Sheila a SmithSheila A. Smith is Senior Fellow for Japan Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and the author of Intimate Rivals: Japanese Domestic Politics and a Rising China. She is chair of the US advisors to the US-Japan Conference on Cultural andEducational Exchange, a binational advisory panel of government officials and private-sector members. She also serves on the advisory committee for the US-Japan Network for the Future program of the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation. Smith teaches at Georgetown University and is a frequent media commentator in the United States and Asia. Read More Read Less