Featured Speakers Riho Aizawa, Research Fellow, National Institute for Defense Studies Aizawa specializes in the U.S.-Japan security alliance and sea lanes in the Indo-Pacific region and the Arctic. She previously served as a Policy Research Fellow at …
Featured Speakers Ken Jimbo, Ph.D., Senior ResearchFellow, Canon Institute for Global Studies; Professor, Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University Yuki Tatsumi, Director, Japan Program; Co-Director, East Asia Program, Stimson
Published January 19, 2022 / Held January 27, 2022
Featured Speakers Kunihiko Miyake, Research Director, Canon Institute for Global Studies Kuni Miyake is the Research Director for Foreign and National Security Affairs at the Canon Institute for Global Studies (CIGS). Miyake joined the Ministry of Fore …
The Japan-Taiwan renaissance seen in 2021 may not last, but one element will certainly stay: the public acknowledgment that Taiwan and Japan’s security are linked.
In May 2020, more than 40 world leaders urged the UN to act against cyberattacks on healthcare, and some experts say cyberattacks on COVID-19 related health facilities could qualify under the criteria for ‘use of force.’ The stability of healthcare systems is threatened by the overwhelming pandemic, but a more harmful risk is manmade collapse through malicious actions: cyberattacks.
Featured Speakers Madoka Fukuda, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Global Politics, Hosei University Fukuda specializes in the PRC’s diplomacy and cross-Strait relations in the postwar years. She is the author of The PRC’s Diplomacy and Taiwan: The Origi …
With less than five months remaining until the scheduled opening of the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, Japanese Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide faces a monumental decision that could cost him his office: Should Japan hold the Olympics as scheduled, post …
Featuring VADM Scott Van Buskirk, Retired, USN; Former Commander, U.S. Navy 7th Fleet, Former Deputy Chief of Naval Operations/Chief of Naval Personnel VADM Scott Van Buskirk commanded U.S. 7th Fleet during Operation Tomodachi while deployed in Yokosuk …
Published November 18, 2020 / Held December 4, 2020
Speakers: Tobias Harris, Author, The Iconoclast: Shinzo Abe and the New Japan Tobias S. Harris is a Senior Vice President of the advisory firm Teneo, covering Japan and East Asia. He is the author of a newly published biography of Japan’s longest-servi …
Published September 14, 2020 / Held September 17, 2020
On Friday, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe expressed his intention to resign. Ulcerative colitis — an ailment that took him out of office when he first became prime minister more than a decade ago — has claimed his tenure once again, with Abe’s announcement …
Featured Speakers: Takahisa Kawaguchi, Senior Fellow, Tokio Marine & Nichido Risk Consulting Mr Kawaguchi is unable to travel and will join the event via video. Takahisa Kawaguchi is a Senior Fellow at Tokio Marine & Nichido Risk Consulting Co. …
Japan-South Korea relations are spiraling out of control. The bilateral relationship between Tokyo and Seoul, which has undergone numerous ups and downs since the two countries normalized ties in 1965, seems to have entered an unprecedented period of u …
NEW YORK, June 5 (UPI) — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe could be trying to please U.S. President Donald Trump with offers to meet with Kim Jong Un without preconditions, as he watches and learns from Trump’s exam …
The abduction issue (rachi mondai) has been a major constraint on Japan’s policy toward North Korea for the last several decades. In the 1970s, a number of Japanese citizens disappeared and it has long been suspected that they were abducted by Nor …
Relations between Japan and South Korea have descended to a new low. To be sure, the downward trend in Japan’s ties with its closest neighbor is not new: Even after the two countries first agreed on a “future-oriented relationship” when Prime Minister …
In 2004, Australia, India, Japan, and the U.S. worked together to respond to the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami. In 2007, these four countries formed the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue – the Quad – seeking to deepen their cooperation, only to disban …