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Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
Date: September 13, 2012
Time: 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
This is open to the public.

“Homeless Diaspora: The Impact of Return Migration on Latin American Japanese Communities”

Co-sponsored by the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies and the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies.

Moderator/Chair
Bestor, Theodore C.
Faculty Associate. Reischauer Institute Professor of Social Anthropology; Chair, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University.
Speakers
Manzenreiter, Wolfram
Associate Professor, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Vienna.

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
Date: September 18, 2012
Time: 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
This is open to the public.

“Another Year, Another Government: Making Sense of Japan's Political Confusion”

Co-sponsored by the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation and the Institute of Politics (IOP), Harvard Kennedy School.

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
Curtis, Gerald L.
Burgess Professor of Political Science, Columbia University.

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
Date: September 25, 2012
Time: 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
This is open to the public.

“Excluding the Poor: Democratization and the Development of Japan's Uneven Welfare State”

Co-sponsored by the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy, Harvard Kennedy School.

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
Shimabukuro, Yumi
Postdoctoral Fellow, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. PhD, Department of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
Date: October 2, 2012
Time: 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
This is open to the public.

“Transpacific Field of Dreams: How Baseball Linked the United States and Japan in Peace and War”

Co-sponsored by the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies.

Moderator/Chair
Gordon, Andrew
Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Harvard University.
Speakers
Guthrie-Shimizu, Sayuri
Professor of History, Michigan State University.

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
Date: October 9, 2012
Time: 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Tsai Auditorium (S010), CGIS South Building, Harvard Friends of Japan Concourse, 1730 Cambridge Street
This is open to the public.

“Where Japan Is Headed”

Co-sponsored by the WCFIA Fellows Program and the Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School.

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
Fujisaki, Ichiro
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to the United States of America

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
Date: October 16, 2012
Time: 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
This is open to the public.

“Keeping the Streets Safe for Children: Residential Mobility and Local Civic Engagement in Japan and the US”

Special Series on Common Problems of Developed Democracies.

Co-sponsored by the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, Harvard Kennedy School.

Moderator/Chair
Brinton, Mary C.
Executive Committee; Faculty Associate. Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Harvard University.
Speakers
Schoppa, Leonard
Associate Dean for the Social Sciences, and Professor of Politics, University of Virginia

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
Date: October 23, 2012
Time: 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
This is open to the public.

“Why Electoral Integrity Matters”

Special Series on Common Problems of Developed Democracies.

Co-sponsored by the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School.

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
Norris, Pippa
Faculty Associate. Paul F. McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics, Harvard Kennedy School.

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
Date: November 1, 2012
Time: 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
This is open to the public.

“The 2012 Presidential Election: What’s at Stake?”

Co-sponsored by the the Institute of Politics (IOP), Harvard Kennedy School.

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

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
Date: November 6, 2012
Time: 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
This is open to the public.

“Panel Title: Japanese Diplomacy Today: Challenges and Opportunities”

“Institutional Change and Japanese Politics” by Tomohito Shinoda.

“Prospects for ROK-Japan Relations” by Woonjin Jeong.

Co-sponsored by the Kim Koo Forum on Korea Current Affairs at the Korea Institute.

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
Shinoda, Tomohito
Professor, International University of Japan.
Jeong, Woonjin
Associate, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. Former Director, Japan Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Seoul.

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
Date: November 13, 2012
Time: 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
This is open to the public.

“The Next Phase of the ‘Contest for Supremacy’ in Asia”

Special Series on International Relations of East Asia

Co-sponsored by the Asia Center, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, and the Program on Global Society and Security, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs (WCFIA).

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
Friedberg, Aaron L.
Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University.

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
Date: November 27, 2012
Time: 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
This is open to the public.

“Experiments in Japanese Child Welfare: ‘Social Care’ and the Nuclear Household”

Co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology and the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies.
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
Goldfarb, Kathryn
Postdoctoral Fellow, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. PhD, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago.

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
Date: December 4, 2012
Time: 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
This is open to the public.

“Japan Shrinks: Demography, Economic Growth, and National Security”

Moderator/Chair
Brinton, Mary C.
Executive Committee; Faculty Associate. Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Harvard University.
Speakers
Eberstadt, Nicholas
Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy, American Enterprise Institute.

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
Date: December 11, 2012
Time: 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
This is open to the public.

