#  Program on US-Japan Relations Seminar 

 



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####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **April 13, 2026** 

 12:00PM - 01:00PM EDT 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **CGIS Knafel, Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)**  

 [1737 Cambridge Street  
Cambridge, MA 02138  
United States



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 [ Register to attend virtually arrow\_circle\_right ](https://us-japan.wcfia.harvard.edu/event/islands-and-stars-history-japans-space-programs?occ_id=0) 

 



 

## The Islands and the Stars: A History of Japan’s Space Programs

### Speaker

- [Subodhana Wijeyeratne](https://subowijeyeratne.com/), Assistant Professor of History, Purdue University.

### Moderator

- [Andrew Gordon](https://agordon.scholars.harvard.edu/), Faculty Associate (on leave fall 2025). Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Department of History, Harvard University.

### Contact

**Shin Fujihira**  
<sfujihira@wcfia.harvard.edu>



 

 



 

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- [ Program on US-Japan Relations Seminar ](/seminars/us_japan/schedule)
 
 

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