Recent YCAPS Events

VIP Access to National Defense Academy Festival & Bo-Taoshi. YCAPS-JUMP event at NDA! Thanks for the National Defense Academy's warm host. 11 Nov 2018.

Understanding 50 Years of Japanese Maritime Security Capacity Building in Southeast Asia. YCAPS-ICAS Seminar. 27 Sept 2018.

Discussion with Young Yokosuka Business Leaders. Community Building event. 25 Sept 2018.

Kawasaki Night Industrial Harbor Cruise. YCAPS-JUMP Tour. 22 Sept 2018.

Professional Rugby in Tokyo. Social excursion. 14 Sept 2018.

Dr. Yoichiro Sato, "The U.S., Freedom of Navigation, and Indo-Pacific Maritime Security," YCAPS-JUMP Seminar. 4 Sept 2018.

Dr. Guilio Pugliese, "Between Grand Strategy and Grandstanding: The International & Domestic Politics of Foreign Policy in 21st Century Japan," YCAPS-JUMP Seminar. 9 Aug 2018.

Vice Admiral Yoji Koda, "The Battle of Midway: Primary Causes of Japanese Failure," YCAPS-JUMP Seminar. 4 Jun 2018

Tour of Japanese Diet and Closed Door Discussion with Representative Ishiba Shigeru, YCAPS-JUMP Tour. 28 May 2018

Shimoda Black Ships Festival with Cadets and Staff from Japan's National Defense Academy. 18 May 2018

Tuan Pham, "China's Drive For Global Power: Year in Review and Look Ahead," YCAPS-JUMP Seminar, 16 May 2018

Walter Lohman, "Washington's New Approach to Asia," YCAPS-JUMP Seminar in Yokosuka. 8 March 2018

Ambassador Ichiro Fujisiaki. "North Korea, China, Russia & the US - A Japanese View." YCAPS-JUMP Seminar in Fussa City. 28 Feb 2018.

Prof Narushige Michishita, CDR John Bradford & Micheal Bosack, The Japan-US Alliance and the North Korean threat. YCAPS Seminar in Tokyo. 30 Jan 2018.

VADM Fumio Ota. "How Japan Should Answer the DPRK Threat: An Admiral's Assessment." YCAPS-JUMP Seminar. 17 Jan 2018.

Ryan Schultz. "Mutual Defense”: Japanese Officers, Colonial Soldiers, and the Ideology of Empire in the Manchukuo Army.  YCAPS-JUMP Seminar. 30 Nov 2017.

Gregg Rubenstein. Arming the Alliance: US-Japan Cooperation in Defense Acquisition​​. ICAS-YCAPS Seminar. 14 Nov 2017.

Tour of Tokyo's Admiral Togo Shrine and lunch discussion at the Suikokai Club. 4 Nov 2017

Tour of Yokosuka's Historic Tadodai House

Tomohiko Taniguchi. Japan's Diplomacy under Shinzo Abe: Time for Stocktaking. YCAPS-JUMP Seminar Series.

Nancy Snow. Japan’s Info War: Competitive Nation Branding in East Asia. Sept, 26, 2017.

Kerry Nankivell. Chinese-Japanese Competition in the East Asian Security Complex. YCAPS-JUMP Seminar Series. Sep 20, 2017.

Carl Gabrielson. Not-so-soft Power? Pop Culture and Security in Japan. YCAPS-JUMP Seminar Series. Aug 2, 2017

Yokohama Maritime Security/North Korea Tour, Lecture & Lunch. July 9, 2017.

Prof Andrew Oros. Japan's Invigorated Security Posture & Implications for the U.S. YCAPS-JUMP Seminar Series. June 22, 2017.

Colonel Grant Newsham. Checkmating China in the South and East China Seas? YCAPS-JUMP Seminar Series. April 19 , 2017.

Panel Discussion.  Women and the Japanese Workforce.  YCAPS-JUMP Seminar Series.  March 15, 2017.

Prof Kyle Cleveland. Radiation Rashomon: Assessment Politics in the Fukushima Crisis. YCAPS-JUMP Seminar Series. March 9, 2017.

Orientation briefing on the U.S. Navy's Role in the Asia-Pacific and Tour of USS Ronald Reagan. Feb 12, 2017.

VADM Umio Otsuka. The Japan-U.S. Alliance: Cultural Foundations and Enduring Values. YCAPS-JUMP Seminar Series. Jan 19, 2017.

Film Screening. Fall Seven Times, Get up Eight: The Japanese War Brides. YCAPS-JUMP Seminar Series Film Screening. Jan 10, 2017.

Imperial Japanese Navy History Tour: Museum Ship Mikasa and Navy Curry Lunch. Tour. Dec 3, 2016.

Europe's Role in Asia's Maritime Security. Seminar. Nov 16, 2016.

Torkel Patterson: US-Japan Alliance. Why It Matters to America and America's future. Seminar. Nov 1, 2016.

Healthy Asian Economies? - Jodi Schneider Reports. Seminar. Aug 16, 2016.

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