Tadashi Inuzuka

is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan, a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Tokyo, he graduated from Rikkyo University and received a master's degree from the University of Dallas in the United States. He was elected for the first time in 2004 from his Nagasaki constituency.

Policy

Placing human security in the center of his policy scheme, Inuzuka aims to build a new post-cold war framework for global peace and security. Accordingly, he has thrived in his campaign for Japan's accession to the International Criminal Court or ICC. After three years of aggressive campaigning in the Diet, Inuzuka managed to become one of the leading forces behind Japan's accession to the ICC on July 17, 2007, incidentally on the World Day for International Justice, exactly nine years from the adoption of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.

Following his success in the ICC campaign, Inuzuka is now a strong advocate for the establishment of the proposed UN Emergency Peace Service or UNEPS, which is a permanent emergency response service designed to supplement the U.N.’s capacity to provide stability, peace, and relief in humanitarian crisis situations. Being a strong advocate for peace and stability, Inuzuka supports the central idea of UNEPS that it will be composed of willing individuals who work directly under the auspices of the Security Council and not of military troops from contributing states.

Party posts

*Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Next Cabinet
*Director, Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence
*Member, Special Committee on Official Development Assistance and Related Matters
*Member, Research Committee on National Life and Economy

Social posts

Inuzuka holds several social posts besides his career as Councillor of the Japanese Diet.
* Board Member and Deputy Convenor of the International Law and Human Rights Programme, Parliamentarians for Global Action
* Executive Committee Member and Secretary General, Parliamentarians for Global Action Japan
* Founding member, Medécins Du Monde
* former President, Be The 1 KK
* former President, EWA HOTEL WAIKIKI, Hawaii

References

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See also

* Human security
* Responsibility to protect
* International Criminal Court

External links

* [http://www.dpj.or.jp/english/member/?detail_28=1 Official party profile] in English.
* [http://tadashi-inuzuka.jp/ Official blog site] in Japanese.
* [http://uneps-japan.blogspot.com/ Official policy site] in English.
* [http://www.mdm.or.jp/english/ Medécins Du Monde] part in English.
* [http://www.globalactionpw.org/uneps/index.htm Global Action to Prevent War and Armed Conflict] , the New York-based Secretariat for UNEPS.
* [http://www.pgaction.org/ Parliamentarians for Global Action] , a New York-based organization composed of world's parliamentarians
* [http://www.bethe1.com/cocoon/asp1/2/index.htm Be the 1] , specialized recruitment firm