1944
Born to Kokichi and Mitsuko Inoguchi in Nigata, Japan.
1966
Earns a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Tokyo.
1968
Earns a Master of Arts from the University of Tokyo.
1974
Teaches as an associate professor at Sophia University in Tokyo until 1977.
1974
Earns a Doctor of Philosophy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1977
Teaches as an associate professor of political science at the University of Tokyo until 1988.
1983
Is a Fulbright visiting scholar at the Center for International Affairs within Harvard University.
1988
Teaches as a professor at the University of Tokyo until 2005.
1995
Becomes the senior vice rector at United Nations University until 1997.
1999
Teaches as a distinguished visiting professor at the National University of Singapore and does so again in 2005 and 2007.
2000
Is president of the Japanese Association of International Relations until 2002.
2000
Serves as an editor for the Asian Journal of Comparative Politics with SAGE Publications until 2018.
2005
Teaches as a professor at Chuo University in Tokyo until 2009.
2005
Earns the title of professor emeritus from the University of Tokyo.
2009
Becomes the chancellor and president of the University Niigata Prefecture until 2017.
2014
Receives the International Society for Quality of Life Studies (ISQOLS) Distinguished Research Fellow Award.
2017
Is named eminent scholar-professor within the Institute of Asian Cultures at J. F. Oberlin University in Tokyo.
2018
Inspires The Takashi Inoguchi Endowed Track on Quality of Life and Well-Being in East Asia Award from the ISQOLS.
2020
Published “The Development of Global Legislative Politics: Rousseau and Locke Writ Global (Trust Book 3)” via Sage Publications.
2020
Continues to be a prolific and prescient writer in English on such subjects on Japanese politics and foreign policy.