“Social Resilience in the Neoliberal Era”

Special Series on Common Problems of Developed Democracies

Co-sponsored by the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, and the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

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
Hall, Peter A.
Senior Adviser; Faculty Associate. Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies, Department of Government, Harvard University.
Lamont, Michèle
Executive Committee; Steering Committee; Faculty Associate. Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies, Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology; Professor of African and African American Studies, Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University.

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
Date: February 5, 2013
Time: 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
This is open to the public.

“3.11: Disaster and Change in Japan”

Special Series on Post-Disaster Japan

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
Samuels, Richard J.
Director, Ford International Professor of Political Science, Center for International Studies (CIS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
Date: February 12, 2013
Time: 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
This is open to the public.

“Japan's Growth Strategy and the World Economy”

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
Jorgenson, Dale W.
Samuel W. Morris University Professor at Harvard University, Department of Economics.

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
Date: February 19, 2013
Time: 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
This is open to the public.

"The Return of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe: Political Leadership and Foreign Policy"

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
Okamoto, Yukio
Robert E. Wilhelm Fellow, Center for International Studies (CIS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology.; President, Okamoto Associates Inc.; former Special Advisor to Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto and Junichiro Koizumi.

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
Date: February 26, 2013
Time: 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
This is open to the public.

"The Geopolitics of the Shale Gas Revolution"

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
Ebinger, Charles K.
Director, Energy Security Initiative; Stephen and Barbara Friedman Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution.

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
Date: March 7, 2013
Time: 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
This is open to the public.

Panel: Information Technology, Crime, and Security

"U.S. Intelligence and Warfare in Cyberspace"
Takashi Watanabe
Associate, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University; Staff Writer, Tokyo Head Office, the Asahi Shimbun.

"Utilization of Advanced Science and Technology in Criminal Investigations"
Hiroyuki Fujimura
Associate, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University; Chief, Ishikawa Prefectural Police, National Police Agency.

"Support for Crime Victims and the Criminal Justice System in the U.S. and Japan"
Mamoru Kishibe

Associate, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University; Staff Writer, the Yomiuri Shimbun.

Discussant:
Mary Alice Haddad
Associate Professor of Government, Wesleyan University.

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
Watanabe, Takashi
Associate, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. Staff Writer, City News Section, Tokyo Head Office, the Asahi Shimbun.
Fujimura, Hiroyuki
Associate, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. Chief, Ishikawa Prefectural Police, National Police Agency.
Kishibe, Mamoru
Associate, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. Staff writer, Osaka City News Department, the Yomiuri Shimbun, Tokyo.
Haddad, Mary Alice
Associate Professor of Government, Wesleyan University.

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
Date: March 11, 2013
Time: 12:15 pm - 2:00 pm
CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse, Belfer Case Study Room (S020)
This is open to the public.

“Japan’s 2011 Disasters Remembered”

Special Series on Post-Disaster Japan

Co-sponsored by the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health.

 

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.
Bestor, Theodore C.
Faculty Associate. Reischauer Institute Professor of Social Anthropology; Chair, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University.
Speakers
Takeuchi, Hirotaka
Professor of Management Practice, Harvard Business School.
Kawachi, Ichiro
Professor of Social Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health; Associate Professor of Medicine (Epidemiology), Harvard Medical School.
Mori, Toshiko
Robert P. Hubbard Professor in the Practice of Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
Date: March 26, 2013
Time: 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
This is open to the public.

“US-East Asian Relations As Seen From Tokyo”

Special Series on International Relations of East Asia

Co-sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center and the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School.

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
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: April 2, 2013
Time: 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
This is open to the public.

“The Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands Standoff and East Asian Security”

Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.

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
Muto, Akira
Consul General of Japan, Boston; former Director, Policy Coordination Division, Foreign Policy Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA).
Xiao, Ren
Director, Center for the Study of Chinese Foreign Policy; Professor, Institute of International Studies, Fudan University.
Dutton, Peter
Director, China Maritime Studies Institute, Professor of Strategic Studies, US Naval War College.

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
Date: April 9, 2013
Time: 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
This is open to the public.

