East Asia

Program Events

• US-Japan Defense Cooperation and the New US Defense Strategy

  US-Japan Defense Cooperation and the New US Defense Strategy

  Featuring
  Col. Masahito Yajima (JASDF)
  Col. Koichi Ikeda (JGSDF)

  Click here to view the event PowerPoint

  In 2012, the

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• Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s “Revenge”: Priorities and Challenges for Japan’s New Government

  Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s “Revenge”: Priorities and Challenges for Japan’s New Government from Stimson Center on Vimeo.

  On December 26, 2012, Shinzo Abe, who became the prime

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• Pax Mercatoria in the Taiwan Strait?

  Stimson invites you to attend a roundtable discussion:

  Pax Mercatoria in the Taiwan Strait?

  Featuring
  Dr. Ho Szu-yin
  Professor, Tamkang University

  Friday, January 18, 2013
  10:30 AM

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• Publication Launch - Across the Taiwan Strait: From Confrontation to Cooperation, 2006–2012

   

  Stimson invites you to our new publication launch
   
  Across the Taiwan Strait:
  From Confrontation to Cooperation, 2006-2012
   
  Featuring
   Alan D. Romberg
  Distinguished Fellow and

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• Coping with Defense in an Era of Tight Budgets

   

  The Henry L. Stimson Center presented:
  

  Coping with Defense in an Era of Tight Budgets
  

  Featuring

  Andrew Nien-Dzu Yang

  Vice Minister of National Defense for Policy

  Taiwan

   

  Coping

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• U.S.-PRC Trade Webs: TPP vs. China-Japan-Korea FTA―Implications for Taiwan

   

  The Henry L. Stimson Center presents a roundtable discussion:

  U.S.-PRC Trade Webs:
  TPP vs. China-Japan-Korea FTA-Implications for Taiwan

  Featuring

  Dr. Chen-Dong Tso

  Stimson Center

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• U.S.-Taiwan Relations: Looking Ahead

   

  The Henry L. Stimson Center presents a roundtable discussion:

  U.S.-Taiwan Relations: Looking Ahead

  Featuring

  Ambassador Raymond Burghardt
  Chairman, American Institute in Taiwan

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• One Year After The Tsunami: A Report From Tohoku

  
  

  ONE YEAR AFTER TSUNAMI: A REPORT FROM TOHOKU

  (click here for the powerpoint presentation)

  Dr. Andrew Oros and a group of his students from his political science class traveled to the

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• Discussion on the Future of Japan’s Defense Posture

  
  

  The Stimson Center presents

  A Discussion on the Future of Japan's Defense Posture

  featuring:

  Col. Koji Imaki, Visiting Fellow, Stimson Center (JASDF)
  "Evolving Issues with Japan-U.S.

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• Pub Launch - New Nuclear Agenda: Prospects for US-Japan Cooperation

  New Nuclear Agenda: Prospects for US-Japan Cooperation

  The accident at the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Station demonstrated quite dramatically the national security risk that

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• Public Opinion Polls as a Political Institution in Taiwan and the Upcoming Presidential Election

   

  The Henry L. Stimson Center cordially invites you to a roundtable discussion:

       Public Opinion Polls as a Political Institution in Taiwan
  and the Upcoming Presidential Election

   

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• The Rise of China and Taiwan’s Response: Implications for the United States

   

  The Henry L. Stimson Center cordially invites you to a roundtable discussion:

  The Rise of China and Taiwan's Response:
  Implications for the United States

  Featuring
  
  Dr. Ger Yeong-kuang … Read More »

• China and the South China Sea

  Zhang Zhexin, professor at the Institute for Taiwan, Hong Kong & Macao Studies, will discuss his perspective on China and its role in South China Sea disputes.

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• The US-Japan Alliance after 3-11

  

   

  Present:

   

   

  The US-Japan Alliance after 3-11

   

   Date and Time:
  Wednesday, September 7, 2011
  3:00pm - 5:30pm

  Willard Intercontinental Hotel

  1401 Pennsylvania Ave, NW, Washington, D.C.

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• The US-Japan Alliance after the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake

  This event has reached capacity, and we can no longer accept reservations.

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• China: A European Expert’s Perspective

  Francois Godement, a French historian and specialist of China and international relations in East Asia, will discuss his perspective on China.

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• The Great Eastern Japan Earthquake and the US-Japan Alliance: preliminary assessment

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• Seminar with Taipei Mayor Hau Lung-bin

  Hau Lung-bin, the mayor of Taipei, will discuss about recent developments in cross-Strait relations with a focus on city-to-city ties.

