Japan-US Kanazawa Conference
January 21-23, 2012

Biographies(Alphabetical order)
ABBOT, C. Spencer
Former Council on Foreign Relations-Hitachi International Affairs
Fellow U.S. Embassy, Tokyo / Japan Institute of International Affairs
Prospective Executive Officer, Strike-Fighter Squadron 27, NAF
Atsugi
CDR Abbot is a 1995 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy. He thenattended the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts
University, receiving a Master’s Degree in Law and Diplomacy(MALD) and later a PhD in International Relations. He is a Navy FA-18 pilot, and has carriedout numerous aircraft carrier deployments to include combat at the outset of the conflicts in Iraq
and Afghanistan. While serving as an exchange FA-18 instructor with the Spanish Air Force heearned an Executive MBA, taken in Spanish, from Instituto de Empresa in Madrid.
CDR Abbot then worked as the Department of Defense Representative for Latin
America and the Caribbean at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
During that assignment, CDR Abbot completed several deployments in support of the U.S.
response to the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti, and led Interagency Conflict Assessment
teams in Ecuador and Nicaragua. CDR Abbot was subsequently selected for a 2011 Council on
Foreign Relations-Hitachi International Affairs Fellowship in Japan. During his fellowship
CDR Abbot served at U.S. Embassy Tokyo in support of the Operation Tomodachi disaster
relief effort. He was designated by the U.S. Ambassador to serve as Deputy Director of the
Embassy’s Bilateral Assistance Coordination Cell (BACC), which coordinated U.S. support to
the Japanese government regarding the nuclear emergency at Fukushima Daiichi power plant.
CDR Abbot is currently assigned to an FA-18 refresher flight training course enroute to
a command tour at NAF Atsugi with the VFA-27 Royal Maces, an FA-18E Super Hornet
squadron that deploys aboard USS George Washington.

ABBOT, Laura Winthrop
Laura Winthrop Abbot is the Executive Director of the TOMODACHI
Initiative, a public-private partnership between the United States and Japan,
forged in the aftermath of the Great East Japan Earthquake.
Laura is based at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo, simultaneously
serving as Public-Private Partnerships Advisor to U.S. Ambassador to
Japan, John V. Roos. Laura joined the U.S.-Japan Council in December
2011, following eight months as a Council on Foreign Relations-Hitachi Fellow at the U.S.
Embassy in Tokyo.
Previously, Laura worked on international development issues for the U.S. Senate
Committee on Foreign Relations, and as a political risk consultant at Control Risks Group in
both London and New York. Laura holds an M.Phil in International Relations from Cambridge
University and a B.A. magna cum laude from Harvard University. Laura also serves on the
Board of All Hands Volunteers, a disaster relief NGO she volunteered with following thetsunami in Japan in March 2011.

AKIYAMA Nobumasa
Nobumasa Akiyama is an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of
Law and the Graduate School of International Public Policy at Hitotsubashi
University, and an Adjunct Research Fellow at the Center for the
Promotion of Disarmament and Non-Proliferation, Japan Institute ofInternational Affairs.
His other professional appointments include
memberships in various governmental and academic study groups at
Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Defense, the Japan Atomic Energy Commission, the Japan
Atomic Energy Agency, and the Japan Atomic Industry Forum, and advisor to the Japanesedelegation to the NPT Review Conferences. Professor Akiyama has published extensively andpresented papers at various conferences on non-proliferation, Japan’s national security andnuclear energy. Recently, he has been working on institutional problems at the nexus of thepeaceful use of nuclear energy and nuclear proliferation.

ASARI Hideki
Hideki Asari is Deputy Director General of The Japan Institute ofInternational Affairs. He was Minister at the Embassy of Japan in the US
before assuming his current position. After graduating from Waseda
University he joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) in 1986. He
earned M.A. in the University of Oxford. At MOFA he served as Counsel
for Trade Negotiations in the International Legal Affairs Bureau (2004) andas Director of the Oceania Division of the Asian and Oceanian Affairs
Bureau (2005-2007). His overseas posts include Political Counselor at theJapanese Embassy in the Republic of Korea (2003) and Economic
Counselor, and later Minister at the Japanese Embassy in the US (2008-2011). He was also
Cabinet Counselor in the Office of the Assistant Cabinet Secretary (2007-2009).

