Nobukatsu Kanehara is a Professor at Doshisha University, Japan. He was earlier an Ex-Assistant Chief Cabinet Secretary and Deputy Director General of the National Security Secretariat, Government of Japan. He was born in 1959 in Yamaguchi-prefecture and joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1981 after graduating from the University of Tokyo (Faculty of Law). He served in the Delegations of Japan to the EU and UN, and also in the Embassies of Japan in the US and South Korea. Under the second Abe Administration, he served as Assistant Chief Cabinet Secretary and Deputy Director General of the National Security Secretariat, and he retired in 2019.

Publications by Nobukatsu Kanehara