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Japanese politician (born 1945)
Akiko Yamanaka
山中 燁子
Official portrait, 2005
Member of the House of Representatives
In office
11 September 2005 – 21 July 2009
Preceded byHisayasu Nagata
Succeeded byYū Kuroda
ConstituencyChiba 2nd
In office
20 October 1996 – 2 June 2000
Preceded byConstituency established
Succeeded byMulti-member district
ConstituencyTōkai PR
Personal details
Born (1945-11-06) 6 November 1945 (age 79)
Otaru, Hokkaido, Japan
Political partyLiberal Democratic
Other political
affiliations		New Frontier
Alma materTsuda College

Akiko Yamanaka (山中 あき子, Yamanaka Akiko, born November 6, 1945) is a former Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), who served as a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Otaru, Hokkaido and graduate of Tsuda College, she was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1996 and later became a Special Ambassador for Peacebuilding of Japan. She was originally a member of the New Frontier Party but later joined the LDP.

Career

Yamanaka is a Senior Diplomatic Fellow, Cambridge Central Asia Forum and By-fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge University as well as visiting professor at the Graduate School of Hokkaido University, the United Nations University and currently Tenjin Foreign Studies University. She has also been a Senior Visiting Researcher at St. Antony's College, Oxford University and at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Yamanaka has served as the Member of the House of Representatives of Japan as well as Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs, Director of the Committee of Foreign Affairs, Director General of the Women's Bureau of Liberal Democratic Party, etc. Her areas of expertise include International Peacebuilding and Preventive State Theory, International Negotiation and Strategic Studies, and Intercultural Studies. On these and other subjects, she has written and lectured extensively and internationally. She has published many books such as “Think, or Sink: Preventive State Theory”, “Toward the Future: Human Security”, “From the Window of Oxford”, etc. She was awarded by OISCA for ‘Contribution to Asia’ and Soroptimist Japan for ‘International Contribution’.

She has worked on Human Development for Peacebuilding, and on Human Security, especially water security, food security and energy security as well as on Natural and Human Induced Disaster Prevention and Mitigation.

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