1979, and served as the nation’s first ever Vice Minister of Defense for International Affairs from 2014 to 2015 after completing several senior assignments, including Director General of the Defense Policy Bureau, of the Budget and Equipment Bureau, of the Personnel and Education Bureau, and of the Operations Bureau. He has been the President of the Research Institute for Peace and Security (RIPS) since June 2021. He teaches international security studies as a visiting professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS). He earned his Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Tokyo in 1979, and his Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy (M.A.L.D.) degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, in 1986.