RADM. KATSUYA YAMAMOTO (RET., JMSDF)

Retired Rear Admiral YAMAMOTO “Kats” Katsuya, Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) joined Sasakawa Peace Foundation in April 2023. RADM Yamamoto graduated from the National Defense Academy and earned a Master of Policy Studies from the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies. He also attended the Maritime Law Enforcement Officer Course of the U.S. Coast Guard; the Command & Staff Course of JMSDF; and the Regular Course of the National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS), and the PLA National Defense University in Beijing. Offshore, Kats was a surface warfare officer, serving onboard various destroyers and commanding the JS SHIRAYUKI (DD123). Onshore, He also contributed to a variety of positions including Chief of the International Policy Planning Section at the Joint Staff Office. Overseas, Kats served as Defense/Naval Attaché to China and President of the Naval Attaché Corps in Beijing, as International Military Professor of the U.S. Naval War College (USNWC) in Rhode Island. His last mission of the active duty was as Director of Education at NIDS. Kats has been awarded the Ba-Yi Medal from PRC, and the Meritorious Service Medal from the U.S. Navy. Kats is the Advisor of the Japan-America Society of Rhode Island.

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