Personal Record (under construction)
Name:Nobumasa Ohta
Present Job:Commentator
Date of birth:17 February 1949
Place of birth:Mie Prefecture,Japan
Nationality:Japanese
Education & Others:
a:Entered kyohoku Primary School, Yokkaichi, Mie Prefecture,1955
b:Admitted to Manor House School,Cairo,Egypt,1956
c:Switched to Gezira Preparatory School,Cairo,Egypt,1956
d:Admitted to Nagatacho Primary School,Chiyodaku,Tokyo,1959
e:Graduated from the above,1961
f:Graduated from Kojimachi Secondary School,Chiyodaku,Tokyo,1964
g:Graduated from Hibiya High School,Tokyo,1967
Entered Arts Category 1 Course,Tokyo University
h:Passed 1st Rank Government Employee Examination(in Law),1970
i:Bachelor of Law,Faculty of Law,Tokyo University,1971
j:MBA,Graduate School of Business,Stanford University,1976
k:MA in Political Science,Stanford University,1976
l:Finished the One Year Course,Royal College of Defence Studies,U.K.,1988
Assignment within the Japan Defense Agency:
a:Budgeting and Auditing Section,Accounting Division,Finance Bureau,Japan Defense Agency(the same hereinafter),July 71-March 72
b:Defense Planning Division,Defense Policy Bureau,April 72-June 74
c:Graduate Student of Stanford University,July 74-June 76(Sent by the Japanese Government.)
d:1st Personnel Division,Personnel & Education Bureau,July 76-Nov.78
e:Defense Planning Division,Defense Policy Bureau,Dec.78-Jan.82(Chief,Administration & Policy Section,July 81-Jan.82(In charge of Japan's basic defense policy and Japan-U.S. Joint Operation Plan.))
f:Chief,Defense White Paper Drafting Office,Administration Division,Defense Minister's Secretariat,Jan.82-Aug.82(Drafted Defense White Paper 1982.)
g:Deputy Director,2nd Operations Division,Defense Policy Bureau,Sep.82-June 84
Deputy Director,Training Division,Education & Training Bureau(No change from above in substance.The Name of the above organization changed.),July 84-June 85
h:Deputy Director,Accounting Division,Finance Bureau,July 85-May 87(Drafted FY 1986 and FY 1987 Defense Budget.)
i:Director,Systems Analysis Office,Defense Build-up Programming Division,Defense Policy Bureau,Jan.87-Dec.87
j:Member of the Royal College of Defence Studies,U.K.,Jan.88-Dec.88(Sent by the Japan Defense Agency.)
k:Director, Labor Fiscal Management Division,Labor Department,Defense Facilities Administration Agency(DFAA),April 89-June 90(In charge of managing US Forces Japan bases' Japanese employees.DFAA belongs to Japan Defense Agency.)
l:Director,2nd Personnel Division,Personnel Bureau,July 90-June 93(In charge of personnel management system of NCOs and enlisted men,as well as recruitment and re-placement of uniformed personnel at large.)
m:Director,Education Division,Education and Training Bureau,June 93-June 94(In charge of coordinating the activities of the three Divisions of the Bureau(Education,Training and Medical Affairs))
n:Director,Administrative Department,National Defense Academy,July 94-June 96
o:Chief Facilities Coordination Officer,DFAA,July 96-June 97(In charge of coordination with USFJ concerning facilities and operational affairs.)
p:Administrative Inspector,Defense Facilities Administration Agency,July 97-June98
q:Defense Councilor(in charge of Personnel & Education Bureau,Administrative Computer Network System,Defense White Paper,etc.),July98-July99
r:Sendai Defense Facilities Administration Bureau,August99-March01(resigned voluntarily)
Other Assignments and Engagements:
a:Assistant Representative of the Japanese Government for the United Nations(U.N.) Conference on the Law of the Sea, 81
b:Governmental Expert Appointed by U.N. Secretary General for the U.N. Conference on Confidence Building Measures,80-81
c: Member of the Experts' Forum on Global Environment of the 80s,Nomura Research Institute,81-82
d:Member of the Advisory Group to the Japan Young Executives' Association,82-83
e:Member,The International Institute for Strategic Studies,London,87-09
f:Run as a candidate for the All Japan constituency,House of Councilors(Upper House) election from the Democratic Party of Japan, held in July 02, and lost.
Overseas Experience
a:Formal Visits
1974-1976 U.S.A.