DENMARK, Abraham M.
Abraham M. Denmark is Senior Project Director for Politics and Security,
the National Bureau of Asian Research and Senior Adviser for CNA
Strategic Studies, and a SPF Nonresident Fellow at CSIS-Pacific Forum. He
previously worked as a Fellow at the Center for a New American Security,and served in the Pentagon as Country Director for China Affairs in the
Office of the Secretary of Defense. Denmark has authored dozens of bookchapters, reports, and articles on U.S. strategy and policy throughout the
Asia-Pacific region and toward the Global Commons. He has received
numerous government honors and awards, and was named a 21st Century Leader by the
National Committee on American Foreign Policy. Denmark received a MA in International
Security from the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver, and a
BA with honors in History from the University of Northern Colorado. He has also studied at
China's Foreign Affairs University and Peking University.

FRAVEL, M. Taylor
M. Taylor Fravel is Associate Professor of Political Science andmember of the Security Studies Program at MIT. Taylor is a
graduate of Middlebury College and Stanford University, where hereceived his PhD. He has been a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Olin
Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University, a Predoctoral
Fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at
Stanford University, a Fellow with the Princeton-Harvard China
and the World Program and a Visiting Scholar at the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences. He also has graduate degrees fromthe London School of Economics and Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. In
March 2010, he was named Research Associate with the National Asia Research Program
launched by the National Bureau of Asian Research and the Woodrow Wilson International
Center.

HOSHINO Toshiya
Dr. Toshiya Hoshino is a professor and presently the Dean at Osaka School ofInternational Public Policy (OSIPP), Osaka University. In August 2011, he wasappointed the Advisor to the President of Osaka University in charge ofinternational affairs. From August 2006 to August 2008, he served as a
Minister-Counselor at the Permanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations(UN) in the field of international peace and security issues. He graduated from
Sophia University, Tokyo, completed a Master’s at the University of Tokyo, and Doctorate(Ph.D.) from Osaka University. His previous positions included: Senior Research Fellow at theJapan Institute of International Affairs; Guest Scholar at the School of International and Public
Affairs, Columbia University; Fellow at Stanford Japan Center, Stanford University; Visiting
Fellow, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University; and a Special Assistant (Political
Affairs) at the Embassy of Japan to the United States.
He is a specialist in diplomacy and security in the Asia-Pacific region, and Japan-U.S.
relations as well as international peace and security issues in the UN context, human security
and humanitarian issues. He also serves as a board member of the United Nations Association ofJapan, the Okinawa Peace Cooperation Center, respectively and former Vice-President, EU
Institute in Japan, Kansai (EUIJ-Kansai), a visiting professor at the Inner Mongolia University,
China, and a member of International Advisory Panel of Experts of the Global Peace Index(GPI), among others.
His recent publications include: Nanbu Asia (Southern Asia) (Minerva Shobo, 2011),
Regional Dynamics and Institution Building in East Asia (co-authored, Kyung Hee University
Press, 2010), ”Peacebuilding & Human Security in Fragile States,” Japan Spotlight, Vol.28No.6 (November/December 2009, Japan Economic Foundation), ”Fusoyobo to Kokuren—
Kokuren Heiwa-kochiku-iinkai no Katsudo wo chushintoshite (Conflict Prevention and theUnited Nations, with particular reference to the work of the UN Peacebuilding Commission)” in
Kokusai Kyoryoku Kenkyu (International Cooperation Studies) Vol.24-No.1 (Japan
International Cooperation Agency, 2008), "Global Governance, Japan and the United Nations"in Glenn D. Hook and Hugo Dobson, Global Governance and Japan: The International
Architecture (Routledge, 2007), “The Peacebuilding Equation: Human Security and Rebuilding
the Functions of Government" in Gaiko Forum, Vol.6 No.4 (Winter 2007), "Japan's Approachto Comprehensive Collective Security: The Current Policy and Practices and the Idea of 3-D
Peacebuilding Strategy" in Korean Journal of International Orgnizations, Vol.1 No.1
(September 2006), “Beigun Saihen to Okinawa no Transufomeishon (The Restructuring of US
Forces and Transformation of Okinawa),” Sekai Shuho, April 2005, “Japan in an East Asia
Community,” in Hoon and Morii eds., Cooperation Experiences in Europe and Asia (Tokyo,
DESK, the University of Tokyo, 2004), Nihon no Anzenhosho (Japan’s Security) (co-authoredin Japanese) (Tokyo, Yuhikaku, 2004), Nihon no Higashi-Ajia Koso (Japan’s Conception for
East Asia) (co-authored in Japanese) (Tokyo, Keio University Press, 2004).

