Education: Graduated from Ritsumeikan University, March 2014(B.A.)
Graduated from Ritsumeikan University, March 2016(M.A.)
Employment history: Since 2024, Japan Coast Guard

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Education Japan Coast Guard Academy, 1989 Assignments April 2011: Deputy Director, Personnel Div., JCG HQs. April 2014: Yokohama Coast Guard Office April 2015: Chief, Nemuro Coast Guard Office April 2017: Director, Administration Dept., 11th Regional Coast Guard HQs. April 2018: Director, Education and Training Div., JCG HQs. March 2020: Director, Administration Div., Guard and Rescue Dept., JCG HQs. October 2021: Deputy Commander, 3th Regional Coast Guard HQs. April 2022: Superintendent, Coast Guard School July 2023: Director General, Guard and Rescue Department, JCG HQs. July 2024: Vice Commandant for Operations

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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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Captain Kentaro Furuya (JCG) is an adjunct professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), a visiting professor at Keio University, and a professor at the Japan Coast Guard Academy. His career spans the realm of Coast Guard service, where he has dedicated himself to ensuring maritime safety and security both at sea and the development of policies onshore. Presently, he has been entrusted with the responsibility of being a faculty member in the Maritime Safety and Security Policy Program at GRIPS. Captain Furuya is responsible for instructing students in matters pertaining to the law of the sea, maritime security, and the formulation of Coast Guard operations.

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Ms. Atsuko Kanehara is the Research Director for the Canon Institute for International Studies and Senior Fellow for the Sasakawa Peace Foundation.  She was former Professor of International Law at Sophia University and former President of the Japanese Society of International Law.
Member of the Governing Board of IMO International Maritime Law Institute.
Concurrently, she is Policy Adviser for the Japan Coast Guard and member of the Committee on Submarine Cables and Pipelines under the International Law Association.

She delivered lectures at The Hague Academy of International Law in 2017, entitled “Reassessment of the Acts of the State in the Law of State Responsibility―A Proposal of an Integrative Theoretical Flamework of the Law of State Responsibility to Effectively Cope with the Internationally Harmful Acts of Non-State Actors,” which was published in Recueils des cours, Vol. 399 (2019).

Her principal recent publications in English are: “How to Ensure the Safety of the Japan Coast Guard While Maintaining Its Nature as A Police Organ When It Conducts Missions In Collaboration with the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force under the Control Guidelines,” Japan Review, Vol 6, No. 2 (2024); “Refining Japan’s Integrative Position on the Territorial Sovereignty of the Senkaku Islands,” International Law Studies, Vol. 97 (2021); ”The Use of Force in Maritime Security and the Use of Arms in Law Enforcement under the Current Wide Understanding of Maritime Security,” Japan Review, Vol. 3, No. 2 (2019).

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Yusuke Takagi is an Associate Professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) in Tokyo, Japan. He received the Doctor of Science of Law from Keio University. Before joining GRIPS, he worked at De La Salle University—Manila and the Embassy of Japan in the Philippines. He teaches graduate courses in political science, focusing on Southeast Asian countries and other emerging countries. He is now currently serving as the Director of the Maritime Safety and Security Program, GRIPS.

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