US-Japan Relations in the Wake of the US Midterm Elections

Join us for a timely discussion about the state of the US-Japan relationship following the US midterm elections. 

The relationship between the United States and Japan remains strong amid an unstable and unpredictable global environment. But the relationship faces many challenges, both foreign and domestic, including the US midterm elections of November 3 and questions about the longevity of the current Japanese government. Join us for a discussion with Glen S. Fukushima, JSB Board member and Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, currently a Visiting Fellow at Stanford University. In conversation with Boston University’s Professor William Grimes, Mr. Fukushima will assess the outlook for US-Japan relations following the US midterm elections.

Ticketed and open to the public (pre-registration required).

Glen S. Fukushima – Presenter

Glen S. Fukushima is a Visiting Fellow at Stanford University, Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, and Vice Chair of the Securities Investor Protection Corporation. He was a senior executive in Asia for one European and four American global corporations and was elected twice to serve as President of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan. He also served as Director for Japanese Affairs and Deputy Assistant USTR at the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) in Washington, DC. He was educated at Deep Springs College, Stanford, and Harvard and was a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Tokyo.

William W. Grimes – Moderator

William W. Grimes is Professor of International Relations & Political Science at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University. He is the author of Unmaking the Japanese Miracle (Cornell University Press, 2001) and Currency and Contest in East Asia (Cornell University Press, 2009), which was awarded the 2010 Masayoshi Ohira Prize for outstanding book on the Pacific Basin and Honorable Mention for the Asia Society’s Bernard Schwartz Book Award in 2009. He has published articles, book chapters, monographs, and commentary on East Asian financial regionalism, the impacts of financial globalization in Japan, Japanese monetary policy making, US-Japan relations, and related topics.

In Partnership With

Boston University Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies Center for the Study of Asia