The SMU Tower Center-Sun & Star Program and JASDFW (Japan-America Society DFW) would like to invite you to the Symposium: Geoeconomics of U.S.-Japan Policy Collaboration with the New Administrations.

Date: Thursday, March 27, 2025

Time: 12:00-3:30 p.m.

11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.  Registration

12:00 p.m. – 01:30 p.m.   Keynote Luncheon

02:00 p.m. –  03:30 p.m.  Afternoon Panel

Location: Prothro Great Hall, 5901 Bishop Blvd, Dallas, TX 75205.

The event is free and open to the public. Registration is required. Please click below for registration.

Featuring:

Kazuto Suzuki, Professor of Science and Technology Policy at the Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of Tokyo, Japan.

Kazuto Suzuki is Professor of Science and Technology Policy at the Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of Tokyo, Japan. He graduated from the Department of International Relations, Ritsumeikan University, and received his Ph.D. from Sussex European Institute, University of Sussex, England. He has worked for the Fondation pour la recherche stratégique in Paris, France as an assistant researcher, as an Associate Professor at the University of Tsukuba from 2000 to 2008, and served as Professor of International Politics at Hokkaido University until 2020. He also spent one year at the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University from 2012 to 2013 as a visiting researcher. He served as an expert in the Panel of Experts for Iranian Sanction Committee under the United Nations Security Council from 2013 to July 2015. He has been the President of the Japan Association of International Security and Trade.

Stan Crow, Founder of Stan Crow Enterprises LLC and  Fellow of The SMU Tower Center

Stan has extensive experience in the areas of technology, research and development, business growth and international partnerships from his careers in the US Air Force, McKinsey and Company, and Northrop Grumman. He is the founder of a consulting business, Stan Crow Enterprises, focused on global innovation in the space and defense arenas, with clients in the U.S., Japan, and Europe. He serves on the advisory board of a startup technology company. Stan is also a fellow at the Tower Center at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, focusing on national security, economic policy, and relations with Japan and Asia. He has written perspectives on business activities and international collaboration in the defense, space, and energy sectors that have been published in Space News and Japan’s Defense Technology Foundation Journal. Stan is a graduate of the United States Air Force Academy with a bachelor’s degree in astronautical engineering.  He received his master’s degree in international studies from the Henry M. Jackson School at the University of Washington with a focus in international aerospace collaboration and technical Japanese. He is also a graduate of the Defense Language Institute’s Korean language program and has received a number of military awards and distinctions.

Yoichiro Suzuki, Senior Vice President, Corporate Collaboration, NTT DATA North America’s

Yoichiro Suzuki is senior vice president of corporate collaboration for NTT DATA North America. Formerly with NTT DATA North America’s parent company, NTT DATA Corporation, he serves as liaison with the leadership team in Japan as well as other operating companies, while complying with the group governance process to achieve our strategic goals and profitable growth as One NTT DATA. This includes merger and acquisition activities and large-scale contracts. With more than 20 years of professional experience, including corporate finance at NTT DATA, Yoichiro is also a member of the Board of Directors at NTT DATA International L.L.C.

Drake Bennett, Co-Chief Operating Officer, Nomura Research Institute IT Solutions America, Inc.

Moderator

Hiroki Takeuchi is Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies of Political Science at Southern Methodist University (SMU), and the Director of the Sun & Star Program on Japan and East Asia in the SMU Tower Center for Public Policy and International Affairs. He received his Ph.D. in political science from University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), his M.A. in Asian studies from University of California at Berkeley, and his B.A. in economics from KEIO University in Japan. Previously, he taught at UCLA as a faculty fellow in the Political Science Department and at Stanford University as a postdoctoral teaching fellow in the Public Policy Program. Dr. Takeuchi’s research and teaching interests include Chinese and Japanese politics, comparative authoritarian politics, and international relations and political economy of East Asia, as well as applying game theory to political science.  He is the author of “Tax Reform in Rural China: Revenue, Resistance, and Authoritarian Rule” (Cambridge University Press, 2014).

About NAJAS/KKC Business Speaker Series

NAJAS and the Keizai Koho Center (KKC) have teamed up for a number of years to offer the NAJAS/KKC Business Speaker Series through member Japan-America Societies. Fully funded by KKC and co-produced by NAJAS and KKC, with help from the latter’s parent organization, Keidanren, this series combines a senior executive from a Japanese corporation, a recognized Japan expert, and a local or subject matter expert in a public presentation hosted by a JAS. In their presentations, the senior executives have described the business climate and the impact of their companies’ investment in the United States. Often regulations, public policy objectives or other concerns are aired in the course of these discussions.  The Japan experts have addressed trade and economic issues of interest to JAS members, including the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF). Local/subject-matter experts frequently take up industrial incentive or environmental policies as part of their interventions.

Invitation image: Left The White house, right The Naikaku Sōri Daijin Kantei Japan Prime Minister's Office 

Any person who requires a reasonable accommodation on the basis of a disability in order to participate in this program should contact the SMU Tower Center at tower@smu.edu in advance at least 4 days prior to the event to arrange for the accommodation.

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