On February 22, the New Shimoda Conference convened top leaders from Japan and the United States in Tokyo to discuss how to strengthen Japan-US relations at a crucial point in our bilateral relations. Participants consisted of senior figures and promising, emerging leaders from politics, business, and the policy community. At a time when US-Japan parliamentary dialogue has waned, this included a six-member delegation of US Congressional members—one of the largest Congressional delegations to visit Japan in recent years—as well as leading Diet members from all of the major political parties. The following day, a follow-up roundtable was held with emerging leaders .
Welcome Remarks
KAZUO OGOURA, President, Japan Foundation
Presentations
DANIEL KLIMAN, Visiting Fellow, Center for a New American Security
PHILLIP LIPSCY, Assistant Professor, Stanford University
Moderator: RYO SAHASHI, Associate Professor of International Politics, Kanagawa University; Research Fellow, Japan Center for International Exchange
Discussion
Working Dinner with members of the Azabu Tanaka Juku and Roundtable Participants
US PARTICIPANTS | |
SPENCER ABBOT | International Affairs Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations; former Military Fellow, Center for a New American Security (CNAS) |
JAMES GANNON | Executive Director, Japan Center for International Exchange (JCIE/USA) |
DANIEL KLIMAN | Visiting Fellow, CNAS |
PHILIPPE DE KONING | Fulbright Fellow, Hiroshima University |
PHILLIP LIPSCY | Assistant Professor, Stanford University |
SAADIA M. PEKKANEN | Job & Gertrud Tamaki Professor, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington |
JAPANESE PARTICIPANTS | |
TOMOKI AKAZAWA | Assistant Director, Center for Global Partnership (CGP), Japan Foundation |
JUNICHI FUKUDA | Ph.D. candidate, Department of Advanced Social and International Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the University of Tokyo; Analyst, Second Division, Intelligence and Analysis Service, Ministry of Foreign Affairs |
SATOSHI HASEGAWA | Director, CGP, Japan Foundation |
YUSUKE ISHIHARA | Research Fellow, National Institute for Defense Studies, Ministry of Defense, Japan |
AYUSA KOSHI | CGP, Japan Foundation |
TETSUO KOTANI | Special Research Fellow, Okazaki Institute, Japan |
HIROKO MAEDA | Research Fellow, PHP Research Institute |
SATURO MORI | Professor, Hosei University |
AYA MURATA | Associate Program Officer, Sasakawa Peace Foundation |
NAOKO NORO | Associate Fellow, Research Institute of Science and Technology for Society (RISTEX), Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) |
TADASHI OGAWA | Managing Director, CGP, Japan Foundation |
KASUO OGOURA | President, Japan Foundation |
RYO SAHASHI | Associate Professor of International Politics, Kanagawa University; Research Fellow, Japan Center for International Exchange |
MASARU SAKATO | Acting Executive Director, CGP, Japan Foundation |
TOMOHIKO SATAKE | Fellow, National Institute for Defense Studies, Ministry of Defense, Japan |
TAKASHI SEKIYAMA | Assistant Professor of International Political Economy, Meiji University |
TOMOKO SUZUKI | Senior Program Officer, Japan Center for International Exchange |
ASUKA TAKESHIRO | CGP, Japan Foundation |
YOSHIHITO YASAKI | Lecturer, Kogakuin University |