Panel: Debating Japan’s Economic Policy Challenges

“International Convergence of Financial Regulatory Systems”
Yoshiaki Ando

“Energy Security in Post-3.11 Japan: Insights from Evidence in US States”
Shusaku Kichise

“Food Self-Sufficiency and Agricultural Policy in Japan”
Makoto Yoshida


Discussant:
William W. Grimes

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
Ando, Yoshiaki
Associate, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. Director, Supervision Division, Enterprise Turnaround Initiative Corporation of Japan, Tokyo, Ministry of Finance.
Kichise, Shusaku
Associate, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. Deputy Director, Policy Planning Division, Electricity and Gas Industry Department, Agency for Natural Resources and Energy, Ministry of Trade, Economy and Industry.
Yoshida, Makoto
Associate, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. Director, National Forest Planning Division, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Tokyo.
Grimes, William W.
Chair, Professor, Department of International Relations, Boston University.

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
Date: April 16, 2013
Time: 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Harvard Friends of Japan Concourse, Belfer Case Study Room (S020)
This is open to the public.

"US Strategy in Asia: Past, Present and Future"

Co-sponsored by the Harvard 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
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: April 23, 2013
Time: 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
This is open to the public.

Panel: America in the World: Perspectives from Japan

“Bush, Obama, and America's Wars in the Middle East”
Masato Tainaka

“The Shale Gas Revolution and Its Impact on US and Japanese Energy Security”
Yuji Hosokawa

“America’s Debt Crisis and International Security”
Shinju Fujihira


Discussant:
Jennifer Lind

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.
Lind, Jennifer
Assistant Professor of Government, Dartmouth College.
Speakers
Tainaka, Masato
Associate, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. Correspondent, Foreign News Section, the Asahi Shimbun, Tokyo.
Hosokawa, Yuji
Associate, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. Chief Manager, Saitama Transmission Maintenance Branch Office, Tokyo Gas Co., Ltd.
Fujihira, Shinju
Associate Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations.

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
Date: April 30, 2013
Time: 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse, Ted and Doris Lee Gathering Room (S030)
This is open to the public.

“Will Japan Join the Trans-Pacific Partnership? Trade Policy at a Crossroads”

Special Series on Globalization and Governance

Co-sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center, and Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School.

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
Solis, Mireya
Philip Knight Chair in Japan Studies and Senior Fellow, Brookings Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies; Associate Professor, School of International Service, American University.

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
Date: May 2, 2013
Time: 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse, Ted and Doris Lee Gathering Room (S030)
This is open to the public.

Panel: New Perspectives on Japanese Business

“Justification of Anti-Competitive Activities under Anti-Trust Law: A Comparative Analysis”
Takeshi Yanagi

“Developing Leaders: A Comparative Study of the US and Japan”
Ryosuke Watanabe

“Will Japan's Defense Industry Survive?”
Yoshihisa Nomura


Discussant:
Henry C. W. Laurence

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.
Laurence, Henry C. W.
Director, Asian Studies Program, Associate Professor of Government and Asian Studies, Bowdoin College.
Speakers
Yanagi, Takeshi
Academic Associate, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. Research Fellow, The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Hitotsubashi University.
Watanabe, Ryosuke
Associate, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. Founder and CEO, Dentsu Razorfish.
Nomura, Yoshihisa
Associate, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. Chief Administrator, Nippon Keidanien.

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
Date: May 7, 2013
Time: 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
This is open to the public.

“Capital as Will and Imagination: Schumpeter's Guide to Postwar Japanese Economic Miracle”

Moderator/Chair
Gordon, Andrew
Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Harvard University.
Speakers
Metzler, Mark
Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies, University of Texas, Austin.

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
Date: May 9, 2013
Time: 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
This is open to the public.

Panel: Japan and East Asian Security

“Securing the Senkaku Islands: A Cornerstone for the Rule of Law in East Asia”
Yoshiaki Sato

“North Korea’s Abduction of Japanese Citizens and the US-Japan Alliance”
Kyosuke Sumii

“Japan's Nuclear Debate and the Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons”
Kotaro Shiojiri


Discussant:
Reo Matsuzaki

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.
Matsuzaki, Reo
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Trinity College.
Speakers
Sato, Yoshiaki
Academic Associate, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. Professor, Faculty of Law, Seikei University, Tokyo.
Sumii, Kyosuke
Associate, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. Staff Writer, City News Department, the Sankei Shimbun, Tokyo.
Shiojiri, Kotaro
Associate, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. Attaché, Embassy of Japan, Washington, DC.

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
Date: May 13, 2013
Time: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S153
This is open to the public.

“Is a Thaw Ahead? Russian-Japanese Relations as Seen from Tokyo”

Sponsored by the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations and the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies.

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
Kozuki, Toyohisa
Director-General, European Affairs Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan.