Conferences and Workshops

1992
• Japanese Information: Where Do You Find It and What Does It Mean?
• The Needs and Use of Japanese Science and Technology Information in the U.S.
• Japanese Information in Computers, Electronics, and Semiconductors

1993
• Japanese Information in Computers, Electronics, and Semiconductors
• Japanese Intellectual Property: The New Politics of U.S.-Japan Trade
• Patent Politics Between the U.S. and Japan

1994
• Technical Requirements for Accessing Japanese Information: Problems and Solutions, organized for the Japan Documentation Center of the Library of Congress
• U.S.-Japan Trade & Technology: A Maturing Relationship? organized for the University of New Mexico, U.S.-Japan Center

1995
• Antitrust: An International Trade Remedy? organized for the University of Washington, Seattle, Asian Law Program
• Japanese Public Policy Perspectives and Resources, organized for the Japan Documentation Center of the Library of Congress
Japan Information Access Project 11 • Accessing Japanese S&T Information Without Leaving Home, organized for the Society for Competitive Intelligence Professionals
• The Policy Context of Japanese Science & Technology, organized for the University of New Mexico, U.S.-Japan Center

1996
• CyberJapan: Technology, Policy and Society, organized for the Japan Documentation Center of the Library of Congress
• Asia’s New Competitors: The Manufacturing Advantage, organized for the U.S.-Japan Center, University City Science Center

1997
• Japanese Deregulation: What You Should Know, organized for the Japan-United States Friendship Commission
• Intellectual Property: Japan and the New Asia, two-day symposium organized in cooperation with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission

2002
• Fixing Japan’s Economy6. Fixing Japan’s Economy, with Dr. R. Glenn Hubbard, Chairman of the Council on Economic Advisers the keynote luncheon speaker. Sumner LaCroix (East-West Center, University of Hawaii), Magnus Blomström (European Institute of Japanese Studies, Stockholm School of Economics), Anil K. Kashyap (University of Chicago), Hiroshi Ono (European Institute of Japanese Studies, Stockholm School of Economics), and Jay Tate (University of California, Berkeley). The moderator/commentator was Gillian Tett (Financial Times)


Policy Discussions

A series of public policy lunch programs and policy briefings, initiated in June 1992, provide Washington’s policy community with an opportunity to learn from experts on a wide range of issues affecting Japan and Asia’s trade, technology, and security relationships. The lunches have varied from being informal, free, public brown bag talks, to on-the-record discussions at the National Press Club and the Pentagon. The Project has also arranged private briefings with scholars and experts for senior policy officials. Programs have included:

1992
• U.S.-Japan Strategy for a Technology Infrastructure with Dr. Gregory Tassey, senior economist, NIST
• Japanese Research Consortia with Dr. James E. Gover, Sandia Labs; and Dr. Gerald Hane, staff member, U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space and Technology
• The Candidates and Asia with Dr. Derek Shearer, Occidental College; and Ambassador Michael Moskow, Deputy U.S. Trade Representative in the Bush Administration
Japan Information Access Project 12 • Computer Science in Japan with Dr. David Kahaner, Office of Naval Research, Tokyo

1993
• Japanese Women in the 90s: An Equal Opportunity? with Professor Linda Edwards, Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY
• Reflections on Security in Asia with Commander Torkel Patterson, Former Director of Asian Affairs of the National Security Council
• Clinton’s Technology Agenda and Japan with Mr. Thomas Kalil of the National Economic Council, Ms. Linda Staheli of the Department of State, U.S.-Japan S&T Agreement, and Dr. Henry Kelly of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
• Perspectives on Japanese Corporate Governance: The Annual Shareholder’s June Meetings with Mr. John Taylor of the Investor Responsibility Research Center and Tadashi Saito of the Japan Economic Institute
• Industrial Organization in Japan, the United States, and Germany with Ms. Barbara Keller, General Accounting Office and Dr. Edward Lincoln, The Brookings Institution
• Japan’s New Global Role with Dr. Edward Lincoln, The Brookings Institution
• The Status of the U.S.-Japan Framework Talks with Ambassador Charlene Barshefsky, Deputy U.S. Trade Representative

