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A CNAPS Briefing

Japan's Diplomacy under the New Abe Cabinet

Japan, Asia, Northeast Asia

Event Summary

Japan's new political leadership faces challenges in its important relationships with China, the Korean peninsula, and the United States. On October 27, Tomohiko Taniguchi, the Deputy Press Secretary for the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, delivered a speech explaining Japan's diplomacy with its neighbors and the U.S. under new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

Event Information

When

Friday, October 27, 2006
11:00 AM to 12:30 PM

Where

Falk Auditorium
The Brookings Institution
1775 Massachusetts Ave., NW
Washington, DC
Map

Contact: Brookings Office of Communications

Email: events@brookings.edu

Phone: 202.797.6105

 

Transcript

TOMOHIKO TANIGUCHI: So today, I would like to share with you how these changes will affect where Japan is headed in the future.

To borrow Richard's metaphor, Japan may be a nation of "a long wind-up and a quick pitch".

It seems that after spending more than a decade of economic stagnation and political paralysis, the Japanese have regained a greater degree of confidence in their state of economy, and now want their government to deliver, to make a "quick pitch."

Today's topic, to put it differently is, what kind of pitches is Japan throwing?

Participants

Presenter

Tomohiko Taniguchi

Deputy Press Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan


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