The Role of the U.S.-Japanese Alliance in a New Era

An Address by Ambassador Ichiro Fujisaki

Friday, October 31, 2008 | 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Wohlstetter Conference Center, Twelfth Floor, AEI 1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036

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The U.S.-Japanese relationship is at a crossroads. New leadership in both countries will be responsible for fulfilling commitments to realign the military alliance, stabilizing an economic crisis that continues to cause domestic uncertainty, and containing political upheaval on Listen to Audio
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At this special AEI event, Japan’s ambassador to the United States, Ichiro Fujisaki, will present his outlook on the future of U.S.-Japanese relations. What will be the goals in Asia and beyond? Fujisaki will address this and other questions. AEI president Christopher DeMuth will introduce the ambassador, and AEI resident scholar Michael Auslin will moderate.

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10:45 a.m.	Registration

11:00	Introduction:	Christopher DeMuth, AEI

	Speaker:	Ambassador Ichiro Fujisaki, Embassy of Japan

	Moderator:	Michael Auslin, AEI

12:00 p.m.	Adjournment

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Michael
Auslin

Michael Auslin, AEI's director of Japan Studies, was an associate professor of history and senior research fellow at the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University prior to joining AEI. A frequent commentator in U.S. and foreign media, Mr. Auslin is also a columnist for the Wall Street Journal. His writings on Asia and Japan include the book Pacific Cosmopolitans: A Cultural History of U.S.-Japan Relations (Harvard University Press, 2011) and the report Security in the Indo-Pacific Commons: Toward a Regional Strategy (AEI Press, 2010). He has been named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, a Marshall Memorial Fellow by the German Marshall Fund, and a Fulbright and Japan Foundation Scholar.

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Phone: 202-862-5848
Email: michael.auslin@aei.org
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Name: Lara Crouch
Phone: 202-862-7160
Email: lara.crouch@aei.org

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Christopher
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Christopher DeMuth was president of AEI from December 1986 through December 2008. Previously, he was administrator for information and regulatory affairs in the Office of Management and Budget and executive director of the Presidential Task Force on Regulatory Relief in the Reagan administration; taught economics, law, and regulatory policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University; practiced regulatory, antitrust, and general corporate law; and worked on urban and environmental policy in the Nixon White House.
Phone: 2028625895
Email: cdemuth@aei.org
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Name: Keriann Hopkins
Phone: 2028625897
Email: keriann.hopkins@aei.org