Foreign Policy Luncheon
What is The “Foreign Policy Luncheon”?
The “Foreign Policy Luncheon” is organized monthly to provide an occasion for members of JFIR to meet, in an informal and confidential manner, with senior officials of the Japanese government and other authorities in the field of international affairs. Speakers are invited to give a talk followed by Q&A. The meeting is conducted in Japanese. The “Foreign Policy Luncheon” is held under the co-sponsorship of JFIR with its sister organizations, the “Global Forum of Japan,” and the “Council on East Asian Community.”
List of Speakers
2023
Jul.12 | SUMI Shigeki | Former Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to Ukraine |
Jun.28 | SEKIYAMA Takashi |
Associate Professor, Kyoto University |
May.31 | ITO Keiko |
Professor, Chiba University |
2022
Dec.14 | TAKEI Shunsuke |
Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs |
Nov.28 | WATANABE Hiroshi |
President, Institute for International Monetary Affairs |
Oct.14 | YAMADA Seiji |
Professor, National Institute of Informatics |
Sep.20 | SATO Takumi |
Professor, Graduate School, Kyoto University |
Jun.24 | ITO Asei |
Associate Professor, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo |
May.27 | YAMAMOTO Tadamichi AOKI Kenta |
Former Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Afghanistan |
Apr.7 | NISHITANI Tomoaki |
Representative, N&R Associates |
Feb.24 | HIROSE Hiromi |
International journalist |
Jan.28 | KITAMURA Shigeru |
Former Director, the National Security Agency of Japan |
2021
Dec.20 | ASAO Keiichiro |
Councilor, JFIR / Lecturer, Tamagawa University |
Nov.30 | TAKASE Junichi |
Professor, Nagoya University of Foreign Studies |
Oct.25 | TOKIWA Shin HAKAMADA Shigeki |
Distinguished Research Fellow, JFIR |
Sep.13 | OCHIAI Yoichi |
Media Artist |
Jul.29 | MATSUMOTO Saho |
Professor, Nihon University |
Jun.14 | ONISHI Yasuo |
Specially Appointed Research Fellow, Japan Science and Technology Agency |
May.31 | HIROSE Yoko |
Distinguished Research Fellow, JFIR / Professor, Keio University |
Apr.19 | KOGA Hitoshi |
Director, Fukaya Clinic |
Mar.29 | MATSUBARA Hitoshi |
Professor, the University of Tokyo |
Mar.10 | OKAMOTO Takashi |
Professor, Kyoto Prefectural University |
Feb.26 | ITO Sayuri |
Director, NLI Research Institute |
Feb.15 | TSUCHIYA Motohiro |
Professor, Keio University |
Jan.13 | KODAMA Kazuo |
Former Ambassador, Permanent Mission of Japan to the EU |
2020
Dec.23 | ITO Toru |
Associate professor, National Defense Academy of Japan |
Nov.11 | NAKAYAMA Toshihiro |
Professor, Keio University |
Oct.29 | IWAMURA Mitsuru |
Professor, Waseda University |
Oct.8 | MIKURIYA Takashi |
Professor Emeritus, The University of Tokyo |
Sep.9 | ENDO Mitsugi |
Professor, The University of Tokyo |
Sep.4 | ENDO Ken |
Dean, Graduate School of Public Policy, Hokkaido University |
Aug.26 | Chi Hung KWAN |
Senior Fellow, Nomura Institute of Capital Markents Research |
Jul.31 | SUZUKI Kazuto |
Professor, Hokkaido University |
Jun.3 | TAKUMA Kayo |
Professor, Tokyo Metropolitan University |
Feb.19 | KANEHARA Nobukatsu | Distinguished Research Fellow, JFIR / former Deputy Director, NSA of Japan |
2019
Dec.26 | IKEUCHI Satoshi |
Professor, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo |
Nov.26 | KIMIZUKA Naotaka |
Professor, Kanto Gakuin University |
Oct.17 | MORINOBU Shigeki |
Professor of Law, Chuo University |
Sep.27 | WATANABE Yasushi |
Professor, Keio University |
Jul.24 | SASAKI Shoko |
Director General, Immigration Service Agency of Japan |
Jun.10 | IWASHITA Naoyuki |
Professor, Kyoto University |
May.23 | KAMO Tomoki |
Distinguished Research Fellow, JFIR / Professor, Keio University |
Apr.17 | YAMAKAWA Hiroshi |
President, JAXA |
Mar.27 | IWAI Katsuhito |
Economist |
Feb.18 | YOSHIZAKI Tatsuhiko | Chief Economist, Sojitz Research Institute, Ltd. |
Jan.22 | TAHARA Soichiro |
Journalist |
2018
Nov.28 | OKAMOTO Shigeaki |
Administrative Vice Minister, Ministry of Finance |
Oct.19 | HAKAMADA Shigeki |
Professor, Superior Research Fellow & Trustee, JFIR / Professor, University of Niigata Prefecture |
Sep.12 | HYODO Nisohachi |
Military Scientist |
Jul.20 | SUZUKI Kazuhiro |