JIMBO Ken
Dr. Ken JIMBO is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Policy
Management, Keio University. He is concurrently a Research Fellow at theTokyo Foundation and a Senior Research Fellow at the Canon Institute of
Global Studies. Prior to joining Keio University, he was a Director of
Research at the Japan Forum on International Relations Inc. (JFIR) in 20032004, and a Research Fellow at the Japan Institute of International Affairs(JIIA) in 1999-2003. He obtained his Ph.D from the Graduate School ofMedia and Governance at Keio University in March 2005.
His research fields are: Japan-US Security Relations, Japanese Foreign and Defense
Policy, Multilateral Security in Asia-Pacific, and Regionalism in East Asia. He has been amember of various governmental/non-governmental research groups including a Member of the
Globalization Working Group of the 21st Century Vision (Council on Economic and Fiscal
Policy, Cabinet Secretariat) and the Working Group on Defense and Diplomacy (Ministry of
Defense), Special Advisory Committee on “Japan in the World” (Ministry of Foreign Affairs),
the Special Committee on Protecting Critical Infrastructure (Cabinet Secretariat) and theCommittee on Cyber Security and Economy (Ministry of Economics and Trade). While he waswith JFIR, he was an Executive Secretary of the Council on East Asian Community (CEAC), a
Japanese policy forum on East Asian regionalism launched in May 2004.
His recent article (in English) includes, “From ‘Double Track’ to ‘Convergence’:
Japanese Defense Policy and an Emerging Security Architecture in Asia-Pacific Region” Yuki
Tatsumi and Andrew L. Oros Eds., Japan’s New Defense Establishment: Institutions,
Capabilities, and Implications (The Henry Stimson Center, 2007); “Japan” (Annual Review ofJapan’s Defense Policy), Charles Morrison Ed., Asia-Pacific Security Outlook 2005 (Japan
Center for International Exchange), "Emerging Feature of Multilateral Security in Asia-Pacific:
From 'Double-Track' to 'Multi-Layered' Mechanism," Global Economic Review, (Vol. 32, No.3,
2003); "Rethinking Japanese Security: New Concepts in Deterrence and Defense," in Benjamin
L. Self and Jeffery W. Thompson, eds., Japan's Nuclear Option, Security, Politics and Policy inthe 21st Century (The Henry L. Stimson Center, Washington DC, 2003); and “Japanese
Perspective on Missile Defense and Strategic Coordination,” The Non-Proliferation Review,(Summer 2002, Vol.9, No.2）

