Yoshiki MINE | Research Fellows | The Canon Institute for Global Studies

Yoshiki MINE

Research Director

Expertise

Foreign Affairs, National Security, Disarmament

Columns

2014.12.18

What Do the U.S. and China Expect From One Another?

2014.09.24

United States, China, and Islamic State

2014.09.08

Two Koreas and China

2014.07.30

Far and Widely Traveled Treasures from the National Palace Museum

2014.06.27

Floods in Serbia

2014.05.19

Use of Force by PKO

2014.05.19

President Obama's Comments on the Senkaku Islands

2014.04.10

Nuclear Security Summit

2014.04.03

Legal Status of Senkaku Islands

2014.02.06

Japan and South Korea Can Fill Each Other's Needs

2013.12.26

China's Declaration of an Air Defense Identification Zone in the East China Sea and Soft Power Diplomacy

2013.11.07

Third Plenary Session of the 18th Chinese Communist Party Congress And the Chinese Economy

2013.09.04

Will President Obama Visit Hiroshima And Nagasaki?

2013.09.04

Japan Should Participate in the Nuclear Negotiations with Iran

2013.07.23

South Korean President Park Geun-hye's Visit to China

2013.07.01

Security Talks with China (Shangri-la Dialogue)

2013.06.07

Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing

2013.05.30

Japan-Taiwan Fisheries Agreement

2013.04.11

Missile Defense Against North Korea

2013.02.22

Governmental and Private Sector Negotiations Regarding Ulleungdo and Takeshima

2013.01.25

Complex Foreign Policy Questions Facing the New Abe Administration

2012.12.27

North Korea's Missile Launch

2012.11.08

China's Calculation on the Senkaku Islands as Seen Through the Report of Chinese Media

2012.10.23

Resumption of Talks with North Korea

2012.10.16

Giant China and New Rules

2012.07.04

Empress Dowager Cixi's Imperial Edict: Can It Be a Basis for the Chinese to Claim Ownership of the Senkaku Islands?

2012.06.07

Confrontations Between China and the Philippines in the South China Sea

2012.05.08

"Satellite" Launch Failure and Japan

2012.04.03

Korean Peninsula Issue and Korean Americans

2012.03.14

The Situation in Syria...and Russia and China

2012.02.10

How to Deal with North Korea under New Regime

2012.01.10

China's Orchestration of Resource Diplomacy

2011.11.11

Hoping for Democratized Myanmar

2011.10.14

Will Libya's relations with the United States improve?

2011.09.09

Japan's New Prime Minister Describes Himself

2011.09.09

Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Power and Radiation Accidents

2011.08.04

The Northern Territories and the Yalta Agreement

2011.08.04

U.S.-China Relations and Sudan

2011.06.03

Killing Osama bin Laden

2011.05.12

Is Germany Going Own Way?

2011.04.13

The Middle East Situation and China

2011.02.22

The Arrival of Russians To Our Northern Territories

2011.02.22

A Match-rigging Scandal and Cultural Differences

2010.12.10

Shelling by North Korea

2010.12.06

China Fishing Boat Collision

2010.12.06

Japan's Withdrawal from Iran Oil Field

2010.09.16

A House of Cards

2010.09.16

Pink Panthers and Montenegro

2010.02.03

Resumption of U.S.-DPRK Talks

2009.12.17

The New German Government and Nuclear Negotiations with Iran

2009.10.16

Srebrenica

2009.08.05

The Effects of Sanctions against North Korea

2009.07.15

US must pledge not to attack N.Korea with nukes

Working papers, Papers and Reports

2011.12.20

Canon-Ifri Paper Series n°5, October 2011 "The Great East Japan Earthquake and Sino-Japanese Reconciliation"

Event Reports

November 15, 2013, 15:00 - 17:00

CIGS Round-table Discussion "Russia's foreign policy rebalancing"

October 24, 2012, 15:00 - 17:30

CIGS Round-table Discussion "Regional Security in East Asia and EU-Japan Cooperation"

Videos

Profile

Education

1971	Master of Arts in Regional Studies at Harvard University
1968	Graduated from the Faculty of Law, The University of Tokyo
1962	Graduated from Himejinishi High School

Career

2011.01 - present	Research Director, The Canon Institute for Global Studies
2009.05 - 2010.12	Distinguished Research Fellow, The Canon Institute for Global Studies
2009.04	Retired from the MOFA
2007	The Chief Representative of Japan for the Normalization Negotiations with the D.P.R.K.
2006	Ambassador for the Assistance Coordination for Afghanistan
2004	Ambassador at the Permanent Representative of Japan at the Conference of Disarmament
2003	Ambassador in charge of Global Environment
2001	Ambassador for the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
1999	Director-General of External Relations at the Defence Agency (now the Ministry of Defense)
1996	Permanent Representative of Japan in Geneva
1994	The Prime Minister’s Office for External Relations
1994 - 1972	Divisions of Research, China, OECD, Economics Consulate-General in Hong Kong, Embassy in P.R.C., Permanent Representative of Japan at the OECD
1968	Joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) of Japan

Publications

“United Nations and disarmament”, Kokusai Shoin, 2010
“Switzerland: A Constitution born from its history”, Minerva, Kyoto, 2003

Papers

“On the question of nuclear armament in Switzerland”, Shin Boeironshu, Vol.27, No. 3, 1999