Associates’ Panel: “Security Threats and Alliance Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific Region”

"The Maritime Self-Defense Forces (MSDF) at the Forefront of U.S.-China Conflict"

Tokuhiro Ikeda Senior Fellow, Harvard University Asia Center; Fujitsu System Integration Laboratories LTD; Former Vice Admiral, Japan Maritime Self Defense Force

“Japan and Artificial Intelligence”

Aki Nakai Policy Innovations Fellow, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University

“National Decision-Making and Collective Intelligence: U.S. Strategic Response to Gray-Zone Challenges”

Keita Azuma Cabinet Secretariat

Discussant: Jennifer Lind Associate Professor, Department of Government, Dartmouth College

Moderator: Christina L. Davis Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Professor of Government; Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University   This seminar is part of the Special Series on Policy Innovations in Crises, supported by a grant from the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership (CGP).   Register Now  

Additional Resources

1. Ikeda, Tokuhiro. "JMSDF Activities in the Indo-Pacific Region." The Japan Institute of International Affairs, April 5, 2021.

2. Nakai, Aki. "How to Make Japan's Military Great Again." The National Interest, August 25, 2018. 

3. Nakai, Aki. "Japan Gears up for Electronic Warfare." The Diplomat, September 5, 2018.

4. Kawakatsu Ueki, Chikako and Lind, Jennifer. "Is Japan Back? Measuring Nationalism and Military Assertiveness in Asia's Other Great Power." Journal of East Asian Studies, November 2, 2021.

5. Colby, Elbridge and Lind, Jennifer. "Japan must disavow pacifism and embrace collective defense." Nikkei Asia, June 18, 2021.