In this episode of Japan Memo, Robert Ward and Yuka Koshino are joined by Dr Michael Green, senior vice president for Asia, Japan Chair, and Henry A. Kissinger Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and director of Asian Studies at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He also served on the National Security Council from 2001 to 2005, first as Director for Asian Affairs with responsibility for Japan, Korea, Australia, and New Zealand, and then as Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and Senior Director for Asia with responsibility for East Asia and South Asia.

Mike combines his deep knowledge of Japan and Asia, with his insider expertise in US security and foreign policy to put the US-Japan Alliance in today’s global strategic context. Topics covered include:

·        Alignments and divergences between the US and Japan’s strategic goals

·        US economic statecraft in Asia under the Biden Administration  

·        Diversifying regional security threats and upcoming revisions to Japan’s National Security Strategy

·        US – Japan cooperation in minilateral and multilateral frameworks in the Indo-Pacific

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Date of Recording: 31 January 2022

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