2023年11月27日～30日、当研究所の市川客員教授がISOの専門委員会TC20/SC16（無人航空機システム）のロンドン会合の日本メンバーおよびWG4の国際座長として参加しました。
近年日本でも無人航空機（ドローン）を活用する産業政策が活発化しています。
それに伴い，法制度も急速に整備されていますが，WTOのメンバー国として世界水準の制度を取り入れる必要があります。
そこで日本チーム十数名がロンドンに参加し国際ルール作りに積極的に取り組みました。
特に市川客員教授が国際座長をするWG4では「運航管理」を主題としており，社会制度上重要なテーマを議論しました。

【Title】
Japan’s Shifting Economic Security Policies and Prospects under the New Kishida Administration

【Event Abstract】
Observers of Japanese security and foreign policies have largely focused on analyzing Japanese policies in the area of traditional security. However, they would be remiss to disregard the string of new developments that have been occurring in Japan – namely that of “economic security.”

Prompted by rising U.S.-China competition, Japan has been undergoing rapid change in its economic security policies over the last few years. These changes range from organizational transformation to new legislation as well as increasing support for the private sector. This trend is likely to accelerate under the incoming Kishida administration, which has created a new ministerial post for economic security.

How has Japan’s economic security policy evolved in the last few years? What kind of changes will we likely see in Japan’s economic security policies under the Kishida administration? What impact will this “economic security awakening” in Japan have on Japan-U.S. and Japan-China relations? How should Japan cooperate with other key actors, such as the European Union, the Quad countries, the Five Eyes states, and Southeast Asian countries?

This seminar will address these critical questions and more with Akira Igata, who has been advising international organizations, the Japanese government, bureaucracy, and the private sector in economic security issues for many years.

【Date / Time】
Monday 22 November 2021 17:00 Tokyo | 08:00 London/09:00 Brussels

【Webinar Access】
Please email icas@tuj.temple.edu to RSVP.
RSVP is not required but helpful for organizers.

Join with the following link:
https://temple.zoom.us/j/96238227945
Meeting ID: 962 3822 7945

【Speaker】
Akira Igata is Executive Director and Visiting Professor at the Center for Rule-making Strategies at Tama University. He is also the Economic Security Advisor for the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China and Senior Adjunct Fellow at Pacific Forum, a U.S.-based think tank. He advises Japan’s bureaucracy, politicians, and private sector as well as international organizations on economic security issues.

【Sponsors】
・ICAS, Temple University
https://www.tuj.ac.jp/icas/

・CRS, Tama University
https://crs-japan.org//

【Title】 Climate and Societal Impacts of Cultivated Meat in Japan

【Outline】
“Cultured meat” is a new paradigm of protein production produced by cellular agriculture technology, which has a positive impact on various aspects such as sustainability, food supply according to consumers’ beliefs, public health, diversification and preservation of food culture, and food security.
In this webinar, we will discuss the current status and future of the rapidly developing cell-based agri-food industry, focusing on the results of cutting-edge research on “life cycle assessment”, which comprehensively quantifies the cost and environmental impact of “cultured meat”.

【Date】 Friday, October 15, 2021, 10:00 – 11:30 (Japanese Standard Time)

【Method and Languages】
Online (using Zoom)
Japanese and English (with Simultaneous Interpretation)

【How to Participate】
Please register at the following URL, and you can watch the session online.
TinyURL.com/JapanMeat

【Time Schedule】

10:00~10:05 Introductory Remarks

10:05~10:25 Global State of the Industry

10:25~10:50 Life Cycle Analysis & Climate Impacts

10:50~11:05 Opportunities for Japanese Leadership

11:05~11:30 Q&A: Full Panel

【Presenters (in the Schedule)】
・Prof. Akira Igata, Executive Director,
Center for Rule-making Strategies, Tama University
[Introductory Remarks] [Q&A]
・Varun Deshpande, Managing Director, Good Food Institute Asia
[Global Industry Trends in Cellular Agri-Food]
・Dr. Elliot Swartz, Lead Scientist – Cultivated Meat, Good Food Institute US
[Life cycle assessment and environmental impact of cultured meat]
・Megumi Avigail Yoshitomi, PR Manager, Japan Association for Cellular Agriculture
[Current situation and possible leadership in Japan]

【Organized by】
・GFI APAC (The Good Food Institute Asia-Pacific)
https://www.gfi-apac.org/ja/about-gfi-apac/
・CRS (Center for Rule Making Strategies)
https://crs-japan.org//

【Supporters】
・ICAS (Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies)
https://www.tuj.ac.jp/icas/
・Cellular Agriculture institute of the commons (Japan)
https://www.cellagri.org/

For more information, please contact: APAC@GFI.org

We are happy to invite you to a Zoom seminar “The End of the LDP As We Know It” on 7th October, held by CRS and ICAS (Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies) .