KAWAKAMI Takashi
Dr. Takashi Kawakami is a Professor of the Graduate School of
Takusyoku University specializing in security issues and the US-Japan
relationship. After receiving his doctorate from the Osaka School ofInternational Public Policy at Osaka University, he served as a seniorresearch fellow at the National Institute for Defense Studies, Japan
Defense Agency. He is the author of Biekokuno tai-Nichi
seisaku(America’s Japan strategy), US Forward Deployment and US-Japan Alliance, The
Collapse and Realignment of International System, The Power Brokers and so on.
Main Publications:
How US New Defense Review effect Japan’s Defense, January 2012,Nikkei BressUS Defense Strategy under budget constrain and US-Japan-China, Takusyoku Unv.
How 3.11 Japan’s Earthquake effected US-Japan Alliance, JIJI Press, Sep 28, 2011.
Assertive rising China and US-Japan Alliance, January 2011, Takusyoku Unv.
Obama’s Defense Strategy and US-Japan Alliance, N0v 2010, AJISS, JIIA.
US Marine’s deterrence, August 2010, Foreign Affairs of Takusyoku University
Realignment of US Base and US-Japan Alliance, Toa Magazine
QDR 2010and US-Japan Alliance, Foreign Affairs of Takusyoku University
How to deter against China, JiJi Press
Obama’s exit strategy from Afganistan, International Affairs
Obama’s nuclear strategy and Japan, Foreign Affairs of Takusyoku University
Obama Change The World?, Augusut 2009, Soseisya
The dynamism of US Foreign Policy, October 2007, JIIA
Crisis Management in the ara of Globalization, July 2006, Ashiya Publisher
Global Governance, Februay 2006, Nihon Keizae Hyoron Publisher
Crisis of the Global Sosiety, April 2005, Ashiya Publisher
US Forward Deployment and Japan-US Alliance, April 2004, Dobun Kan Publisher

US Forward Deployment and East Asian Security, Winter 2003, JIIA
Japan and Ballistic Missile Defense, June 2001, RANDThe Role of the United States in the Asia-Pacific, March 1999,CSIS
Current US Foreign Policy, September 1999, Cyuou University Press
US Policy toward Japan, April 1996, Dobun Kan Publisher
The Collapse and Realignment of the International Order, July 1994, Toyo Keizai
US Foreign and Defense Policy After the Cole War, July 1994, JIIAThe Analysis of Current US Foreign Policy, March 1994, Gyoken Publisher
The Cold Peace, March 1993, PHP
Power Brokers, August 1992, Nikkan Kogyo Newspaper

LIPSCY, Phillip
Phillip Lipscy is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Stanford
University and FSI Center Fellow at the Shorenstein Asia Pacific ResearchCenter. Lipscy obtained his PhD in political science at the department ofgovernment at Harvard University. He received his MA in international
policy studies and BA in economics and political science at Stanford
University. His fields of research include Japanese politics, U.S.-Japan
relations, international and comparative political economy, international
security, and regional cooperation in East and Southeast Asia.

MASTRO, Oriana Skylar
Oriana Skylar Mastro a doctoral candidate in the Politics department at
Princeton University and author of several publications including“Signaling and Military Provocation in Chinese National Security
Strategy: A Closer Look at the Impeccable Incident,” Journal ofStrategic Studies, April 2010. A Pacific Forum CSIS Sasakawa Peace
Fellow, she was also a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Security and Conflict Studies at the
Elliott School, George Washington University and a CNAS Next Generation National Security
Leader 2010-11. Highly proficient in Mandarin, she worked on China policy issues at theCarnegie Endowment for International Peace, RAND, US Pacific Command, US Department of
Defense and testified for the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission. As a
United States Air Force Reserve Officer, Mastro advises the Chief of Staff of the Air Force on
Asia. She holds a B.A. in East Asian Studies from Stanford University and an M.A. in Politics
from Princeton University.

MASUDA Masayuki
Senior Fellow at the National Institute for Defense Studies
Masayuki Masuda joined the National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS)
under Japan's Ministry of Defense in 2003, responsible for study and education
on Chinese security and foreign policy. He has been an author of China Chapterof the East Asian Strategic Review and NIDS China Security Report, annual reports of the
NIDS. He is also a visiting lecturer in peace and security studies at Keiai University in Chiba
City. He was educated at the Graduate School of Media & Governnance, Keio University. In
2001-2002 he was a Visiting Fellow at Shanghai University. In 2004-2007 he was a Senior
Fellow at the SFC Research Institute, Keio University. In 2008-2010 he was a Visiting Lecturer
in Asian international relations at Tokyo Woman's Christian University. His recent works
includes, Asia-Pacific Security Architecture (in Japanese: co-author); Japan-China Security and
Defense Exchages (in Japanese: co-author); Reconceptualizing the Divide (co-auhor).

