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Mansfield Committee on U.S.-Japan Relations

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This committee comprises participants drawn from the American and Japanese policy communities thought likely to directly participate in or influence U.S.-Japan relations at a political level in the next five to ten years. The committee addresses the full range of challenges and opportunities facing the U.S.-Japan relationship with the intent of deepening individual understanding of the issues and forging cooperative relationships between the participants—objectives that may benefit policymakers in both Washington and Tokyo for years to come. Consisting of four meetings over two years, the program’s first two meetings, in Montana (June 2010) and Hawaii (January 2011), featured open and frank dialogue among participants resulting in targeted policy recommendations on matters of contemporary concern to both governments. The third meeting is scheduled for June, 2011 in Tokyo and Hakone, and the fourth and final meeting will be in Washington, D.C. the following October.

Committee Membership includes the following American and Japanese experts and officials:

Akiyama Nobumasa	Associate Professor Hitotsubashi University and Adjunct Fellow, Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA)
Arai Yusuke	Minister-Counselor Embassy of Japan in Seoul
Michael Auslin	Director of Japan Studies American Enterprise Institute (AEI)
Suzanne Basalla	Senior Advisor to the Ambassador U.S. Embassy, Tokyo
Ralph Cossa	President Pacific Forum CSIS
Paige Cottingham-Streater	Deputy Executive Director, The Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation
L. Gordon Flake	Executive Director, The Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation
Brad Glosserman	Executive Director, Pacific Forum CSIS
Michael Green	Senior Advisor and Japan Chair, CSIS, and Associate Professor, Georgetown University
Hayashi Yoshimasa	Member, House of Councilors Liberal Democratic Party
Frank Jannuzi	Senior Professional Staff Member, Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
Kato Yoichi	Senior Staff Writer Asahi Shimbun
CharlesLake	Chairman and Representative in Japan, Aflac Japan and Vice Chairman, The Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation
Amy E. Searight	Senior Policy Advisor for Asia, USAID
Serizawa Kiyoshi	Director, Equipment Policy Division, Bureau of Finance and Equipment, Ministry of Defense, Japan
Sheila A. Smith	Senior Fellow for Japan Studies Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
Sugawa Kiyoshi	Senior Researcher of the Policy Research Committee and Special Researcher of Cabinet Secretariat Democratic Party Japan
Ueki Chikako Kawakatsu	Professor, Graduate School of Asia Pacific Studies, Waseda University