{"id":3124,"date":"2017-08-17T18:10:30","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T18:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dev.un.org\/humansecurity\/?p=3124"},"modified":"2022-08-29T14:06:54","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T14:06:54","slug":"akihiko-tanaka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/humansecurity\/akihiko-tanaka\/","title":{"rendered":"Akihiko Tanaka"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:104%;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>Dr. TANAKA Akihiko is President of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). Before assuming the present post, he was President of the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Tanaka&#8217;s career includes Professor of International Politics at the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, the University of Tokyo (1998-2012, 2015-2017), President of JICA (2012-2015), Executive Vice President of the University of Tokyo (2009-2012), Professor of Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, the University of Tokyo (2000-2012).<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Tanaka&#8217;s specialty is international politics. He obtained his bachelor&#8217;s degree in International Relations at the University of Tokyo in 1977 and Ph.D. in Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1981.<\/p>\n<p>He has numerous books and articles on world politics and security issues in Japanese and English including &#8220;The New Middle Ages: The World System in the 21st Century&#8221; (Tokyo: The International House of Japan, 2002) and &#8220;Japan in Asia: Post-Cold-War Diplomacy&#8221; (Tokyo: Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture, 2017).<\/p>\n<p>He received many honors and awards including the Medal with Purple Ribbon for his academic achievements in 2012.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. TANAKA Akihiko is President of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). Before assuming the present post, he was President of the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21692,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1279],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advisory-board"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/humansecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/humansecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/humansecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/humansecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/humansecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/humansecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/humansecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/humansecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/humansecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/humansecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}