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Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar*
Date: September 13, 2011
Time: 12:15 pm - 1:45 pm
The Minda de Gunzberg Center for European Studies, 27 Kirkland St., Lower Common Conference Room*
This is open to the public.

Special Series on Post-Disaster Japan

 

"Rebuilding Japan"

 

Co-sponsored by the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies; the Takemi Program in International Health, Harvard School of Public Health; the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School; and the Department of Anthropology.

*Please note the change in time and in location for this event.

Speakers
Feldman, Robert Alan
Director of Economic Research Department, and Managing Director, Morgan Stanley MUFG Securities Co., Ltd.; Director of Economic Research Department, and Managing Director, Morgan Stanley MUFG Securities Co., Ltd.
Reich, Michael R.
Faculty Associate. Taro Takemi Professor of International Health Policy, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health.
Bestor, Theodore C.
Faculty Associate. Reischauer Institute Professor of Social Anthropology; Chair, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University.

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
Date: September 20, 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


"From Pork to Policy: The Rise of National Security Debate in Election Campaigns in Japan"

Co-sponsored by the Program on Global Society and Security, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.
Speakers
Catalinac, Amy L.
Advanced Research Fellow, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. PhD, Department of Government, Harvard University.

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
Date: September 27, 2011
Time: 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
This is open to the public.

"The Yen and the Dollar in a Changing Political Context"

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

Moderator/Chair
Gordon, Andrew
Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History; Director, Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University.; Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History; Director, Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University.
Speakers
Murphy, R. Taggart
Professor, Graduate School of Business Sciences, University of Tsukuba.

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
Date: September 30, 2011
Time: 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge St., Porte Room (S250)
This is open to the public.

"Lost Decades: The Making of America's Debt Crisis and the Long Recovery"

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

Speakers
Frieden, Jeffry A.
Faculty Associate. Stanfield Professor of International Peace, Department of Government, Harvard University.

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
Date: October 4, 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

"The New Inequality in Germany and Japan"

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

Speakers
Thelen, Kathleen
Ford Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Brinton, Mary C.
Executive Committee; Faculty Associate. Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Harvard University.

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
Date: October 11, 2011
Time: 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
This is open to the public.

"Pacific Cosmopolitans: A Cultural History of U.S.-Japan Relations"

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

Speakers
Auslin, Michael
Chair of Japan Studies, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI).

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
Date: October 18, 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

 "The U.S., China, and Japan in the Changing Global System"

Sponsored by the Ezra F. Vogel Distinguished Visitor Program, Harvard University Asia Center and the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; co-sponsored by the Program on Global Society and Security, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.

Moderator/Chair
Vogel, Ezra F.
Henry Ford II Research Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University; Henry Ford II Research Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University
Speakers
Tanaka, Hitoshi
Chairman, Institute for International Strategy, Japan Research Institute (JRI); Senior Fellow, Japan Center for International Exchange(JCIE); Visiting Professor, the Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Tokyo; and Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Japan, 2002-05).

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
Date: October 25, 2011
Time: 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
This is open to the public.

"The 1960 U.S.-Japan Security Treaty Crisis and the Origins of Contemporary Japan"


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

Moderator/Chair
Gordon, Andrew
Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History; Director, Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University.; Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History; Director, Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University.
Speakers
Kapur, Nikhil
Advanced Research Fellow, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. PhD, Department of History, Harvard University.

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
Date: October 28, 2011
Time: 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S050
This is open to the public.

"China-Japan-U.S.: Challenges and Opportunities in the Trilateral Economic Relationship"


Sponsored by The Asia Foundation, the Harvard University Asia Center
(Modern Asia Seminar Series), and the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; 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
Siwei, Cheng
Chairman, International Finance Forum (Beijing); Chairman, China Advisory Council, World Economic Forum; President, Association of Management Modernization, China; The Asia Foundation Chang-Lin Tien Distinguished Visiting Fellow.
Grimes, William W.
Professor and Chair, Department of International Relations, Boston University.; Professor and Chair, Department of International Relations, Boston University.