Date and time: 7th October 2021, 09:30 – 11:00 AM JST
Wednesday 6 October 20:30 Washington, D.C. | 17:30 California

Language: English

Summary:
A half a year ago, the prospect of an LDP presidential election did not inspire flights of the imagination. After all, what could break the hammerlock the top three party factions – the Hosoda, the Aso and the Nikai – had upon the process of selecting the party leader? Who or what could outmaneuver the wily LDP Secretary-General Nikai Toshihiro, whom two prime ministers in a row found themselves powerless to budge from his post at the apex of the party’s secretariat?
Over the summer of 2021, however, several factors became catalysts for changes in the party’s internal power structures. A presidential campaign like any other had unfolded, with the faction leaders and the party’s senior officials left gasping as erstwhile subordinates have run away with the narrative and the initiative. So many assumptions about how the LDP “works” have been challenged that the unprecedented situation of half of the candidates being women has been largely subsumed.
What will we have learned from this election? Michael Cucek will offer his views, along with suggestions of avenues of future research into the contemporary LDP.

Speaker:
Michael Cucek is Assistant Professor of Asian Studies at Temple University, Japan Campus He is a senior advisor to the consultancy Langley Esquire and an independent political consultant. Prior to and concurrent with his present positions, he has been Adjunct Professor of Political Science at Temple University, Japan Campus Adjunct Professor of the Faculty of Social Sciences at Waseda University, and Adjunct Professor of the Faculty of Liberal Arts at Sophia University. He was Senior Research Analyst at Okamoto Associates, Inc. a strategic and business consulting firm to Japanese multinationals and government affiliated agencies and a Research Associate at the Asahi National Broadcast Company. Professor Cucek’s specializations include Japan’s foreign relations with its East Asian neighbors, the history of East Asia, Japanese politics, U.S. policy in Asia, the history of race and racism and international cooperation, trade and development. A graduate of Stanford University with graduate studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara and Columbia University, he has lived in Tokyo since 1994.

Profile picture has been quoted from https://twitter.com/MichaelTCucek?s=20
Registration:
To register, please RSVP to icas@tuj.temple.edu
Registration not required but helpful for organizers.
Join for free with the following link:
https://temple.zoom.us/j/93737767002
Meeting ID: 937 3776 7002

【Date】Tuesday 27 July 2021 16:30-18:00 Tokyo
( 8:30 London | 9:30 Brussels | 15:30 Singapore Monday 26 July 2021 21:30 Hawaii)

【Title】Book Talk ”Defenders of Japan: The Post-Imperial Armed Forces 1946-2016”

【Speaker】 Garren Mulloy (Daito Bunka University)

【Language】English

【Seminar】Full open

We are happy to invite you to a Zoom book talk with Garren Mulloy of Daito Bunka University on his latest book: Defenders of Japan The Post-Imperial Armed Forces 1946-2016, A History (Hurst & Co., London, 2021.).

【Overview】
This books charts the development of the Japan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF) as both unorthodox military institutions and loyal servants of a civil society that decries militarism. Investigating JSDF contributions to Japanese and global security, how they evolved during and after the Cold War, and the likely reconfiguration of contributions to meet Japan’s future security needs, Mulloy offers insights into the Forces’ past, present, and future. He also examines the Forces’ post-war, post-imperial predecessors, as well as characteristics and contradictions of Japanese policy towards an increasingly assertive China, the latent threat of North Korea, and the complex pressures of alliance with the US. Though the US alliance remains the core of Japanese strategy, new partnerships and initiatives shape JSDF roles within Tokyo’s burgeoning ‘Free and Open Indo-Pacific’ Vision. The book deconstructs how the JSDF have adapted and will continue to adapt within domestic norms, caught between unresolved legacies of Japan’s imperial past and a dynamically shifting balance of future global power.

