An Alliance of Maritime Nations:
The United States and Japan
Friday, April 17th, 2009
8:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
lunch will be served
Willard Intercontinental Hotel Ballroom
1401 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington DC 20004
Keynote Address:
Shinzo Abe was the 90th Prime Minister of Japan, the youngest in the postwar era. He is currently a Member of the House of Representatives. He was born into a distinguished political family. His father is Shintaro Abe, former secretary-general of the Liberal Democratic Party, and his grandfather is former Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi. He has served as executive assistant to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, private secretary to the chairperson of the LDP General Council, and then as private secretary to the LDP secretary-general. After his father's death in 1991, Mr. Abe established a network of supporters, and in 1993, Mr. Abe received the highest vote count in the Yamaguchi 1st District in his first run for the House of Representatives. He was appointed to the House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs, and also served as director of the LDP Social Affairs Division, where he focused on the pension and social security systems. He served as deputy chief cabinet secretary from 2000 to 2003 in the Mori and Koizumi Cabinets, and was then appointed Secretary General of the LDP. He became Chief Cabinet Secretary in 2005, and was Prime Minister from September 2006 until September 2007. Following graduation from the Department of Political Science of the Faculty of Law at Seikei University in 1977, Mr. Abe studied at the University of Southern California for two years. He is the author of “Utsukushii kuni e” (Toward a Beautiful Nation).
Panelists:
Masahiro Akiyama is chairman of the Ocean Policy Research Foundation. Mr. Akiyama joined the Ministry of Finance (MOF) in 1964. While at MOF, he was in charge of budgetary planning and banking administration. In 1991, Mr. Akiyama was transferred to the Japan Defense Agency, and promoted successively to director general of Defense Bureau and vice minister of National Defense. During the 1990s, he played pivotal roles in such assignments as the reaffirmation of the Japan-U.S. alliance in the post-Cold War years; the formulation of the National Defense Program Outline; the review of Japan-U.S. Defense Cooperation, and the realignment of U.S. military bases in Okinawa. Mr. Akiyama retired from JDA in 1998. From 1999-2001, he was a visiting fellow at Harvard University researching the Japan-U.S. alliance and maritime security issues. In 2001, Mr. Akiyama became chairman of Ocean Policy Research Foundation, and has since been at the vanguard of the foundation’s research efforts on a broad range of ocean-related issues. His foundation contributed to the enactment in 2007 of “The Basic Ocean Law,” – the first comprehensive ocean-related law ever enacted in Japan. He graduated from Tokyo University with a Bachelor of Law in March 1964.
Naoyuki Agawa is a professor at Keio University. He began his career with the Sony Corporation in Tokyo, and worked on international trade and copyright law matters. After law school, he joined the law firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in 1987 and worked for its Washington, D.C. and Tokyo offices through 1995. He is licensed to practice law in New York and Washington, D.C. Continuing to practice law with the firm of Nishimura & Partners in Tokyo, Mr. Agawa joined Keio University as professor at its SFC campus in 1999, teaching American constitutional law and history. He was appointed Minister for Public Affairs at the Embassy of Japan in Washington, D.C. in August 2002 and served there until he returned to Keio in April 2005. He was elected and served first as acting Dean and then as Dean of the Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University, since February 2007. Mr. Agawa has also taught Japanese and U.S. constitutional law and history at the University of Virginia School of Law, Georgetown University Law Center, Elon University School of Law, Doshisha University, and Tokyo University. He graduated magna cum laude from the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, in 1977 after transferring from Keio University in 1975. He graduated from the Georgetown University Law Center in 1984. Mr. Agawa received the Yomiuri-Yoshino Sakuzo Award in 2005. He has written numerous books, and is a frequent contributor to such newspapers as Sankei, Yomiuri and Mainichi, and journals including Chuo Koron, and Bungei Shunju.