1994
• Foreign Technology: Collection and Dissemination of Japanese Information Can Be Improved with Ms. Erin Noel and Ms. Rosa Johnson, General Accounting Office and Mr. Edward McGaffigan, Office of Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM)
• Where Are We Now? U.S.-Japan Framework with Mr. W. Bowman Cutter, Deputy Director, National Economic Council
• The New Role of Foreign Economic Policy with Ambassador Joan Spero, Under Secretary for Economic and Agricultural Affairs, State Department
• Techno-nationalism and the U.S.-Japan Security Relationship with Dr. Michael Green, Assistant Professor of Asian Studies, The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University
• Private lunch discussion with Dr. Ezra Vogel, National Intelligence Officer on Japan, National Intelligence Council, CIA
• Understanding Japan’s University-Industry Link: Regulation & Reality with Dr. Diana Hicks, Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex and Visiting Professor, Haas Business School, University of California at Berkeley
• A New Legislative Strategy for Expanding U.S. Trade with Japan with Congressman Jim Kolbe (R-AZ), Chairman, House Wednesday Group
• Re-engineering U.S.-Japan Economic Relations with Mr. Bob Kyle, Senior Director of Asia-Pacific Economic Affairs, National Security Council
• Japan’s International Trade Policy with Mrs. Midori Tani, Director of MITI’s International Communications Office, International Trade Bureau
Japan Information Access Project 13

1995
• Private lunch discussion with Ambassador James R. Lilley, Director of the Asian Studies Program at the American Enterprise Institute and former U.S. Ambassador to China and South Korea
• Opening Japan’s Financial Markets with Mr. Timothy Geithner, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Treasury, International Monetary and Financial Policy
• Reaffirming the U.S.-Japan Security Alliance with Dr. Kurt Campbell, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, East Asia, Dr. Patrick Cronin, National Defense University, and Ted G. Carpenter, Cato Institute

1996
• Japan’s Cartel Economy, a brown bag lunch discussion and private briefings with Prof. Mark Tilton of Purdue University, author of Restrained Trade: Cartels in Japan’s Basic Materials Industries
• Is MITI Trying to Kill Section 301?, a brown bag lunch discussion with Charles D. Lake, II Esq., of Dewey Ballantine and former Special Counsel to Deputy U.S. Trade Representative and former Director of Japanese Affairs at the USTR
• New Priorities in America’s East Asian Strategy, a luncheon discussion with Ms. Sandy Kristoff, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Asian Affairs, National Security Council
• The Funding of Japanese Lobbying in Washington, private luncheon discussion with Mr. Yoichiro Sato, Ph.D. candidate in Political Science, University of Hawaii
• Mismanaged Trade?: Strategic Policy and the Semiconductor Industry, a brown bag lunch discussion and book signing with Dr. Kenneth Flamm, Senior Fellow of the Brookings Institution
• Can the Winner be Tougher?: U.S.-Japan Relations Post-Elections, a luncheon panel discussion with speakers Dr. Ed Lincoln, Senior Fellow Brookings Institution, former Special Economic Advisor, U.S. Embassy, Tokyo; Mr. Jerry Johnson, Vice President and Director, International Trade & Policy Group, Powell Tate, and moderator Mr. David Sanger, New York Times
• Japanese Intelligence: The Competitive Edge, a brown bag lunch discussion and book signing with Mr. James H. Hansen, a senior official at the Defense Intelligence Agency
• Japan’s Fair Trade Commission and the Politics of Antimonopoly Policy, a brown bag lunch discussion and private briefings with Michael Beeman, Ph.D. candidate, St. Anthony’s College, Oxford University

1997
• Deregulating Japan’s Telecommunications and Financial Markets, a brown bag discussion and book signing with Dr. Steven Vogel, Government Department, Harvard University. Additional private briefings for policymakers
Japan Information Access Project 14 • How Should Japan Change? A Discussion with “Mr. Reform,” a brown bag lunch discussion with Mr. Katsuhiko Eguchi, Acting President of PHP Institute, Kyoto, Japan
• The U.S. and Japanese Response to a North Korean Collapse, JIMT Briefing with speakers Lt. Col. Lonnie Henley, US Army; Dr. Michael Green, Institute of Defense Analyses; Mr. Robert Manning, Progressive Policy Institute, and moderator Dr. Davis Bobrow, University of Pittsburgh
• Japan’s New Defense Guidelines & East Asian Regional Security, JIMT Briefing with speakers Lt. Col. James F. Armington, Department of Defense; Dr. Patrick Cronin, National Defense University; Dr. Katy Oh, Institute for Defense Analyses, and moderator Commander Paul Giarra, National Defense University
• True Allies? Is There a Future in the U.S.-Japan Security Alliance, JIMT Briefing and book signing with Dr. Michael Mochizuki, Brookings Institution; Dr. Michael O’Hanlon, Brookings Institution; and Mr. Takuma Takahashi, Nomura Research Institute
• Japanese Aerospace: Defense Takes The Lead, JIMT Briefing with Mr. Matthew Dixon, University of Pittsburgh (Ph.D. candidate), Mr. Tom Nugent (MIT, Ph.D. candidate), and Mr. Joel Johnson, Aerospace Industries Association of America
• Chinese and Japanese Export Controls: A Backdoor Industrial Policy, JIMT Briefing with Dr. Richard Cupitt, Center for International Trade and Security at the University of Georgia and Dr. Martha Caldwell Harris, Senior Vice President, Asia Foundation
• Japan’s Banking Crisis: Domestic Politics, Global Repercussions, and the Potential for Meaningful Reforms, JIMT Briefing with Professor Thomas Cargill, University of Nevada, Reno, Commentator, Dr. Edward Lincoln, The Brookings Institution
• Asia’s Financial Crisis and Japan with Professor Thomas Cargill, University of Nevada, Reno and co-author of The Political Economy of Japanese Monetary Policy, private briefings for members of congress, congressional staff, and the press. Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Public Policy Series Event.

