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Jun Osawa is a Senior Fellow at Sasakawa Peace Foundation. He is also Senior Research Fellow at Nakasone Peace Institute (since 2017), Director of the Office of Cyber Domain Awareness at the IT security Center of the Information-Technology Promotion Agency (since 2023), a board member of Kajima Peace Institute (since 2018), and was Adjunct Research Fellow at Sasakawa Peace Foundation until April 2024. His research interests include national cybersecurity, strategic assessment, and North-East Asian international security. He joined NPI/IIPS in 1995 as a Research Fellow before becoming a Senior Research Fellow in 2009 (until 2014, and since 2017). His previous positions include: Senior Fellow (2017–19) and Deputy Cabinet Counsellor (2014–16) at the National Security Secretariat (NSS); Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution (2013); Visiting Scholar at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (2011–16); Policy Planning Researcher and Advisor, Policy Planning Division, Foreign Policy Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) (2007–9); Analyst, Second Division, Intelligence and Analysis Service, MFA (2004–6). He received his BA from Keio University in 1994 and an MA from Keio University in 1996.