Director-General, North American Affairs Bureau, MOFA |
Jun.21 | KODA Youji |
former Commander in Chief, Self Defense Fleet |
May.24 | SOEYA Yoshihide |
Professor, Keio University / Intellectual Member, Policy Council, JFIR / Academic Member, GFJ |
Apr.11 | MAEDA Eiji |
Executive Director, Bank of Japan |
Mar.26 | HORIMOTO Takenori |
Visiting Professor, Gifu Women's University |
Feb.21 | NAGAOKA Yoshihiro |
Editor in Chief, Newsweek Japan |
Jan.16 | SHINODA Hideaki |
Professor, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies |
2017
Dec.19 | YAMANOUCHI Kanji |
Director-General, Economic Affairs Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan |
Oct.5 | KAWASHIMA Shin |
Professor, The University of Tokyo |
Sep.27 | NAWA Toshio |
Executive Director / Senior Security Analyst, Cyber Defense Institute |
Jul.24 | URATA Shujiro |
Professor, Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University |
Jul.12 | UEMURA Tsukasa |
Director-General, Middle Eastern and African Affairs Bureau |
May.25 | HARUNA Mikio |
Journalist |
Apr.21 | WATANABE Hirotaka |
Professor, Graduate School of Global Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies |
Mar.9 | MASUJIMA Minoru |
Deputry Director General, International Cooperation Bureau |
Feb.16 | KAWAI Katsuyuki |
Special Advisor to the Prime Minister / Member of the House of Representatives |
Diplomatic Roundtable
What is The “Diplomatic Roundtable”?
The “Diplomatic Roundtable” is organized, taking advantage of an occasion of a visit to Japan of a person prominent in various fields of activities abroad, for the purpose of providing an occasion for the visiting speaker to meet and exchange views with JFIR members. The meeting is conducted, in principle, in English. The “Diplomatic Roundtable” is held under the co-sponsorship of JFIR with its sister organizations, the “Global Forum of Japan,” and the “Council on East Asian Community.”
List of Speakers
2024
Sep.18 | Yoram EVRON |
Associate Professor in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of Haifa |
Sep.11 | Armen GRIGORYAN |
the Secretary of the Security Council of Armenia |
Jun.20 | Mireya Solís |
Director of the Center for East Asia Policy Studies / Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy program at Brookings Institution |
Jun.17 | SAHA Premesha |
Fellow - Strategic Studies Programme, Observer Research Foundation |
May.28 | Paul Sracic |
Professor of Politics & International Relations, Youngstown State University |
Feb.19 | Da Huong Pham |
Academy of Journalism and Communication |
Feb.6 | Aliza Bin-Noun |
Political Director, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the State of Israel |
Jan.22 | Phan Cao Nhat Anh |
Deputy Director General, Institute for India and Southeast Asian Studies (VIISAS) - Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences |
2023
Dec.18 | Nguyen Khang Tran |
lecturer in the Faculty of International Relations, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Ho Chi Minh City |
Jul.14 | Lauren Richardson |
Lecturer, Australian National University |
Jul.3 | Virginia Watson |
Professor, the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies |
Jun.30 | Andrew G. Walder and Jean Oi |
Professor, Stanford University |
Apr.14 | Guoguang Wu |
Senior Research Scholar, Stanford University |
Apr.14 | Thomas Wilkins |
Senior Fellow, Australian Strategic Policy Institute |
Mar.28 | Shaurya DOVAL |
Member of Board of Governors, India Foundation |
Mar.27 | Jie-Hyun Lim |
Professor/Director, Critical Global Studies Institute, Sogang University |
Feb.27 | Philippe SETTON |
Ambassador of France to Japan |
Feb.14 | Li Shuihui |
President Taiwan Japan Academy |
Jan.31 | Purnendra JAIN |
Emeritus Professor The University of Adelaide |
2022
Sep.7 | Seyed Abbas Araghchi |
Former Iranian Ambassador to Japan |
Jun.7 | LEE Wondeog |
Professor, the Institute of Japanese Studies, Kookmin University |
Apr.12 | Ioan Mircea PASCU |
Former Vice-President, the European Parliament |
Feb.10 | Sergiy KORSUNSKY |
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of UKRAINE to Japan |
Jan.13 | CHENG Fang-Ting |
Research Fellow, Inter-disciplinary Studies Center, Institute of Developing Economies Japan External Trade Organization (IDE-JETRO) |
