Satoshi Morimoto
Satoshi Morimoto ( Japanese 森 本 敏 , Morimoto Satoshi ; born March 15, 1941 in Tokyo , Tokyo Prefecture ) is a Japanese scientist, former soldier and civil servant and was Minister of Defense in the Noda cabinet from June to December 2012 ( 2nd and 3rd reshuffle ) .
Morimoto attended elementary and middle school in Ashiya in Hyōgo prefecture, then a high school in Toyonaka in Osaka prefecture. He then graduated from the Defense Academy ( Bōei Daigakkō ) and then entered the air self-defense forces . In 1977 he was posted to the US Department of State Department's Security Treaty Office . Two years later, he left the service of the Self-Defense Forces and switched entirely to the State Department, for which he worked, among other things, at the embassy in Washington and completed a graduate degree at Tufts University . Since the 1990s he has increasingly taken on research and teaching assignments, including at Keiō University , Chūō University and, since 2000, as a professor at Takushoku University . From August to September 2009 he was an advisor to the Defense Minister ( bōei-daijin hosakan , a newly created office) Yasukazu Hamada ( Liberal Democrat from Chiba Prefecture).
In 2012, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda ( Democrat from Chiba Prefecture) appointed Morimoto as the successor to Defense Minister Naoki Tanaka , who had been dismissed after a resolution by the Sangiin, in a cabinet reshuffle . For the first time, no politician was appointed as defense minister, and opposition politicians criticized his appointment as evidence of the ruling Democratic Party's lack of competence in security policy.
Web links
- Official Website (Japanese)
Individual evidence
- ^ Moves too little, too late: opposition. In: The Japan Times . June 5, 2012, accessed June 6, 2012 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Morimoto, Satoshi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 森 本 敏 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 15, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tokyo (city) , Tokyo prefecture |