- Shinichi Kitaoka
Shinichi Kitaoka (b.
April 20 ,1948 , 北岡伸一 "Kitaoka Shin'ichi") is a professor of political science atTokyo University and the former Japanese ambassador to theUnited Nations .Kitaoka received his Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo in 1976 and took a lecturership at Rikkyo University; he became a full professor there in 1985. In 1997, he moved to his current position at the University of Tokyo. He has served on several government advisory panels; in 2004, he was appointed as Japan's ambassador and deputy permanent representative to the United Nations, a position he held until 2006 when he returned to academia. [http://www.wreac.org/e_20080307_distinguished_lecture.php Biography of Kitaoka] , White Rose East Acia Center.] [citation|title=Japan Names Tokyo Univ. Prof. Kitaoka as U.N. Amb.|date=April 2, 2004|publisher=Jiji Press.] [ [http://www.un.int/japan/aboutus/kitaoka.htm Permanent mission of Japan to the United Nations: About us] , retrieved August 18, 2008.] He was also the Japanese chair of the Japan-China Joint History Research Committee that investigated the
Nanking Massacre . [citation|title=Nanking efforts examine massacre, seek healing|last=Leow|first=Jason|journal=Wall Street Journal |date=August 3, 2007|url=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118695989609895471.html.]References
External links
* [http://www.adm.u-tokyo.ac.jp/IRS/IntroPage_E/intro72230871_e.html Kitaoka's U. Tokyo web page] , retrieved August 18, 2008.
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