Yamaguchi Noboru

Lieutenant General Yamaguchi Noboru, (Ret.), of the Japan Ground Self Defense Force (JGSDF), is now a Professor at the International University of Japan. After serving as a Senior Defense Attaché at the Japanese Embassy in the United States (1999-2001), he has served as the Deputy Commandant of the GSDF Aviation School (2001-2002), the Director for Research of the GRDC (2002-2005), and the Vice President of the National Institute for Defense Studies (2005-2006). From 2006, he was the Commanding General of the GSDF Research and Development Command until he retired from active duty in December 2008. From 2009 to 2015, he taught at the National Defense Academy of Japan. After the Great East Japan Earthquake in March 2011, he served at the Prime Minister’s Office as Special Advisor to the Cabinet for Crisis Management until September 2011. From 2017 to 2019, he was appointed by the Foreign Minister as a member of the Group of Eminent Persons for Substantive Advancement of Nuclear Disarmament. He graduated from the National Defense Academy in 1974 and finished the Command and General Staff Course of the GSDF Staff College in 1983. He received his M.A. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, in 1988, and was a National Security Fellow at the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies, Harvard University, in 1991-1992.