for a discussion on japan s economic and political outlook in 2019. it s hosted by the carnegie endowment for international peace. live coverage. i run the japan program and it s my pleasure to welcome you out of the cold and into a warm place for what is our annual collaboration with the japan america society of washington, d.c. this is japan this year, japan in 2019 and this is the sixth time that we ve co-hosted this event with jsaw. i always look forward to this event because it kind of forces me to really get back in touch and on top of what s going on in japan, what are the various prospects across economics, politics, foreign policy, get a chance to work with some really good quality journalists and scholars from around the country and this is, of course, a particularly interesting year in the sense that this is the end of the hay sesei era of japan i 2016 so that gives us an extra historical angle, so to speak. as always carnegie is hosting today, but this is real
now in japan analyst sheila smith on the council foreign relationships discusses the future of the us-japan alliance. the event was cosponsored in washington for international peace in the japan american society. it is just over an hour. [inaudible] good morning, everybody. welcome to the international peace. my name is jim shope and i m a senior fellow at the age program. around the japan program and is my pleasure to welcome you out of the cold and into a warm place for what is our annual collaboration with the japan american society of washington, d.c. this is japan this year. japan in 2019. this is the sixth time that we have cohosted this event with ja jsa w. i was looking for to this event because it forces me to get back in touch with what is going on in japan and what are the various prospects across economics, politics, foreign policies and get a chance to work with some really quality journalists and scholars from around the country. this is of course a particu
discussed with attribute and their effect on relations with japan. they also discussed trade relations and a possible meeting between japanese prime minister and north korean leader. this is an hour and a half. good morning. i am bruce, senior research for north east asia, at the heritage foundation, i have been here about 11 years, and before that, 20 years with the cia and defense intelligence agency. thank you all for coming, i know it is beautiful out there, and i just flew in from beijing last night, where it was very hot and humid. so, this is actually quite a u so hopefully, i will not get hit by jet lag while i am up here. invasion, we got quite an ear full, and the american delegation, we heard a lot about the trade war, between, or the trade reconnaissance, by fire, or skirmish, whatever we want to call it that was a big topic of conversation, as it has been in washington. and then, also north korea was also the main focus of the groups discussion. and, that a
good morning. i am bruce, senior research for north east asia, at the heritage foundation, i have been here about 11 years, and before that, 20 years with the cia and defense intelligence agency. thank you all for coming, i know it is beautiful out there, and i just flew in from beijing last night, where it was very hot and humid. so, this is actually quite a u so hopefully, i will not get hit by jet lag while i am up here. invasion, we got quite an ear full, and the american delegation, we heard a lot about the trade war, between, or the trade reconnaissance, by fire, or skirmish, whatever we want to call it that was a big topic of conversation, as it has been in washington. and then, also north korea was also the main focus of the groups discussion. and, that again reflects what we have in washington. so, those two topics really have crowded out most other asian issues from the focus in washington. so, what we want to do today, is talk about japan, and the us- japan rel
i ve been here 11 years and before that 20 years with the cia and defense intelligence agency. thank you for coming. i know it s a beautiful day out there. i just flew in from beijing where it was very hot and humid so this is quite a nice change. so i m hopefully not going to get hit by jet lag while i m up here on the dais. in beijing we got quite an earful. we heard a lot about the trade war between the trade reconnaissance by fire or skirmish, whatever we want to call it. that was a big topic of conversation as it has been in washington. then also north korea was actually the main focus of the group s discussion and that again reflects what we have in washington so those two topics have crowded out most other asian issues from the focus in washington so what we want to do today is talk about japan and the u.s.-japan relationship and the alliance which i think has unfortunately been overshadowed by the hot issues and we often times neglect our friends, we neglect our all