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Guest Speakers at the Annual Business Conference
| Year/Month | Meeting | Venue | Speaker |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1983.7 | 20th | Chicago | Yoshio Okawara, Japanese Ambassador of the U.S. Harold Washington, Mayor of Chicago William V. Roth, U.S. Senator |
| 1984.7 | 21st | Tokyo | Michael J. Mansfield, U.S. Ambassador of Japan Susumu Nikaido, Vice President of the Liberal Democratic Party |
| 1985.7 | 22nd | Minneapolis | Bill E. Frenzel, U.S. Representative Richard T. Schultze, U.S. Representative Rudolph George Perpich, Governor of Minnesota Clayton K. Yeutter, USTR |
| 1986.7 | 23rd | Tokyo | Shintaro Abe, Minister for Foreign Affairs Michael J. Mansfield, U.S. Ambassador of Japan Haruo Maekawa, Former Governor, Bank of Japan Michio Watanabe, Minister of MITI |
| 1987.7 | 24th | San Francisco | Clayton K. Yeutter, USTR Nobuo Matsunaga, Japanese Ambassador of the U.S. Dianne Feinstein, Mayor of San Francisco |
| 1988.7 | 25th | Tokyo | Nobuo Matsunaga, Japanese Ambassador of the U.S. |
| 1989.7 | 26th | New York | Henry John Heinz, U.S. Senator Murray L. Weidenbaum, Former Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers |
| 1990.7 | 27th | Osaka | Hideyuki Aizawa, Director General, Economic Planning Agency Michael H. Armacost, U.S. Ambassador of Japan Sakae Kishi, Governor of Osaka Pref. |
| 1991.7 | 28th | Pittsburgh | Robert A. Mosbacher, Secretary of Commerce Robert P. Casey, Governor of Pennsylvania |
| 1992.7 | 29th | Tokyo | Yasuhiro Nakasone, Former Prime Minister of Japan |
| 1993.7 | 30th | Cleveland | W. Bowman Cutter, Deputy Assistant to the President for Economic Policy Lloyd M. Bentsen, Secretary of Treasury |
| 1994.7 | 31st | Tokyo | Kiichi Miyazawa, Former Prime Minister of Japan Walter Mondale, U.S. Ambassador of Japan Hiroyuki Yoshikawa, President, Tokyo University |
| 1995.7 | 32nd | Tucson | Ira Shapiro, Deputy USTR Takakazu Kuriyama, Japanese Ambassador of the U.S. |
| 1996.7 | 33rd | Tokyo | Walter Mondale, U.S. Ambassador of Japan Kiichi Miyazawa, Former Prime Minister of Japan |
| 1997.7 | 34th | San Francisco | Ronnie C. Chan, Chairman, Hang Lung Development Kiyohiko Nanao, Consul General in San Francisco |
| 1998.7 | 35th | Tokyo | Thomas S. Foley, U.S. Ambassador, Shunji Yanai, Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs |
| 1999.7 | 36th | San Francisco | Kaoru Yosano, Minister of MITI Thomas S. Foley, U.S. Ambassador of Japan |
| 2000.7 | 37th | Tokyo | Thomas S. Foley, U.S. Ambassador of Japan Tatsuo Arima, Representative of Government of Japan |
| 2002.2 | 38th | Washington, DC | Paul D. Wolfowitz, Deputy Secretary of Defense R. Glenn Hubbard, Chairman,Council of Economic Advisers |
| 2002.10 | 39th | Tokyo | Junichiro Koizumi, Prime Minister of Japan Howard J. Baker, U.S. Ambassador to Japan |
| 2003.11 | 40th | Washington, DC | John. W. Snow, Secretary of the Treasury Ryozo Kato, Japanese Ambassador of the U.S. |
| 2004.11 | 41st | Tokyo | Sadakazu Tanigaki, Minister of Finance Ichiro Aisawa, Senior Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs |
| 2005.11 | 42nd | Washington, DC | Carlos Gutierrez, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Robert Kimmitt, Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Hiroyasu Ando, Consul General of Japan, New York |
| 2006.11 | 43rd | Tokyo | Taro Aso, Minister for Foreign Affairs Akira Amari, Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry J. Thomas Schieffer, U.S. Ambassador to Japan |
| 2007.11 | 44th | Washington, DC | Susan Schwab, U.S. Trade Representative Ryozo Kato, Japanese Ambassador of the U.S. |
| 2008.10 | 45th | Tokyo | Hirofumi Nakasone, Minister for Foreign Affairs Toshihiko Fukui, Former Governor, Bank of Japan Masaaki Taniai, Parliamentary Secretary for Economy, Trade and Industry Takeshi Erikawa, Vice-Minister, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare |
| 2009.11 | 46th | Washington, DC | Robert D. Hormats, Under Secretary for Economic, Energy and Agricultural Affairs, U.S. Department of State Ichiro Fujisaki, Japanese Ambassador of the U.S. Demetrios Marantis, Deputy U.S.Trade Representative for Asia |
| 2010.10 | 47th | Tokyo | Seiji Maehara, Minister for Foreign Affairs Akihiko Ohata, Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Koichi Otsuka, Former Senior Vice Minister of Cabinet Office/Member of House of Councilors John V. Roos, U.S. Ambassador to Japan |
| 2011.12 | 48th | New York | Thomas Nides, Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Tong, U.S. Ambassador for APEC Ian Bremmer, President, Eurasia Group Ichiro Fujisaki, Japanese Ambassador of the U.S. |
| 2012.11 | 49th | Tokyo | Koichiro Genba, Minister for Foreign Affairs Yukio Edano, Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Kurt Tong, Deputy Chief Mission, U.S. Embassy Jacob Schlesinger, Tokyo Bureau Chief; former Deputy Washington Bureau, Wall Street Journal/Dow Jones Newswires |
| 2013.11 | 50th | Washington, DC | John F. Kerry, United States Secretary of State Michael Froman, U.S. Trade Representative Max Baucus, Chairman, Committe on Finance, US Senate Devin Nunes, Chairman, Subcommittee on Trade, Committee on Ways & Means,m US House of Representatives Caroline Atkinson, Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economics Kenichiro Sasae, Japanese Ambassador of the U.S. Ian Bremmer, President, Eurasia Group Adam Posen, President, Peterson Institute for International Economics |
