The U.S.-Japan Alliance Series:
The U.S.-Japan Alliance Under New Management

Japanese as well as 100+ journal articles and chapters covering geoeconomics, international political economy of trade and finance, monetary policy and Japanese foreign policy. Her Ph.D. is from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and her B.A. is from Hitotsubashi University (Tokyo).

Special Operations Component Command–Afghanistan and NATO Special Operations Component Command–Afghanistan, as the lead researcher for an international team assessing job creation opportunities for Syrian refugees, and as an embedded monitoring & evaluation specialist within Yemen’s Social Fund for Development. He earned his Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley.

foreign economic policy, economic security, and U.S. economic statecraft in Asia. Her most recent book “Japan’s Quiet Leadership: Reshaping the Indo-Pacific" is a Foreign Affairs’ best book of 2024. Solís has offered expert commentary to The New York Times, Financial Times, Washington Post, LA Times, Politico, The New Yorker, Nikkei, Kyodo News, Asahi Shimbun, Jiji Press, Japan Times, NHK World, Bloomberg, CNN, and BBC, among others. She earned a doctorate in government and a master's in East Asian studies from Harvard University, and a bachelor's in international relations from El Colegio de México.

the Status of Forces Agreement, improving combat readiness, and enhancing the quality of life for more than 66,000 military and Department of Defense civilian personnel and 45,000 family members.

Rick is a command pilot with more than 5,000 flying hours in 10 different aircraft, including the C-130E/J, C-17, KC-135R, and T-38. He has combat operational flying experience in Iraq, Afghanistan and Bosnia. He has commanded at multiple levels including, squadron commander, wing commander, Air Force district commander, numbered Air Force commander, and joint sub-unified combatant commander. He has also served on major command, combatant command, and Office of the Secretary of Defense staffs. Notably, his duties have included, acting executive secretary and military assistant in the office of the Secretary of Defense pentagon, special assistant to the commander of U.S. Forces Korea/United Nations Command/Combined Forces Command Yongsan Korea, director of operations U.S. Transportation Command in Illinois, and as the Senior Defense Official and Defense Attache to Israel at the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv.

Rick served as an Air Force Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, received the Leadership Decision Making Course certificate at Harvard University, earned two master of science degrees from Air University in military operational art and airpower art and science, and another MAS from Embry-Riddle University in Aeronautical Science. He has a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Accounting from Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas. Rick is an inductee into the 14th Airlift Squadron Order of the Pelican, and was recently recognized as the 17th officer ever inducted into the Pacific Air Forces Order of the Sword in October of 2024.

and her book project examines the history and interactive effects of the United States’ alliance management efforts and China’s attempts to weaken U.S. alliances in Asia.

Her research has been supported by the Smith Richardson Foundation, the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, and the America in the World Consortium. Her writing has appeared in the Journal of Georgetown Asian Affairs, Pacific Affairs, PS: Political Science & Politics, Foreign Policy, and The Japan Times, among others. She holds a Ph.D. and an M.A. in Security Studies from Princeton University, an M.A. in Asian Studies from Georgetown University, and a B.A. in Law from Keio University. She also previously held positions at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, D.C.

United States, and the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. Dr. Cooper holds a BA from Stanford University and an MPA and PhD from Princeton University.

Ph.D. degree from the University of Tokyo, LL.M. degrees from Columbia University Law School and Kyoto University, and a LL.B. degree from Kyoto University. He was a professor at Hosei University’s Department of Global Politics from 2010 to 2022. During his sabbatical leave, he was a visiting researcher at Princeton University (2014-2015) and George Washington University (2013-2015). Mori currently chairs the Japan-US alliance project at the Nakasone Peace Institute, and the security policy project at the Japan Institute for International Affairs. He is a senior fellow at the Nakasone Peace Institute since 2018. He was a senior fellow of the National Security Secretariat of the Cabinet Secretariat of the Japanese government (2016-2019). He is a member of the Ministry of Defense’s New Defense Policy Roundtable. He was among the experts called upon by the National Security Secretariat during the hearings in 2022 on the revision of Japan’s strategic documents.

extensively about Japanese security and foreign policy issues and broader Northeast Asia security issues for numerous media, policy, and academic outlets. This includes Washington Quarterly, Asian Survey, Foreign Policy, New York Times, Washington Post, War on the Rocks, and many others, including the two major Japanese dailies Yomiuri Shimbun and Asahi Shimbun. Hornung received his Ph.D. in political science from The George Washington University. During 2005–2006, he was a visiting scholar at the University of Tokyo where he conducted his doctoral research as a Fulbright Fellow. He also holds an M.A. from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and a B.A. from Marquette University.

posted at the Embassy of Japan in the United States of America in Washington, D.C. for around three years from 1992 and for approximately two years from 2011.

Among his illustrated career he was Director of OECD Division, Economic Affairs Bureau, MOFA from 2008, and in 2010, he assumed the role of Director, International Economy Division, Economic Affairs Bureau, MOFA. In 2011, he returned to the U.S. and was assigned the position of the Economic Counselor, Embassy of Japan in Washington D.C. In 2013 back in Japan, CG Sone became Director, First North America Division, North American Affairs Bureau, MOFA and in the following year, was appointed as Deputy Cabinet Secretary for Public Affairs, Cabinet Secretariat and Director, Office of Global Communications, Prime Minister's Office. In 2016, CG Sone transferred to India as the Minister (Economic & Development), Embassy of Japan in India. In 2019, CG Sone was appointed as the Deputy Director-General, Economic Affairs Bureau and in the following year, became Deputy Director-General, Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau. In June 2021, he was assigned the position of Assistant Minister, Director-General for Cultural Affairs and in July, 2021 CG Sone was designated as the Ambassador in charge of Sport and Budo.

From September 2022, about 10 years after his second assignment at the Embassy of Japan in Washington, D.C., he currently serves as Consul General of Japan in Los Angeles, a region with deep connections to Japan.

CG Sone graduated from Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan in 1989 and Wesleyan University, Connecticut in 1992.

During her service in Tokyo, she was appointed official interpreter for dignitaries including Her Majesty the Empress, Foreign Minister, and Prime Minister of Japan. In 2001, she was assigned to the Consulate General of Japan in Los Angeles as a Consul in charge of political affairs and community relations.

In 2007, she left the government to work at the Japanese American National Museum as the Vice President, and then at MUFG Union Bank as a Managing Director of Corporate Communications from 2009 to 2016. She joined Japan House Los Angeles in January 2016 to start up the organization. She serves on the boards of the US-Japan Council, Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, and the Advisory Board of UCLA Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies as well as many Japanese cultural and business associations.

She graduated from Nara Women’s University and received M.A. in Sociology from Queen’s University in Canada.