Associates' Panel: “Rethinking the Origins of U.S.-Japan Alliance”

"Why the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty and the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) Have Not Been Revised since 1960"

Kaoru Iokibe
Professor, Graduate Schools of Law and Politics, University of Tokyo

"Atomic Anniversaries: Mediated Memories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in a Post-Hibakusha World"

Katharine Starr
Former Consulting Producer, NHK World Japan

"American Public Perceptions of U.S.-Japan Relations, 1990-2020"

Koichi Ai
Embassy of Japan in the United States of America

Discussant: Thomas Berger
Professor of International Relations, Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University

Moderator: Christina 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

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Additional Resources

1. Iokibe, Kaoru. "Japan since the Meiji Restoration (1): Lessons from Diplomatic and Constitutional History." The Tokyo Foundation for Policy Research, July 24, 2018.

2. Yoshida, Mayu. "After the hibakusha: the future of Japan's anti-nuclear movement." NHK World Japan, January 31, 2022.