June 22, 2013
Japan confronts an ever‐changing security environment abroad and economic turmoil at home as it looks to maintain a role as a global power. Japanese and U.S. experts discussed how Tokyo should respond to these challenges at a recent conference that presented a wide array of domestic views in each country on the future of the U.S.‐Japan security alliance, Japanese history and society, and domestic policy priorities.
This Policy Brief is based on the discussions at the conference on “Japan as a Global Power: Contending Views from Japan,” co‐organized by the Sigur Center for Asian Studies, the Council on Foreign Relations Japan Program, and MIT’s Center for International Studies on June 18, 2013.
The event featured the following Japanese panelists:
- Tomoko Abe, Member of Parliament
- Kan Ito, Foreign Policy Analyst
- Yukio Okamoto, Center for International Studies
- Kyoji Yanagisawa, International Geopolitics Institute
Read the rest of the Policy Brief here (PDF)
By Timothy Westmyer, Research and Program Assistant, Rising Powers Initiative, and Samuel Porter, Research Assistant to Mike Mochizuki