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
Date: November 1, 2011
Time: 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge St., Tsai Auditorium (S010)
This is open to the public.

Special Series on Post-Disaster Japan

"Nuclear Power After Fukushima"

Co-sponsored by the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies; the Harvard University Center for the Environment (HUCE); Environment and Natural Resources Program (ENRP) and Managing the Atom Project, the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (BCSIA), Harvard Kennedy School; and the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School.

Speakers
Ferguson, Charles
President, Federation of American Scientists.

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
Date: November 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.

Special Series on International Relations of East Asia

"The Rise of China and India: Challenges for Japanese Foreign Policy"

Discussant:
Alan K. Henrikson
Associate Professor of Diplomatic History; Director of Diplomatic Studies, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University.



Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, the Korea Institute, and the South Asia Initiative.

Speakers
Kondo, Masanori
Academic Associate, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. Associate Professor of Economics, International Christian University, Tokyo.

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
Date: November 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.

"Covering Japan and Asia in The New York Times"



Co-sponsored by the Nieman Foundation for Journalism, Harvard University.

Moderator/Chair
Vogel, Ezra F.
Henry Ford II Research Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University; Henry Ford II Research Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University
Speakers
Chira, Susan
Assistant Managing Editor, News, The New York Times

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
Date: November 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.

"Elders and the Ethics of Suicide in Japan"



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

Moderator/Chair
Bestor, Theodore C.
Faculty Associate. Reischauer Institute Professor of Social Anthropology; Chair, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University.
Speakers
Traphagan, John W.
Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of Texas at Austin.

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
Date: December 6, 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 Post-Disaster Japan

 

"Building Resilience: Social Capital in Post-Disaster Recovery"



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

Speakers
Aldrich, Daniel P.
Former Advanced Research Fellow (2006–2007), Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Graduate Student Associate (2002–2005).; Associate Professor of Political Science, Purdue University.

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
Date: February 2, 2012
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

 

"After Kim Jong Il: The Korean Peninsula and East Asian Security"



Co-sponsored by the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University; the Kim Koo Forum on U.S.-Korea Relations, and the Korea Institute.

Speakers
Bosworth, Stephen W.
Dean, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University; United States Special Representative for North Korea Policy (2009-11); and U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Korea (1997-2001).

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
Date: February 7, 2012
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 Post-Disaster Japan

"Do Nuclear Power Plants Benefit Japan's Local Communities?"

Co-sponsored by the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies; and the Environment and Natural Resources Program (ENRP) and the Project on Managing the Atom (MTA), Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (BCSIA), Harvard Kennedy School.

Speakers
Saito, Jun
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Yale University.

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
Date: February 14, 2012
Time: 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
This is open to the public.

"World Regions in Turmoil: Globalization, Asia, and Europe"

Co-sponsored by the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies; Program on Transatlantic Relations, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs (WCFIA); and Modern Asia Series, Harvard University Asia Center.
Speakers
Haba, Kumiko
Academic Associate, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. Professor of International Relations, Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo.
Kaiser, Karl
Director, Program on Transatlantic Relations. Adjunct Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School.

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
Date: February 21, 2012
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

 

"Joining the Club: Accession to the GATT/WTO"

 

Co-sponsored by the Institute of Global Law and Policy (IGLP), Harvard Law School.

 

Speakers
Davis, Christina
Associate Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University. Former research fellow, Program on U.S. Japan Relations, Harvard University.

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
Date: February 28, 2012
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 Post-Disaster Japan

 

"Kizuna: New Forms of Social Capital in Disaster Japan"

Moderator/Chair
Bestor, Theodore C.
Faculty Associate. Reischauer Institute Professor of Social Anthropology; Chair, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University.
Speakers
Slater, David H.
Associate Professor of Anthropology and Japanese Studies, Sophia University.

