Post TPP, What's Next for U.S.-Japan Economic Cooperation?

The United States and Japan are on the cusp of completing a historic free trade deal—the Trans-Pacific Partnership—that many would have deemed impossible less than a decade ago. This highlights the enormous potential of the world’s two largest market economies, the U.S. and Japan, collaborating in strengthening the rules-based international economic order, and prompts the question of what comes next.  On October 13, the CSIS Simon Chair in Political Economy will host a half-day conference to examine a diverse array of U.S.-Japan economic cooperative efforts, including in Internet governance, space, quality infrastructure, and regional and global economic governance.  We will look back at how far the two countries have come since the difficult days of trade friction in the 1980s and 90s, and forward at how Washington and Tokyo might deepen and expand their economic cooperation.

12:00 pm      Lunch is served

12:30-12:35 pm Welcoming Remarks

Matthew P. Goodman,
Senior Adviser for Asian Economics; Simon Chair in Political Economy, CSIS

12:35-1:15 pm Keynote Presentation

Kurt W. Tong
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs,
U.S. Department of State

1:15-2:30 pm Panel Discussion: Translating Shared Interests into Joint Action

Ambassador Daniel Sepulveda
Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy, U.S. Department of State

Todd Harrison
Senior Fellow and Director of Defense Budget Analysis, CSIS

Kiyoshi Kodera
Advisor to the President, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)

Matthew P. Goodman,
Senior Adviser for Asian Economics; Simon Chair in Political Economy, CSIS

Mireya Solis (moderator)
Philip E. Knight Chair, Brookings

2:30-2:45 pm Break

2:45-3:45 pm A Conversation About U.S.–Japan Cooperation Past, Present, and Future

Ambassador Kenichiro Sasae
Ambassador of Japan to the United States

Ambassador Ira Shapiro
President, Ira Shapiro Global Strategies LLC; Chairman, National Association of Japan-American Societies (NAJAS); and former General Counsel, USTR

Michael J. Green
Senior Vice President for Asia and Japan Chair, CSIS; Associate Professor, Georgetown University

Matthew P. Goodman (moderator)
Senior Adviser for Asian Economics; Simon Chair in Political
Economy, CSIS

Please email simon.chair@csis.org to RSVP.