Japan and the U.S. Presidential Election｜Nobukatsu Kanehara, Executive Director, Sasakawa Peace Foundation

Our guest today is Nobukatsu Kanehara, Executive Director of the Sasakawa Peace Foundation. Kanehara san has decades of experience in Japanese government, serving in a variety of positions in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and later in the Cabinet of Japan, including as Assistant Chief Cabinet Secretary to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe from 2012 to 2019. In our conversation, we discuss how Japan is watching the U.S. presidential election, and how the country might approach a potential Trump or Harris administration. This interview was recorded on October 23, two weeks out from election day in the U.S. and just prior to the Japanese general election, which was held on October 27.

You can read the full transcript of this episode on the SPF website.