Japan’s Security and Foreign Policy – International Correspondents Review 2025

Join a panel of leading international correspondents for a timely and thought-provoking discussion on Japan’s foreign and security developments in 2025. As Tokyo deepens its defense partnerships, redefines its regional role, and responds to intensifying strategic competition across the Indo-Pacific, journalists on the frontlines of global reporting will share their analyses of how Japan’s choices are perceived abroad and what they signal for the future of regional stability. This conversation offers a rare opportunity to hear how seasoned observers interpret Japan’s evolving strategy and communicate its global significance to the world.

Panelists:

Martin Fackler, Former New York Times Tokyo Bureau Chief

Toyoda Yukiko, Japan Bureau Chief, Reuters

Gabriel Dominguez, Asia Pacific and Defense Reporter, Japan Times

Alastair Gale,Bloomberg

YCAPS is glad to partner with Kreab Tokyo to deliver this opportunity

Kreab is a world-class communications consulting firm founded in Stockholm, Sweden in 1970. Since its opening in 1985, Kreab Inc., the Tokyo office, has been providing consulting services to a wide range of clients, making full use of its network that connects 30 countries around the world. Kreab supports communications activities with three core business areas: public relations, government relations, and global risk management. This includes extensive experience helping the Japanese government with its global PR efforts. More information is available at https://kreab.com/tokyo/ja/

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Schedule :

18:00-18:30: Light refreshments & Networking

18:30: Welcoming Remarks

18:35-1905: Moderated panel discussion

19:05: Q&A with members of the audience, moderated by Nancy Snow

19:40: wrap up and thanks

19:45: All activities finished

Date: Wednesday, December 10, 2025

Time: 18:00 refreshments, 18:30 Seminar start

Language: English

Venue: Kreab Tokyo: Atago Green Hills MORI Tower 11F, 2-5-1 Atago, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-6211

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Panelists:

Martin Fackler served as the New York Times bureau chief in Tokyo, leading coverage of the country, and as assistant Asia editor from 2004-2018 and for a period 2024. He got his start in journalism covering finance and crime for Bloomberg News, and worked in Tokyo, Shanghai, Beijing and Hong Kong for The Wall Street Journal, The Far Eastern Economic Review and The Associated Press.

In 2012, his team at The Times was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for our investigative stories into the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

Toyoda Yukiko was appointed Japan Bureau Chief in February 2022, oversees Reuters coverage in both English and Japanese spanning politics and general news to economics and business. Previous to Reuters, she spent 25 years at Japan’s Kyodo News, where she covered defence, foreign policy and the Bank of Japan and had postings in Kyodo’s Osaka and Niigata bureaus. She was the agency’s Singapore bureau chief from 2009 to 2013 and worked as a correspondent in Washington from 2015 to 2018. Most recently, she was deputy editor for the investigations team, where she worked with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists to follow the money flow examined by French prosecutors in a corruption investigation related to Tokyo’s successful bid to host the Olympics. She has also reported extensively on the evolving defence and diplomatic ties between Japan and the United States at a time of rising tensions with China.

Gabriel Dominguez is a senior news editor and journalist with more than nine years’ experience leading teams of staffers and freelancers to cover a wide variety of English-language news and analyses on the Indo-Pacific region. My main tasks have included co-ordinating, writing, commissioning, and editing features, analyses, as well as in-depth and breaking news: skills that I learned during my news agency training. After working from Europe for many years, he is now a key player expanding the international coverage of the Japan Times, a newpaper that has been reporting news in English from Tokyo since 1897.

Alastair Gale covers Asian security and Japanese politics for Bloomberg from Tokyo. He was previously in a similar role for the Wall Street Journal, and prior to that he served as bureau chief for WSJ in South Korea from 2011 to 2016. He's lived in Asia most of his working life, including six years in Singapore as a regional managing editor for Dow Jones Newswires. He's received two awards from the Society of Publishers in Asia for coverage of North Korea and was part of a team nominated by WSJ for a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of China in 2023.

Moderator:

Nancy Snow, Professor of Communications Emeritus at California State University, Fullerton, is an internationally renowned authority on public diplomacy, propaganda studies, media influence, and nation branding. She lives in Japan and the United States. Her career spans continents and disciplines, and she advises governments, institutions, and private clients on global persuasion strategies and strategic communications. Dr. Snow, a regular contributor to Nikkei Asia and Nikkei Business, brings a sharp, informed voice to the world’s most pressing geopolitical and media issues. Nancy is also the author, editor, or co-editor of 16 books.

Cost: Free of charge

Moderators: Nancy Snow, Special Advisor for Public Diplomacy, YCAPS

Format: This event will be off-the-record. Questions are encouraged.

Registration: Required. Please use this link to RSVP for in-person attendance

Co-Sponsors: Kreab Tokyo