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• The Japanese Experience of Hansen’s Disease Management: Lessons Learned for Public Health Policy

  Please join the Stimson Global Health Security Program for a discussion on:

  The Japanese Experience of Hansen's Disease Management: Lessons Learned for Public Health Policy

  With:

  Eriko

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• The Future of Trans-Pacific Airpower Interoperability

  Featuring

  Colonel Hiroaki Uchikura

  International Security Fellow

  21^st Century Defense Initiative at the Brookings Institution

  Japan Air Self -Defense Force

   on 

  Monday, June 14, 2010

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• US-Japan Alliance at 50: Toward a Reenergized Partnership

  Introduction

  This year marks the 50^th anniversary of the US-Japan Mutual Security Treaty.  The US-Japan Alliance at 50: Toward a Reenergized Partnership program will assess the current

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• Japan’s Air Defense Capabilities for the New Decade - The “CHANGE” for the Success

  With the evolving strategic environment abroad and the considerable political changes at home, Japan faces a significant challenge in rethinking its defense policy priorities,

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• Fragile Partnership: Taiwan’s Pol-Mil Relations, 2000-2008

  Illustrated by five major encounters between the civilian and senior military officer during 2000-2008 -- including the initiation of doctrinal innovation (2000), implementation of the

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• Balancing Act - Upholding the Legitimacy of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime

  The Stimson Center hosted a public panel discussion on "Balancing Act - Upholding the Legitimacy of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime, Maintaining the Credibility of the Deterrence

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• US-Japan Alliance: Past, Present and Future

   

  The US-Japan alliance has undergone a great deal of evolution since 1996. The revision of the US-Japan Guideline for Defense Cooperation was a critical part of the alliance in the

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• Future Defense Exchange and Security Dialogue between Japan and GCC Countries

  For the last several years, JSDF operations in Indian Ocean and Iraq have dominated the discussion of Japan's security role in the world. However, when it comes to the activities in

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• The New Paradigm in the Taiwan Strait and the Obama Administration

  Substantial progress has taken place in cross-Strait economic relations and in reducing military tensions since Ma Ying-jeou took office in Taipei last May. While adhering to their

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• The United States and Japan: Working Together on Global Challenges

  With generous support from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Japan, Stimson hosted a symposium entitled "The United States and Japan: Working Together on Global Challenges" on March

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• Okinawa in the US-Japan Alliance in the 21st Century
  In the history of the US-Japan alliance, Okinawa has always loomed large as a challenge for both US and Japanese alliance managers.  At this all-day conference, a group of

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• The Dragon’s Shadow: The Rise of China and Japan’s New Nationalism

  Benjamin Self returned to the Stimson Center on December 19th to speak upon the launch of his new publication: The Dragon’s Shadow: The Rise of China and Japan’s New Nationalism. Also

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• Japan’s Defense Against Ballistic Weapons: Is Enemy Attack Capability Necessary?
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• US Policy Toward Korean Peninsula (invitation-only)

  Don Oberdorfer (Director, US-Korea Institute at SAIS) will discuss the issues salient to US policy toward the Korean Peninsula.

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• Maritime Dimensions of the Asia-Pacific Security (invitation-only)

  Gary Roughead (Commander, US Pacific Fleet) shared the efforts by the US Navy to maintain the stability in the Asia-Pacific region.

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• China and Japan National Security: A Japanese Perspective

  Dr. Yasuhiro Matsuda, the 2006 Joji Konoshima Distinguished Scholar at the US-Asia Institute, discusses the rise of China as perceived through a Japanese lens.  Japan plays a

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• North Korea: An NGO’s Perspective

  Steve Linton, head of the Eugene Bell Foundation, discussed the foundation’s recent work in the DPRK. The Eugene Bell Foundation raises funds to help fight tuberculosis in North Korea,

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• Workshop on Japan and East Asian Integration with Kenneth Pyle and Richard Cronin

  Stimson Center and US State Department Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR) co-hosts a Workshop on Japan and East Asian Integration with Kenneth Pyle and Richard Cronin

  On April

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• Introduction to the People’s Liberaltion Army: PLA 101 (invitation-only)

  Ken Allen, a senior analyst of the Center for Naval Analyses (CNA) will discuss recent developments in the People's Liberation Army (PLA).

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• China and Internet Security

  Andrew McLaughlin, Senior Policy Counsel for Google, discusses China's efforts to control the internet. China has developed one of the most sophisticated efforts to filter and regulate

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• “Jointness” of the Japan Self-Defense Forces: Lessons from American Experience

  Col. Koki Kaida (Visiting Fellow, The Henry L. Stimson Center) will present the results of his research during his fellowship.

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• Vietnam-China-United States Trilateral Dialogue in Nha Trang, Vietnam

  Stimson Center Senior Associates Alan Romberg and Richard Cronin participated as members of the American delegation to a Vietnam-China-United States Trilateral Dialogue, organized by

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• Nationalism or realism?: Japan’s new leaders’ view toward China (invitation only)

  Mr. Tsuneo "Nabe" Watanabe (Senior Fellow, Mitsui Global Strategic Studies Institute) shares his observation on Japanese political leaders' view toward China in this off-the-record,

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• Southeast Asia and ‘Rising’ China: A Political Economy Perspective on US Interests and Policies

  The Southeast Asia Project is sponsoring this invitation-only roundtable discussion to assess the nature and implications of the growing economic integration of the countries of the

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• Network-Centric Warfare: its implications for Japan’s defense posture

  Col. Yukiya Yamakura, Stimson Visiting Fellow from Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) will discuss the results of his research.

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• Future of the US-Japan naval cooperation in East Asia: its prospects and challenges (invitation only
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• The Politics of Yasukuni (invitation only)

  Mr. Tsuneo "Nabe" Watanabe will discuss developments within Japan surrounding Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visit to the Yasukuni Shrine.

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• Lessons of Iraq and the Future of the Japan Self-Defense Forces (invitation only)

  Col. Koichiro Bansho (Chief, Public Affairs Office, Japan Ground Self Defense Force) will discuss Japan's lessons from the JSDF dispatch to Iraq, and the future of Japan Self-Defense

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