Panel Discussion: “US-Japan Political Relations under the New Leaders”

Zoom Webinar (Register here)

Will President Trump demand higher defense spending by Japan? How will Japan respond? President Trump has pledged to negotiate a deal to end the Russia-Ukraine War in the first 100 days of his administration. Will it happen? How will he do that? How will the truce influence the situations in East Asia? Will Japan’s policy to advance defense technologies and promote defense industry succeed? Will Ishiba’s minority government be able to handle it?

Panelists
Gerald L. CURTIS (Burgess Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Columbia University, Chairman of the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation, and Distinguished Research Fellow at the Tokyo Foundation for Policy Research)

Mireya SOLÍS (Director, Center for Asia Policy Studies; Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Center for Asia Policy Studies; and Philip Knight Chair in Japan Studies, Brookings Institution)

SUZUKI Kazuto (Professor, Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Tokyo; Director, Institute of Geoeconomics)

Moderators
Takeo HOSHI (Director, Tokyo College, The University of Tokyo)

Takatoshi ITO (Professor of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, SIPA and CJEB)