James L. Schoff

James L. Schoff is senior director of the “U.S.-Japan NEXT Alliance Initiative” at the Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA (based in Washington, DC). Previously, Schoff was a senior fellow and director of the Japan Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace for nine years, following two years as senior adviser for East Asia policy at the U.S. Office of the Secretary of Defense. His publications include “Allied on AI Assurance: Technology to Enhance AI Security & Safety” (Sasakawa USA, October 2024), “Modernizing U.S.-Japan Command & Control Relationships for New Challenges” (Sasakawa USA, May 2023), “China and the New Role for Economic Security in the US-Japan Alliance” (Sasakawa Peace Foundation, April 2022), and “Uncommon Alliance for the Common Good: The United States and Japan after the Cold War” (Carnegie, 2017).