VADM Fumio Ota will discuss five reasons why a Taiwan Crisis is Japan’s Crisis and will share his recommendations for our the US-Japan Alliance can deter China from creating such a crisis. These recommendations will hinge on missiles. The U.S. will provide these missiles via its Pacific Deterrence Initiative while Japan has been developing cruise missiles domestically such as Type 12 SSM and ASM-3 which will be given extended range and modified for launch from ships aircraft.

Vice Admiral Ota was born in Tokyo in 1948. He graduated from the Japan National
Defense Academy in 1970. In the year 1993-4, he received a Master's Degree in National
Resource Strategy from the US Industrial College of the Armed Forces, and also a Master's
Degree in International Public Policy at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)
at Johns Hopkins University. In 2003 he was awarded his PhD at SAIS in International
Relations. He served at sea for almost ten years, including command of the destroyer JDS
Yugumo, and was twice destroyer division commander. Ashore, he was assigned as an
exchange instructor to the US Naval Academy, 1980-82. In 1992, during his assignment, as
a fellow at the National Institute for Defense Studies, he was a visiting fellow at the Center
for International Security and Arms Control at Stanford University. From 1996-99, he served
as Defense and Naval Attaché at the Embassy of Japan, Washington DC. From 1999 to
2001 Vice Admiral Ota was Director J4 (Logistics), Joint Staff Office, Japan National
Defense Agency, during which time he received two legions of merit. Following a brief
assignment in 2001 as President of the Joint Staff College, he was promoted to Director of
the Defense Intelligence Headquarters until his retirement in 2005.

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