NEWS & EVENTS

On Tuesday, November 6, 2018 The Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies welcomed Japan’s Ambassador to the United States, Ambassador Shinsuke Sugiyama, to SAIS for the first time.

Ambassador Sugiyama gave a lecture on Japan’s alliance with the United States, highlighting both the historical prominence and legal significance of the security relationship between the two nations. The Ambassador also discussed the 1960 US-Japan Security Treaty in contrast with that of the 1953 US-ROK Mutual Defense Treaty, and stressed the overall implications for American presence in the Asia Pacific region.

Following his lecture, he took questions from the audience, which ranged from how he felt regarding possible changes to Japan’s Article 9, how successful U.S. military bases have been in Japan, to how he anticipates the future of East Asia’s “disputed territories” unfolding.