Hirotsugu Aida
Hirotsugu (Hiro) Aida is former Geneva bureau chief (1993-1997, 1999-2000) of Japan’s Kyodo News agency. He was a member of of the ACANU executive committee.
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During his Geneva years, he covered such major events as the conclusion of the Uruguay Round of global trade talks, the start of the World Trade Organization, the U.S.-North Korea nuclear talks and various disarmament negotiations in the early post-Cold War period.
He is currently a contributing writer for Kyodo, while he teaches journalism and American intellectual history as visiting professor at Kansai University in Osaka; fellow scholar at Sophia University in Tokyo ; a research associate at the Center for Interdisciplinary Study of Monotheistic Religions of Doshisha University in Kyoto.
He taught as full professor 2015-2020 at School of Global Studies and Collaboration (GSC), Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo. He is also editorial board member of The American Interest magazine (Washington, D.C.)
He was a columnist on international affairs 2013-2015 at Kyodo in Tokyo; senior writer 2005-2013; Kyodo’s Washington bureau chief 2002 to 2005. Before his tours in Geneva, he was a Washington correspondent 1988-1991.
He authored in Japanese:
Hatansuru America (America in Disarray) (Iwanami Shoten: 2017)
Trump Gensho to America Hoshu Shiso (Trump Phenomenon and American Conservative Thought) (Sayusha: 2016);
Tsuiseki Amerika no Shisoka-tachi (In Pursuit of American Thinkers) (Chuo-Koron Shinsha :2008, revised edition 2016);
Senso-wo Hajimerunowa Dareka (Who Starts War?) (Kodansha: 1994).
He has been contributing many articles to such major Japanese magazines as Chuokoron, Foresight and Toyo Keizai Weekly.
He translated into Japanese Francis Fukuyama’s Political Order and Political Decay (translated in 2018), The Origins of Political Order“ (2013) and “America at the Crossroads” (2006), Russell Kirk’s The Conservative Mind (2018).
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During his Geneva years, he covered such major events as the conclusion of the Uruguay Round of global trade talks, the start of the World Trade Organization, the U.S.-North Korea nuclear talks and various disarmament negotiations in the early post-Cold War period.
He is currently a contributing writer for Kyodo, while he teaches journalism and American intellectual history as visiting professor at Kansai University in Osaka; fellow scholar at Sophia University in Tokyo ; a research associate at the Center for Interdisciplinary Study of Monotheistic Religions of Doshisha University in Kyoto.
He taught as full professor 2015-2020 at School of Global Studies and Collaboration (GSC), Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo. He is also editorial board member of The American Interest magazine (Washington, D.C.)
He was a columnist on international affairs 2013-2015 at Kyodo in Tokyo; senior writer 2005-2013; Kyodo’s Washington bureau chief 2002 to 2005. Before his tours in Geneva, he was a Washington correspondent 1988-1991.
He authored in Japanese:
Hatansuru America (America in Disarray) (Iwanami Shoten: 2017)
Trump Gensho to America Hoshu Shiso (Trump Phenomenon and American Conservative Thought) (Sayusha: 2016);
Tsuiseki Amerika no Shisoka-tachi (In Pursuit of American Thinkers) (Chuo-Koron Shinsha :2008, revised edition 2016);
Senso-wo Hajimerunowa Dareka (Who Starts War?) (Kodansha: 1994).
He has been contributing many articles to such major Japanese magazines as Chuokoron, Foresight and Toyo Keizai Weekly.
He translated into Japanese Francis Fukuyama’s Political Order and Political Decay (translated in 2018), The Origins of Political Order“ (2013) and “America at the Crossroads” (2006), Russell Kirk’s The Conservative Mind (2018).