is a member of the
House of Representatives of Japan
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as well as a visiting professor at
Chuo University
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's Graduate School of Public Studies. He served as the Parliamentary Vice Minister of Defense in the
Kan Cabinet.
From 1993 to 1995, he was a visiting scholar at
Vanderbilt University
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,
Nashville
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,
Tennessee
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, 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.
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, 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
, mottoeng = The pen is mightier than the sword
, type = Private research coeducational higher education institution
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, founder = Yukichi Fukuzawa
, endowmen ...
'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
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, 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. When Hope merged with the
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in May 2018 to form the
Democratic Party for the People
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In September 2020 a majority of the party ...
, Nagashima decided not to join the new party and became an independent member instead. In June 2019 he joined the
LDP.
Formerly affiliated to the openly
revisionist lobby
, Nagashima contributed, with
Yoshiko Sakurai
is a Japanese journalist, TV presenter, and writer. She is also president of the Japan Institute for National Fundamentals, established in 2007.
Life
Sakurai was born to Japanese parents in Vietnam. After returning with her family to Japan, sh ...
, Eriko Sanya, and Masahiro Akiyama, to a forum on the Constitution about security, independence, and the
article 9 in their journal in July 2009. In September 2015, Nagashima announced his withdrawal from Nippon Kaigi.
References
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1962 births
Living people
People from Yokohama
Keio University alumni
Members of Nippon Kaigi
Johns Hopkins University alumni
Members of the House of Representatives (Japan)
Democratic Party of Japan politicians
21st-century Japanese politicians