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
Date: March 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.

Special Series on Post-Disaster Japan

 

"Enterprise Resilience: Turning Large Scale Disruptions into Competitive Advantage"

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

Moderator/Chair
Gordon, Andrew
Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History; Director, Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University.; Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History; Director, Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University.
Speakers
Sheffi, Yossi
Elisha Gray II Professor of Engineering Systems, and Director, MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
Date: March 20, 2012
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 Post-Disaster Japan

 

"Origins of Japan’s Electric Power and the Fukushima Disaster: A Historical Perspective"


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

 

Speakers
Kikkawa, Takeo
Professor of Japanese Business History, Hitotsubashi University

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
Date: March 22, 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: Policy Learning and Diffusion in Japan and the U.S.

 

"Democratic Control of Public Works in the U.S. and Japan"
Hiroka Mita
Academic Associate, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. Associate Professor of Public Administration, Sugiyama Jogakuen University, Japan.


"Police Investigation of Unresolved Crimes in the U.S. and Japan"
Masao Horikane
Associate, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. Assistant to the Director, Criminal Bureau, National Police Agency.


"Laws of Consumer Protection in Japan, the U.S., and EU"
Masaki Watanabe

Associate, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. Deputy Director, Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry, Tokyo.

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

Speakers
Mita, Hiroka
Academic Associate, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. Associate Professor of Public Administration, Sugiyama Jogakuen University, Japan.
Horikane, Masao
Associate, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. Assistant to the Director, Criminal Bureau, National Police Agency.
Watanabe, Masaki
Associate, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. Deputy Director, Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry, Tokyo.

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
Date: March 27, 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: Japan Confronts Globalization

 

"Globalization and Income Inequality"
Taiji Furusawa
Academic Associate, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo.


"US Energy Policy and Its Strategic Implications for China and Japan"
Hiroyuki Nakamura
Associate, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Staff Writer, the Yomiuri Shimbun.


"Japan's Financial Institutions after the 2008 Financial Crisis"
Naoyuki Matsunaga
Associate, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. Ministry of Finance.


Discussant:
William W. Grimes
Professor and Chair, Department of International Relations, Boston University.


Speakers
Furusawa, Taiji
Academic Associate, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo.
Nakamura, Hiroyuki
Associate, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Staff Writer, the Yomiuri Shimbun.
Matsunaga, Naoyuki
Associate, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. Ministry of Finance.

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
Date: April 10, 2012
Time: 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
This is open to the public.

"From Super PACs to Miku: Politics of Media in the 21st Century"

Moderator/Chair
Bestor, Theodore C.
Faculty Associate. Reischauer Institute Professor of Social Anthropology; Chair, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University.
Speakers
Condry, Ian
Associate Professor of Japanese Cultural Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
Date: April 17, 2012
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

"The Expected and Unexpected: U.S. Grand Strategy and Asia"

 

Co-sponsored by the Kim Koo Forum on U.S.-Korea Relations, Korea Institute; and Modern Asia Series, Harvard University Asia Center.

Speakers
Cha, Victor
D.S. Song KF Endowed Chair in Government and Asian Studies, and Director of Asia Studies, Georgetown University; Senior Advisor and Korea Chair, Center for Strategic and International Affairs (CSIS); and Director for Asian Affairs, the National Security Council (2004-07).

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
Date: April 24, 2012
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 Global Economic Outlook in 2012"

 

Discussant:
Richard N. Cooper
Maurits C. Boas Professor of International Economics, Harvard University.

Speakers
Shinohara, Naoyuki
Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund; and Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University (1985-86).

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
Date: May 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.

Special Series on International Relations of East Asia

"Freedom of Navigation in the South China Sea and the U.S.-Japan Alliance"


Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.
Speakers
Auer, James
Director, Center for U.S.-Japan Studies and Cooperation, Vanderbilt University.

