Rear Admiral (ret.) Katsuya Yamamoto is Director, Strategy and Deterrence Group, Sasakawa Peace Foundation in Tokyo. He graduated from the Japan National Defense Academy and earned a Master of Policy Studies degree from the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies. He studied at the US Coast Guard Training Center, the National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS) and the PLA National Defense University. After serving onboard various destroyers, he served as Defense/Naval Attaché to China and President of the Naval Attaché Corps in Beijing. His last mission while on active duty was as Diretor of Education at NIDS.