July 17, 2009

The Security Subcommittee (SSC) is scheduled to meet at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Tokyo on Saturday, July 18.

Kurt Campbell, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, and Wallace Gregson, Assistant Secretary of Defense, Asian and Pacific Security Affairs, will head the U.S. delegation to the SSC. Kazuyoshi Umemoto, Director General of the North American Affairs Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Nobushige Takamizawa, Director General of the Defense Policy Bureau, Ministry of Defense, will head the Japanese delegation.