Climate and Energy Initiatives in Japan
December 8, 2016Date: December 8, 2016
Sasakawa USA hosted a private, off-the-record discussion featuring Dr. Phyllis Yoshida, Fellow for Energy and Technology at Sasakawa USA. The event was an opportunity to engage in a candid conversation on the intersection between energy and climate, and mitigation and adaptation in Japan.
Tags: admiral dennis blair, climate, climate change, energy, Japan, mitigation, phyllis yoshida, Sasakawa USA Speaker Series, speaker series, Technology
Japan Update: Upper House Elections and Implications for the Abe Administration
July 13, 2016Date: July 13, 2016
This event brought together several Sasakawa USA experts for a special Speakers Series event to discuss results of the July 10 House of Councillors elections and what they will mean for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s administration.
Tags: Abe, Abe administration, admiral dennis blair, capitol hill, constitutional revision, election, election results, event, house of councillors, jeffrey hornung, masayuki hironaka, Sasakawa USA Speaker Series, Shinzo Abe, speaker series, tobias harris
The U.S., Japan and ASEAN in 2016
January 14, 2016Date: January 14, 2016
Sasakawa USA hosted a private conversation with Mr. Scot Marciel, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs at the U.S. Department of State, on U.S.-Japan-ASEAN relations moving forward in 2016.
Tags: ASEAN, bureau of east asian and pacific affairs, Japan, rebalance to Asia, Sasakawa USA Speaker Series, scot marciel, speaker series, u.s. department of state, United States
History and Security: Prime Minister Abe’s 70th Anniversary Statement and Japan’s Global Role
September 28, 2015Date: September 28, 2015
Sasakawa USA hosted two prominent scholars of Japanese diplomatic and political history who provided U.S. and Japanese perspectives on Prime Minister Abe’s 70th Anniversary Statement on the end of World War II as well as broader perspectives on the U.S.-Japan Alliance going forward.
Tags: admiral dennis blair, Historical Issues, kenneth pyle, Sasakawa USA Speaker Series, shinichi kitaoka, Shinzo Abe