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Lieutenant General (Ret.) Noboru Yamaguchi is currently a professor of military history and strategy at the National Defense Academy of Japan. Lieutenant General Yamaguchi served as Senior Defense Attaché at the Japanese Embassy in the United States, as Deputy Commandant of the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Forces (GSDF) Aviation School, as Director for Research of the Ground Research and Development Command (GRDC), and as Vice President of the National Institute for Defense Studies. Since 2006, he was the Commanding General of the GSDF Research and Development Command until he retired from active duty in December 2008. Lieutenant General Yamaguchi has published extensively on Japanese defense policy, strategy, and security relationships with China and the United States.