The United States-Japan Foundation (USJF), in partnership with Stanford's Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC), will host a symposium titled: 

"Recalibrating U.S.-Japan Collaboration in a Time of Tumult"
Tuesday, April 15, 2025 | 12:00-5:00 PM (Pacific)
Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center, Fisher Conference Center | Stanford University

For more information and to register, please visit: https://aparc.fsi.stanford.edu/events/recalibrating-us-japan-collaboration-time-tumult

As the United States reconsiders its global posture and Japan steps into a new era of international responsibility, this half-day symposium brings together influential leaders, scholars, and policymakers from both countries to examine the evolving U.S.-Japan relationship across critical domains—from foreign aid and global trade to civil society and cultural diplomacy. They will explore the evolving U.S.-Japan ties from various angles and engage in a wide-ranging conversation spanning the liberal international order, global trade, DEI, civil society, and baseball.

Recalibrating U.S.–Japan Collaboration in a Time of Tumult highlights the central role of the U.S.–Japan alliance in navigating a rapidly shifting global landscape. The United States Japan Foundation is happy to co-host this timely event at a critical moment in one of America’s closest and most important strategic alliances.

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The symposium will be preceded by a seminar co-organized with the university's Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (PACS) focused on the new USJF strategy of better connecting civil societies in Japan and the US. More information on that session can be found here: https://pacscenter.stanford.edu/event/seminar-philanthropy-in-japan/


USJF will be well-represented at the event, with Board members Wendy Cutler, Keiko Tashiro and Stan Kasten. Also, President/CEO Jacob M. Schlesinger and recent grantee and filmmaker Yuriko Gamo Romer all participating.

The symposium is hosted by Kiyoteru Tsutsui, a Fellow in USJF’s US-Japan Leadership Program and Director, Japan Program at Shorenstein APARC, Stanford Professor of Sociology.

The program features five sessions covering a range of contemporary challenges and opportunities:

Session 1 — Global Democracy, Foreign Aid, and Regional Security: As the U.S. Pulls Back, Will Tokyo Step Up?

  • Larry Diamond, Mosbacher Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford
  • Shinichi Kitaoka, Former Japanese Ambassador to the UN; Former President, JICA
  • Kiyoteru Tsutsui, Director, Japan Program, Shorenstein APARC; Professor of Sociology, Stanford

Session 2 — How Tariffs and Trade Wars Are Reshaping the Indo-Pacific

  • Wendy Cutler, Vice President, Asia Society Policy Institute; former Acting Deputy U.S. Trade Representative
  • Peter Wonacott, Managing Editor, Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability; former Deputy Bureau Chief, Wall Street Journal

Session 3 — The Future of DEI, ESG, SDGs: Will Japan Follow the U.S. or Stay the Course?

  • Keiko Tashiro, Deputy President, Head of Sustainability, Daiwa Securities Group
  • Gayle Peterson, Associate Fellow, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
  • Patricia Bromley, Co-Director, Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society

Session 4 — Redefining the Relationship Through Civil Society: Burden Sharing, Knowledge Sharing, Picking Up the Slack

  • Mike Berkowitz, Executive Director, Democracy Funders Network
  • Laura Deal Lacey, Executive Vice President, Milken Institute International
  • Jacob M. Schlesinger, President & CEO, United States–Japan Foundation

Session 5 — Diamond Diplomacy Redux: Baseball as a Bilateral Bridge

  • Stan Kasten, President & CEO, Los Angeles Dodgers
  • Yuriko Gamo Romer, Director/Producer, Diamond Diplomacy documentary

Media Inquiries:
United States-Japan Foundation: press@us-jf.org
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