East-West Center in Washington, Washington, D.C. (United States) March 2018
During the afternoon of Tuesday, March 6, 2018, a public seminar with the below three panel members was held at the East-West Center in Washington (headquarters: Honolulu, Hawaii.)
Keio University
* Yoshihide Soeya: Professor, Faculty of Law
* Junya Nishino: Professor, Faculty of Law
* Toshihiro Nakayama: Professor, Faculty of Policy Management
The opening presentations consisted of reports by the Keio professors that focused primarily on talking points in Japan-U.S. relations and current affairs in the Asia-Pacific region. Professor Soeya's report dealt with the debate around "Indo-Pacific Strategy"; Professor Nakayama's with the Japanese response, and ongoing prospects with regards to, the Trump administration; and Professor Nishino concluded the presentations with an analysis on the recent state of affairs on the Korean peninsula. While emphasizing military affairs and security aspects of the Japan-U.S. relationship, the extremely wide-ranging proceedings also touched on the spheres of domestic political circumstances, economies, and histories of concerned countries.
Subsequently, individual questions were posed by the East-West Center in Washington's Dr. Ellen L. Frost, who served as both chairperson and discussant at the proceedings, with responses fielded from the respective presenters. Finally, a Q&A session lasting approximately one hour was conducted between the presenters and the attendees from a largely full house. The discussions were also streamed on the internet.
On the following day, March 7, a seminar involving graduate students was held, and there were research reports by four graduate school students, with comments fielded on these from researchers from the East-West Center in Washington as well as invited researchers from outside the institute.
It was agreed that the continuation of similar activities from next year onwards would be considered.
East-West Center in Washington