I call the meeting back to order.
We are back in session, and we appreciate our next guests' patience with us. We ran a little over. The Ambassador of Japan was fascinating, and we let him go on at some length with some of his commentary because it was very valuable to us.
That said, we will probably need to be a bit more on time with some of our questioning now, so that we can finish in time for our support staff here to have the rest of their evening.
Welcome back. I'd like to welcome our witnesses for the second panel.
Shihoko Goto is the director of the Asia program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and she's with us by video conference. Also by video conference, we have Yuki Tatsumi, co-director of the east Asia program at the Henry L. Stimson Center.
We will start with you, Ms. Goto, for a five-minute opening statement.