Ralph Cossa is president of the Pacific Forum CSIS in Honolulu, Hawaii. He is also senior editor of the Forum’s quarterly electronic journal, Comparative Connections. Mr. Cossa is a board member of the Council on U.S.-Korean Security Studies and the National Committee on U.S.- China Relations, as well as a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies and the ASEAN Regional Forum Experts and Eminent Persons Group. He is a founding member and current international co-chair of the Steering Committee of the multinational Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP). He is a political/military affairs and national security specialist with more than 30 years of experience in formulating, articulating, and implementing U.S. security policy in the Asia-Pacific and Near East–South Asia regions. Cossa served in the U.S. Air Force from 1966 to 1993, achieving the rank of colonel and last serving as special assistant to the commander in chief, U.S. Pacific Command. He served as deputy director for strategic studies at the National Defense University’s Institute for National Strategic Studies and earlier as a national security affairs fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Cossa holds a B.A. in international relations from Syracuse University, an M.B.A. from Pepperdine University, and an M.S. in strategic studies from the Defense Intelligence College. He writes a regular column for the Japan Times and Korea Times and is a frequent contributor to the International Herald Tribune and other regional newspapers and periodicals.
Michael Green is a senior adviser and holds the Japan Chair at CSIS, as well as being 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. From 1997 to 2000, he was senior fellow for Asian security at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he directed the Independent Task Force on Korea and study groups on Japan and security policy in Asia. He served as senior adviser in the Office of Asian and Pacific Affairs at the Department of Defense in 1997 and as consultant to the same office until 2000. From 1995 to 1997, he was a research staff member at the Institute for Defense Analyses, and from 1994 to 1995, he was an assistant professor of Asian studies at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), where he remained a professorial lecturer until 2001. Green speaks fluent Japanese and spent over five years in Japan working as a staff member of the National Diet, as a journalist for Japanese and American newspapers, and as a consultant for U.S. business. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, The International Institute for Strategic Studies, and the Aspen Strategy Group and is vice chair of the congressionally mandated Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission. He serves on the advisory boards of the Center for a New American Security and Australian American Leadership Dialogue. He graduated from Kenyon College with highest honors in history in 1983 and received his M.A. from Johns Hopkins SAIS in 1987 and his Ph.D. in 1994. He also did graduate work at Tokyo University as a Fulbright fellow and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a research associate of the MIT-Japan Program.
Yoshimasa Hayashi is a member of the Japanese House of Councillors. He comes from a long line of politicians, and has served as Minister of Defence, State Secretary for Finance, and Senior Vice Minister for the Cabinet Office. In the House of Councillors, he was director of the Special Committee on Revitalization of the Economy and Matters relating to Small and Medium Enterprises, Standing Committee on Budget, Standing Committee on Financial Affairs, and Committee on Rules and Administration. He has also been chairman of the Special Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defense and the Special Committee on Official Development Assistance and Related Matters. Within the Liberal Democratic Party in the House of Councillors, Mr. Hayashi has been Deputy Secretary General and Deputy Director of the International Bureau. Within the Liberal Democratic Party, he was deputy chairman of the Policy Research Council from 2003-2008. He holds a B.L. from the University of Tokyo and a Master of Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
James A. Kelly is President of EAP Associates, LLC of Honolulu, performing international business consulting services for selected international clients. From May 1, 2001 to Jan. 31, 2005 Kelly served as U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs. Kelly led the U.S. delegation to the initial three sessions (2003/2004) of the Six Party Talks. From 1994-2001, Mr. Kelly was President of the Pacific Forum CSIS. From 1989 to 1994, Mr. Kelly was President of EAP Associates, Inc. From 1986-1989 Kelly served at the White House in Washington as Special Assistant for National Security Affairs to President Ronald Reagan, and as Senior Director for Asian Affairs, National Security Council. From 1983 to 1986, Mr. Kelly was at the Pentagon as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs (East Asia and Pacific). Kelly is now a member of the Advisory Board of Marvin & Palmer, Inc. of Wilmington, Delaware. He is also Counselor and holder of the Scowcroft Chair at Pacific Forum, Senior Adviser to CSIS, Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Center for Naval Analyses, Advisory Council member of the Korea Economic Institute and a Trustee of The Asia Foundation. James A. Kelly earned a M.B.A. from the School of Business Administration, Harvard University, in 1968. He is also a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy (B.S., 1959) and the National War College (1977). He served in the U.S. Navy from 1959 to 1982, concluding his active duty as a Captain, Supply Corps.
