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People make history, history makes people - EurekAlert

Professor Emeritus IOKIBE Makoto was an influential scholar at Kobe University and preeminent expert on Japanese diplomacy, US-Japan relations and the postwar US occupation policy of Japan. He also served as advisor to the government on post-disaster reconstruction efforts and as the president of the National Defense Academy. What enables a person to become a leader in so many fields? And how did his personal experience influence his research and work? We asked one of his former graduate students, Professor MINOHARA Tosh at the Graduate School of Law and Politics at Kobe University, who, like his mentor, also specializes in US-Japan relations.

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