Akihisa Nagashima
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Akihisa Nagashima | |
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長島 昭久 | |
 Official portrait, 2024 | |
| Special Advisor to the Prime Minister | |
| In office 1 October 2024 – 21 October 2025 Serving with Masafumi Mori, Wakako Yata | |
| Prime Minister | Shigeru Ishiba |
| Preceded by | Hirotaka Ishihara Yasuhiro Ozato |
| Succeeded by | Midori Matsushima Takashi Endo Takahiro Inoue Yoshimasa Uno Sadamasa Oue |
| In office 5 September 2011 – 1 October 2012 Serving with Hiranao Honda, Shunichi Mizuoka, Yoshinori Suematsu, Yoshio Tezuka | |
| Prime Minister | Yoshihiko Noda |
| Preceded by | Hirohisa Fujii Hirokazu Shiba Kiyomi Tsujimoto Renhō Shizuka Kamei |
| Succeeded by | Mitsuo Mitani Hiroshi Ogushi Keiro Kitagami Yoshihiro Kawakami |
| State Minister of Defense | |
| In office 2 October 2012 – 26 December 2012 | |
| Prime Minister | Yoshihiko Noda |
| Preceded by | Shu Watanabe |
| Succeeded by | Akinori Eto |
| Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Defense | |
| In office 18 September 2009 – 17 September 2010 Serving with Daizo Kusuda | |
| Prime Minister | Yukio Hatoyama Naoto Kan |
| Preceded by | Nobuo Kishi Ryota Takeda |
| Succeeded by | Daisuke Matsumoto Hajime Hirota |
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| Assumed office 9 November 2003 | |
| Preceded by | Etsuko Kawada |
| Constituency | See list
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| Personal details | |
| Born | 17 February 1962 |
| Party | LDP (since 2019) |
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| Alma mater | Keio University Johns Hopkins University |
| Website | Official Website Weblog |
Akihisa Nagashima (長島 昭久, Nagashima Akihisa) is a member of the House of Representatives of Japan as well as a visiting professor at Chuo University's Graduate School of Public Studies. He served as the Parliamentary Vice Minister of Defense in the Kan Cabinet.[1][2][3]
Nagashima was born on 17 February 1962, in Yokohama-City, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.
Nagashima received his B.A. in Law in 1984, his B.A. in Government in 1986, and his Master of Laws (LL.M) from Keio University in 1988. He received his M.A. from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in 1997.
From 1993 to 1995, Nagashima was a visiting scholar at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, before becoming a research associate in Asian Security Studies in 1997, and an Adjunct Senior Fellow in Asia Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, Washington, D.C., in 1999. From 2000 to 2001, he was a visiting scholar at the Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Washington, D.C. After coming back to Japan, he taught as a lecturer at Keio University's Graduate School of Law from 2003 to 2007.
