Akihiko Tanaka

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Full Name	Akihiko Tanaka
Occupation	Political Scientist
Date Of Birth	Aug 7, 1954(1954-08-07)
Age	70
Birthplace	Saitama Prefecture
Country	Japan
Birth City	Saitama Prefecture
Horoscope	Capricorn

Akihiko Tanaka Biography

Akihiko Tanaka is one of the most popular and richest Political Scientist who was born on August 7, 1954 in Saitama Prefecture, Saitama Prefecture, Japan. Among Tanaka’s other publications are numerous books and articles on world politics and security issues in Japanese and English including “Japan-China Relations 1945-2000” (Nichu kankei 1945-1990, published in 1991), “Security” (Anzen Hosho, published in 1997), “Japan in Asia” (Ajia no Naka no Nihon, 2007, in Japanese, “Japan in Asia” in English, published in 2017), An East Asian Community and the United States (Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, D.C., 2007, co-edited with Ralph A. Cossa), and “The Yasukuni Issue and Japan’s International Relations” (published in 2008).

Having returned to Japan in 1981, Tanaka joined the Research Institute for Peace and Security (RIPS), where he was mainly in charge of editing an annual report entitled “Asian Security”. Influenced by the work of Professors Inoki Masamichi and Kosaka Masataka, then two of Japan’s most prominent scholars on International Politics, Tanaka – who had been mostly occupied with theoretical work and computer programming until then – came to acknowledge that the analysis of current affairs was an “important area of work for scholars of international politics.” In the summer of 1982, as the Textbook Problem came to strain the relations between Japan and China, Tanaka wrote a paper examining the reasons behind China’s vocal objection to Japanese textbooks.

Since 1994, Tanaka has been developing the database “The World and Japan”, which currently stores nearly 10,000 historical documents dealing with Japan’s domestic and international politics in the 20th and 21st centuries. An average number of about 150,000 hits per month has been registered in the database’s website.

In 1994, Tanaka received the Ushiba Fellowship and spent a year in St. Anthony College, Oxford, where he dedicated most of the time writing the manuscript of a book speculating the direction of the contemporary world system, “The New Middle Ages” (Atarashi chūsei) 1996, in Japanese; “The World System in the 21st Century” in English, published in 2002 by The International House of Japan). In this book, Tanaka draws on Hedley Bull’s new medievalism, and on Robert Keohane’s and Joseph Nye’s complex interdependence, and classifies the world order into three spheres (new medieval, modernization, chaotic; later however, Tanaka modified the names of these three spheres to the liberal, realist, and fragile correspondingly). He argues that while all parts of the world system move toward the first sphere of “new medievalism”, all three spheres would characterize the world system for the foreseeable future.

During his MA and PhD training at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Tanaka was influenced by professors Lucian Pye and Hayward Alker. Combining China studies and computer programs, he produced research about the negotiating process of the Treaty of Peace and Friendship between Japan and China (concluded in 1978), and a computer program named CHINA_WATCHER. Underlying the program was a decision-making model which assumed that both the pre-existing world view of the decision-makers and the precedent found out in response to the current situation constitute the basis of the current decision-making. Tanaka wrote his PhD dissertation incorporating findings derived from this program, titling it “Chinese International Conflict Behavior, 1949-1978.”

Akihiko Tanaka Net Worth

Akihiko Tanaka is one of the richest Political Scientist from Japan. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Akihiko Tanaka 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Tanaka was born in Shikishi, Saitama, in August 1954. He obtained his bachelor’s degree in International Relations at the University of Tokyo in 1977 and Ph.D. in Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1981. Soon after his graduation, he joined the Research Institute for Peace and Security (RIPS) as a researcher, and in 1983 he started lecturing at the University of Tokyo.

Akihiko Tanaka (田中 明彦 , Tanaka Akihiko, born 7 August 1954) is a Japanese academic specializing in theories of international systems, contemporary international relations in East Asia, Japan-US relations, and Japan-China relations. He is also an author, policy adviser, a media-commentator, and an administrator. Currently, he is the President of the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies.

Around the same time, Tanaka had collaborated with Professor Kumon Shumpei in researching the world system as a unit of analysis. In their joint work, they argued that during the 19th and 20th century, three “social games” emerged, developed and declined in the following order: power game, wealth game, and knowledge game. Later, Tanaka developed this paper into a book entitled “The World System”; the book was published in Japanese by the University of Tokyo Press (1989).

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