MATSUMOTO Asuka
Asuka Matsumoto is a Research Fellow at the Japan Institute of International
Affairs (JIIA). Her fields of research include US politics and foreign policy,
Japan-US relations, presidential studies and media politics. She previously
served as a Research Fellow at the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science(2009-2011), as a trial researcher at NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation)
Archives (2010-2011) and as a program student at the Inter Faculty Education
and Research Initiative (IFERI) Program of the University of Tsukuba (20072009). With research grants, she visited the University of Michigan, some presidential libraries
and the National Archives in the US. She completed her course requirements in Politics at thedoctoral program of the University of Tsukuba. She received her MA with honors in Area
Studies in American Studies Course at the University of Tsukuba in 2007 and her BA in
Comparative Cultures in the European Studies course at the University of Tsukuba． She wasalso an exchange student at Washington University in St. Louis (2005-2006).

MORI Satoru
Dr. Satoru Mori is Professor of U.S. Foreign Policy at the Department of
Global Politics, Faculty of Law of Hosei University. Dr. Mori’s fields ofinterest are contemporary U.S. foreign and security policies, international
politics, and U.S. diplomatic history. His research focuses on themes suchas alliance politics concerning “out-of-area operations”, German
reunification and American diplomacy, contemporary U.S. grand strategy,
and the conditions of “peaceful change” in the international system. He had
recently chaired a policy proposal project funded by the Sasakawa Peace Foundation titled“Japan’s Strategic Horizon and Japan-U.S. Relations” which published a report in October 2011
concerning Japan’s national security strategy in the coming decades.
Prior to joining the faculty of Hosei University’s Department of Global Politics in 2008,
Dr. Mori was a research fellow at the International Center for Comparative Law and Politics at
the University of Tokyo. He received his doctorate with honors from the Graduate School of
Law and Politics at the University of Tokyo in 2007. His Ph.D. dissertation was published fromthe University of Tokyo Press in 2009 titled The Vietnam War and Alliance Diplomacy: theImpact of British and French Peace Initiatives on U.S. Policy, 1964-1968 (written in Japanese)
which was awarded the 15th Hiroshi Shimizu Prize for Distinguished Monograph from theJapanese Association of American Studies in 2010, and also the Sakuradakai Award forDistinguished Political Science Research in 2011.
While a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Tokyo, Dr. Mori was on a scholarshipprogram organized by the Research Institute for Peace and Security (RIPS) based in Tokyo.
From 1996 to 2001, he served in the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a career diplomat.
He earned a LLB degree from Kyoto University, and holds LLM degrees from both Columbia
University Law School and Kyoto University.

NAKAYAMA Toshihiro
Toshihiro Nakayama is a Professor of American Politics and Foreign
Policy at the School of International Politics, Economy andCommunication (SIPEC), Aoyama Gakuin University. He is also an
Adjunct Fellow at the Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA). He
was a Special Correspondent for the Washington Post at the Far Eastern
Bureau (1993-94), Special Assistant at the Permanent Mission of Japan to
the United Nations in New York (1996-98), Senior Research Fellow at
The Japan Institute of International Affairs (2004-06), and Associate Professor at Tsuda College(2006-10). He was also a CNAPS Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution (2005-06). He
received his M.A.(1993) and Ph.D.(2001) from School of International Politics, Economy andBusiness (SIPEB), Aoyama Gakuin University. He has written numerous articles on American
politics and foreign policy. He appears regularly on Japanese media.

NOGAMI Yoshiji
Yoshiji Nogami is President of the Japan Institute of International Affairs andExecutive Advisor of the Mizuho Corporate Bank, Limited. His current
responsibilities include Advisor to the Cabinet and Advisor to the Minister for
Foreign Affairs. He is former Japanese Ambassador to the U.K. and a ViceMinister for Foreign Affairs of Japan. After graduating from the University ofTokyo, he entered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1966. He was Deputy
Director-General of the Middle Eastern and African Affairs Bureau and theForeign Policy Bureau, Director-General of the Economic Affairs Bureau, and Deputy Ministerfor Foreign Affairs. His overseas posts include Economic Counsellor at the Japanese Embassyin the U.S. and Consul-General in Hong Kong. Ambassador Nogami was also Ambassador to
the OECD in Paris in 1997-99. He was Senior Visiting Fellow at the Royal Institute ofInternational Affairs.

