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- Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
- Date: September 7, 2010
- Time: 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
- CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge St., Belfer Case Study Room (S020)
- This is open to the public.
Special Series on International Relations of East Asia
"Japan’s Place in U.S. Grand Strategy"
Co-sponsored by the WCFIA National Security Studies Program (NSSP) and the Asia Center.
- Speakers
- Green, Michael
Senior Vice President for Asia and Japan Chair, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), and Associate Professor of International Relations, Georgetown University.
- Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
- Date: September 14, 2010
- Time: 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
- CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
- This is open to the public.
Special Series on Globalization and Governance
"Who Can Save Japan from the Global Financial Crisis?"
Discussant:
Richard N. Cooper
Maurits C. Boas Professor of International Economics, Harvard University.
- Speakers
- CANCELED: Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
- Date: September 21, 2010
- Time: 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
- CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
- This is open to the public.
- This event has been postponed.
- Speakers
- Ebinger, Charles K.
Director, Energy Security Initiative; Stephen and Barbara Friedman Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution.
- Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
- Date: September 28, 2010
- Time: 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
- CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
- This is open to the public.
"Soul on Strike: Precarity, Security, and Remaking Sociality in 21st Century Japan"
Co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology and the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies.
- Moderator/Chair
- Bestor, Theodore C.
- Faculty Associate. Reischauer Institute Professor of Social
Anthropology; Chair, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University.
- Speakers
- Allison, Anne
Robert Keohane Professor of Cultural Anthropology, and Professor of Women's Studies, Duke University.
- Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
- Date: October 5, 2010
- Time: 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
- CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
- This is open to the public.
- Distinguished Visitor Lecture
Special Series on International Relations of East Asia
"Balancing America and Asia: Japan's Dilemma for the 2010s"
Co-sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center.
- Speakers
- Pempel, T.J.
Professor of Political Science, University of California at Berkeley.
- Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
- Date: October 12, 2010
- Time: 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
- CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
- This is open to the public.
Special Series on Common Problems of Developed Democracies
"Toyota's Response to Recalls"
Co-sponsored by the WCFIA Fellows Program, and the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School.
- Speakers
- Lehner, Thomas J.
Vice President, Government Affairs, Toyota Motor North America, Inc.
- Ohtsuji, Sumio
Senior Vice President and Chief Coordinating Officer, Toyota Motor North America, Inc.
- Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
- Date: October 26, 2010
- Time: 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
- CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
- This is open to the public.
"Accidental Activists: How Victim Groups Hold the Government Accountable in Japan and Korea"
Co-sponsored by the Hauser Center for Non-Profit Organizations and the Korea Institute.
- Speakers
- Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
- Date: November 2, 2010
- Time: 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
- CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
- This is open to the public.
Special Series on International Relations of East Asia
"The Korean Peninsula and East Asia's Security Order"
Co-sponsored by the Kim Koo Forum on U.S.-Korea Relations, Korea Institute, and the WCFIA National Security Studies Program (NSSP).
- Speakers
- Koda, Yoji
Senior Fellow, Harvard University Asia Center. Vice Admiral (ret.), Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force.
- Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
- Date: November 9, 2010
- Time: 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
- CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
- This is open to the public.
"Repatriation to North Korea: Documentary Films, 'Koreaness,' and Japan"
Co-sponsored by the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies and the Kim Koo Forum on U.S.-Korea Relations, Korea Institute
- Moderator/Chair
- Yoda, Tomiko
Takashima Professor of Japanese Humanities, Harvard University.
- Speakers
- Mōri, Yoshitaka
Associate Professor of Sociology and Cultural Studies, Faculty of Music, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music.
- Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
- Date: November 16, 2010
- Time: 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
- CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
- This is open to the public.
Special Series on Common Problems of Developed Democracies
"Family, Gender, and the Logics of Asian Modernity"
Co-sponsored by the Asia Center.
- Moderator/Chair
- Brinton, Mary C.
- Executive Committee; Faculty Associate. Reischauer Institute Professor
of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Harvard University.
- Speakers
- Ochiai, Emiko
Professor, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University.
- Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
- Date: November 19, 2010
- Time: 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm
- CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge St., Belfer Case Study Room (S020)
- This is open to the public.
"Enigma of Japanese Business: The Aviation Industry as an Example"
Co-sponsored by the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School.
- Speakers
- Fukushima, Glen S.
Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress; former President, American Chamber of Commerce in Japan; former Deputy Assistant US Trade Representative for Japan and China.
- Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
- Date: November 30, 2010
- Time: 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
- CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
- This is open to the public.
"Staying Power: Six Enduring Principles for Managing Strategy and Innovation in an Uncertain World"
Co-sponsored by the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School.
- Speakers
- Cusumano, Michael A.
Sloan Management Review Distinguished Professor of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
- Date: December 7, 2010
- Time: 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
- CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
- This is open to the public.
