CAPT Yusuke Saito
CAPT Yusuke Saito
Yusuke Saito is a captain in Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF). Currently he works as the deputy director of the Operational Law Office, Maritime Self-Defense Force Command and Staff College (CSC). His specialty is operational law and anti-submarine warfare.
At sea, he served at Destroyer Matsuyuki (DD 130), Destroyer Atago (DDG 177), Destroyer Kirisame (DD 104), Destroyer Yamayuki (DD 129), Destroyer Kirishima (DDG 174), and Destroyer Yuudachi (DD 103). At Yuudachi, he served as the executive officer and deployed to Gulf of Aden for Anti-Piracy Operation from October 10, 2021, to April 11, 2022. From July 2022 to March 2023, he took command of Destroyer Amagiri (DD 154).
Ashore, his staff assignments include Maritime Staff Office and the office of Legal Affairs General, Joint Staff. At Joint Staff, his responsibilities included space law, LAWS and law of the sea.
As a researcher, he served at Operational Law Office, CSC, Washington D.C.-based think tank, Center for a New American Security.
As a military professor, he served at Stockton Center for International Law, U.S. Naval War College. After his service at the U.S. Naval War College, he received the Distinguished Service Medal from the United States.
He graduated from the National Defense Academy of Japan in 2004 and he holds master’s degree of science in Foreign Service from Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University.
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