Monday Asia Policy Events, July 28, 2025

JAPAN’S ROLE IN AN EVOLVING WORLD ECONOMY: FINANCE, SECURITY, AND MARKETS. 7/28, 1:15-5:15pm (JST), IN PERSON ONLY-Tokyo. Sponsor: Columbia Business School. Speakers Include: KATO Katsunobu, Minister of Finance, Minister of State for Financial Services, Japan; ARIIZUMI Shigeru, Vice Minister for International Affairs, Financial Services Agency, Japan; IMAGAWA Takuo, Vice-Minister for International Affairs, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Japan; Yuval Rooz, Co-Founder, CEO, Digital Asset; YAMAJI Hiromi, Group CEO, Japan Exchange Group, Inc. 

“DISMANTLING MOTHERHOOD” (2024) & “SINGING TOGETHER IN A MUSEUM” (2025): A DOUBLE FEATURE FILM SCREENING AND DISCUSSION WITH THE PROJECT ORGANIZERS. 7/28, 3:00-4:30pm (JST), 2:00-3:30am (EDT), IN PERSON ONLY. Sponsor: Gender, Sexuality & Identity Research Group, Tokyo College. Speakers: Natsumi Sakamoto, Film Director; Ritsuko Saito, PhD Student, Research Associate, Waseda University. 

COLLATERAL DAMAGE? CENTRAL ASIA AND THE SOUTH CAUCASUS IN THE ISRAEL-IRAN CONFLICT. 7/28, 10:00-11:15am (EDT), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Center for the National Interest. Speakers: James Durso, Managing Director, Corsair LLC; Roger Kangas, Academic Dean and Professor of Central Asian Studies, Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies, National Defense University; Alouddin Komilov, Head, International Political Development Project, Center for Progressive Reforms; Adjunct Assistant Professor, Webster University (Tashkent, Uzbekistan); Damjan Krnjević Mišković, Professor of Practice and Director of Policy Research, Analysis, and Publications, Institute for Development and Diplomacy, ADA University (Baku, Azerbaijan); Moderator: Andrew Kuchins, Senior Fellow, Center for the National Interest. 

DAVID PETRAEUS ON WHAT TAIWAN CAN LEARN FROM UKRAINE’S BATTLEFIELD EXPERIENCE. 7/28, 4:30-5:30pm (EDT), HYBRID. Sponsor: Hudson Institute. Speakers: Kenneth R. Weinstein, Japan Chair, Hudson Institute; General David H. Petraeus (US Army, Ret.), Chairman, KKR Global Institute; Moderator: Jason Hsu, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute. 

IDEAS UNCORKED: REIMAGINING STRATEGIC DEPTH. 7/28, 5:00-6:30pm (EDT), IN PERSON ONLY, free booze. Sponsor: Hoover Institution. Speaker: Nadia Schadlow, National Security Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution. 

INTRODUCTION TO THE BEAUTY OF JAPANESE SWORDS: ANCIENT TRADITION, LIVING CULTURE, MODERN ART. 7/29, 10:00am (JST), 7/28, 9:00pm (EDT), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Yokosuka Council on Asia Pacific Studies. Speaker: Paul Martin, Trustee and Researcher, Society for the Promotion of Japanese Sword Culture (NBSK).