Ms. Yoko Kitazawa
Academic Career: Graduated on March 1955 from the Faculty of Economics
National University of Yokohama
1982-83 Lecturer at the faculty of Law of St.Paul University
1985-86 Lecturer at the Nagasaki University
1986-87 Lecturer at the Faculty of Economics of the Shinshuu University
1988-92 Lecturer at the Faculty of Commerce of Chuo University
1979-95 Lecturer at the Japan Journalist Academy
2001-03 President of Peace Studies Association of Japan
Professional Career: 1955-59 Researcher at the Japan-China Export & Import Association
1959-69 Head of Women's Section of the Permanent Secretariat of the Afro-Asian People's Solidarity Organization ( AAPSO )
1977-85 Member of the Advisory Group on Economic Matters of CCPD of the World Council of Churches
1973 Founded and President of Pacific Asia Resource Center & Editorial Board of AMPO
1974 Testified at the United Nations General Assembly on Japan's Economic Relations with South Africa
1990 Founded & President of People to People Aid
1995 NGO member of the Japanese Government Delegation to the UN World Summit for Social Development
1993 Coordinator of Japan Bretton Woods Coalition
1993-98 Chair of the Board of El Taller
1998-00 Co-chair of Jubilee 2000 Coalition Japan
2001- Co-Chair of Japan Network on Debt & Poverty Free-Lance Journalist and Writer
Books: “From Tokyo to Johannesburg” issued at National Council of
Churches, USA New York 1974
Co-edition “ Allies in Apartheid” Macmillan London 1988
“ Conflict over Natural Resources in South –East Asia
and the Pacific” Oxford University London 1990