1998
• Japan’s Science & Technology Policy: Retooling for the Future, with Dr. William Blanpied, National Science Foundation and Dr. Gregory Tassey, National Institute of Standards and Technology, brown bag lunch discussion
• Competition Policy and International Trade: How Different is Japan from Germany and Does It Matter? With Mark Tilton, Purdue University. Private briefing at USTR for senior international competition policy officials. Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Public Policy Series Event
• Can Japan Be Asia’s Locomotive? JIMT briefing with Deputy United States Trade Representative Richard W. Fisher
• Asia’s Energy Security and the Potential of Central Asia, with Ms. Amy Myers Jaffe, Baker Institute for Public Policy at Rice University.
• Japan’s Steel Cartel and the 1998 Steel Export Surge. With Mark Tilton, Purdue University. Public brown bag lunch and private briefings for congressional and
Japan Information Access Project 15 administration officials. Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Public Policy Series Event
• Japan and Asia’s Financial Crisis. With Caroline Atkinson, Deputy Assistant Treasury Secretary for International Monetary and Financial Policy. Public lunch discussion
• Security in Asia: Japan and The 1998 East Asia Security Strategy Report. With Kurt Campbell, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific Affairs and commentating, Dr. Charles Morrison, president of the East-West Center. Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Public Policy Series Event

1999
• Japan’ s Next “Big Bang”: Healthcare Reform, Implications for U.S. Policy. With Paul Talcott, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Political Science, Harvard University, Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Public Policy Series Event
• How Japan’s Patent System Encourages Incremental Innovation, Lessons from Japan for U.S. Patent Reform: Policy Implications of a Pre-Grant Disclosure System. With Christine McDaniel, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Economics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Public Policy Series Event
• Don’t Count Japan Out: Japanese Science & Technology Policy with Professor Alain-Marc Rieu (Faculty of Philosophy, University of Lyon) And Dr. William Blanpied (National Science Foundation), AFRL Pentagon Study Group
• China’s Regional Security Interests with Amy Jaffe, Baker Institute for Public Policy and Bonnie Glaser, Consultant on Asian Affairs, AFRL Pentagon Study Group
• CyberBusiness In Japan: Critical Policy Issues and the Online Marketplace with Rachel Howe (DSA Analytics) and Russell Hayward (Dynamic Strategies Asia)
• Northeast Asia’s Long-Range Energy Security with Amy Jaffe, Baker Institute for Public Policy
• Science, Technology and Security in North Korea with Peter Hayes and Jim Williams (Nautilus Institute), AFRL Pentagon Study Group
• Japan’s Flawed Antitrust Regime with Michael Beeman, D.Phil. Oxford, Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Public Policy Series Event

2000
• Cracks in Japan’s Science & Technology Regime with Dr. Jon Sigurdson, Director, East Asia Science & Technology Programme, The European Institute of Japanese Studies, Stockholm School of Economics, AFRL Pentagon Study Group
• Rapid Collection and Evaluation of Asian Internet Information with T. Mathew Ciolek, head, Internet Publications Bureau, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at ANU in Canberra, Australia, AFRL Pentagon Study Group
• CyberWar In Asia: The Technology and Politics of Information Warfare with Dr. Daniel T. Kuehl, National Defense University and Michael Pillsbury, INSS, National Defense University, AFRL Pentagon Study Group
Japan Information Access Project 16 • Japan’s View of CyberWar with Mr. Akihiko Nakajima, Director of Command and Communications Defense Operations Bureau, Japan Defense Agency; and Daniel Kuehl, National Defense University.
• Creating Competition in Japan’s Telecommunications Market with Professor Steven K. Vogel, University of California, Berkeley and Jonathan McHale (USTR), Paul Kenefick (Cable & Wireless), and Robert Triendl (ATIP), Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Public Policy Series Event
• Perspectives on Northeast Asian Science & Technology: Japan, Taiwan & South Korea with Phyllis Genther Yoshida, Department of Commerce; Robert Chang, Northwestern University; Edward Murday, Naval Research Laboratory; and Cathleen Smith, US Chamber of Commerce, AFRL Pentagon Study Group
• Japan’s June 25 Election: Understanding the Results with Ray Christensen, Brigham Young University; Michael Green, Council on Foreign Relations;Yoichi Kato, Asahi Shimbun; Mike Mochizuki, George Washington University, Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Public Policy Series Event
• Perspectives on Australia’s Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA): Technology and Regional Security with Thomas-Durell Young, Naval Postgraduate School, Michael Evans, Australian Army’s Land Warfare Studies Centre; Andrew Dowse, Australian Royal Air Force, AFRL Pentagon Study Group
• Australia’s Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA): Implications for Regional Security with Thomas-Durell Young, Naval Postgraduate School, Michael Evans, Australian Army’s Land Warfare Studies Centre, incooperation with Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies
• Creating Competition in Japan’s Telecommunications Market with Professor Steven K. Vogel, University of California, Berkeley and Jonathan McHale, USTR; Paul Kenefick Cable & Wireless; and Robert Triendl, ATIP.
• Japan’s June 25 Election: Understanding the Results with Ray Christensen, Brigham Young University; Michael Green, Council on Foreign Relations; Yoichi Kato, Asahi Shimbun; Mike Mochizuki, George Washington University.