1980 Switzerland(twice),U.S.A.(twice)
1981 U.S.A.(twice),Switzerland(twice)
1984 U.S.A.
1987-1988 United Kingdom, FRG,Berlin(East),Italy,Belgium,Norway,India,Pakistan
1991 United Kingdom,Egypt,Saudi-Arabia,United Arab Emirates
1995 Korea,China
1996 Singapore, Philippines
b:Semi-Formal Visits
1976 United Kingdom,France,Switzerland,FRG,Berlin(West),Sweden,India(Paid by the Japanese Government)
2002.5 China(Paid by a research institute. Met high ranking people concerning Japan-China relations)
2003.2 Same as the above
c:Private Visits
1956-1959 Egypt(visited Lebanon,Turkey,Greece,Tunisia,Austria,FRG,Switzerland, Belgium,Netherlands,United Kingdom,France,Italy,Jordan,Thailand,Hongkong)
1975 Mexico, Canada
1988 France,Spain,Greece,Berlin(East),Italy,Netherlands,Denmark,Norway
2002 Switzerland
Main Publications:
a:The Development of Management Control---Centering upon the Management Control at the DOD---,in 'Gijutsu to Keizai(Technology and Economy)',Dec. 1977 issue,Kyoikusha
b:The Japanese Style Economic System---New Balance between Intervention and Free Competition,in 'Industrial Society and Japanese People',June 1980,Chikuma Shobo(Co-written with Yatsuhiro Nakagawa. Translated to English and distributed worldwide by Foreign Press Center Japan in 1981.)
c:The Nonsense of Comprehensive Security Concept,in 'Ekonomisuto(Economist)',Sep. 23 1980 issue,Mainichi Shinbunsha(Written under a pseudonym, Seiichi Ishigaki.)
d:Defensive Defense is also Unconstitutional, in 'Shokun', April 1981 issue, Bungeishunjusha(Written under the above pseudonym,and co-written with Yatsuhiro Nakagawa)
e:Comprehensive Study on Confidence-building Measures, 1982, New York, United Nations (Co-written with 15 other governmental experts.)
f:Japan's National Defense Controversies--- full of Ghost Images---, in 'Komon Sensu (Common Sense)'July 1984 issue, Kyoikusha (Written under a pseudonym, Association to Consider the National Defense of the 21st Century.)
g:Boshuutan (Recruiting Tales), Essays written for the Japan Defense Agency affiliated weekly newspaper 'Asagumo'1990-93 for 74 times (Written under the initial SI)
h:On the Images of Self Defense Forces Personnel, in 'Securitarian (Japan Defense Agency Public Relations Magazine)' January 1995 issue
i: A Little Known Prophet, Macmurray (1881-1960), in 'Bo-eigaku Kenkyu (Defense Studies)' October 1996 issue
j: On Japan Defense White Paper 1999―Recollection and Perspective, in ‘Bo-eigaku Kenkyu, May 2000 issue
k: Goodbye Japan Defense Agency---worrying about the negativism which brought about the distrust of the US Forces, in ‘Sentaku (Choice)’ June 2001 issue
l: 『防衛庁再生宣言』(Japan Defense Agency Renovation Declaration) Nihonhyoronsha June 2001
m: Deficiencies of the ’Contingency Laws’ which do not prepare for the imminent crises, in ‘Sentaku’ March 2002 issue
n: Past and Present of the Japanese Defense Forces―As a Starting Point for a New Ideal, in ‘Report of Researches’,Think-Net Center 21 (A Think Tank affiliated with the Democratic Party of Japan),No.11 25August 2002 issue
o: Self-Defense Forces in Agony---Concerning the Dispatch of MSDF to the Indian Ocean, in ‘Discussion Journal ‘Minshu (Democracy)’,Democratic Party of Japan, No.2 Autumn2002 issue
p:Questioning the Basis of ‘Egoistic’ Aids after WWⅡ on the Occasion of Iraq Reconstruction, in 'Ekonomisuto(Economist)', Jul..17 2003 issue, Mainichi Shinbunsha
q:Resolve the Northern Territory Issue by Regaining Two Islands, in ‘Sekaishuho’ Feb.1 2005 issue, Feb. 1 issue, Jijitsushinsha
r:『実名告発 防衛省』 Kinnyobi October 2008
s:『属国の防衛革命』 Kojinsha October 2008(With Nisohachi Hyodo)
E-mail:ohta@ohtan.net
URL:http://www.ohtan.net