Akihisa Nagashima

Akihisa Nagashima (長島 昭久, Nagashima Akihisa) is a member of the House of Representatives of Japan representing the Tokyo's 21st district, as well as a visiting professor at Chuo University's Graduate School of Public Studies. He served as the Parliamentary Vice Minister of Defense in the Kan Cabinet.[1][2][3]

Akihisa Nagashima
Member of the House of Representatives
Assumed office
9 November 2003
ConstituencyTokyo-21st (2003–2005, 2009–2014, 2017–present)
Tokyo PR (2005–2009, 2014–2017)
Personal details
Born (1962-02-17) February 17, 1962
Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
Political partyIndependent
Other political
affiliations
WebsiteOfficial Website
Weblog

From 1993 to 1995, he was a visiting scholar at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, before becoming a research associate in Asian Security Studies in 1997, and an Adjunct Senior Fellow in Asia Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, Washington, D.C., in 1999. From 2000 to 2001, he was a visiting scholar at the Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Washington, D.C. After coming back to Japan, he taught as a lecturer at Keio University's Graduate School of Law from 2003 to 2007.

Nagashima received his B.A. in Law in 1984, his B.A. in Government in 1986, and his Master of Laws (LL.M) from Keio University in 1988. He received his M.A. from Johns Hopkins SAIS in 1997. He was born on February 17, 1962, in Yokohama-City, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.

Political career

He started his political career with the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ). During his time as an opposition legislator at the National Diet of Japan, he has served as the Senior Director of the Committee on National Security, Director of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Special Committee on North Korean Abductions and Other Issues, as well as a member of the Committee on Education, Sports, Science and Technology, the Special Committee on Iraq and Terrorism and the Special Committee on Responses of Armed Attacks. From 2003 to 2004, he served as the Deputy Director-General of the Cultural and Organizations Department of the DPJ, as well as the Next Vice-Minister of Defense before becoming the Next Minister of Defense from 2005 to 2006. Later he has served as the Vice-Chair of the Diet Affairs Committee, the Policy Research Committee, and Deputy Secretary General of the DPJ. He left the DP in April 2017 due to a disagreement with the party's cooperation with the JCP. Prior to the 2017 general election, he participated in the foundation of the Party of Hope.[4] When Hope merged with the Democratic Party in May 2018 to form the Democratic Party for the People, Nagashima decided not to join the new party and became an independent member instead.[5]

Formerly affiliated to the openly revisionist lobby Nippon Kaigi, Nagashima contributed, with Yoshiko Sakurai, Eriko Sanya, and Masahiro Akiyama, to a forum on the Constitution about security, independence, and the article 9 in their journal in July 2009.[6] In September 2015, Nagashima announced his withdrawal from Nippon Kaigi.[7]

gollark: Is Go 2 to fix its atrocious error handling?
gollark: The only alternative is `interface{}` i.e. dynamic types, and I don't know if you can use comparison operators on arbitrary values like that.
gollark: It doesn't have metaprogramming. It doesn't have generics. It doesn't have macros.
gollark: If you mean the `max` thing, yes.
gollark: Doesn't mean it's good.

References
  1. "Akihisa NAGASHIMA". dpj.or.jp. Retrieved 12 November 2013.
  2. "Short bio of Akihisa NAGASHIMA" (PDF). nagashima21.net. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 November 2013. Retrieved 12 November 2013.
  3. "Hon. Akihisa Nagashima". globalzero.org. Archived from the original on 12 November 2013. Retrieved 12 November 2013.
  4. "希望の党設立会見参加の国会議員" (in Japanese). Kyodo. 27 September 2017. Archived from the original on 4 February 2018. Retrieved 19 December 2017.
  5. "国民民主党６２人参加　「野党第１党」に届かず" (in Japanese). Mainichi Shimbun. 7 May 2018. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
  6. Nippon Kaigi website – July 21, 2009
  7. "長島昭久 on Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved 2018-05-30.
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