Special Series on Common Problems of Developed Democracies
"Women, Work, and Politics: The Political Economy of Gender Inequality"
Co-sponsored by the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies.
- Speakers
- Iversen, Torben
- Faculty Associate (on leave
2012–2013). Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy,
Department of Government, Harvard University.
- Rosenbluth, Frances
Damon Wells Professor of International Politics, Yale University.
- Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
- Date: February 3, 2011
- Time: 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
- CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
- This is open to the public.
"A New Breed of Japanese Companies"
- Speakers
- Takeuchi, Hirotaka
Professor of Management Practice, Harvard Business School.
- Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
- Date: February 8, 2011
- Time: 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
- The Minda de Gunzberg Center for European Studies, 27 Kirkland St., Lower Level Conference Room
- This is open to the public.
Special Series on Common Problems of Developed Democracies
Special Series on International Relations of East Asia
"American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us"
Co-sponsored by the Center for American Political Studies (CAPS), and the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies.
- Speakers
- Putnam, Robert D.
- Senior Adviser; Faculty
Associate (on leave spring 2013). Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of
Public Policy, Department of Government, Harvard University.
- Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
- Date: February 15, 2011
- Time: 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
- CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
- This is open to the public.
“Japan and Southeast Asia in the Twenty-First Century”
Special Series on International Relations of East Asia
Co-sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center and the WCFIA Fellows Program.
- Moderator/Chair
- Perkins, Dwight H.
- Faculty Associate
(emeritus). Harold Hitchings Burbank Research Professor of Political
Economy, Department of Economics, Harvard University.
- Speakers
- Komachi, Kyoji
Former Ambassador of Japan to Thailand and the Netherlands; Visiting Professor, Graduate School of Global Studies, Doshisha University; Former Fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.
- Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
- Date: February 22, 2011
- Time: 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
- CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
- This is open to the public.
"Sick of Asia: Modern Japan, Opium, and Globalization in Manchuria"
Co-sponsored by the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, and Harvard University Asia Center.
- Moderator/Chair
- Speakers
- Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
- Date: March 1, 2011
- Time: 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
- CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
- This is open to the public.
"What Happened to Toyota?"
Co-sponsored by the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School.
- Moderator/Chair
- Brinton, Mary C.
- Executive Committee; Faculty Associate. Reischauer Institute Professor
of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Harvard University.
- Speakers
- Cole, Robert E.
Professor Emeritus, Haas School of Business and Department of Sociology, University of California at Berkeley.
- Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
- Date: March 8, 2011
- Time: 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
- CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
- This is open to the public.
Panel: Revitalizing Japanese Democracy
"Incumbency Advantage under Alternative Electoral Rules: Evidence from Japan"
Kenichi Ariga
Advanced Research Fellow, Program on U.S. - Japan Relations. Ph.D. in Political Science, University of Michigan.
"Citizen Deliberation and Citizen-Government Relationship"
Hiroko Ide
Academic Associate, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. Ph.D. in Politics, University of Tokyo.
Discussant:
Matthew Carlson
Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Vermont.
- Moderator/Chair
- Carlson, Matthew
Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Vermont.
- Speakers
- Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
- Date: March 10, 2011
- Time: 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
- CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge St., Ted and Doris Lee Gathering Room (S030)
- This is open to the public.
Panel: The Efficiency of Japanese Capitalism
"The Impact of Shareholder Activism on Japanese Firms"
Yasuhiro Arikawa
Academic Associate, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University, and Associate Professor, Graduate School of Finance, Accounting and Law, Waseda University .
"Lessons from the Financial Crisis in the United States and Japan"
Hidenori Higuchi
Research Associate, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University, and Ministry of Finance.
"Energy Networks and Energy Efficiency in the U.S. and Japan"
Jun Ishikawa
Research Associate, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University, and Tokyo Gas Company
Discussant:
Henry Laurence,
Associate Professor of Government and East Asian Studies, and Director, Asian Studies Program, Bowdoin College.
- Moderator/Chair
- Laurence, Henry C. W.
Director, Asian Studies Program, Associate Professor of Government and Asian Studies, Bowdoin College.
- Speakers
- Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
- Date: March 22, 2011
- Time: 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
- CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
- This is open to the public.
Special Series on International Relations of East Asia
"Perils of Proximity: China-Japan Security Relations"
Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the WCFIA National Security Studies Program.
- Speakers
- Bush, Richard C.
Michael H. Armacost Chair, and Director, Center for Northeast Asia Policy Studies, Brookings Institution.
- Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
- Date: March 23, 2011
- Time: 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
- CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge St., Tsai Auditorium (Room S010)
- This is open to the public.
"Crisis in Japan: The Way Forward"
Convener:
Andrew Gordon
Director, Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, and Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Harvard University.
Co-sponsored by the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies; Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; the Takemi Program; and the Harvard University Asia Center.
- Moderator/Chair
- Pharr, Susan J.
- Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Executive Committee; Faculty
Associate; Harvard Academy Senior Scholar. Edwin O. Reischauer Professor
of Japanese Politics, Department of Government, Harvard University.
- Speakers
- Hikihara, Takeshi
Consul General of Japan, Boston.
- Koda, Yoji
Senior Fellow, Harvard University Asia Center. Vice Admiral (ret.), Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force.
- Reich, Michael R.
- Faculty Associate. Taro
Takemi Professor of International Health Policy, Department of Global
Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health.
- Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
- Date: March 29, 2011
- Time: 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
- CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
- This is open to the public.
"How Will Japan Recover from the Great Earthquake?"
Discussant:
Koichi Hamada
Tuntex Professor of Economics, Yale University.
Co-sponsored by the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government,
Harvard Kennedy School.
- Speakers
- Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
- Date: April 5, 2011
- Time: 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
- CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
- This is open to the public.
Special Series on Globalization and Governance
"The Future of Global Food Security"
Co-sponsored by the Center for International Development and the Harvard University Center for the Environment (HUCE).
- Speakers
- Paarlberg, Robert L.
- Associate. Betty F. Johnson Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science, Wellesley College.
- Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
- Date: April 12, 2011
- Time: 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
- CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
- This is open to the public.
Special Series on International Relations of East Asia
"Japan’s Political Transition and the U.S.-Japan Alliance: A View from Washington, D.C."
Co-sponsored by the WCFIA National Security Studies Program (NSSP).
- Speakers
- Smith, Sheila A.
Senior Fellow on Japan Studies, Council on Foreign Relations.
- Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
- Date: April 14, 2011
- Time: 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
- CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge St., Ted and Doris Lee Gathering Room (S030)
- This is open to the public.
Panel: Diversity and Social Change in Contemporary Japan
"Countermeasures Against Radicalization of Homegrown Muslims"
Hiroyuki Matsumoto
Associate, Program on
U.S-Japan Relations. Director, First District Headquarters, Metropolitan
Police Department, National Police Agency, Tokyo.
"Japanese Immigration Policy in Comparative Perspective"
Rintaro Iwasaki
Associate, Program on
U.S-Japan Relations. Section Chief, Foreign Residents Registry System
Office, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Tokyo.
Discussant:
Justin Gest
Harvard College Fellow, Department of Government,
Harvard University, and co-founder and Deputy Director, Migration Studies Unit,
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
- Speakers
- Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
- Date: April 19, 2011
- Time: 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
- CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
- This is open to the public.
"Civic Engagement in Postwar Japan: Revival of a Defeated Society"
Co-sponsored by the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations.
- Speakers
- Kage, Rieko
Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Tokyo. Toyota Visiting Professor, Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan.
- Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
- Date: April 21, 2011
- Time: 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
- CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
- This is open to the public.
Panel: Rethinking the U.S.-Japan Alliance
"What Japan Knew: Secret Bargaining in the Reversion of Okinawa"
Yukinori Komine
Academic Associate, Program on U.S-Japan Relations. Adjunct Professor, Department of Economics, History, and Political Science, Fitchburg State College.
"Revisiting the 1960 U.S.-Japan Security Treaty Protests"
Nikhil Kapur
Ph.D. candidate in History, Harvard University.
"Managing the U.S.-Japan Alliance in the Twenty-First Century"
Shinzo Yoshida
Associate, Program on U.S-Japan Relations. Visiting Professor, Takushoku University, Tokyo.
Discussant:
Thomas U. Berger
Associate Professor of International Relations, Boston University.
- Moderator/Chair
- Berger, Thomas U.
Associate Professor of International Relations, Boston University
- Speakers
- Kapur, Nikhil
Ph.D. candidate in History, Harvard University.
- Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
- Date: April 26, 2011
- Time: 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
- CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
- This is open to the public.
Panel: Globalization, Regionalism, and the Japanese Economy
"Financial Imperfection, Capital Movements, and International Trade"
Taiji Furusawa
Academic Associate, Program on U.S-Japan Relations. Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo.
"Globalization of the Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SME) in Japan and the U.S."
Masaki Tone
Associate, Program on U.S-Japan Relations. Deputy Director, Business Support Division, Small and Medium Enterprise Agency, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Japan.
"Food Security in Twenty-First Century Japan"
Tsuyoshi Nozoe
Associate, Program on U.S-Japan Relations. Deputy Director, Minister's Secretariat, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Japan.
Discussant:
William W. Grimes
Professor and Chair, Department of International Relations, Boston University.
- Speakers
- Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
- Date: April 28, 2011
- Time: 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
- CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
- This is open to the public.
Special Series on Common Problems of Developed Democracies
"Revisiting the Japanese Employment System: The Era of Non-regular Employment"
Co-sponsored by the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies.
- Moderator/Chair
- Brinton, Mary C.
- Executive Committee; Faculty Associate. Reischauer Institute Professor
of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Harvard University.
- Speakers
- Gordon, Andrew
Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Harvard University.
