On April 7, 2011, JCIE and the US-Japan Council co-sponsored a roundtable on Capitol Hill with US Congressional members and experts on US-Japan relations. This was organized as a follow-up to the February 22 New Shimoda Conference organized by JCIE, which convened top leaders from Japan and the United States in Tokyo. Discussions centered on how to strengthen US-Japan relations in order to meet future challenges and how to create a more robust and meaningful partnership between the two countries.
The devastating Japanese earthquake and tsunami, occurring just 17 days after the Shimoda Conference, only further reaffirmed the critical importance of efforts to reinvigorate US-Japanese dialogue and cooperation. The April 7 roundtable participants, including several US and Japanese leaders who attended the Shimoda Conference, shared some key findings from the conference and exchanged views on how to best move forward with these recommendations in light of the widespread changes to Japan and its relations with the rest of the world brought about by the recent disaster.
Opening Remarks
Irene Hirano Inouye, President, U.S.-Japan Council
Tadashi Yamamoto, President, JCIE
Comments
HE Ichiro Fujisaki, Ambassador of Japan to the United States
Future Priorities for U.S.-Japan Partnership
Kent Calder, Director, Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies
Reflections on U.S.-Japan Relations
Participating Congressional Members, including:
Hon. Daniel Inouye, Member, US Senate
Hon. Diana DeGette, Member, U.S. House of Representatives
Hon. Tom Petri, Member, U.S. House of Representatives
Hon. Susan Davis, Member, US House of Representatives
Hon. Mazie Hirono, Member, U.S. House of Representatives
Hon. Greg Walden, Member, U.S. House of Representatives
Hon. Jim McDermott, Member, U.S. House of Representative
Roundtable Discussion
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Kent Calder |
Director, Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies, School of Advanced International Studies |
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Raelyn Campbell |
Senior Program Officer, Asia-Pacific Region, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation |
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Patrick Cronin |
Senior Advisor & Senior Director, Asia Program, Center for a New American Security |
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Susan Davis |
Member, US House of Representatives |
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Diana DeGette |
Member, US House of Representatives |
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Abe Denmark |
Fellow, Center for a New American Security |
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Gordon Flake |
Executive Director, Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation |
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Ellen Frost |
Visiting Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics |
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Ichiro Fujisaki |
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to the United States of America |
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James Gannon |
Executive Director, JCIE/USA |
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Carl Green |
Senior Advisor, Hitachi Corporation |
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Morton Halperin |
Senior Advisor, Open Society Institute |
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Irene Hirano Inouye |
President, US-Japan Council |
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Mazie Hirono |
Member, US House of Representatives |
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Susan Hubbard |
Senior Associate, JCIE/USA |
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Daniel Inouye |
Member, US Senate; Chairman, Senate Appropriations Committee |
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Hideko Katsumata |
Managing Director and Executive Secretary, JCIE |
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Peter Kelley |
President, National Association of Japan America Societies |
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Dan Kliman |
Visiting Fellow, Center for a New American Security |
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Christopher LaFleur |
Vice Chairman, J.P. Morgan Securities Japan; former US Ambassador to Malaysia |
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Charles Lake |
Chairman, Aflac Japan |
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Mark Manyin |
Analyst in Asian Affairs, Congressional Research Service |
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Jim McDermott |
Member, US House of Representatives |
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Masashi Nishihara |
President, Research Institute for Peace and Security |
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Thomas Petri |
Member, US House of Representatives |
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Amy Searight |
Senior Policy Advisor, Asia Bureau, US Agency for International Development |
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Yuka Uchida |
Former Political Secretary to the Minister for Foreign Affairs |
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Greg Walden |
Member, US House of Representatives |
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Barbara Wanner |
Director, Senior Project Coordinator, US Asia Pacific Council/East-West Center |
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Taizo Yakushiji |
Research Counselor, Institute for International Policy Studies; Visiting Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies; Professor Emeritus, Keio University |
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Tadashi Yamamoto |
President, JCIE |
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Nobuaki Yasunaga |
Manager, US-Japan Research Institute |
About the Shimoda Conference
In 1967, the initial Shimoda Conference brought together top Japanese and American leaders from different walks of life for the first high-level policy dialogue between the two countries. Headlined by Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield and including emerging Japanese leaders such as future Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, it was the first dialogue to bring together American and Japanese leaders from politics, government, business, and academia for high-level policy discussions.