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
Date: May 8, 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: U.S.-Japan Alliance and Northeast Asian Security

"Toward a New Era in Japan–South Korea Relations"
Junya Nishino
Harvard-Yenching Institute Keio Exchange Scholar, and Associate Professor of Political Science, Keio University.


"U.S.-Japan Alliance and Rising Chinese Naval Power"
Hideshi Futori
Research Associate, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University.

"The Role of the SDF in Strengthening the U.S.-Japan Alliance"
Kimitoshi Sugiyama
Research Associate, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University, and Japan Air Self-Defense Force (ASDF).

Discussant:
Thomas U. Berger
Associate Professor, Department of International Relations, Boston University.

Speakers
Nishino, Junya
Harvard-Yenching Institute Keio Exchange Scholar, and Associate Professor of Political Science, Keio University.
Futori, Hideshi
Associate, Program on U.S-Japan Relations. Former Chief of Staff in the office of Akihisa Nagashima, a House of Representatives member (Democratic Party of Japan) and former Parliamentary Vice Minister of Defense.
Sugiyama, Kimitoshi
Associate, Program on U.S.–Japan Relations. Lieutenant Colonel, Japan Air Self Defense Force, Ministry of Defense of Japan.

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
Date: May 10, 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: Japan's Labor Market: Competition, Inequality, and Globalization

"Building a Transnational Network of Nurses in East Asia"
Yoshiaki Sato
Academic Associate, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University, and Professor of Law, Seikei University.

"From Coordination to Market? Industrial Structure and Employment Institutions in Contemporary Japan"
Takashi Ebuchi
Research Associate, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University, and Asahi Shimbun.

"The Future of Human Resource Management in Japanese Companies"
Ryuichi Sato
Research Associate, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University, and Tokyo Gas Co., Ltd.

Discussant:
Henry Laurence
Associate Professor, Department of Government and Asian Studies, and Director, Asian Studies Program, Bowdoin College.

Speakers
Sato, Yoshiaki
Academic Associate, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. Professor, Faculty of Law, Seikei University, Tokyo.
Ebuchi, Takashi
Associate, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. Staff writer, the Asahi Shimbun, Tokyo.
Sato, Ryuichi
Associate, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. Tokyo Gas Company.

Great Power Politics and the Future of Asian Regionalism
Date: May 11, 2012
Time: 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Yenching Auditorium, 2 Divinity Ave
This is open to the public.
Welcoming Remarks:
Ichiro Fujisaki
Ambassador of Japan to the United States

Presenters:
Surin Pitsuwan
Secretary General, ASEAN
.

Joseph S. Nye, Jr.

University Distinguished Service Professor, Harvard Kennedy School.


May-Britt Stumbaum
Head, NFG Research Group on “Asian Perceptions of EU,” Free University of Berlin.

Quansheng Zhao
Professor of International Relations and Director, Center for Asian Studies, School of International Service, American University.

Kumiko Haba

Academic Associate, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University, and Jean Monnet Chair and Professor of European International Politics, Aoyama Gakuin University.


Moderator: Susan J. Pharr
Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, and Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University.


Hosted by the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, in cooperation with the Harvard University Asia Center and the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies.

Convener: Kumiko Haba, Academic Associate, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, and Jean Monnet Chair and Professor of European International Politics, Aoyama Gakuin University, with funding from the Ministry of Education, Sports, Science, Culture and Technology (MEXT) in 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
Pitsuwan, Surin
Secretary General, ASEAN.
Nye, Joseph S.
Senior Adviser; Faculty Associate. Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor, Harvard Kennedy School.
Stumbaum, May-Britt
Former Fritz Thyssen Fellow, Program on Transatlantic Relations. ; Head, NFG Research Group on “Asian Perceptions of EU,” Free University of Berlin.
Zhao, Quansheng
Professor of International Relations and Director, Center for Asian Studies, School of International Service, American University.
Haba, Kumiko
Academic Associate, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. Professor of International Relations, Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo.