US-Japan Cyber Forum: Advancing Cyber Defense and Resilience in the Age of Strategic Competition 

On February 16, 2023 (US), with support from the US Embassy Tokyo and in partnership with the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology Open Laboratory for Emergence Strategies (ROLES) at the University of Tokyo, the Pacific Forum hosted the first session of the US-Japan Cyber Forum: Advancing Cyber Defense and Resilience in the Age of Strategic Competition. Over 30 participants from the government, private sector, academia, and non-governmental organizations joined the online discussion.
Dr. Emily Goldman, Strategist at the US Cyber Command, Dr. Koichiro Komiyama, Senior Researcher of the Keio Research Institute at SFC, and Michael Karimian, Director of Digital Diplomacy, Asia and the Pacific at Microsoft, assessed recent developments in US-Japan cybersecurity cooperation in the wake of a rapidly changing geostrategic landscape, increasing technical and operational challenges, and rising demands for improved public-private cooperation on information-sharing. Mark Manantan, Director of Cybersecurity & Critical Technologies at the Pacific Forum, served as the host and moderator of the virtual event.