Officers
Chairman
ASO Taro
Prime Minister from 2008 to 2009. He previously served as Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Finance, and Minister of State for Special Missions. In 2005 he served as Minister of Foreign Affairs and in 2003 as Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications. He was first elected to the House of Representatives in 1979. Graduated Faculty of Political Science and Economics, Gakushuin University. In 2021, he became Vice President and in 2024 Special Advisor of the Liberal Democratic Party. In 2021 he became Chairman of Nakasone Peace Institute.
Vice Chairman and President
NAKASONE Hirofumi
Member of the House of Councillors since 1986, he served as Minister for Foreign Affairs in 2008 and, in 2010, he became the Chairperson, General Assembly of Liberal Demo cratic Party Members of the House of Councillors. Previously he served as Minister of Education, Science, Sports and Culture, and Minister of State for Science and Technology. Graduated from Keio University. Since 1999 he has been a Director and in 2016 he became Vice Chairman of NPI. He assumed his current post in 2023.
Vice President
YANASE Tadao
Senior Executive Vice President, Chief Business Development Officer at NTT
Former Vice-Minister for International Affairs at Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI)
Former Executive Secretary to Prime Minister Abe and to Prime Minister Aso
He is a graduate of the University of Tokyoʼs Faculty of Law. He holds a Masterʼs degree in economics from Yale University.
Vice President
UMEDA Kunio
Graduated from Kyoto University, Faculty of Law. He entered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1978. He was Minister, Permanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations in 1999; Director, Personnel Division in 2002; Chief Minister, Embassy of Japan in China in 2006; Director-General, Southeast and Southwest Asian Affairs Department in 2010; Director-General, International Cooperation Bureau in 2012. He served as Ambassador to Brazil in 2014 and Ambassador to Vietnam in 2016. He retired in 2020. In the same year, he became Vice President of the National Association for Global & Open Minded Communities. He became an NPI Director in 2023 and NPI Vice President in 2024.