Garren Mulloy is Professor in the Faculty of International Relations and Graduate School of Asian Area Studies of Daito Bunka University, having previously taught at Keio University and the University of Tsukuba. Originally from Britain, he received his Doctorate from Newcastle University, has been a visiting scholar at Stanford University and the University of Cambridge, and has been researching Japanese (and British) politics, history, and defense/security issues for over twenty years. A new volume, co-edited with Dr. Catherine Jones (University of St. Andrews), East Asia, Peacekeeping Operations, and Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief, will be published later this year (Routledge/Taylor Francis India).

【Webinar Access】
To register, please RSVP to icas@tuj.temple.edu
Registration not required but helpful for organizers.

Join for free with the following link:
https://temple.zoom.us/j/93946226990
Meeting ID: 939 4622 6990

【Sponsor】
ICAS
Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies
www.tuj.ac.jp/icas/

【Co-Sponsors】
CRS
Center for Rule-Making Strategies
https://crs-japan.org//en/about-us/
YCAPS
Yokosuka Council on Asia-Pacific Studies
www.ycaps.org/

On May 8, 2023, Hiroyuki Watanabe, a visiting researcher at the CRS, published a book simultaneously in both Japanese and English on what players should do to achieve supply chain security, which is becoming essential from an economic security perspective.

Please find its detail from this link below;
A guide to create “Secure” throughout the supply chain, from design to maintenance. (English Edition)

Comment from Visiting Researcher Hiroyuki Watanabe “Despite the fact that server security measures are a major social issue, only passive responses such as responding to customer requirements, regulations, and national security risks have progressed, casting a dark cloud over the digital society. This book is a guide to proceed cost-effectively throughout the entire development – production – maintenance supply chain, including SMEs that do not have IT engineers, and I hope that it will help to realize the trust of the future digital society.”

【Date】29th June 2021, 16:00-17:30 Tokyo
(08:00 London, 09:00 Brussels, 10:00 Tel Aviv)
【Title】Ransomware, Cybercrime, and Cyber attacks: Understanding the situation
【Speaker】 Dr. Lior Tabansky, Scott Jarkov, John Kirch
【Moderator】Robert Dujarric, Tom O’Sullivan
【Language】English
【Seminar】full open

【Overview】
Recently several private and public institutions have suffered devastating cyber and ransomware attacks on their technology systems. The most recent attacks include the Colonial Oil Pipeline in the USA, Air India, Toshiba, Sony, and Fujitsu in Japan, and the Irish Health Service Executive (HSE, Ireland’s public health care system) to name but a few. These attacks have highlighted the impact of technology assaults on critical national infrastructure in a variety of countries. Early incidents in Iran, Israel, the United States involving suspected state-organized attacks were seen as examples of the development of new weapons to undertake sabotage and intelligence gathering, activities that have been around for millennia. But the attacks on vital government and corporate entities by what appears to be criminal gangs adds another dimension to the equation (though ties to governments are not outside of the realm of possibilities). The demand for ransoms to be paid in crypto currencies also adds a new dimension to this escalating cycle of devastating international cyber terrorism. Japan is also slated to host the Olympic Games in July, an event that could attract significant attention from the cyber terrorism community.

Dr. Lior Tabansky offers a unique cybersecurity grasp, combining a Political Science Ph.D., business experience in formulating cyber strategies, and 15 years of IT-pro work.

Dr. Tabansky is the Head of Research Development ofTel Aviv University’s Blavatnik Interdisciplinary Cyber Research Center, where he leads two research projects:
1. PROGRESS: Promoting Global Cyber Resilience for Sectors and Societies.
Leveraging the science of networks and complex socio-technical systems, the new Cyber-Capability Maturity Model analyses a sector of the economy as a whole. Moreover, the expert-led assessment results in actionable ‎ Progression Paths tailored for the sector. Large-scale sustainable development projects adopt the PROGRESS model for cross-border Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP.)
2. Hostile Influence Operations via Social Media: evidence from Western-Russian encounters. The research focuses on the gaps in assessing the presumed effects on behavior.
Lior’s doctoral dissertation uncovered the failed peacetime defense adaptation, which exposed nations to cyberattacks on strategic homeland targets.
“Cybersecurity in Israel,” Lior’s 2015 book co-authored with Professor Isaac Ben-Israel, is the first comprehensive “insider” account of decades of Israeli cyber policy and its origins.

Scott Jarkoff
Director, Strategic Threat Advisory Group APJ & EMEA
CrowdStrike
Scott directs CrowdStrike’s Asia-Pacific & Japan (APJ), and EMEA threat intelligence business, serving on a global team entrusted with empowering sales of CrowdStrike’s world renowned, best-of-breed, government-grade intelligence and 24/7 threat hunting capabilities across the Falcon X and OverWatch platforms. He advises and guides customers on methods for operationalizing and integrating threat intelligence and threat hunting within a holistic cyber security and intelligence strategy. He also demonstrates the value actionable threat intelligence and threat hunting provides in today’s threat landscape.

John Kirch
Senior Vice President
Uppsala Security
Tokyo,
At Uppsala Security, John provides Sentinel Protocol, a proven, multi-award-winning suite of tools and services leveraging A.I, Machine Learning, and Blockchain technologies to equip organizations with advanced software solutions for Cryptocurrency AML “Anti-Money Laundering”, Regulatory Compliance Analytics, KYC/KYT Risk Analysis, Transaction Monitoring/Tracking, and Cybersecurity protecting cryptocurrencies and other digital assets from malicious attacks, scams, and fraud.

【Zoom Info】
https://temple.zoom.us/j/96597841213
Meeting ID: 965 9784 1213

Director Kokubun’s article has been published on JAPAN SPOTLIGHT.

Title: Management that Embodies Sophisticated Rules & Democracy as Keys to Economic Security

You can read the article free from here.

【Date】2021/6/15 10:30-12:00（Tokyo）
2021/6/14 21:30-23:00 （D.C.）
【Title】Japan in the Age of Sino-American Confrontation
【Speaker】Shihoko Goto, Tobias Harris
【Moderator】Robert Dujarric
【Language】English
【Seminar】full open

【Overview】
For many years Tokyo has urged Washington to take a more critical look at China, fearing that the United States was sufficiently proactive in protecting its allies and partners in Asia against Chinese inroads. Now that the US is more combative towards China, Japan faces the risk that its deep economic ties with the PRC might become less and less compatible with the American alliance.
To discuss these issues we will host a discussion with Shihoko Goto of the Wilson Center (see her recent Japanese PM Suga’s Visit Repositions U.S. Asia Strategy ）and Tobias Harris of the Center for American Progres, (see Foreign Affairs, The Surprising Strength of Chinese-Japanese Ties）followed by a Q&A session.

【Speakers】
Shihoko Goto is the Deputy Director for Geoeonomics and Senior Northeast Asia Associate at the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Asia Program. She specializes in trade relations and economic issues across Asia, and is also focused on developments in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. She is also a contributing editor to The Globalist, and a fellow of the Mansfield Foundation/Japan Foundation U.S.-Japan Network for the Future for 2014 to 2016. Prior to joining the Wilson Center, she spent over ten years as a journalist writing about the international political economy with an emphasis on Asian markets. As a correspondent for Dow Jones News Service and United Press International based in Tokyo and Washington, she has reported extensively on policies impacting the global financial system as well as international trade. She currently provides analysis for a number of media organizations. She was also formerly a donor country relations officer at the World Bank. She received the Freeman Foundation’s Jefferson journalism fellowship at the East-West Center and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation’s journalism fellowship for the Salzburg Global Seminar. She is fluent in Japanese and French. She received an M.A. in international political theory from the Graduate School of Political Science, Waseda University, Japan, and a B.A. in Modern History, from Trinity College, University of Oxford, UK.
https://www.wilsoncenter.org/person/shihoko-goto

Tobias Harris is Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, where he oversees the National Security and International Policy team’s work on Asia. From 2013 to 2021, he was a political risk analyst covering Japan and the Korean Peninsula at Teneo Intelligence, as well as a research fellow for economy, trade, and business at the Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA from 2014 to 2020. He is also the author of The Iconoclast: Shinzo Abe and the New Japan, the first English-language biography of Japan’s longest-serving prime minister. Prior to joining Teneo Intelligence, Harris worked for a Japanese legislator, authored the blog Observing Japan, and conducted graduate research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Tokyo. He holds an master’s degree in international relations from the University of Cambridge and a bachelor’s degree in politics and history from Brandeis University.
http://www.observingjapan.com

【Moderator】
Robert Dujarric is Co-Director of Temple University Japan’s Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies in Tokyo. After working in finance in New York, Tokyo and London and in a think tank in Washington, he moved to Tokyo in 2004 as a Council on Foreign Relations (Hitachi) International Affairs Fellow. During his fellowship, he was stationed at the Research Institute of Economy Trade and Industry (RIETI) of the Ministry of Economy Trade and Industry (METI) prior to joining the Japan Institute of International Affairs in Tokyo (2005-7) as a visiting research fellow. He took his current position at TUJ in 2007. He is a graduate of Harvard College and holds an MBA from Yale University.
https://www.tuj.ac.jp/icas/the-institute/staff/dujarric/

【Register】
To register, please RSVP by email icas@tuj.temple.edu
Registration not required but helpful for organizers.

