Opening by Moderator, Tomohito Shinoda (International University of Japan) 
Welcoming Remarks by Hideya Taida (The Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership) | 
 PART I.  U.S.-Japan Alliance and Region
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 1. Iraq situation and US-Japan alliance 
Paper 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 
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 "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 | 
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 1. Argument of Collective Self-Defense, Contingency Legislation 
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 "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) | 
 
2. Military Technological Cooperation, Missile Defense 
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 "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) |