SAHASHI Ryo
Ryo Sahashi is currently Associate Professor of International Politics
at Kanagawa University in Yokohama. He specializes in international
politics and is currently focusing on regional security architecture in
Asia as well as Japanese security policy. Dr. Sahashi is also a
research fellow at Japan Center for International Exchange, a seniorresearch fellow at Sasakawa Peace Foundation and a Tokyo
Foundation-German Marshall Fund Partnership Fellow. He received
his B.A. from the International Christian University and his Ph.D.
from the Graduate Schools for Law and Politics at the University ofTokyo in 2008. Previously, he served as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the
Department of International Relations of the Australian National University as well as AssistantProfessor at the Graduate School of Public Policy (GraSPP) and the Policy Alternatives
Research Institute (PARI), University of Tokyo.He has been presented the "Minister of Foreign
Affairs Award" and of the "Japan Association of Taiwan Studies Distinguished Paper Award"
for his work. He has also received a security studies fellowship from the Research Institute for
Peace and Security (RIPS) for 2006-2008.

SUZUKI Kazuto
Kazuto Suzuki is Professor of International Political Economy at
Public Policy School of Hokkaido University, Japan. He graduatedDepartment of International Relations, Ritsumeikan University, andreceived Ph.D. from Sussex European Institute, University of Sussex,
England.
As an expert of space policy, he has been working as anadvisor for Space Development Committee of Liberal Democratic
Party of Japan, Society of Japanese Aerospace Industry, andMitsubishi Electric Co., and Senior Policy Researcher for JAXA. He
also has been closely involved in the development of Japanese spacedecision-making process including the establishment of the Basic Law for Space Activities of2008 and Mid-term Plan for Space Activities of 2009. He is currently working as a member ofWorking Group on Space Strategy under the Strategic Headquarters for Space in the Cabinet
Secretariat. He is a member of International Academy of Astronautics and the Chairman of theSpace Security Committee of the International Astronautical Federation.
He has worked in the University of Tsukuba from 2000 to 2008, and moved to
Hokkaido University Public Policy School. His research subject is focused on Europeanintegration and transformation of national policies with a perspective on security, technology
and economy. He has conducted researches from International Political Economy perspectivein Space Policy, together with nuclear energy policy (with particular interest on Fukushima
nuclear power plant accident), export control policy, science and technology policy, counterterrorism and policies on market regulation.
He has published number of articles and books, both in Japanese and English, including
Space and International Politics (Iwanami, 2011, Japanese), Policy Logics and Institutions ofEuropean Space Collaboration (Ashgate, 2003), "Administrative Reforms and Policy Logics ofJapanese Space Policy", Space Policy (Vol.22 no.1, 2005), "Is There a Space Race in Asia?
Different Perceptions of Space" in Sisodia et al (eds.) The Future of War and Peace in Asia
(Magnum Books, 2010), "Is It Possible to Integrate Anti-terrorism Strategy?" in Hirose et al(eds.) Formation of Anit-terrorism Cooperation (Minerva, 2010, Japanese).

TAKENAKA Harukata
Harukata Takenaka is Professor of the National Graduate Institute for
Policy Studies. His field of research is Japanese politics and Comparative
Politics. His current research interest is policy formulation of Japan and therole of DPJ. His previous research covers such topics as role of the Houseof Councilors, effect of the 1994 electoral reform on prime ministerleadership, Japanese financial politics and democratization of Japan ininter-war era.
Before joining GRIPS, he worked for the Ministry of Finance. A
graduate of Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo, he earned his Ph.D. inpolitical science at Stanford University.
He is the author Senzen Nihon ni okeru Minshuka no Zasetsu [Failed Democratizationin Prewar Japan] (Tokyo: Bokutakusha, 2002), Shusho Shihai [Politics Dominated by Prime
Minister] (Tokyo: Chuokoron Shinsha, 2006), and Sangiin to ha Nanika [What is House ofCouncillors] (Tokyo: Chuokoron Shinsha 2010), which won 10th Osaragi Jiro Award from
Asahi Shimbun.

