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Shotaro Yachi, Cross-boundary Cancer Studies at the University of Tokyo: International Public Good in the Asia-Pacific Era, Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology, Volume 44, Issue suppl_1, February 2014, Pages i78–i83, https://doi.org/10.1093/jjco/hyt220
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Shotaro Yachi was born in Kanazawa City in 1944 and raised in Toyama. After graduating from the Graduate School for Law and Politics of the University of Tokyo, he entered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1969 and retired from the Ministry in 2008. In Japan he worked in the Ministry's Asian Affairs Bureau, North American Affairs Bureau, Treaties Bureau, as Director of the Personnel Division, Director-General of the Treaties Bureau, Director-General of the Foreign Policy Bureau, Assistant Chief Cabinet Secretary and Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs. Overseas he served twice at the Embassy of Japan in the USA, and at the Embassy of Japan in the Philippines, at the mission of Japan to the EC and as Consul General in Los Angeles. Yachi undertook research at the Fletcher School from 1970 to 1972 and at the Center for International Affairs at Harvard University as a fellow, from 1987 to 1988. He taught as a part-time lecturer at Waseda University's International Division (1986), at Sophia University's Faculty of Law (1993, 1994), at Seinan-gakuin University's Department of Law (1993), at Keio University's Faculty of Law (1996) and at Chuo University's Faculty of Law (2001–03). He currently serves as professor at the Institute of Japan–US Studies, Waseda University, as guest professor (part-time) at the Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University, as part-time lecturer at the College of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo and as visiting professor at the Art Innovation Center, Tokyo University of the Arts. He was appointed as Special Advisor to the Cabinet in 2012.
