Center for Global Security
Date February 13, 2024
Theme Development history and future direction of defense technology around the world
Speaker Hideaki Watanabe, President, Defense Technology Association; former Commissioner, Acquisition, Technology & Logistics Agency
Date December 7, 2023
Theme Defense Technology and Defense Industrial Base
Speaker Junichi Nishiyama, Research Counselor, Institute for Future Engineering
Date December 4, 2023
Theme Have Japan-U.S.-ROK Relations Entered a New Stage?
Speaker Hyunjin Kim, Visiting Researcher, Waseda University; former Director-General for North American Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Korea
Date October 9–18, 2023
Theme Preventing violent extremism and small arms proliferation in the Western Sahel
Speaker Norihisa Urakami, Associate Professor, School of Defense Sciences, NDA; Principal Researcher, Military Professionalism Research Program, Center for Global Security
Date September 28, 2023
Theme Exchange of views on basic research contributing to the JGSDF future operational concept for warfare around 2040
Speakers Members of the Second Research Office, Japan Ground Self-Defense Force Training Evaluation Research and Development Command; academic staff and graduate students of NDA
Date September 14, 2023
Theme Trends in Israel in Security and Cybersecurity: Industry-Academia-Government-Military Collaborative Innovation
Speaker Takayuki Matsuo, Director-General, Kansai Headquarters, Japan-Israel Chamber of Commerce
Date August 4, 2023
Theme Trends in the Order of the International Community
Speaker Masataka Okano, then Deputy Secretary General, National Security Secretariat
Date June 29, 2023
Theme Recent Technical Trends in Space Systems
Speaker Hiroshi Koyama, Chief Engineer, Defense and Space Systems Group, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
Date June 15, 2023
Theme Science and technology for clearing the fog of war and surviving
Speaker Katsuki Takada, Advisor, Toshiba Infrastructure Systems & Solutions Corporation
Date May 31, 2023
Theme Cyber OSINT
Speaker Masao Aoki, Team Leader, J-CRAT Cyber Rescue Team, Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan (IPA J-CRAT)
Date May 24, 2023
Theme Economics and Technology as a Field of Security: centered on developments surrounding Putin’s invasion of Ukraine
Speakers Bonji Ohara, Senior Fellow, Security Studies Program, Sasakawa Peace Foundation
Date May 16, 2023
Theme Economic Security and Critical Technologies
Speakers Akira Namatame, Science Advisor, Office of Scientific Research, U.S. Air Force; NDA Professor Emeritus
Date April 11, 2023
Theme Electromagnetic Spectrum Activities Transformed by Machine Learning through Artificial Intelligence
Speakers Karen Z. Haigh, President, Haskell Consulting