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Dr. Yoichi Funabashi is an award-winning Japanese journalist, columnist, and author. He has written extensively on foreign affairs, the U.S.–Japan Alliance, geo-economics, and historical issues in the Asia Pacific. He has a distinguished career as a journalist. He served as a correspondent for the Asahi Shimbun in Beijing (1980-1981) and Washington (1984-1987) as U.S. General Bureau Chief (1993-1997) and later as Editor-in-Chief (2007-2010). He was the first Japanese laureate of Stanford University’s prestigious Shorenstein Journalism Award (2016). He established Rebuild Japan Initiative Foundation, an independent Tokyo-based think tank, in September 2011, which expanded to become Asia Pacific Initiative in 2017. His English books include Meltdown (2021); The Crisis of Liberal Internationalism, ed. (co-edited with G. John Ikenberry, 2020); The Peninsula Question (2007); Reconciliation in the Asia-Pacific, ed. (2003); Alliance Adrift (1998, winner of the Shincho Arts and Sciences Award); Asia-Pacific Fusion: Japan’s Role in APEC (1995, winner of the Mainichi Shimbun Asia Pacific Grand Prix Award); and Managing the Dollar: From the Plaza to the Louvre (1988, winner of the Yoshino Sakuzo Prize and chosen as one of the 2018 Yicai-JP Morgan Financial Books of the Year). He is a current member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) Advisory Council.