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3rd Japan-US Track II Commission's Meeting on
Arms Control, Disarmament, Non-Proliferation and Verification

Thursday, 31 October-Friday, 1 November 2002
At the Conference Room, Japan Institute of International Affairs
11th Floor, Kasumigaseki Bldg., Tokyo

Thursday, October 31

10:00-17:45 Track II Conference at JIIA

10:00-10:30 Opening

10:30-11:30 Keynote Speech and Q&A
Keynote Speech by Ambassador Yukiya Amano, Director-General for Arms Control and Scientific Affairs: "Japan-US Cooperation on Arms Control, Disarmament, Non-Proliferation and Verification: Why Important? Why Difficult?" Q&A follows.

12:00-13:30 Lunch

13:30-17:45 Counter-Terrorism and Non-Proliferation Efforts

• 13:30-15:30 Session I
  "Significance and Challenges of Promoting G8 Global Partnership against the Spread of Weapons and Materials of Mass Destruction"
  Presentation: Nobumasa Akiyama (Hiroshima Peace Institute)
  Comment: Lawrence Scheinman
  (Monterey Institute of International Studies)

  15:30-15:45 Coffee Break

• 15:45-17:45 Session II
  "US Policy on Iraq and Its Implications"
  Presentation: Alton Frye (Council on Foreign Relations)
  Comment: Matake Kamiya (National Defense Academy)

19:15 Dinner with Mr. Torkel Patterson, a special advisor to U.S. Ambassador to Japan Howard Baker (U.S. Participants only)

Friday, November 1

8:00 Breakfast Meeting with Legislator of the Democratic Party of Japan
Host: The Honorable Eisei Ito, Next Cabinet Minister on Foreign Affairs and National Security.
Participants: The Honorable Wakako Hironaka, Vice President of DPJ; The Honorable Seiji Maehara; The Honorable Masaharu Nakagawa; The Honorable Yoshinori Suematsu; The Honorable Toru Unno; and The Honorable Shu Watanabe.

Breakfast Meeting with Legislator of the Liberal Democratic Party
Host: The Honorable Tsutomu Kawara, Former Japanese Minister of Defense
Participants: The Honorable Fukushiro Nukaga, Former Japanese Minister of Defense; The Honorable Fumio Kyuma, Former Japanese Minister of Defense; The Honorable Hideo Usui, Former Japanese Minister of Defense; The Honorable Gen Nakatani, Former Japanese Minister of Defense; The Honorable Yasukazu Hamada, Chairman of the Subcommittee on National Defense Division of the LDP Policy Research Council; The Honorable Kazuo Torashima; The Honorable Seishiro Etoh; The Honorable Toshitsugu Saito; The Honorable Toshio Kojima; The Honorable Yoichi Masuzoe; and The Honorable Akio Sato.

10:00-16:00 Track II Conference: Japan-US Cooperation towards Regional Stability

• 10:00-12:00 Session III
  "Threats Posed by North Korea's WMD and Missiles"
  Presentation: Hideya Kurata (Kyorin University)
  Comment: Baker Spring (Heritage Foundation)

  12:00-13:30 Lunch

• 13:30-15:30 Session IV
  "China's Weapons Modernization Efforts"
  Presentation: Bates Gill (Center for Strategic and International Studies)
  Comment: Tomohide Murai (National Defense Academy)

15:30-16:00 Closing

18:15- Meeting with Mr. Yukio Okamoto, a foreign policy advisor to Prime Minister Koizumi at the Prime Minister's Office Building

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