Professor Akira Nakamura (Professor Emeritus of Public Administration at Meiji University in Tokyo, Japan; the 1st AAPA President in 2010-2011) was inducted as an International Fellow of the [American] National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) at the Doubletree Hotel in Crystal City, Virginia, USA on December 3, 2015.

[American] NAPA (www.napawash.org) is an independent, non-profit, and non-partisan organization established in 1967 and it was chartered by the US Congress to provide non-partisan expert advice for the development of public service.