【Zoom Link】
https://temple.zoom.us/j/95306448436
Meeting ID: 953 0644 8436

This event is co-hosted by ICAS and CRS.

Ambassador Ichiro Fujisaki: Japan-US relations and East Asia after the US election

20 November 2020 at 09:00 Tokyo Time
(19:00 on 19 November in DC)

On 3 November 2020, American voters will vote after the most eventful year in American history since 1945. Besides the Covid-19 pandemic, the sharp deterioration of Sino-American relations has defined American politics and policy in the past year, with important implications for Japan.

To help us understand the consequences for Japan-US relations and Asia we are happy to welcome Ambassador Ichiro Fujisaki.

Ambassador Ichiro Fujisaki joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1969, and went on to serve as Deputy Director General for Asian Affairs, Political Minister at the Embassy of Japan in Washington, DC, Director General for North American Affairs, Deputy Foreign Minister, and Ambassador to the UN and WTO in Geneva. He served as Ambassador to the United States in 2008 until 2012.

He was distinguished professor and Chairman for International Strategies of Sophia University. He is currently the president of the America-Japan Society and of the Nakasone Peace Institute.

Please click here and register now! (deadline Nov. 18)

Co-hosts;
Robert Dujarric
Co-Director, Institute for Contemporary Asian Studies
Temple University Japan

Brad Glosserman
Visiting Professor at the CRS, Tama University and Senior Adviser at Pacific Forum

Akira Igata
Executive Director
CRS, Tama University

Dear friends,
We hope you can join us for this book talk.
Eyck Freymann: One Belt One Road Chinese Power Meets the World.

Moderator: Robert Dujarric, Temple University Japan.
Organized by Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies (ICAS, Temple University Japan), Center for Rule-making Strategy, Tama University and the Yokosuka Council on Asia-Pacific Studies (YCAPS).

From Sri Lanka to the shipyards of Greece, Eyck Freymann takes readers inside China’s One Belt One Road initiative. He argues that OBOR is not a centralized and systematic policy. Rather, it is a largely aspirational and sometimes ad hoc campaign to export an ancient Chinese model of patronage and tribute.
Inside China, propaganda depicts President Xi restoring the nation’s lost imperial glory. Overseas, China uses massive investments to cultivate relationships with local politicians and political parties. The strategy is working. Drawing on primary documents in five languages, numerous interviews, and on-the-ground case studies, Freymann shows that China is more often successfully attracting willing partners than preying on victims.
Eyck is a DPhil candidate in China Studies at the University of Oxford. He has worked as a research assistant to Graham Allison at Harvard, to Niall Ferguson at the Hoover Institution, to Paul Haenle at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; and to Shi Zhiqin at Tsinghua University. He holds an MPhil from the University of Cambridge, where he was a Henry Scholar; an AM in Asian Studies from Harvard, where he won the Joseph Fletcher Memorial Prize for the top thesis on Asia; and an AB in East Asian History with highest honors, also from Harvard. His work has been published or cited in the press. His One Belt One Road: Chinese Power Meets the World has just been published by Harvard University Press (
link).

Please click here and register now! (deadline Nov.13)

Co-hosts;

Robert Dujarric
Co-Director, ICAS
Temple University Japan

Brad Glosserman
Visiting Professor at the CRS, Tama University and Senior Adviser at Pacific Forum

Akira Igata
Executive Director
CRS, Tama University

John Bradford
Executive Director
YCAPS

Japan’s Business Reinvention and the New Competitive Dynamics in Northeast Asia

Date:
October 28

Time:
10:00-11:30

Venue:
zoom

Speaker:
Ulrike Schaede, Professor of Japanese Business at the School of Global Policy and Strategy, the University of California, San Diego

Admission:
Free. Open to the public.

