Keizai Koho Center invited U.S. think tank researchers to Tokyo, providing them with opportunities to exchange views with Japanese business executives, lawmakers, government officers, scholars, and other policy experts. The week-long program aims to contribute to mutual understanding between the U.S. and Japan. Three researchers, Mr. Martin Chorzempa, Senior Fellow of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, Dr. Adam P. Liff, Nonresident Senior Fellow of The Brookings Institution, and Dr. Inu Manak, Fellow of The Council on Foreign Relations participated in the program from March 4-8, 2024.

The researchers had discussions with companies such as Toyota Motor Corporation, JFE Steel, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Shiseido and Sony. They also met with officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and the Bank of Japan, as well as parliamentarians of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan. They also discussed issues such as Japan’s aging population and Japan’s international relations with prominent scholars of Hitotsubashi University and the University of Tokyo..

This year’s program focused on Japan-U.S. cooperation in the changing international environment and economic security. The researchers shared their views on this issue in a symposium on the last day of the program, co-hosted by Keizai Koho Center and the 21st Century Public Policy Institute. A panel discussion was moderated by Dr. Kazuhiro Maeshima, Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Global Studies at Sophia University and Deputy Research Director of the 21st Century Public Policy Institute. Dr. Adam Posen, President of the Peterson Institute for International Economics made a keynote remark (video recording) on the “U.S. Economic and Political Outlook for 2024 and the Impact on the Japanese and Global Economies”.

KKC has invited U.S. think tank researchers to Japan since 1999.

Keizai Koho Center invited U.S. think tank researchers to Tokyo, providing them with opportunities to exchange views with Japanese business executives, lawmakers, government officers, scholars, and other policy experts. The week-long program aims to contribute to mutual understanding between the U.S. and Japan. Three researchers, Mr. Riley Walters, Deputy Director and Japan Chair of the Hudson Institute, Mr. Jon Bateman, Senior Fellow of Technology and International Affairs Program of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Mr. Clark Packard, Research Fellow of Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies at Cato Institute participated in the program, which was held in-person.

This year’s program focused on the topic of economic security and concluded with a symposium titled “Economic Security: US and Japanese Responses and the Business Implications”. The researchers shared their views on this issue and discussed the realities of strategic decoupling. A panel discussion was moderated by Ms. Kaori Iida, Director of the Digital News Department at NHK.

KKC has invited U.S. think tank researchers to Japan since 1999.