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.

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).

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.

Kuniko Ashizawa

Kuniko Ashizawa teaches international relations at American University's School of International Service,  and at the Elliott School of International Affairs of the George Washington University. Her book, "Japan, the U.S. and Regional Institution-Building in the New Asia: When Identity Matters" received the 2015 Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize.

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.