4.Participants(January 25-26, 2010)

Japan side

Satohiro Akimoto SVP & General Manager, Washington Office, Mitsubishi International Corporation
Kenji Goto Minister, Embassy of Japan
Noboru Hatakeyam Chairman and CEO, Japan Economic Foundation (JEF)
Ryuichi Kataoka Director, Policy Planning and Research Division, Trade Policy Bureau, Ministry of Economy, Trade & Industry (METI)
Keiro Kitabgami Member of the House of Representatives, The Democratic Party of Japan
Akira Kojima Trustee & Senior Fellow, Japan Center for Economic Research (JCER)
Hidehiro Konno Corporate Advisor, Mitsubishi Corporation (co-chair)
Ryo Kubota Chairman, President & CEO, ACUCELA Inc.
Junichiro Kuroda Special Advisor to the Ministry of Economy, Trade & Industry (METI) and Director, JETRO New York
Makoto Kuroda President, Center for Information on Strategic Trade Control(CISTEC)
Ukeru Magosaki Former Japanese Ambassador to Iran /Former professor of National Defense Academy of Japan
Hidehiko Nishiyama Director-General for International Trade Policy, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI)
Akihiko Tamura Councilor for APEC, Trade Policy Bureau, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI)
Mikio Wakatsuki Chairman, AXA Life Insurance Company Limited
Shunji Yanai Judge, International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea / Former Japanese Ambassador to the U.S.

US side

Michael Auslin Resident Scholar, AEI (co-chair)
Claude Barfield Resident Scholar, AEI
Dan Blumenthal Resident Fellow, AEI
Karlyn Bowman Senior Fellow, AEI
Nicholas Eberstadt Henry Wendt Scholar in Political Economy, AEI
Kevin Hasset Senior Fellow and Director of Economic Policy Studies, AEI
Desmond Lachman Resident Fellow, AEI
Phil Levy Resident Scholar, AEI
Robert Madsen Senior Fellow, Center for International Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
John H. Makin Visiting Scholar, AEI (co-chair)
Allan Meltzer Visiting Scholar, AEI
Vincent Reinhart Resident Scholar, AEI
Tak Sonoda American Honda
Phill Swagel Visiting Scholar, AEI