| Opening by Moderator, Tomohito Shinoda (International University of Japan) Welcoming Remarks by Hideya Taida (The Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership)
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| PART I.  U.S.-Japan Alliance and Region
 
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| 1. Iraq situation and US-Japan alliancePaper by Akihiko Tanaka (University of Tokyo): to be posted soon
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| Comment by | Hisahiko Okazaki (Okazaki Institute) James Auer (Vanderbilt University)
 Shin'ichi Kitaoka (University of Tokyo)
 
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| 2. China and Taiwan
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| "China and Taiwan: Thoughts on the Analysis of Cross-Strait Relations"by June Teufel Dreyer (University of Miami)
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| "Strategic Value of Taiwan"by Hisahiko Okazaki (Okazaki Institute)
 
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| 3. Korean Peninsula | 
| "North Korean Issues and the Japan-U.S. Relations"by Hideshi Takesada (National Institute of Defense Studies)
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| "Japan as the ‘new South Korea'?"by Robyn Lim (Nanzan University)
 
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| PART II:  Legal and Technology Issue | 
| 1. Argument of Collective Self-Defense, Contingency Legislation | 
| "Japan's Right of Collective Self-Defense: Not Whether but When"by Koji Murata (Doshisha University)
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| Comment by | Noboru Yamaguchi (Japan Ground Self Defense Force) James Auer (Vanderbilt University)
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 2. Military Technological Cooperation, Missile Defense | 
| "Military Technology Cooperation"by Sumihiko Kawamura (Kawamura Institute)
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| "Armaments Cooperation and Missile Defese in the US-Japan Alliance"by Gregg Rubinstein (GAR Associates)
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| Comment by | Hideaki Kaneda (Okazaki Institute) | 
| (Posted here with permission from IUJ Research Institute) |