TANAKA Yasutomo
Yasutomo Tanaka is Associate professor at School of Future
Learning of Hokuriku University in Kanazawa. He was AssistantProfessor from 2007 to 2009, and has been the current position since2009. He was a researcher at Research Institute for Peace andSecurity from 2002 to 2004 and a program officer there from 2004
to 2006. His major interest is Japanese diplomatic role in the USJapan alliance from the historical perceptive. He now focuses on the
US security policy. In 2006, he received a Ph. D. in theinternational politics from Aoyama Gakuin University. He wrote a
doctoral dissertation, titled The End of the Vietnam War andJapanese Diplomacy: The Formation of the Regional Order in Southeast Asia and JapaneseForeign Policy toward Vietnam. His recent publication is “The End of the Vietnam War andJapanese Diplomacy: Japanese Diplomacy as an Economic Power” in International Relations.
He also translated John Lewis Gaddis’ “In Defense of Particular Generalization: Rethinking
International Relations Theory,” in Bridges and Boundaries: Historians, Political Scientists, andthe Study of International Relations edited by Colin Elman and Mariam Fendius Elman.

TSUCHIYA Motohiro
Motohiro TSUCHIYA is professor of Graduate School of Media andGovernance and deputy director of Global Security Research Institute (GSEC) at Keio University in Japan. Prior to joining the Keio faculty, he wasassociate professor at Center for Global Communications (GLOCOM),

International University of Japan. He researched in Washington, DC, as visiting scholar atCenter for International Development and Conflict Management (CIDCM), University of
Maryland, and at Cyberspace Policy Institute (CPI), George Washington University. From
March 2008 to March 2009 he was a visiting scholar at MIT (Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology) Center for International Studies. He is interested in the impact of the information
revolution on international relations; regulations regarding telecommunications and the Internet;
and global governance and information technologies. He is also a member of the Information
Security Policy Council of the Japanese government. He authored Information and Global
Governance (Tokyo: Keio University Press, 2001, in Japanese), Net Politics (Tokyo: Iwanami
Publishing, 2003, in Japanese), Network Power (Tokyo: NTT Publishing, 2007, in Japanese),Intelligence and National Security (Tokyo: Keio University Press, 2007, in Japanese), Network
Hegemony (Tokyo: NTT Publishing, 2011, in Japanese), and co-authored 20 other books. He
earned his BA in political science, MA in international relations, and Ph.D. in media andgovernance from Keio University.

TSUJITA Toshiya
Dr. Toshiya Tsujita is Specially Appointed Research Fellow at Osaka School ofInternational Public Policy, Osaka University. He graduated from Doshisha
University, Kyoto, and earned a master’s degree from Osaka University. He
also studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He received his Ph.D. ininternational public policy from Osaka University in 2011. From 2006 to 2008
he served as a special assistant (political affairs) at the Embassy of Japan in
Israel. From 2009 to 2011 he has also worked as a research assistant at the Center for United
Nations Policy Studies, Osaka University. His research interests include security studies,political violence, conflict management, and the Arab-Israeli conflict..

UCHIDA Yuka
Yuka Uchida serves as Political Secretary for State Minister Kenji Yamaoka,
in charge of National Public Safety Commission, Consumer Agency and
Abduction of Japanese Citizens Affairs. She was with Brookings Institution,
Center for North Asian Policy Studies (CNAPS) as a visiting fellow from
August 2011 to December 2011. She served as Political Secretary of Japan’s
former Foreign Minister, Seiji Maehara until March 2011. Prior to her work at
the Foreign Ministry, she was engaged in politics from the start-up of the
Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), handling foreign and defense policies of theparty. She obtained an M.A. from Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International
Studies (SAIS), and B.A. from Keio University in Japan, majoring in international relations.
After the 3/11 Great East Japan Earthquake, she assisted an NGO, Civic Force Japan, which
specializes in disaster relief activities, and also held position as Senior Policy Advisor to
Fleishman Hillard Japan and Deputy Chief Editor of the periodical journal, “Arab”, issued by
Japan Arab Association until she assumed her current position.

