Events
Political change in Japan and its implications for U.S.-Japan relations September 19, 2011 / Washington, DC
On September 16, the Asia Program of the German Marshall Fund and the Japan Center for International Exchange (JCIE) hosted a roundtable discussion on Japanese domestic politics and the U.S.-Japan alliance.
The roundtable, moderated by GMF Resident Fellow Ryo Sahashi, featured presentations by Tetsuo Kotani of the Okazaki Institute and John Park of the U.S. Institute for Peace. Kotani discussed the evolution of the Democratic Party of Japan’s foreign policy since its formation in the 1990s, while Park outlined the debates surrounding the bilateral alliance in both the United States and Japan. Several participants – including GMF’s Daniel Kliman, JCIE’s James Gannon, Yuka Uchida of the Brookings Institution, and Llewellyn Hughes of George Washington University – discussed other factors that might affect U.S.-Japan relations, including fiscal pressures, leadership changes, multilateral institutions, energy policies, and disaster management strategies.



