Michael Mochizuki Session Overview

Mike M Mochizuki is Non-Resident Fellow of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. He held the Japan–US Relations Chair in Memory of Gaston Sigur at the Elliott School of International Affairs in George Washington University from 1999 to 2025. Dr. Mochizuki was associate dean for academic programs at the Elliott School from 2010 to 2014 and director of the Sigur Center for Asian Studies from 2001 to 2005; and he co-directed the “Memory and Reconciliation in the Asia-Pacific” project of the Sigur Center. Previously he was a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and Co-Director of the Center for Asia Pacific Policy at the RAND Corporation. His recent books include Memory, Identity, and Commemorations of World War II: Anniversary Politics in Asia Pacific (co-editor and co-author, 2018); Energy Security in Asia and Eurasia (co-editor and co-author, 2017); Nuclear Debates in Asia: The Role of Geopolitics and Domestic Processes (co-editor and author, 2016); and The Okinawa Question: Futenma, the US-Japan Alliance, and Regional Security (co-editor and author, 2013).