CURRICULUM VITAE

Reinhard Drifte

Emeritus Professor, Newcastle University, UK

Associate Fellow, Royal United Services Institute, London

Chercheur Associé au Centre de recherche et d’études en gestion (CREG) of Pau University (France)

Date of Birth: March 31, 1951 in Germany

Address:

Orchard Farm Cottage

Catton, Hexham

Newcastle upon Tyne

Northumberland NE47 9QJ , UK

Tel: 01434-683674

Email: r.f.w.drifte@ncl.ac.uk

HP:http://www.rfwdrifte.ukgo.com/

Academic Education:

University of Bochum, Department of East Asian Studies

Ph. D. in 1979 on "Security as a factor in Japanese foreign policy 1945-

52" (magna cum　laude)

Waseda University 1973-1974

Tokyo Nihongo Center 1974-75

Summer Intensive Course for Japanese Language at the International

Christian University (ICU), Tokyo 1975

Visiting Professorships (teaching):

Japan and France

Beijing University, 2002

University of Grenoble, Grenoble, 1990

Current position:

Employed by Newcastle University (Ph D student supervision) since 2002

Former positions:

Chair of Japanese Studies, University of Newcastle upon Tyne 1989-2002;

Director of the Newcastle East Asia Centre January 1989- September

1996

Visiting Research Fellow at St. Antony's College, Oxford

(October 1987-December 1988)

Assistant Director for Regional Security Studies, International Institute for

Strategic Studies London (Octctober 1984-September 1987)

Research Fellow at the Graduate Institute of International Studies

(IUHEI), PSIS, Geneva, Switzerland (September 1980-September 1984)

In-service trainee with the Commission of the European Community, DG

III, Brussels (1979-80) Research on Euro-Japanese economic relations

Teaching:

Japan and World Politics, Japan's Political System, Security in the Asia

Pacific (Newcastle University), 1989-1997

Japan's foreign policy (Winter semester 1987/88 at Düsseldorf

University);

The US and East Asia (two 8-week courses in 1983 and 1984 at Webster

University, Geneva)

Japan in World Politics (IUHEI) 1980-84

Research Awards:

1989 Royal Institute of International Affairs (London) award for book

‘Japan’s foreign policy’

April-June 1992 Visiting Professor at Sophia University, Tokyp

(SAP Fellowship)

1996 ESRC award (‘Dual use technology transfer from Japan to South

Koreas’)

May 1997-February 1998 Visiting Professor at Saitama University

(Japan Foundation Fellowship)

May 1998 Visiting Fellow at Columbia University (Japan Foundation

Endowment Committee)

January-December 2000 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

Award (‘Japan’s Silk Road Diplomacy’)

January-March 2001 Visiting Professor, Social Science Institute,

University of Tokyo

Memberships of academic associations:

Kokusai Mondai Kenkyujo (Tokyo)

Nihon Kokuren Gakkai (Tokyo)

Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Asienkunde

British Association for Japanese Studies

Vereinigung fur sozialwissenschaftliche Japanforschung, Berlin

International Institute for Strategic Studies, London

Other memberships:

Association of Former In-Service Trainees of the

European Commission, Brussels.

Atlantik-Brücke, Berlin

Tönissteiner Kreis, Berlin