Speakers

Naoyuki Agawa, Vice President, Keio University
Masahiro Akiyama, Chairman, Ocean Policy Research Foundation
Richard Armitage, Former Deputy Secretary of State, United States
Victor Cha, Korea Chair, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Patrick Cronin, Senior Adviser, CNAS
Abraham Denmark, Fellow, CNAS
National Fick, CEO, CNAS
Yoichi Funabashi, Editor-in-Chief, Asahi Shimbun
Michael Green, Japan Chair, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Yoshimasa Hayashi, Former Minister of Defence and State of Economic and Fiscal Policy, Japan
G. John Ikenberry, Professor, Princeton University
Makoto Iokibe, President, National Defense Academy
Akira Iriye, Professor Emeritus, Harvard University
Motoshige Ito, Professor, University of Tokyo
Vice Admiral (Ret.) Hideaki Kaneda, Director, Okazaki Institute
Robert Kaplan, Senior Fellow, CNAS
Shinichi Kitaoka, Professor, University of Tokyo
Hiroshi Komiyama, Chairman, Mitsubishi Research Institute
Koji Murata, Professor, Doshisha University
Joseph Nye, University Distinguished Service Professor, Harvard University
Kazuya Sakamoto, Professor, Osaka University
Yohei Sasakawa, Chairman, Nippon Foundation
Yukio Satoh, Vice Chairman, Japan Institute for International Affairs
Ira Shapiro, Shareholder, Greenberg Traurig
Yoshihide Soeya, Professor, Keio University
Ronald Spector, Professor, George Washington University
Nobushige Takamizawa, Director General, Bureau of Defense Policy, Ministry of Defense, Japan
Hitoshi Tanaka, Senior Fellow, Japan Center for International Exchange
Masakazu Toyoda, Secretary General, Secretariat of Headquarters for Space Policy, Japan
Daniel Twining, Senior Fellow, German Marshall Fund
Charles Vest, President Emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Akihisa Nagashima, Japan's Parliamentary Vice Minister of Defense, will give a keynote address. 

Place

Willard Hotel
1401 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW

Registration

Registration is available online here. The event will streamed live online here.

Speakers

George Packard, President, United States-Japan Foundation
Koji Murata, Professor of Political Science, Doshisha University

Place

Capital Hilton
1001 16th Street, NW

Registration

Cost: $25. Registration is available online here. If you have any questions, please contact the Japan-America Society of Washington DC at (202) 833-2210.

Speakers

James Auer, Director, Center for U.S.-Japan Studies and Cooperation, Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy Studies
Rust Deming, Adjunct Professor, Japan Studies, SAIS, Johns Hopkins University
Akihiro Iwashita, Professor and Director of the Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University
Eiichi Katahara, Professor and Deputy Director of Research, National Institute for Defense Studies
Satu Limaye, Director, East-West Center in Washington
Shinichi Ogawa, Visiting Professor, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University
Manabu Sato, Professor, Okinawa International University
Sheila Smith, Senior Fellow for Japan Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
Tomohiro Yara, Editorial Writer, Okinawa Times

Luncheon keynote: Derek Mitchell, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs, Office of the Secretary of Defense

Place

Cosmos Club
Powell Room
2121 Massachusetts Avenue, NW

Registration

Please RSVP to Loren Hoekstra by e-mail at RSVPDC@EastWestCenter.org or by phone at (202) 327-9751 with your name, title, organization, address, phone number, e-mail address and nation of citizenship.

Please note that the Cosmos Club requires coats and ties for men and comparable formality for women.