Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar

Date: 

Friday, April 7, 2017, 12:30pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse, Room S050

Panel: "Japan's Economic Reform Agenda"

Speakers:

"Labor Migration and Bilateral Agreements in East Asia"
Rie Niida, Associate, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. Ministry of Justice.

"Agricultural Trade Negotiations and Domestic Adjustments: Cases of Sugar and Beef"
Do Ozaki, Associate, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF).

"Japan's Labor Market Reforms in Comparative Perspective"
Hideya Sakyu, Associate, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI).

Contact:

Jenni Ting
wting@wcfia.harvard.edu

Discussant:

Mary Alice Haddad, Professor of Government and Chair, College of East Asian Studies, Wesleyan University.

Moderator: 

Susan Pharr, Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Senior Adviser, Executive Committee; Faculty Associate; Harvard Academy Senior Scholar. Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, Harvard University.