The Sasakawa Peace Foundation Cordially Invites You to Attend:
On Nov. 16, "Japan Matters for America / America Matters for Japan"
Understanding the U.S.-Japan Relationship from Regional View and Citizens’ View
（November 16，2015）

On November 16, the Sasakawa Peace Foundation will host a seminar on the U.S.-Japan relationship, inviting Dr. Satu P. Limaye, Director of the East-West Center in Washington and Mr. Bruce Stokes, Director at Global Economic Attitudes of the Pew Research Center.

In this November, Sasakawa Peace Foundation and the East-West Center co-publish the new version of the English/Japanese bilingual booklet “Japan Matters for America/America Matters for Japan” that illustrates regional-level connection and interdependence between the two countries such as state, prefecture, city, and congressional district. The United States is a highly-diverse country and its regional features very much signify for multiple issues including the coming presidential election next year. In this context, congressmen/women in Washington D.C. pay a great deal of attention to the research of the booklet as it well explains how U.S.-Japan relations matter for their own electoral district.

In spring of 2015, the Pew Research Center, in association with Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA, surveyed publics both in the U.S. and Japan to examine what the people of each nation think about each other, the ties between them, and the challenges they face.

We hope our seminar would help you to appreciate how the two countries have nurtured deep and multi-layered relationship for years based on our latest researches. We welcome your active participation and insightful questions.

Dr. Satu P. Limaye, Director, East-West Center in Washington
Dr. Satu P. Limaye was named Director of the East-West Center (EWC) in Washington in February 2007. EWC is an Asia-focused think-tank funded by the U.S. Congress with its headquarters locating in Honolulu, Hawaii. Prior to his current position, he was a research staff member of the strategy and resources division at the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA) and director of research and publications at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (APCSS), a direct reporting unit of U.S. Pacific Command. He has been an Abe Fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and a Henry Luce Scholar and Research Fellow at the Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA) in Tokyo. He is a graduate of Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and received his doctorate from Oxford University (Magdalen College) where he was a George C. Marshall Scholar.


Mr. Bruce Stokes, Director, Global Economic Attitudes, Pew Research Center
Mr. Bruce Stokes is Director of Global Economic Attitudes at Pew Research Center, where he assesses public views about economic conditions, foreign policy and values. He is the former international economics correspondent for the National Journal, a former senior transatlantic fellow at the German Marshall Fund and a former senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), where he is a member. He is a graduate of Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and received his master’s degree from Johns Hopkins University’s School for Advanced International Studies (SAIS).