Mr Yohei Sasakawa, Chairman of the Nippon Foundation and the first Chair of the steering committee of the Sasakawa Pacific Island Nations Fund, made a speech at Japan-US alliance meeting held in Washinton DC this September.
He suggested that a possibility for a new direction in the Japan-US alliance is "non-military + Pacific Islands", and he referred to Dr Campbell's current visit to Pacific Islands.
Hon. Daniel Inouye and Hon, Jim Webb also attended.
You can read his remarks at:
http://www.spfusa.org/program/avs/2011/sasakawa_%2009072011_speech.pdf
as well as video at:
Video Part 1 (Mr Sasakawa 's remarks start around from 14min.)
Video part 2 (including Hon. Daniel Inouye and Hon, Jim Webb speech)
