Featuring Michael Swaine, Mike Mochizuki, Kuniko Ashizawa, Yoshihide Soeya, & Hitoshi Tanaka

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Japan’s Middle Power Diplomacy in an Era of U.S.-China Rivalry
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As the U.S.-China strategic competition intensifies and the international order in Asia becomes more uncertain, Japan confronts the task of refashioning its diplomatic and security strategy. Is Japan’s “National Security Strategy” adopted in December 2022 adequate to navigate the difficult challenges facing the region and to promote a more stable and prosperous Asia? A new report entitled “Asia’s Future at a Crossroads: A Japanese Strategy for Peace and Sustainable Prosperity” presents a more realistic alternative strategy for Japan. It reflects the culmination of over four years of study and debate among eleven prominent scholars and former practitioners of Japanese foreign policy and international relations. The report argues that Japan should pursue a more proactive middle power diplomacy to mitigate U.S.-China rivalry, avoid a sharp division in Asia, and prevent great power conflict.

In this panel, Professors Yoshihide Soeya and Mike Mochizuki, who were the co-leaders of this project, will summarize the key recommendations, and former Japanese Deputy Foreign Minister Hitoshi Tanaka will be the commentator. Michael Swaine, Senior Research Fellow at the Quincy Institute, will moderate.

October 2023

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Hitoshi Tanaka

Hitoshi Tanaka is the Special Advisor of the Institute for International Strategy at the Japan Research Institute, Ltd. (JRI—Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group), previously serving as the chairman of the institute from 2010 to November 2022. He is also a senior fellow at the Japan Center for International Exchange (JCIE), a nongovernmental organization.

Yoshihide Soeya

Yoshihide Soeya is Professor Emeritus of Keio University, from which he retired in March 2020 after serving as professor of political science at the Faculty of Law for 32 years. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1987, majoring in world politics. Previously, Dr. Soeya served on the Korea-Japan Joint Research Project for the New Era in the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA).

Mike Mochizuki

Mike Mochizuki is the Japan-US Relations Chair in Memory of Gaston Sigur at the George Washington University Elliott School of International Affairs and a Non-Resident Fellow at the Quincy Institute. He co-directs the “Memory and Reconciliation in the Asia-Pacific” project of the Sigur Center. Professor Mochizuki was Associate Dean for Academic Programs at the Elliott School from 2010 to 2014.

Michael Swaine (Moderator)

Michael D. Swaine, a Senior Research Fellow at QI’s East Asia program, is one of the most prominent American scholars of Chinese security studies. He comes to QI from Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he worked for nearly twenty years as a senior fellow specializing in Chinese defense and foreign policy, U.S.-China relations, and East Asian international relations.

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