Ikeda Tadashi

Managing director, The Kazankai Foundation; visiting professor, Ritsumeikan University. Born in 1939. Graduated from the Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo. Joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and served in posts including director general of the Asian Affairs Bureau, deputy minister, ambassador to the Netherlands, and ambassador to Brazil. Headed the Japan-Taiwan Exchange Association, Taipei Office, 2005–8. His works include Gekidō no Ajia gaikō to tomo ni (Working amid the Turbulence of Asian Diplomacy).