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A Week of On-Site Training inInternational Politics: Washington D.C. Study Tour The Washington D.C. Study Tour run by Tsuyoshi Sunohara, the Managing Executive Officer ofNikkei Inc. and Visiting Professor at the Center for Global Discovery, was held March 12-19. Ten students participated, including four students who had taken the course “New Security Environment and Japan’s National Strategy in the 21st Century” held in the spring semester of 2016.Worked at the Washington branch of the Editorial Headquarters for the Americas, and as a senior staff writer of the International Department, before becom-ing the Managing Executive Ofcer of Nikkei Inc. and Visiting Professor at the Center for Global Discovery at Sophia University.Tsuyoshi Sunoharahe Washington D.C. Study Tour enables Su-nohara, who has worked at the Washington branch of The Nikkei Newspaper and as Visiting Fel-low at the Center for Strategic & International Stud-ies (CSIS), to teach students about current global issues on-site in real time and develop people who can bolster Japan’s global competitiveness. As he re-calls, “I studied abroad in the U.S. after becoming a journalist and learned about politics. I still clearly remember how shocked I was at the high level of the classes, and since then, my dream has been to provide the next generation the op-portunity to expe-rience that level of academic rigor as soon as possible. I created this pro-gram to enable students to study actual international political is-sues on-site, from historical perspectives.”The program included discussions with Richard Armitage, former Deputy Secretary of State, and Melanne Verveer, former Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues, U.S. Department of State. There were also lectures held at CSIS, Brookings In-stitution, and the Embassy of Japan in the United States of America, and a joint lecture at Georgetown University to conclude the tour. The students gained tremendously from learning high-level information usually only available to diplomats and special cor-respondents. T[ March 12-19 ]Washington D.C. Study Tour ItineraryArrive in Washington D.C.Day 1Seminar at CSIS: “The South China Sea Situation and the Japan-U.S. Alliance”Day 3Lecture at the Brookings Institution“The China/Korean Peninsula Situation” and “The TPP and International Trade Issue”Day 4Courtesy visit to the Office of Japanese Affairs at the Bureau of East Asian and Pacic Affairs for a lecture by the person in charge/ Lecture and discussions with the person in charge of Japan at the Congressional Research ServiceDay 5Lecture at the Embassy of JapanJoint lecture at Georgetown UniversityDay 6Training in Washington D.C.End-of-Tour Reections by participating studentsDay 7Return to JapanDay 8Seminar at CSIS: “Japan-U.S. Re-lations under the Trump Adminis-tration”/ Courtesy visit with Richard Armitage, former Deputy Secretary of State/ Courtesy visit with Melanne Verveer, former Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues, U.S. Department of StateDay 228Learning