Ogura Kazuo

President of the Nippon Foundation Paralympic Support Center. Senior advisor to the Japan Foundation and Eminent Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University. Born in Tokyo in 1938. Graduate of the School of Law, University of Tokyo and the University of Cambridge (Faculty of Economics), United Kingdom. Entered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan in 1962. Served as Ambassador stationed in Vietnam, South Korea and France, then as President of the Japan Foundation and later as Secretary General of the Council, the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics Bid Committee. Published various books on international affairs in Japanese, English, and French. “Tozai Bunka Masatsu (Cultural Friction between East and West)” 1990, Chuo Koron, “Pari no Shu Onrai－ Chugoku Kakumeika no Seio Taiken (Enlai Zhou in Paris)” 1992, Chuo Koron, “Nishi no Nihon, Higashi no Nihon－Kokusai Kosho no Style to Nihon no Taio (Japan of the West, Japan of the East)” 1995, Kenkyusha, “Chugoku no Ishin, Nihon no Kyoji－Higashi Asia no Kokusai Kankei Saikochiku ni Mukete (Dignity of China, Pride of Japan)” 2001, Chuokoron-Shinsha, “Yoshida Shigeru no Jimon (Shigeru Yoshida Searches His Own Heart)” 2003, Fujiwara-Shoten, “Nihon-jin no Chousen-kan－Naze ‘Chikakute Toi Rinjin’ Nanoka (The Image of Korea by Japanese People)” 2016, Nihon Keizai Shinbun Shuppansha.