150 Years of Amity & 50 Years of Alliance

This two-day conference, hosted in partnership with the Nippon Foundation, the Sasakawa Peace Foundation, and the Ocean Policy Research Foundation, brought together leading American and Japanese policymakers and experts to discuss the military, economic, political, and strategic elements of a 21st century alliance, and featured a keynote address by Akihisa Nagashima, Japan’s Parliamentary Vice Minister of Defense.

June 17: Day One
Location: Willard Room

Introduction and Welcoming Remarks | Session 1 | Keynote Addresses | Session 2

June 18: Day Two
Location: The Grand Ballroom

Registration | Introduction and Welcoming Remarks | Session 1 | Session 2| Session 3 | Session 4 | Closing Remarks

JUNE 17  DAY ONE

 

1:30-2:00  PM - INTRODUCTION AND WELCOMING REMARKS

Nathaniel Fick
Chief Executive Officer, CNAS

Yohei Sasakawa
Chairman, The Nippon Foundation

2:00-3:30 PM - SESSION 1: THE U.S.-JAPAN ALLIANCE: PRESENT AND FUTURE

Naoyuki Agawa (Moderator)
Vice President, Keio University

Kazuya Sakamoto
Professor, Faculty of Law, Osaka University

Yoichi Funabashi
Editor-in-Chief, Asahi Shimbun

Richard Armitage
Former Deputy Secretary of State
Member, CNAS Board of Directors

Joseph Nye
University Distinguished Service Professor, Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government

3:45-4:45 PM - KEYNOTE ADDRESSES

Patrick Cronin (Introduction)
Senior Advisor and Senior Director of the Asia Pacific Security Program, CNAS

Akihisa Nagashima
Parliamentary Vice Minister for Defense

                       
5:00-6:30 PM - SESSION 2: LOOKING BACK ON 150 YEARS OF U.S-JAPAN RELATIONS

Naoyuki Agawa (Moderator)
Vice President, Keio University

Akira Iriye
Professor Emeritus, Harvard University

Makoto Iokibe
President, National Defense Academy

Ronald H. Spector
Professor, The George Washington University

 

JUNE 18  DAY TWO

8:30-9:00 AM - INTRODUCTION AND WELCOMING REMARKS

Nathaniel Fick
Chief Executive Officer, CNAS

Shinichi Kitaoka
Professor, Graduate School of Law and Politics, University of Tokyo

9:00-11:00 AM - SESSION 1: COOPERATION IN THE GLOBAL COMMONS

Abraham M. Denmark (Moderator)
Fellow, CNAS

Masakazu Toyoda
Secretary General, Secretariat of Headquarters for Space Policy; Former Vice-Minister for International Affairs, METI

Vice Admiral (Ret.) Hideaki Kaneda
Director, Okazaki Institute
    
Robert Kaplan
Senior Fellow, CNAS

11:15-1:00 PM - SESSION 2: THE U.S.-JAPAN ALLIANCE AND THE REGIONAL SECURITY ARCHITECTURE

Victor Cha (Moderator)
Senior Advisor and Korea Chair, CSIS

Hitoshi Tanaka
Senior Fellow, Japan Center for International Exchange

Yoshihide Soeya
Professor , Faculty of Law, Keio University

G. John Ikenberry
Professor, Princeton University

Daniel Twining
Senior Fellow, German Marshall Fund
            

2:30-4:30 PM - SESSION 3: TRADE, ECONOMICS, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Motoshige Ito (Moderator)
Professor of Faculty of Economics, The University of Tokyo

Yoshimasa Hayashi
Former Minister of Defense and State of Economic and Fiscal Policy

Hiroshi Komiyama
Chairman of the Institute, Mitsubishi Research Institute

Charles Vest
President Emeritus, MIT

Ira Shapiro
Shareholder, Greenberg Traurig

4:45-6:45 PM - SESSION 4: TRADITIONAL SECURITY AND GLOBAL ISSUES FOR THE ALLIANCE
            
Yukio Satoh (Moderator)
Vice Chairman, Japan Institute for International Affairs

Nobushige Takamizawa
Director General, Bureau of Defense Policy, Ministry of Defense
                        
Koji Murata
Professor of Political Science, Doshisha University

Mike Green
Senior Advisor and Japan Chair, CSIS

Patrick Cronin
Senior Advisor and Senior Director of the Asia Pacific Security Program, CNAS

6:45-7:15 PM - CLOSING REMARKS

Nathaniel Fick
Chief Executive Officer, CNAS

Masahiro Akiyama
Chairman, Ocean Policy Research Foundation