| 2014.11 | 51st | Tokyo | Taro Aso, Deputy Prime Minister, Ministry of Finance, Minister of State for Financial Services Yoshihide Suga, Chief Cabinet Secretary Fumio Kishida, Minister for Foreign Affairs Yoichi Miyazawa, Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Yasutoshi Nishimura, State Minister of Cabinet Office Haruhiko Kuroda, Governor, Bank of Japan Ambassador Caroline Bouvier Kennedy Yukio Okamoto, President, Okamoto Associates, Inc., Diplomatic Analyst |
| 2015.12 | 52nd | Washington, DC | Joaquin Castro, Co-Chairman, Japan Caucus, US House of Representatives,
Cory Gardner, Chairman, Senate Subcommittee on East Asia, the Pacific and International Cybersecurity, Committee on Foreign Relations Kenichiro Sasae, Japanese Ambassador to the UStates Carlos Gutierrez, Chairman, Albright Stonebridge Group (Former U.S. Secretary of Commerce) Adam Posen, President, Peterson Institute for International Economics Evan S. Medeiros, Managing Director and Practice Head, Eurasia Group Christopher Painter, Coordinator for Cyber Issues, U.S. Department of State |
| 2016.11 | 53rd | Tokyo | Fumio Kishida, Minister for Foreign Affairs Tamayo Marukawa, Minister in charge of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games Yosuke Takagi , State Minister of Economy and Industry Haruhiko Kuroda, Governor, Bank of Japan Ambassador Caroline Bouvier Kennedy Wendy Cutler, Vice President and Managing Director, washington , D.C. office, Asia Society Policy Institute Bruce Stokes, Director of Global Economic Attitudes, Pew Research Center Naoki Tanaka, President , CIPPS Jun Takahashi, Professor, M.D. Ph.D., Department of Clinical Application, Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Kyoto University |
| 2017.11 | 54th | Washington, DC |
Joaquin Castro Co-Chairman, Japan Caucus, US House of Representatives, Dan Brouillette, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy Kevin Hassett, Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers Kazuhiro Suzuki, Minister for Economic Affairs, Embassy of Japan (for Ambassador Sasae) Patrick M. Cronin, Senior Advisor & Senior Director, Asia-Pacific Security Program, CNAS Tim Groser, New Zealand Ambassador to the U.S. Everett Eissenstat, Deputy Assistant to the President for International Economic Affairs and Deputy Director of the NEC Adam Posen, President, PIIE |
| 2018.10 | 55th | Tokyo | Toshimitsu Motegi, Minister in charge of Economic Revitalization William F. Hagerty, U.S. Ambassador to Japan Toshiko Abe, State Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan Yoshihiro Seki, State Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry |
| 2019.9 | 56th | Washington D.C. | Lawrence A. Kudlow, Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and Director of the National Economic Council Ambassador Shinsuke J. Sugiyama, Embassy of Japan Congresswoman Stephanie Murphy (D-FL), Member, Committee on House Ways and Means Congressman Adrian Smith (R-NE), Member, Committee on House Ways and Means, Republican Co-Chair of the U.S.-Japan Congressional Caucus Keith Krach, Under Secretary for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment, U.S. Department of State |
| 2020.10 | 57th | Virtual Meeting |
Toshimitsu Motegi, Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs Stephen Biegun, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard N. Haass, Ph.D., President, Council on Foreign Relations Ylan Mui, CNBC Reporter Ambassador Patricia Flor, EU Ambassador to Japan Luisa Santos, Deputy Director General of Business Europe Hiroko Kuniya, Project Professor at Keio University Graduate School of Media and Governance and former NHK anchor Shinya Yamanaka, M.D., Ph.D., Nobel Laureate, 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2012) |
| 2021.10 | 58th | Virtual Meeting |
Haruhiko Kuroda, Governor of the Bank of Japan Gina M. Raimondo, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Yasutoshi Nishimura, Former Minister in charge of Economic Revitalization Yoko Ishikura, Chief Digital Officer of the Digital Agency David M. Turk, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy |
| 2022.10 | 59th | Washington D.C. |
Ambassador Koji Tomita, Embassy of Japan Marisa Lago, Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, International Trade Administration, Department of Commerce Steve Posnack, Deputy National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Jose Fernandez, Under Secretary for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment, U.S. Department of State Reince Priebus, President & Chief Strategist, Chairman of the Board of Advisors, Michael Best Strategies LLC. Former White House Chief of Staff. Former Chairman of the Republican National Committee. Brent Neiman, Counselor to the Secretary, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Nominee for Deputy Under Secretary / Assistant Secretary for International Finance, U.S. Department of the Treasury |
| 2023.10 | 60th | Tokyo |
Fumio Kishida, Prime Minister Yoko Kamikawa, Minister for Foreign Affairs Keizo Takemi, Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare Gina M. Raimondo, Secretary of Commerce, U.S. Department of Commerce (Video Message) Rahm Emanuel, United States Ambassador to Japan |
| 2024.10 | 61st | Washington D.C. |
Ambassador Shigeo Yamada, Embassy of Japan Senator William Hagerty (R-TN) Kurt Campbell, Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of State Marisa Lago, Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade |