
Masashi Murano
Senior Fellow, Japan Chair

28
August 2024
Past Event
AUKUS Pillar 2: New Partners and Opportunities
Featured Speakers:
Chris Brose
Phoebe Greentree
David Byrd
Masashi Murano
Moderator:
Kenneth R. Weinstein

28
August 2024
Past Event
AUKUS Pillar 2: New Partners and Opportunities
Hudson’s Japan Chair will host a panel with Chris Brose of Anduril, Phoebe Greentree of the Australian Embassy, and Hudson’s David Byrd and Masashi Murano to discuss the challenges and opportunities for Japan’s potential participation in AUKUS Pillar 2, how the program may need to evolve, and the wider security and technological implications of Japanese involvement in the program.

Featured Speakers:
Chris Brose
Phoebe Greentree
David Byrd
Masashi Murano
Moderator:
Kenneth R. Weinstein
23
July 2020
Past Event
Pushing Back Against Chinese and North Korean Missile Threats: Strengthening the U.S.-Japan Deterrence Strategy and Joint Missile Defense Posture
Featured Speakers:
Rebeccah Heinrichs
Tom Karako
Masashi Murano
Brad Roberts
Nobushige Takamizawa

23
July 2020
Past Event
Pushing Back Against Chinese and North Korean Missile Threats: Strengthening the U.S.-Japan Deterrence Strategy and Joint Missile Defense Posture
This event will premiere on this page at 12:00 p.m. EDT, Thursday, July 23.
Join Hudson Institute for a conversation on the trajectory of U.S.-Japan

Featured Speakers:
Rebeccah Heinrichs
Tom Karako
Masashi Murano
Brad Roberts
Nobushige Takamizawa
13
November 2019
Past Event
U.S. Space Strategy and Indo-Pacific Cooperation
Featured Speakers:
Dr. Patrick M. Cronin
Peter Garretson
Dr. Namrata Goswami
Lt. Gen. Steven L. Kwast, USAF (Ret.)
Richard P. Lawless
Dr. John C. Mankins
Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster, US Army (Ret.)
Masashi Murano
Dr. Mir Sadat
Ken Weinstein

13
November 2019
Past Event
U.S. Space Strategy and Indo-Pacific Cooperation
Experts discuss U.S. space strategy and allied space cooperation in the Indo-Pacific.

Featured Speakers:
Dr. Patrick M. Cronin
Peter Garretson
Dr. Namrata Goswami
Lt. Gen. Steven L. Kwast, USAF (Ret.)
Richard P. Lawless
Dr. John C. Mankins
Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster, US Army (Ret.)
Masashi Murano
Dr. Mir Sadat
Ken Weinstein
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Antony Blinken and the US delegation sit opposite Japan's Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa during the "Extended Deterrence Ministerial Meeting" in Tokyo on July 28, 2024. (Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP via Getty Images)

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US Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel addresses the media during a press conference on the flight deck of USS Ronald Reagan in Yokosuka, Japan, on May 16, 2024. (US Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Keyly Santizo)

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Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Murasame-class destroyer JS Inazuma in the Philippine Sea on February 16, 2022. (US Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Alonzo Martin-Frazier)

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The Ohio-class ballistic-missile submarine USS Alaska returns to Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay following routine operations on January 7, 2015. (US Navy photo by Rex Nelson)
![Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken hosts a joint press availability with Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III, Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi, and Japanese Defense Minister Yasukazu Hamada at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on January 11, 2023. [State Department photo by Freddie Everett/ Public Domain]](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2023-01/01.12.2023%20Murano%20Podcast_0.jpg?h=bf6d952a&itok=gp2bxjB3)
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Japanese Defense Minister Yasukazu Hamada speaks at the a joint press availability on January 11, 2023, at the US Department of State. (US Department of State via Flickr)

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Field artillery cannoneer emplaces M777A2 Howitzer during Artillery Relocation Training Program 21.1, at Combined Arms Training Center, Camp Fuji, Japan, April 26, 2021. (U.S. Marine Corps/ Michael Jefferson Estillomo)

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Japan's Ground Self-Defense Forces (JGSDF) soldiers during a live fire exercise at JGSDF's training grounds in the East Fuji Maneuver Area on May 22, 2021 in Gotemba, Shizuoka, Japan. (Photo by Akio Kon - Pool/Getty Images)

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US President Joe Biden and Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga walk through the Colonnade to take part in a joint press conference in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC on April 16, 2021 (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

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U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Stephen R. Lanza, right, commander of the 7th Infantry Division, meets Japanese Maj. Gen. Takeyoshi Omari, deputy commander of 4th Division, Japan Ground Self-Defense Force, during Rising Thunder at the Yakima Training Center