A Conversation with H.E. Shigeo Yamada, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to the United States of America

In advance of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s first official visit to Washington, DC on April 10, 2024, Japan Society President and CEO Joshua W. Walker chatted by Zoom with H.E. Shigeo Yamada, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to the United States of America. “Yamada-san is the new Japanese Ambassador, and it’s great to have someone like him in DC with nearly 40 years of public service in the Foreign Ministry who not only appreciates the policy community, but the people-to-people exchange and also the business investment that really makes the U.S. Japan relationship so strong. Ambassador Yamada’s first task, in many ways, is to prepare for Prime Minister Kishida’s first official state visit, the first in eight or nine years since Prime Minister Abe’s seminal visit and “Alliance of Hope” speech to a joint session of Congress,” notes Dr. Walker. Click here to view the video.