Harald Gerhard Heinrich Otto Kurt Kleinschmidt was born (1949) and educated in Germany. After his Habilitation in 1985 he worked from 1986 till 1989 as a Privatdozent for the University of Stuttgart and from 1989 till 2000 as a Jokyôju (Associate Professor) of the history of international relations for the University of Tsukuba. Since 2000 he is working as a Kyôju (Full Professor) for the Graduate School of International Political Economy of the University of Tsukuba and as a Heininkyôju (Adj. Professor) for the Graduate School of Arts en Sciences of the University of Tokyo.