Participant Biographies

Yamaguchi Noboru

Yamaguchi Noboru

Special Advisor to the Cabinet & Professor, National Defense Academy of Japan
Japan`s Nuclear Disaster and the U.S.-Japan Alliance

Mr. Yamaguchi is currently a special advisor to the cabinet of Japan, and a professor at the National Defense Academy of Japan. He graduated from the National Defense Academy of Japan and earned his master’s degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. He has served, among others, as a visiting scholar at the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies of Harvard University, a senior defense attach? at the Embassy of Japan in the United States, deputy commandant of the Japan Ground Self Defense Force (JGSDF) Aviation School, and as commanding general of the JGSDF Ground Research and Development Command.