At the 101st GRIPS Forum on November 17, 2014, Mr. Glen S. Fukushima, Senior Fellow at Center for American Progress (CAP), gave a lecture titled “U.S.-Japan relations after the U.S. midterm elections”

• Abstract

The U.S. midterm elections of November 4, 2014 will set the parameters of what the Obama Administration can do in its last two years in both domestic and foreign policy. In a globalizing world, U.S.-Japan relations is increasingly affected by world events, in particular, America’s and Japan’s relations with other countries and regions, including China, Russia, South Korea, etc. In addition, changes in American society and Japanese society are requiring a re-thinking of the orthodox approach to the bilateral relationship. I propose to discuss the implications of these global and domestic changes for the future of the U.S.-Japan relationship.

Speakers’ Profile:

Glen S. Fukushima is a Senior Fellow at CAP (Center for American Progress), a prominent Washington, D.C. think tank. Before assuming his current position in 2012, he was based for over 20 years in Tokyo, where he was a senior executive with one European and four American corporations and served as President of ACCJ (American Chamber of Commerce in Japan). Prior to his business career, he was Director for Japanese Affairs and Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Japan and China at USTR (Office of the U.S. Trade Representative). He was educated at Stanford, Keio, Harvard, and Tokyo University.