Rieko Hayakawa, Ph.D

Rieko Hayakawa, PhD, is a Japanese scholar with an expertise in Pacific security, ICT4 Development and ocean law. She is also involved in community activities on Japan-ASEAN youth under the Prime Minister's Office. She managed the Sasakawa Pacific Island Nations Fund from 1991 to 2017, launched the USPNet Upgrade Project as an ODA project for Japan, Australia and New Zealand, and promoted many other projects, including a maritime security project in the Western Pacific. In 2017, she proposed an Indo-Pacific strategy including maritime security to the Abe Government. She holds a master's degree in education and international relations and a PhD in ICT4D (University of Otago, New Zealand). Currently she is completing a PhD in international maritime law at Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan. She is also secretary of the Japan Indo-Pacific Studies Group.

Politics & Security6 years ago

8th Pacific Islands Leaders Meeting: What Should Be on the Agenda?

China's aircraft carrier Liaoning (C) takes part in a military drill of Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy in the western Pacific Ocean, April 18, 2018....
History7 years ago

Amelia Earhart as Japanese POW is Fake History Repeating Itself

In July 1937, Amelia Earhart, American aviator lionized for her bravery, and navigator Frederick Noonan left New Guinea, then a territory of Australia, for the tiny United States-owned...

Page 2 of 212

JAPAN Forward

Rieko Hayakawa, Ph.D

Stories By Rieko Hayakawa, Ph.D

8th Pacific Islands Leaders Meeting: What Should Be on the Agenda?

Amelia Earhart as Japanese POW is Fake History Repeating Itself

RELATED ARTICLES