Retired SDF officers counter Trump’s remarks on security ties
August 31, 2016Author: Asahi Shimbun & Sankei Shimbun
Categories: In the News
Japan’s self-defense forces play a large role in sustaining and enhancing the U.S.-Japan alliance, several SDF officers and others explained at a July 30 conference co-hosted by Sasakawa USA and the PHP Institute that recently was featured in articles in The Asahi Shimbun and Sankei Shimbun.
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Third Annual Security Forum: Concerns about presidential candidates draw media reports
May 10, 2016Categories: In the News, Sasakawa USA Blog
Sasakawa USA’s Annual Security Forum last week gained the attention of many American and international media outlets after speakers raised criticisms of prospective U.S. nominees for president. Japan’s former defense minister Satoshi Morimoto, Ambassador Kenichiro Sasae, and senior Japanese Minister Shigeru Ishiba (pictured at right) all took stances against disparaging remarks made by candidate Donald Trump,
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Apologies not necessary when President Obama visits Hiroshima
April 29, 2016Author: Sankei Shimbun
Categories: In the News
President Barack Obama’s planned visit to Hiroshima in late May will be a symbolic gesture of the strength of the U.S.-Japan Alliance, though it need not be accompanied by an apology or a speech denouncing nuclear weapons like the one Obama gave in Prague in 2009, Sasakawa USA’s Dr. Jeffrey Hornung said in an April
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Looking back on Operation Tomodachi, five years later
April 1, 2016Author: Sankei Shimbun
Categories: Energy and Technology, In the News
Sasakawa USA’s James Kendall’s experience working with Operation Tomodachi is detailed in a March 8 article series in the Sankei Shimbun. The articles detail how Kendall and other U.S. Forces assisted relief efforts following the March 11, 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. Kendall, Sasakawa USA’s Fellow for Common Challenges, served as the Marine liaison to the
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Op-ed on Trump’s Japan rhetoric continues to get attention
March 10, 2016Author: Sankei Shimbun
Categories: In the News
An op-ed co-authored by Sasakawa USA Fellows Tobias Harris and Dr. Jeffrey W. Hornung that questions Donald Trump’s frequent condemnation of Japan’s economic and military policies is continuing to get attention. The op-ed, originally published in The National Interest on February 26, 2016, was cited in the Sankei Shimbun March 10 in a Japanese article titled
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