Col. Hidetada Inatsuki

About

Colonel Hidetada Inatsuki is a member of the Japan Air Self Defense Force (JASDF). He graduated from the National Defense Academy and the Command and Staff College of Japan. He is also a graduate of the fifty-eighth regular course of the National Institute for Defense Studies of Japan, where he has done research on how the 1960s security struggle in Japan was affected by the student movement.

His military tours include flying F-16s as an exchange instructor pilot in the US Air Force and as an F-2 squadron commander in the JASDF. Through his staff assignments at the Joint and Air Staff Office, Ministry of Defense, he served as an F-2 program manager, an assistant chief of the defense plan and policies section, and as a chief of the joint exercise and support section. He is a command pilot with nearly three thousand hours in the Mitsubishi F-1, F-16, and F-2 aircraft.

His research area is how security is influenced by India’s deepening military presence in Asia, including Japan and other nations.