Satoshi Morimoto

Satoshi Morimoto (森 本 敏Japanese, Satoshi Morimoto, born March 15, 1941 in Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture) is a Japanese scientist, a former soldier and civil servant, and since June 2012 Defence Ministers in Noda Cabinet.

Morimoto attended elementary and middle school in Ashiya in Hyogo Prefecture, then a high school in Toyonaka in Osaka Prefecture. He then completed the Defence Academy ( Boei Daigakkō ) and then joined the Air Self-Defense Forces. In 1977 he was sent to the Security Treaty Office of the U.S. Department of the Foreign Ministry. Two years later he left the service of the Self-Defense Forces and changed quite to the Foreign Ministry, for which he worked among others at the embassy in Washington and completed graduate studies at Tufts University. Since the 1990s, he became increasingly research and teaching, including at the Keio University, Chuo University, and since 2000 as a professor at Takushoku University. From August to September 2009 he was an advisor to the Minister of Defence ( Boei - daijin hosakan, a newly created office) Yasukazu Hamada ( Liberal Democrat from Chiba prefecture ).

Morimoto 2012 was appointed by Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda ( Democrat from Chiba Prefecture ) at a cabinet reshuffle as the successor to Defense Minister Naoki Tanaka, who had been dismissed after a Rügeresolution of Sangiin. For the first time a politician was appointed as defense minister, opposition politicians criticized his appointment as evidence of the lack of security policy competence of the ruling Democratic Party.