Kiyotaka Akasaka

Kiyotaka Akasaka is the kind of figure who rarely ends up in the spotlight, which honestly makes him more interesting to me. Born in Osaka in 1948, graduated from Kyoto University, and went on to build a career as a diplomat — that's a trajectory that sounds almost too clean on paper, but the reality of what diplomats actually do is anything but tidy. You're sitting across from people from completely different worlds, different languages, different power games, and you have to hold your own. For someone who came of age in postwar Japan and lived through its entire economic and political reinvention, the worldview he'd have developed over decades of that work must be genuinely layered. Not a flashy name, but the quiet weight of a life spent navigating the world on Japan's behalf sits pretty well with me.

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Kiyotaka Akasaka is a Japanese diplomat born on August 24, 1948, in Osaka Prefecture. He graduated from Kyoto University before pursuing a career in diplomacy. He served as United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information from 2007, appointed by Ban Ki-moon, and now chairs the Foreign Press Center Japan.

Name (English)

Kiyotaka Akasaka

Name (Japanese)

赤阪清隆

Reading

あかさか きよたか

Born

August 24, 1948 (age 78)

Origin

Osaka Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

Diplomat

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Rat

University

Kyoto University

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%B5%A4%E9%98%AA%E6%B8%85%E9%9A%86
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6139802

Tags

• From Osaka Prefecture
• Diplomat

Last updated

September 25, 2026

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