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

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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
Tomohiro Yara, Editorial Writer, Okinawa Times

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Amitav Acharya, Chairman, ASEAN Studies Center
Alice Ba, Director, East Asian Studies, University of Delaware
Mely Caballero-Anthony, Head, Centre for Non-Traditional Security Studies, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
Paul Evans, Director, Institute of Asian Research, University of British Columbia
Hiro Katsumata, Assistant Professor, Waseda University
Satu Limaye, Director, East-West Center in Washington
Scot Marciel, Deputy Assistant Secretary, East Asia and Pacific Bureau, U.S. Department of State
Surin Pitsuwan, Secretary-General, Association of Southeast Asian Nations

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Kurt Campbell, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, U.S. Department of State

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David Steinberg, Distinguished Professor, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

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Sheila Smith, Senior Fellow, Japan Studies and Director, New Regional Security Architecture for Asia, Council of Foreign Relations

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Priscilla Clapp, Former U.S. Charge/Yangon
David Dapice, Professor, Tufts University
GUO Xiaolin, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Security and Development Policy
Gurmeet Kanwal, Director, Centre for Land Warfare Studies
Jurgen Haacke, Senior Lecturer, London School of Economics
Khin Zaw Win, NGO leader, Yangon
Toshihiro Kudo, Director, Southeast Asian Studies Group II, Institute of Developing Economies
Scot Marciel, Deputy Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of State
Andrew Selth, Research Fellow, Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University
Tin Maung Maung Than, Senior Fellow, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
William Wise, Associate Director of Southeast Asia Studies, Johns Hopkins University - SAIS
Zhai Kun, Director, Institute of South and Southeast Asian Studies, CICIR, Beijing

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Akihiro Iwashita, Director, Slavic Research Center
Nobumasa Akiyama, Associate Professor, Hitotsubashi University

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Richard Katz, Editor in Chief, Oriental Economist

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Professor Gerald Curtis, Professor, Columbia University

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The Honorable Shinzo Abe, former Prime Minister of Japan, Member, House of Representatives
Masahiro Akiyama, Chairman, OPRF
Naoyuki Agawa, Professor and Dean, Keio University
Ralph Cossa, President, Pacific Forum CSIS
Vice Admiral William Douglas Crowder, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations
Michael Green, Japan Chair, CSIS
The Honorable Yoshimasa Hayashi, Member, House of Councilors of Japan
James A. Kelly, President, EAP Associates; Former Assistant Secretary of State
Koji Murata, Professor, Doshisha University
Shotaro Yachi, Special Envoy of the Government of Japan
Shunji Yanai, Judge, International Tribunal of the Law of the Sea

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Bambang Harymurti, Editor-in-Chief, Tempo (Indonesia)
Kavi Chongkittavorn, Executive Editor, The Nation (Thailand)
Yuli Ismartono, Executive Editor, Tempo

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Yoshinobu Higurashi, Professor, Kagoshima University
Yuma Totani, Assistant Professor, University of Hawai’i

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Takashi Inoguchi, Professor, Chuo University
President-elect, University of Niigata Prefecture

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Zhu Feng, Professor, School of International Studies Deputy Director, Center for International and Strategic Studies, Peking University

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Yoshihide Soeya, Professor of Political Science, Director, Institute of East Asian Studies, Keio University

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Myint Zan, Senior Lecturer, School of Law, Multimedia University, Malaysia

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Young Jong CHOI, Associate Professor of International Relations, The Catholic University of Korea

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BU Ping, Dean, Center for Modern History, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Kawashima Shin, Associate Professor, University of Tokyo
LIM Jie-hyun, Professor, Hanyang University, ROK
Mitani Hiroshi, Professor, University of Tokyo
Daqing YANG, Associate Professor, George Washington University

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