• Watanabe Hirotaka

    Born in Fukuoka Prefecture in 1954. Director of the Institute for International Relations at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies and member of the Nippon.com French-language editorial team. Holds an undergraduate degree from the Department of French Studies at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, a master’s degree from that university’s Graduate School of Area and Culture Studies, a doctorate from the Faculty of Law at Keio University, and a degree in advanced studies from Pantheon-Sorbonne University. A professor at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies since 1999, he also worked as the public relations and cultural attaché at the Japanese embassy in France from 2008 to 2010 and has served as the editor-in-chief of the journals Cahiers du Japon and Gaikō (Foreign Relations). His numerous published works include Mitteran jidai no Furansu (France in the Mitterrand Years, 1990), which won the Franco-Japanese House’s Shibusawa Claudel Prize; Furansu gendaishi (Contemporary French History, 1998); Furansu no bunka gaikō senryaku ni manabu (Learning from France’s Strategic Cultural Diplomacy, 2013); and Gendai Furansu—eikō no jidai no shūen, Ôshū e no katsuro (Contemporary France—End of the Era of Glory and Accommodation with Europe, 2015).

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    Jul 13, 2015