U.S.-Japan Economic Security and Technology Cooperation


Event Details

Tuesday, January 28, 2025
12:00–1:30 p.m. PST

Location: Downtown Seattle

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Amid an era of rapid technological advances and a shifting geopolitical environment in the Indo-Pacific, the United States and Japan have both identified economic security as a core strategic priority. Competition for technological leadership and concerns over emerging dual-use technologies have complicated trade and supply chain relations by blurring the lines between market-based economic interests and national security priorities, while expanding global connectivity, digital commerce, and cross-border data flows have introduced new risks and challenges as well as opportunities. Meanwhile, leadership transitions in the United States and Japan raise questions about each country’s approach to the changing strategic environment in the region.

Please join the National Bureau of Asian Research on Tuesday, January 28, from 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. for a discussion with Michael Beeman, Saori Katada, Daisuke Kawai, and Crystal Pryor on how the United States and Japan are approaching economic security under an evolving strategic environment.

Agenda


12:00 p.m. | WELCOME REMARKS

Michael Wills, President, The National Bureau of Asian Research


12:05 p.m. | PANEL DISCUSSION

Economic Security in the Trump and Ishiba Era

Michael Beeman, Visiting Scholar, Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC)

Saori Katada, Professor of International Relations and Diretor of the Center for International Studies, University of Southern California; Nonresident Fellow, NBR


12:45 p.m. | PANEL DISCUSSION

The Role of Emerging Technology and Export Controls on Economic Security

Daisuke Kawai, Project Assistant Professor and the Deputy Director of the Economic Security Programme at RCAST, University of Tokyo

Crystal Pryor, Senior Fellow, Center for Policy Research, SUNY Albany


1:25 p.m. | CLOSING REMARKS

Doug Strub, Senior Director of Research and Programs, The National Bureau of Asian Research