Daniel Okimoto

Daniel I. Okimoto (born 1942) is a Japanese-American academic and political scientist.

Okimoto graduated cum laude from Princeton University in 1965; and his post-graduate studies at Harvard University earned a master's degree in 1967. He continued his studies at the University of Tokyo from 1968 through 1970. His Ph.D. in political sciences was conferred by the University of Michigan in 1975.

Okimoto is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Political Science at Stanford University. He is also Director Emeritus and co-founder of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia/Pacific Research Center (APARC) at Stanford University. Shorenstein APARC is part of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) at Stanford University.

• 1988 -- The Japan-American Security Alliance: Prospect for the Twenty-First Century. Stanford: Asia/Pacific Research Center, Institute for International Studies, Stanford University. OCLC 39677150
• 1984 -- Competitive Edge: the Semiconductor Industry in the U.S. and Japan with Takuo Sugano, Franklin B. Weinstein, M. Thérèse Flaherty. Stanford: Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-1225-5; OCLC 10640450
• 1971 -- American in Disguise. New York: Walker/Weatherhill. ISBN 978-0-8027-2438-0; OCLC 130056

• Stanford University, Dept. of Political Science: Okimoto faculty bio.

• Grand Cordon, Order of the Rising Sun, 2007.
• Prime Minister's Commendation, 2004.

• "Professor Daniel Okimoto receives Japanese foreign minister's commendation," Shorenstein APARC News. May 26, 2004.