Jason P. Hyland is Senior Advisor at Dentons Global Advisors - Albright Stonebridge Group and based in Tokyo, Japan. He was previously President & Representative Officer of MGM Resorts Japan LLC and a former American diplomat who served as the acting

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. He was deputy to Ambassador

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and assumed the position of

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upon her departure on January 18, 2017, until July 31, 2017. As Deputy Chief of Mission for the United States Embassy in Tokyo, Japan, Hyland was involved in the organization of President

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's May 2016 historic visit to

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and attended the ceremony. He wrote about his impressions of the event in his blog in the US Embassy's ''American View'' online magazine. He has previously served as Deputy Chief of Mission of

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, and

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; as Director of the Office of South Central European Affairs; and as Special Assistant for East Asian and Pacific Affairs in the

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. He arrived in

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on June 30, 2014, to assume his duties as Deputy Chief of Mission, following his assignment as Foreign Policy Advisor for the

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. He has lived and worked in Asia for more than 18 years. He received a Group Superior Honor Award from the Department of State for serving on the first Embassy team that entered Kobe in February 1995 to assist after the

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. Hyland was born in

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and raised in New York and

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. His late mother, Elizabeth Ann "Betty" Hyland, was an author. He obtained his AB in History from the

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, and also studied at the

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(Master of Science in National Security Strategy),

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(Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy), and the Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies. He was also Visiting Foreign Scholar at the

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, from 1994 to 1995. The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy appointed him Senior Strategic Fellow in September 2017. He became a Member of the Board of Overseers of

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in March 2018. He is fluent in Japanese, and proficient in Ukrainian and other languages. Hyland is the recipient of numerous US Department of State awards, including the Superior Honor Award, Meritorious Honor Award and Sinclaire Language Award. He received both the Superior Honor Award and Expeditionary Service Award for his contributions as Provincial Reconstruction Team Leader in Mosul, Iraq, 2007-2008.

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