The Transformation of Japanese Security Policy: The US-Japan Alliance and the New Geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific (Sept. 9, 2024)

The Consulate-General of Japan in Boston and the Boston University Pardee School Center for the Study of Asia
are pleased to present

Professor JIMBO Ken (Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University)

The Transformation of Japanese Security Policy:
The US-Japan Alliance and the New Geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific

Monday, Sept. 9 2024 from 5:30 to 7:00 pm

121 Bay State Road, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215

Note: this will be a HYBRID event.

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About the Speaker:  (https://ihj.global/en/experts/experts-1498/)

JIMBO Ken is Professor at the Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University. He served as a Special Advisor to the Minister of Defense, Japan Ministry of Defense (2020) and a Senior Advisor, The National Security Secretariat (2018-20).

His main research fields are in International Security, Japan-US Security Relations, Japanese Foreign and Defense Policy, Multilateral Security in Asia-Pacific, and Regionalism in East Asia. He has been a policy advisor for various Japanese governmental commissions and research groups including for the National Security Secretariat, the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. His policy writings have appeared in NBR, The RAND Corporation, Stimson Center, Pacific Forum CSIS, Japan Times, Nikkei, Yomiuri, Asahi and Sankei Shimbun.