Eiichi Kido

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Eiichi Kido ( Japanese 木 戸 衛 一 , Kido Eiichi ; * 1957 in Kashiwa , Chiba Prefecture ) is a Japanese political scientist and professor at the Kokusai kōkyō seisaku kenkyūka ( 国際 公共政策 研究 科 , English Osaka School of International Public Policy ) at the state university Osaka . He is a peace activist and campaigns against the remilitarization of Japan .

Life

Kido studied German at the Tōkyō Gaikokugo Daigaku ("Foreign Language University Tokyo") and graduated in 1981 with a bachelor's degree. 1983 followed his master’s degree. From 1985 to 1986 he made his first guest appearance in Leipzig. In 1988 he received his PhD from Hitotsubashi University . Here he worked as a research assistant until 1990. This was followed by a position as a "full-time lecturer " ( sennin kōshi , English Assistant Professor ) at Osaka University . Since 1994 he has been working here as an assistant professor ( jokyōju , English Associate Professor ) in the Department of International Politics as Professor of German Politics. In the meantime, from 2000 to 2001 he worked as a lecturer for the German Academic Exchange Service at the University of Leipzig and in 2008 a research stay at the Free University of Berlin .

Peace policy

In the wake of the US invasion of Iraq in 2003 , he analyzed the role of Japan as a loyal vassal of the US in Asia, which is the role of Britain in Europe. Kido is actively involved against the growing militarization in Japan. He is against the abolition of Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution , which includes a renunciation of war and military force. In an international context, he campaigns for the preservation of the peace article and against the nuclear armament of Japan on lecture tours. He notes that without Article 9, Japan would have participated in numerous US wars, but Japan is already one of the leading military powers, having ranked 6th in terms of military spending in 2006.

Publications (selection)

  • GDR history: images and caricature images "Reflections on the politics of history in Germany on the GDR past", Berlin 2010
  • The remilitarization of Japan after 1945, Bonn 2009

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eiichi Kido, loyal henchman of the empire , in: The Friday of May 7, 2004 (accessed on August 4, 2010)
  2. ↑ Eiichi Kido, Japan's attempts to realize old imperialist goals under the framework of a US guardianship , Dossier No. 49, in: Wissenschaft & Frieden 2005 (accessed on August 4, 2010)
  3. ↑ Eiichi Kido, Militarization and Nationalism in Japan  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Toter Link / imi-online.de   , in: Militarization Information Center 2007 (accessed August 4, 2010)
  4. ^ Eiichi Kido, Japan's break with the peace constitution , in: Blätter für deutsche und Internationale Politik , September 2007 (accessed on August 4, 2010)

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personal data
SURNAME Kido, Eiichi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 木 戸 衛 一 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese political scientist and peace activist
DATE OF BIRTH 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Kashiwa , Chiba Prefecture