Program on US-Japan Relations Seminar

Special Series on Globalization and Governance "Rights Make Might: Global Human Rights and Minority Social Movements in Japan" Speaker: Kiyoteru Tsutsui, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan. Co-sponsored by Department of Sociology...

“A New Era of Japan-E.U. Relations” Speaker: Yoichi Suzuki, Ambassador of Japan to France. Co-sponsored by Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies. Moderator and Chair: Susan J. Pharr, Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Executive Committee...

“Pink Globalization: Hello Kitty’s Trek across the Pacific” Speaker: Christine Yano, Edwin O. Reischauer Visiting Professor of Japanese Studies, Harvard University; Professor of Anthropology, University of Hawai’i at Manoa. Co-sponsored by Edwin O...

"Negotiating with North Korea: Proliferation, Peninsular Stability, Power Consolidation" Special Series on International Relations of East Asia. Speaker: John Park, Adjunct Lecturer; Faculty Affiliate, Project on Managing the Atom, Belfer Center for...

“Why China Cannot Rise Peacefully and What That Means for Japan” Special Series on International Relations of East Asia Speaker: John Mearsheimer, R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago. Discussant...

“Abe Government’s Diplomacy and National Security Strategy: A Two-Year Assessment” Speakers: Tomohito Shinoda, Vice President; Professor; Director, IUJ Research Institute, International University of Japan. Thomas Berger, Professor of International...

“The Trans-Pacific Partnership and Asian Regionalism” Special Series on Globalization and Governance. Speaker: Peter Petri, Carl J. Shapiro Professor of International Finance, Brandeis University. Moderator: Mark Wu, Assistant Professor of Law, Harvard...

"Food after Fukushima: Scientific Citizenship and Risk in Japan" Special Series on Post-Disaster Japan Speaker: Nicolas Sternsdorff Cisterna, Postdoctoral Fellow, WCFIA Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University. Moderator and Chair: Susan J...

“Japan’s Software Industry: What Went Wrong?” Speaker: Robert Cole, Professor Emeritus, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley. Co-sponsored by Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School. Moderator...

“Japan's Trouble With Islands: Law, Territory, and History" Speaker: Alexis Dudden, Professor of History, University of Connecticut. Moderator and Chair: Susan J. Pharr, Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Executive Committee; Faculty Associate...