Dr. Funabashi Yoichi is Columnist and Chief Diplomatic Correspondent for the Asahi Shimbun and is currently serving as Distinguished Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution. He is also a Contributing Editor of Foreign Policy. Previously he was American General Bureau Chief (1993-97), Correspondent in Washington (1984-87), and Correspondent in Beijing (1980-81) for the Asahi Shimbun. In 1985 he received the Vaughn-Ueda Prize for his reporting on international affairs. He won the Japan Press Award, known as Japan’s “Pulitzer Prize,” in 1994 for his columns on foreign policy, and his articles in Foreign Affairs and Foreign Policy won the Ishibashi Tanzan Prize in 1992. Dr. Funabashi received his B.A. from the University of Tokyo and his Ph.D. from Keio University. He was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University (1975-76), a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for International Economics (1987), and a Donald Keene Fellow at Columbia University (2003). His books in English include Reconciliation in the Asia-Pacific (Editor, 2003), Alliance Tomorrow (Editor, 2001), and Alliance Adrift (1998), which won the Shincho Arts and Sciences Award.

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About the Discussants

Dr. Michael Green is Senior Adviser and Japan Chair at CSIS, as well as an Associate Professor of International Relations at Georgetown University. He served as Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and Senior Director for Asian Affairs at the National Security Council (NSC) from January 2004 to December 2005. He joined the NSC in April 2001 as Director of Asian Affairs with responsibility for Japan, Korea and Australia/New Zealand. Previously he was Senior Fellow for Asian Security at the Council on Foreign Relations, Senior Adviser to the Office of Asia Pacific Affairs at the Department of Defense, Research Staff Member at the Institute for Defense Analyses, and Assistant Professor of Asian Studies at SAIS. Dr. Green speaks fluent Japanese and spent over five years in Japan working as a staff member of the National Diet and as a journalist for Japanese and American newspapers. He received his B.A. from Kenyon College and his Ph.D. from SAIS. His major publications include Japan’s Reluctant Realism (2001), The U.S.-Japan Alliance (1999), and Arming Japan (1995).

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