WADA Hironori
Hironori Wada is Assistant Professor of IPE at the School of International
Politics, Aoyama Gakuin University at Tokyo. Dr. Wada obtained a MSc
degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science, andreceived Doctor in International Relations from Hitotsubashi University,where he also served as a research fellow.
Dr. Wada's main areas of specialization are international and Japanesepolitical economy. His recent publications include “The Globalization of the
U.S.-Style Regulatory State and Domestic Institutional Diversity: A Comparative Study of the
Financial Services Sector and the Communications Sector in Britain and Japan,” World Political
Science Review, 6:1, 2010 <http://www.bepress.com/wpsr/vol6/iss1/art9>.

WALKER, Joshua W.
Joshua W. Walker is a Transatlantic fellow at the German Marshall
Fund based in Washington, D.C. He is also a non-resident fellow at
the Crown Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Brandeis University
and a Truman National Security Fellow. Joshua’s forthcoming bookfocuses on the role of historical memories in post-imperial
successor states, with a particular focus on Japan and Turkey's
domestic and foreign policies. Among his many affiliations, Joshua has most recently been afellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, Tokyo University, the Council on Foreign Relations,and the Transatlantic Academy and taught at Istanbul Sehir Merkez, Middle East Technical
University, George Mason, Princeton, University of Richmond, and Yale. At Princeton
University his Ph.D. is in Politics and Public Policy with a specialization on international
relations and security studies. He holds a Master's degree in International Relations from Yale
University and a Bachelor's degree from the University of Richmond. He was a Fulbright
Fellow in Ankara, Turkey and has worked for the U.S. Embassy and State Department on
Turkey and grew up in Sapporo, Japan where he lived for 15 years and his family still resides.
Active in bridging the academic and policy worlds, Joshua co-founded the Yale Journal ofInternational Affairs, Young Professionals in Foreign Policy in New York, and the Project on
Religion, Diplomacy, and International Relations at Princeton. In addition to his numerous
articles, briefs, and book projects, he has been published in a variety of outlets including the
Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, Foreign Policy, International Affairs, International
Herald Tribune, New Republic, Washington Quarterly, and Washington Times. Joshua is called
upon often to offer commentary in international media outlets.

WEEDEN, Brian
Brian Weedenis Technical Advisor for Secure World Foundation, and has
over a decade of professional experience in the national and international
space security arena. His wealth of technical knowledge and expertise has
established him as a thought leader for providing critical analysis that
supports development of space policy on a global scale.
Prior to joining the Foundation, Mr. Weeden served nine years on
active duty as an officer in the United States Air Force working in space and ICBM operations.
As part of U.S. Strategic Command's Joint Space Operations Center (JSpOC), Captain Weeden
directed the orbital analyst training program and developed tactics, techniques and proceduresfor improving space situational awareness.
In his current role as Technical Advisor, Mr. Weeden conducts research on space debris,
global space situational awareness, space traffic management, protection of space assets, space
governance, and prevention of conflict in space. He also organizes national and international
workshops to increase awareness of and facilitate dialogue on space security and sustainability
topics. Respected and recognized as an expert, Mr. Weeden's research and analysis have beenfeatured in the New York Times, National Public Radio, China Radio International, theEconomist, academic journals, presentations to the United Nations, and testimony before theU.S. Congress. ViewMr. Weeden's publications
Education
Mr. Weeden holds a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree in Electrical Engineering from Clarkson
University, a Masters of Science (M.S) degree in Space Studies from the University of North
Dakota, and is also a graduate of the International Space University Space Studies Program(2007, Beijing). He is currently a PhD student in Public Policy and Public Administration at
George Washington University.