Koji Murata is a professor of political science, Doshisha University, Kyoto. Dr. Murata has received various awards: the Suntory Academic Award; the Yoshida Shigeru Award; the Shimizu Hiroshi Award from Japan Association for American Studies; and the Yomiuri Merit Award for New Opinion Leadership. Professor Murata’s specialties include the history of U.S.- Japan alliance, U.S. foreign policy towards East Asia, and Japan’s foreign and defense policy. Professor Murata holds his B.A. in Political Science from Doshisha University, his M.A. and Ph.D in Political Science from Kobe University. Dr. Murata also obtained his M. Phil. in Political Science from the George Washington University, where he studied as a Fulbright student. Dr. Murata has published many books in Japanese and articles and chapters both in Japanese and English. He is a frequent contributor for Japanese newspapers and magazines, and a frequent commentator on TVs.
Shotaro Yachi is a Special Envoy of the Government of Japan with the title of Ambassador, and a visiting professor at Waseda University. He was formerly Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs. He entered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1987, and held the following positions: Counselor, Embassy of Japan to the United States; Consul General, Consulate-General of Japan in Los Angeles; Director-General, Treaties Bureau; Director-General, Foreign Policy Bureau; Assistant Chief Cabinet Secretary. He retired from MOFA in 2008. Mr. Yachi holds a Master’s Degree from the University of Tokyo Graduate Schools for Law and Politics.
Shunji Yanai is a judge at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea. He is also advisor to the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Daiichi Hoki Inc. He is director at Mitsubishi Electric Corporation and Proudfoot Japan Inc. and is a professor at Waseda University. The following are positions he held: 2004-2007 Professor, Chuo University Law School, Tokyo; 2003-2007 Visiting Professor, Waseda University, Tokyo; 2002-2007 Professor, Faculty of Law, Chuo University, Tokyo; 1999-2001 Ambassador of Japan to the United States of America; 1997-1999 Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs; 1995-1997 Deputy-Minister for Foreign Affairs; 1993-1995 Director-General of the Foreign Policy Bureau; 1992-1993 Executive-Secretary, Prime Minister’s PKO Office; 1990-1992 Director-General of the Treaties Bureau; 1988-1990 Consul-General of Japan in San Francisco; 1961-1987 The Embassy of Japan in France, the Economic Affairs Bureau of the; Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA), the Treaties Bureau (MOFA), the Permanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations, the Embassy of Japan in Indonesia, the Treaties Bureau(MOFA), the Embassy of Japan in the Republic of Korea. Mr. Yanai holds a LL.B, Faculty of Law at the University of Tokyo.
Luncheon Address:
William Douglas Crowder is a Vice Admiral in the U.S. Navy, and became the deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Operations, Plans, and Strategy) on Aug. 4, 2008. At sea, he has served in numerous ships in both Pacific and Atlantic Fleets. He commanded USS Kidd (DDG 993) from 1992-1994, operating in both the Pacific and Atlantic, winning the Battle Efficiency “E” Award. In 1998-1999 he commanded Destroyer Squadron 24, deploying to the Mediterranean as part of the John F. Kennedy Battle Group. As a flag officer, he commanded Carrier Strike Group 9/Abraham Lincoln Strike Group from July 2004 to August 2005, deploying to the Western Pacific. He also served as commander, Combined Support Group Indonesia, as part of Operation Unified Assistance (tsunami relief effort). Crowder commanded the U.S. 7th Fleet from September 2006 to July 2008. Ashore, Crowder has served a number of tours in the Pentagon including as executive assistant to the Vice Chief of Naval Operations. He also served as executive assistant and Senior Naval Aide to the Commander-in-Chief U.S. Pacific Fleet. His flag assignments ashore include: director, Operations, Plans and Political Military Affairs Division (N31/N52) from September 2001 to October 2002; director, Deep Blue, the Navy Operations Group, from August 2002 to May 2004; and as the assistant deputy CNO for Plans, Policy and Operations from August 2005 to August 2006, all on the staff of the Chief of Naval Operations. He attended the U.S. Naval Academy, graduating in 1974. In 1980, he was selected as an Olmsted Scholar and studied European Economic and Political Affairs at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, from 1980-82. In November 1982, he was awarded the Jean Monnet Medal for Leadership by the President of the French Senate in Paris. In July 2008, he was awarded the Order of the National Security Merit Guksen medal by the President of the Republic of Korea, and the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star Medal by the Emperor of Japan.
Summary
The United States and Japan should lead efforts in the maritime realm to protect the commons, create public goods, maintain peace, and encourage prosperity. This seminar comes out of a dialogue project organized by the Ocean Policy Research Foundation to strengthen the U.S.-Japan alliance by focusing on areas of maritime cooperation.