2021
Dec.6 | Narayanan GANESAN |
Professor, Hiroshima Peace Institute, Hiroshima City |
Nov.12 | LEE Sotetsu |
Professor of the Ryukoku University |
Oct.18 | Bashir MOHABBT |
Former Ambassador of Islamic Republic of Afghanistan |
Aug.26 | Cameron NOBLE |
First Secretary Political, Australian Embassy, Tokyo |
May.21 | Zhang Linfeng |
Vice President, ZTE Japan |
Mar.17 | Douglas H. PAAL |
Nonresident Scholar, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace |
Feb.17 | LAM Peng Er |
Principal Research Fellow, East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore |
2020
Dec.21 | Stephen R. NAGY |
Senior Associate Professor, International Christian University |
Nov.27 | CHEN Ching-Chang |
Associate Professor, Ryukoku University |
Nov.19 | Nicholas SZECHENYI |
Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Japan Chair; Asia Program Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) |
Sep.11 | ZHAO Hongwei |
Professor, Hosei University |
Feb.12 | Michael CHASE |
Senior Political Scientist, RAND Cooperation |
2019
Dec.9 | Jeffrey WILSON |
Research Director, Perth US Asia Centre |
Nov.15 | RA Jong Yil |
Chair Professor, National Defense University / Distinguished Professor, Gachon University |
Oct.18 | Dmitry V.Streltsov |
Head of the Afro-Asian Department and Professor of Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO-University) |
Sep.9 | Thomas GRAHAM |
Managing Director, the Kissinger Associates |
Jul.18 | PARK Cheol-Hee |
Professor, Seoul National University |
Jun.27 | John WEST |
Executive Director, Asian Century Institute |
May.21 | Sanjay Kumar VERMA |
Ambassador of India to Japan |
May.13 | CHOE Wongi |
Professor, and Head, Center for ASEAN-India Studies, Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security Korea National Diplomatic Academy |
Apr.8 | John HANCOCK |
Counsellor, Policy Development, World Trade Organization |
Mar.15 | LIAN Degui |
Executive Director, The Trilateral Cooperation Studies Center of Shanghai International Studies University |
Feb.14 | James SCHOFF |
A US View on Maintaining Security in Asia and Managing Trump's Foreign Policy Contradictions |
Jan.18 | Kent E. CALDER |
Asia in Washington, January, 2019 |
2018
Nov.7 | KIM Jae-shin |
How Should We Consider the Current Japan-Korea Relations |
Oct.25 | JIA Jinjing |
Director of the Macro Research Department at Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China |
Sep.11 | Tan Sri Rastam Mohd Isa |
Chairman and Chief Executive, the Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS) Malaysia |
Jul.12 | JIN Chang Soo |
Director, Japan Center of the Sejong Institute |
Jun.12 | Joachim von AMSBERG |
Professor, George Washington University |
May.29 | Mike MOCHIZUKI |
Professor, George Washington University |
Apr.18 | Mireya Solís |
Co-Director / Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Center for East Asia Policy Studies, The Brookings Institution |
Mar.30 | MOON Chung-in |
Special Advisor to the ROK President for Unification, Foreign and Security Affairs |
Mar.26 | Mira RAPP-HOOPER |
Senior Research Scholar in Law, Yale Law School |
Jan.29 | Peter DRYSDALE |
Emeritus Professor, The Australian National University |
2017
Nov.30 | Najib EL-Khash |
Representative, Risala Media |
Nov.6 | Ioan Mircea PASCU |
Vice-President, European Parliament |
Sep.21 | Thomas MAHNKEN |
President, Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments |
Jul.10 | QIN Yaqing RONG Ying |
President, China Foreign Affairs University / Vice President, China Institute of International Studies |
Jun.21 | KOH Young Choul |
Research Professor, Takushoku University |
May.19 | Bilahari KAUSIKAN |
Ambassador at Large, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Singapore |
Apr.6 | David GOLDFISCHER |
Associate Professor, University of Denver |
Mar.10 | Giovanni GANELLI |
Deputy Head of Office, IMF Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific |
Feb.22 | JIN Yongming |
Director, Center for Oceans Strategy Studies of China, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences |
Jan.30 | Reinhard DRIFTE |
Professor Emeritus, University of Newcastle |