Asian Voices Seminar Series

Fiscal Year 2010
[April, 2010 - March, 2011]

150 Years of Amity and 50 Years of Alliance

June 17-18th, 2010

The Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA, the Nippon Foundation, the Ocean Policy Research Foundation and the Center for a New American Security present a two-day symposium celebrating the U.S.-Japan alliance:

Adopting an Enhanced Agenda for the U.S.-Japan Partnership

Keynote Speaker
Akihisa Nagashima, Japan's Parliamentary Vice Minister of Defense

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, CSIS
Patrick Cronin
, Senior Advisor, CNAS
Abraham Denmark, Fellow, CNAS
Nathaniel Fick, CEO, CNAS
Yoichi Funabashi, Editor-in-Chief, Asahi Shimbun
Michael Green, Japan Chair, CSIS
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
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, MIT

Thursday, June 17th, 2010
1:30pm - 6:30pm 

Friday, June 18th, 2010
8:30am - 7:30pm



Willard InterContinental Hotel
1401 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW

A detailed agenda is available here.

 

 

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