Hitoshi Tanaka is Senior Fellow at the Japan Center for International Exchange and was Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan until August 2005. He has also been a visiting professor at the Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Tokyo, since April 2006. He had previously been Director-General of the Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau (2001–02) and the Economic Affairs Bureau (2000–01); Consul-General in San Francisco (1998–2000); and Deputy Director-General of the North American Affairs Bureau (1996–98). He was Director for Policy Coordination of the Foreign Policy Bureau, Political Minister at the Japanese Embassy in London (1990–93), a research associate at the IISS, London (1989–90), Director for North East Asian Affairs (1987–89), and Director for North American Affairs (1985–87). He has a B.A. in law from Kyoto University and B.A./M.A. in PPE from Oxford University. Mr. Tanaka has contributed many articles to publications including GAIKO Forum, Bungei Shunju, Gendai, and various newspapers. His latest publication is Kokka to gaiko [The Nation and Diplomacy] (2005).

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About the Discussants

Mike M. Mochizuki is Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at The George Washington University. He holds the Elliott School's endowed chair in Japan-U.S. relations in memory of Gaston Sigur. Previously, Dr. Mochizuki was at the Brookings Institution where he was a senior fellow. Before that he was with RAND where he served as co-director of the Center for Asia-Pacific Policy. He has taught at the University of Southern California and at Yale University. He received his Ph.D. in political science from Harvard University. His most recent publications include "Japan: Between Alliance and Autonomy;" "Strategic Thinking under Bush and Koizumi: Implications for the U.S.-Japan Alliance;" "Terms of Engagement: the U.S.-Japan Alliance and the Rise of China;" and Crisis on the Korean Peninsula: How to Deal with a Nuclear North Korea, co-authored with Michael O'Hanlon. He is now writing a book entitled The New Strategic Triangle: the U.S.-Japan Alliance and the Rise of China, and co-editing a volume entitled Japan in International Politics: the Foreign Policy of an Adaptive State.

Randall G. Schriver is a founding partner of Armitage International LLC and a Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Previously, he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs. Before that, he served for two years as Chief of Staff and Senior Policy Advisor to Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage. He has worked as a civil servant in the Department of Defense on East Asian affairs, and was a Navy Intelligence Officer for nearly eleven years. His political experience includes service on the Bush-Cheney Defense Transition Team, and work on the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign as a member of the Asia Policy Team. He holds a master’s degree in public policy from Harvard University.

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