Sasakawa USA’s Fifth Annual Security Forum took place at the Willard InterContinental in Washington, D.C. on May 2, 2018. This day-long conference brought together a range of experts from government, business, academia, and think tanks to discuss Asian security from the context of the U.S.-Japan alliance.

Topics covered included: North Korea’s diplomacy and its nuclear and missile programs, the results of Sasakawa USA’s recent U.S.-Japan-Korea trilateral table top exercise, Japan’s engagement with the regional and global security environment, Japan’s nuclear policy, the relationship between American and Japanese national defense policies, and U.S.-Japan cooperation in countering cyber threats.

View a recap of the Fifth Annual Security Forum on the Sasakawa USA blog. Click here for this year’s complete Fifth Annual Security Forum agenda. For more information on Sasakawa USA’s Annual Security Forum, visit the Annual Security Forums page.  Scroll down for video from the forum, in English and Japanese.

Videos (English)

4:57 – Welcoming Remarks by Ambassador James Zumwalt
7:55 – Opening Keynote Speech by Ambassador Shinsuke Sugiyama
43:23 – North Korea: Recent Developments
1:51:40 – Trilateral Cooperation in a North Korea Contingency: Results of a TTX

16:35 – Japan’s Increasing Regional and Global Security Engagement
1:20:37 – Keynote speech by Robert Work, former Deputy Secretary of Defense
1:41:45 – Defense Industrial Cooperation
2:35:23 – Japan’s Nuclear Security Policy
3:33:38 – The United States’ National Defense Strategy and Japan’s Defense Strategy
4:40:27 – U.S.-Japan Collaboration Countering the North Korean Cyber Threat
5:37:08 – Closing Keynote Speech by Admiral Dennis Blair

Videos (日本語)

3:15 – Welcoming Remarks by Ambassador James Zumwalt
6:13 – Opening Keynote Speech by Ambassador Shinsuke Sugiyama
41:40 – North Korea: Recent Developments
1:49:58 – Trilateral Cooperation in a North Korea Contingency: Results of a TTX

16:58 – Japan’s Increasing Regional and Global Security Engagement
1:20:59 – Keynote speech by Robert Work, former Deputy Secretary of Defense
1:42:07 – Defense Industrial Cooperation
2:35:45 – Japan’s Nuclear Security Policy
3:33:57 – The United States’ National Defense Strategy and Japan’s Defense Strategy
4:40:47 – U.S.-Japan Collaboration Countering the North Korean Cyber Threat
5:37:30 – Closing Keynote Speech by Admiral Dennis Blair

Panels

8:30 a.m. | Registration
9:00 a.m. | Key Issues in the Alliance
9:30 a.m.  | North Korea: Recent Developments
10:30 a.m.| Break
10:40 a.m. | Trilateral Cooperation in a North Korea Contingency: Results of a TTX
11:40 a.m. | Lunch starts
12:00 p.m. | Japan’s Increasing Regional and Global Security Engagement
1:00 p.m. | Keynote speech by Robert Work, former Deputy Secretary of Defense
1:20 p.m. | Defense Industrial Cooperation
2:00 p.m. | Break
2:10 p.m. | Japan’s Nuclear Security Policy
3:10 p.m. | The United States’ National Defense Strategy and Japan’s Defense Strategy
4:10 p.m. | Break
4:20 p.m. | U.S.-Japan Collaboration Countering the North Korean Cyber Threat
5:20 p.m. | Closing Remarks

Speakers and Participants

• Amb. James Zumwalt, CEO, Sasakawa USA
• Amb. Shinsuke Sugiyama, Ambassador of Japan to the United States
• Katrina Manson, U.S. Foreign Policy and Defense Correspondent, Financial Times
• Sue Mi Terry, Senior Fellow, Korea Chair, CSIS
• Wataru Sawamura, Washington D.C. Bureau Chief, Asahi Shimbun
• Amb. David Shear, former ASD for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs, DoD
• Adm. Dennis Blair (Ret.), Chairman and Distinguished Senior Fellow, Sasakawa USA
• Gen. In-Bum Chun, ROKA (Ret.)
• Tsuneo Watanabe, Senior Fellow, Sasakawa Peace Foundation Tokyo
• Yuki Tatsumi, Director, Japan Program, Stimson Center
• Andrew Oros, Professor of Political Science and International Studies, Washington College
• Sheila A. Smith, Senior Fellow for Japan Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
• Adm. Tomohisa Takei, Naval War College
• Robert Work, former Deputy Secretary of Defense
• Richard Edwards, EVP, Lockheed Global
• Kongdan Oh, Senior Asia Specialist, Institute for Defense Analyses
• Hideaki Watanabe, former ATLA Commissioner, MOD
• Sayuri Romei, Associate Fellow, Sasakawa USA
• Masakatsu Ota, Senior Feature Writer/Editorial Writer, Kyodo News
• Elaine Bunn, former DASD for Nuclear and Missile Defense Policy
• Amb. Kazutoshi Aikawa, DCM, Japanese Embassy to the U.S.
• Michael J. Green, Senior Vice President for Asia and Japan Chair, CSIS
• James A. Lewis, Senior Vice President, CSIS
• Jim Mitre, Principal Director, Office of the DASD for Strategy & Force Development, DoD
• Sugio Takahashi, Chief, Policy Simulation Division, NIDS
• Hideshi Tokuchi, Distinguished Non-Resident Fellow, Sasakawa USA
• Bud Roth, Non-Resident Fellow, Sasakawa USA
• Megan Stifel, Cybersecurity Policy Director, Public Knowledge
• Richard Ledgett, former Deputy Director, NSA
• Maj. Michael Klipstein, Research Scientist and Chief of Outreach, Army Cyber Institute
• Nobuo Tanaka, President, Sasakawa Peace Foundation Tokyo