Dates:
February 18, 2025
Locations:
National Museum of Asian Art (Smithsonian Institution), Washington D.C.
Opening Remarks:
Dr. Chase F. Robinson, Director of the National Museum of Asian Art, Mr. Charles D. Lake Ⅱ, Chair, U.S. CULCON
Program:
  1. 1. Keynote Speech & Panel Discussion : “Advancing Mutual Understanding Through the Creative Industries”

    ■Keynote Speakers:
    ・Mr. Shunichi Tokura (Commissioner, Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan)
    ・Mr. Hiroyasu Matsuoka (President & CEO, TOHO CO., LTD.)
    ■Panel Discussion and Q&A :
    ・Dr. William Tsutsui (U.S. CULCON Vice Chair; Chancellor, Ottawa University) (Moderator)
    ・Mr. Shunichi Tokura (Commissioner, Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan)
    ・Mr. Hiroyasu Matsuoka (President & CEO, TOHO CO., LTD.)

  2. 2. Panel: “The Impacts of Digitization and A.I. on Information Access”

    ■Introductory Remarks/Moderator :
    ・Mr. Trevor A. Dawes (U.S. CULCON Panelist and Information Access and Sharing U.S. WG Chair; Vice Provost for Libraries and Museums and May Morris University Librarian, University of Delaware)
    ■Panelists:
    ・Ms. Aiko Doden (Distinguished Senior Fellow, The Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies, Johns Hopkins University-SAIS)
    ・Ms. Emily Singley (Vice President, North American Library Relations, Elsevier)
    ・Dr. Yuko Takahashi (Japan CULCON Panelist and Information Access and Sharing Japan WG Chair; President, Tsuda University)

  3. 3. Roundtable: “Driving Forces of U.S.-Japan Subnational Diplomacy”

    ■Introductory Remarks/Moderator:
    ・Dr. Sheila A. Smith (Former Chair of U.S. CULCON; John E. Merow Senior Fellow for Asia-Pacific Studies, Council on Foreign Relations)
    ■Panelists:
    ・Dr. Mary Alice Haddad (CULCON Subnational Diplomacy U.S. WG member; Professor of Government, Wesleyan University)
    ・Ms. Lori Duggan Gold (Deputy Director for Operations and External Affairs, National Museum of Asian Art)
    ・Mr. Shin Koyamada (CULCON Subnational Diplomacy Japan WG member; Founder and Chair, Japan United States Sister City Association (JUSSCA))
    ・Ms. Jessyca Livingston (CULCON Subnational Diplomacy U.S. WG member; Executive Director, U.S. JET Programme Alumni Association (USJETAA))

Panel “The Impacts of Digitization and A.I. on Information Access”
Roundtable “Driving Forces of U.S.-Japan Subnational Diplomacy”
Group photo at the U.S. National Archives