2001
• Washington’s Movers & Shakers on Japan: The Morse Target 2001 March 15, 2001 with Ronald A. Morse, Professor of International Economics and Business, Reitaku University in Tokyo, Commentator, Chris Nelson, The Nelson Report. Distributed The Morse Target.
• Energizing Japanese Politics: New Tools For Citizen Participation. A discussion of the Post-LDP presidential election (4/23/01), selection of the new prime minister (4/24/01), and how new actors, laws, and factors are affecting Japanese politics with Larry Repeta, Information Clearinghouse Japan, on Freedom of Information; Jean Grier, Commerce Department, on regulatory reform; and Robert Pekkanen, Harvard, on nonprofit law and organization moderated by Edward Lincoln, Brookings Institution with commentator from John Wecker, State Department.
• How Politics Undermine Economic Reform In Japan. Issues discussed were antitrust laws, trade associations, the distribution system, and domestic politics and the
Japan Information Access Project 17 specific case of telecommunications reform with Ulrike Schaede, University of California at San Diego and Mark Tilton, Purdue University.
• Arthritic Japan: The Slow Pace Of Economic Reform, Book Discussion with the author Edward Lincoln, Brookings, and Commentary by Lael Brainard, Brookings.
• The Cultural and Political Dimensions of Getting to Yes with China with Ambassador Richard H. Solomon, USIP; Dr. Robert Sutter, Georgetown University; Dr. Yuling Pan and Dr. Barbara Craig, Georgetown University. Amb. Solomon’s book Chinese Negotiating Behavior distributed. AST Forum.

2002
• Widening The Dialogue with India: Politics, Security, and Science with Ambassador Teresita C. Schaffer (CSIS), Dr. Stephen Cohen (Brookings Institution), and Dr. Mita Desai (National Science Foundation). Amb. Schaffer’s report, Rising India and U.S. Policy Options in Asia distributed, February 7, 2002, AST Forum.
• The First Year of Japan`s FOIA: Is It A Real Tool for Political Accountability? with Mr. Larry Repeta, Information Clearinghouse Japan & Director, Law Program in Japan, Associate Dean, Temple University Japan.
• Exploring Science & Technology on Taiwan with Ambassador Harvey Feldman (Heritage Foundation), Dr. James Mulvenon (RAND), Dr. Steven Phillips (Towson University), Dr. Phyllis Genther Yoshida (Energy Dept), MAJ Wesmond Andrews (USAF), Dr. Marshall Lih (NSF), Dr. Robert Lai, Dr. Shouhua Qi (Western Connecticut State U), Dr Joseph Liu (USAF), Mr. W. Johann Schmonsees (State Dept), Ms. Bonnie Coe (Atlantic Council). Taiwan's Foreign and Defense Policies: Features and Determinants by Michael Swaine and James C. Mulvenon distributed, April 24, 2002.
• Japan-US Relations: The Next Ten Years with Professors Steven Vogel (University of California, Berkeley) & Leonard Schoppa (University of Virginia). U.S.-Japan Relations In A Changing World, A new book edited by Steven Vogel was for sale.
• Steel’s Divided Markets: Japan & Europe with Professor Mark Tilton (Purdue U).
• Understanding the Science & Technology, Politics & Culture of South Korea with Mr. Paul Chamberlin (Independent Consultant), Dr. Katy Oh (IDA), Dr. Junku Yuh (NSF), Dr. Sang-Seon Kim (Counselor, Embassy of the Republic of South Korea). Korea 2010: The Challenges of the New Millenium by Paul Chamberlin distributed, September 4, 2002.
• Japan's Intelligence Operatives In War And Peace: The Nakano School From 1938-2001, with Stephen Mercado, (Author, The Shadow Warriors of Nakano: A History of the Imperial Japanese Army's Elite Intelligence School, Brassey's,