|
Year
|
Speaker
|
| 1987 |
Senator John D. Rockefeller IV |
| 1988 |
Ezra Vogel, Professor, Harvard University |
| 1989 |
Yotaro Kobayashi, Chairman, Fuji Xerox
Hon. Dick Gephardt, House Majority Leader
|
| 1990 |
Hon. Tom Foley, Speaker of the House
|
| 1991 |
Yasuhiro Nakasone, Former Prime Minister
|
| 1992 |
Hon. Paul A. Volcker,
Former Chairman of the Federal Reserve
|
| 1993 |
Toyoo Gyoten, Chairman, Bank of Tokyo
and former Vice Minister of Finance
|
| 1994 |
Hon. Mike Mansfield, former US Ambassador to Japan and former Senate Majority Leader
|
| 1995 |
Dr. Shoichiro Toyoda, Chairman, Toyota Motors &
Chairman, Keidanren
|
| 1996 |
Hon. Tony Lake, Special Assistant to the President
for National Security Affairs
|
| 1997 |
Hon. Tom Foley, Ambassador to Japan
|
| 1998 |
Hon. Stuart Eizenstadt, Under Secretary of State
for Economic, Business & Agricultural Affairs
|
| 1999 |
Minoru Makihara, Chairman, Mitsubishi Corporation
|
| 2000 |
Tom Friedman, New York Times
|
| 2001 |
Hon. Tom Foley
Former US Ambassador to Japan
|
| 2002 |
Sadako Ogata, former United Nations
High Commissioner for Refugees
|
| 2003 |
No Dinner was held
|
| 2004 |
Hon. Norman Mineta, Secretary of Transportation and former Secretary of Commerce
|
| 2005 |
Taizo Nishimura, Chairman, Toshiba Corporation
and Chairman, US-Japan Business Council
|
| 2005 |
Hon. Howard Baker, former US Ambassador to Japan, former Senate Majority Leader, and former
White House Chief of Staff
|
| 2006 |
No Dinner was held
|
| 2007 |
Senator Daniel K. Inouye
|
| 2007 |
Hon. Walter F. Mondale, former US Vice President and former US Ambassador to Japan
|