Language:
English

Overview:
Companies in South Korea, Taiwan and China have beaten Japan at its own game, namely, the high-quality mass-production of consumer end products, office equipment, etc.. In response to their rise, Japanese companies have, slowly but steadily, repositioned to compete in deep-tech input parts and advanced materials, chemicals and components. Today, they combine to hold a 50%+ global market share in at least 500 distinct product categories that are critical inputs, with a wide size distribution of companies and market segments. This has resulted in the “aggregate niche strategy”, and it means that Japan is now the technology anchor of many global supply chains. Even though the end products do not carry a “Japan Inside” label, Japanese inputs have an important presence in our everyday lives, from airplanes to cars, computers and cell phones, no matter what the brand. This has created new trade and resource dependencies as well as competitive synergies within Asia, in ways that are often overlooked in the United States.
Dr. Schaede will discuss Japan’s new role in Asia and other topics based on her extensive research on Japanese business and management.

Ulrike Schaede is Professor of Japanese Business at the University of California San Diego. She is the Director of JFIT (Japan Forum for Innovation and Technology) and head of the International Management track at GPS, the School of Global Policy and Strategy. She has published five books and more than 50 papers on Japanese business organization, strategy and management. Her research interest is to understand the social and economic efficiency consequences of different ways of organizing business and the economy. Main study areas include Japan’s corporate strategies in light of globalization, financial market organization, corporate governance, employment, innovation and the new digital economy. Her new book titled The Business Reinvention of Japan: How to Make Sense of the New Japan and Why it Matters published with Stanford University Press in June 2020.
Her CV can be found here.

Please click here and register now! (deadline Oct. 27th noon JST )

Co-hosts;
Robert Dujarric
Co-Director, Institute for Contemporary Asian Studies
Temple University Japan

Brad Glosserman
Visiting Professor at the CRS, Tama University and Senior Adviser at Pacific Forum

Akira Igata
Executive Director
CRS, Tama University

5 Nov 2020 10:00 (Tokyo Time)/4 Nov at 20:00 in NYC: US elections wrap-up and East Asia with Rory Daniels and Sean King

A day after polls will have closed in the US following an unprecedented election year we will provide commentary and analysis about the elections and the issues, especially as they relate to East Asia, with two experts who will shed light on the consequences of the elections.

Rorry Daniels is the Deputy Project Director of the Forum on Asia-Pacific Security (FAPS) at the National Committee on American Foreign Policy, a non-partisan and non-profit organization dedicated to advancing American foreign policy interests through dialogue and diplomacy. She regularly consults and publishes on security issues in the Asia Pacific and provides analysis for major media outlets and newsletters. She is a member of the National Committee on US-China Relations, the National Committee on North Korea, a Pacific Forum CSIS Young Leader, as well as a Korea Society Kim Koo Foundation Fellow (2015 cohort). She earned her M.S. in International Relations at NYU’s Center for Global Affairs, where she focused her studies on East and South Asia. She speaks Mandarin and holds a B.A. in Media Studies from Emerson College.

Sean King is Senior Vice President at Park Strategies, a business advisory firm managed by former U.S. Senator Alfonse D’Amato, where he has been since 2006. He is also a University of Notre Dame Liu Institute for Asia & Asian Affairs Affiliated Scholar. He often comments on U.S.-Asia issues and has authored two book chapters on Taiwan. Before joining Park Strategies, he spent five years at the United States Department of Commerce in Washington, DC, where he served as Senior Advisor for Asia in the U.S. & Foreign Commercial Service (USFCS). Before joining Commerce, he was based in Singapore for both PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and Citibank. He also worked for the New York State Department of Economic Development, on whose behalf he led a 1997 trade mission to Taiwan. He has an MBA from the University of Notre Dame and an undergraduate degree from American University.
The participants will be speaking in their personal capacity, and not on behalf of any institution or organization. The session will be off-the-record, Chatham House Rules, no recording.

Please click here and register now! (deadline Nov.3)

Co-hosts;
Robert Dujarric
Co-Director, Institute for Contemporary Asian Studies
Temple University Japan

Brad Glosserman
Visiting Professor at the CRS, Tama University and Senior Adviser at Pacific Forum

Akira Igata
Executive Director
CRS, Tama University

On December 15, 2021, the interview of Executive Director Akira Igata was published in Spain’s ESPANA JAPON （https://spainjapanfoundation.com/）. He discussed Japan’s economic security policy.

In the interview, Professor Igata talked about what economic security means for Japan and what Japanese government’s priorities are in promoting economic security

The interview article can be found below.

https://spainjapanfoundation.com/lo_ultimo/japon-debe-identificar-dependencias-criticas-en-las-cadenas-de-valor-y-buscar-alternativas/