4.Participants(Februay 22-23, 2011)

Japan side

Satoshi Akimoto Acting General Manager, Corporate Strategy & Research Department, Mitsubishi Corporation
Naoyuki Haraoka Executive Managing Director, Japan Economic Foundation (JEF)
Noboru Hatakeyama Chairman and CEO, Japan Economic Foundation (JEF)
Akinari Horii Special Adviser to the president, Canon Institute for Global Studies
Satoshi Ikeuchi Associate Professor, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Tokyo
Toshinori Kanemoto Attorney at Law, City-Yuwa Partners
Keiro Kitagami Member of the House of Representatives, the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ)
Akira Kojima Senior Research Fellow, Japan Center for Economic Research (JCER)
Hidehiro Konno Member of the Board, Mitsubishi Corporation (Co-chair)
Ryo Kubota Chairman, President & CEO, Acucela Inc.
Makoto Kuroda President, Center for Information on Strategic Trade Control (CISTEC)
Tadashi Nakamae President, Nakamae International Economic Research
Hidehiko Nishiyama Director-General for International Trade Policy, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI)
Shinichi Saito Director of International Affairs, Japan Economic Foundation (JEF)
Takashi Shiraishi Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS); President, Institute of Developing Economies-JETRO (Keynote speaker at the dinner on the 22nd of February)
Masakazu Toyoda Chairman and CEO of the Institute of Energy Economics, Japan (IEEJ); former Vice Minister of METI
Mikio Wakatsuki Chairman, AXA Life Insurance Company Limited
Noboru Yamaguchi Lieutenant General, JGSDF (Ret.); Professor of military history and strategy, National Defense Academy

US side

Alan J. Auerbach Robert D. Burch Professor of Economics and Law, director of the Burch Center for Tax Policy and Public Finance
Michael Auslin Director of Japan Studies, AEI (Co-chair)
Claude Barfield Resident Scholar, AEI
Nicholas Eberstadt Henry Wendt Scholar in Political Economy, AEI
Kevin A. Hassett Senior Fellow and Director of Economic Policy Studies, AEI (Co-chair)
Adam Lerrick Visiting Scholar, AEI
Phill I. Levy Resident Scholar, AEI
Peter J. Wallison Arthur F. Burns Fellow in Financial Policy Studies, AEI