Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar

2022 Apr 25

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar (Zoom)

12:00pm to 1:00pm

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“Domestic Institutions, Geographic Concentration, and Agricultural Liberalization: Evidence from Remote-Sensed Cropland Data and Elite Interviews”

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Speaker:

Megumi Naoi, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of California, San Diego.

Moderator:

Christina DavisDirector, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; Professor of Government, Department of Government, Harvard University.

Contact:

Emma Duncan
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This seminar is part of the Special Series on Policy Innovations in Crises, supported by a grant from the Japan Foundation.

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2022 Apr 18

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar (Zoom)

12:00pm to 1:00pm

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"The U.S.-Japan Alliance and Taiwan"

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Speaker:

Adam P. Liff, Associate Professor of East Asian International Relations, Hamilton Lugar School of Global & International Studies; Director, 21st Century Japan Politics and Society Initiative, Indiana University.

Moderator:

Mary C. Brinton, Faculty Associate. Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology; Director, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University.

Contact:

Emma Duncan
eduncan@wcfia.harvard.edu

This seminar is part of the Special Series on Policy Innovations in Crises, supported by a grant from the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership (CGP). Co-sponsored by Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University.

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2022 Apr 11

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar (Zoom)

12:00pm to 1:15pm

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Associates' Panel: “New Economic Agendas in Advanced Capitalism”

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Panelists:

Akihiko Uchiyama, Professor, Graduate School of Social Sciences, Chiba University.

Tomoka Miyachi, Professor, Faculty of Commerce, Takushoku University.

Yuki Yamanaka, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.

Discussant:

Henry Laurence, Associate Professor of Government and Asian Studies, Bowdoin College.

Moderator:

Shinju Fujihira, Executive Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University.

Contact:

Emma Duncan
eduncan@wcfia.harvard.edu

Co-sponsored by the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies and the Korea Institute, Harvard University.

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2022 Apr 04

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar (Zoom)

9:00am to 10:00am

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“Zainichi Koreans in the Politics of Decolonization and Deimperialization”

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Speaker:

Sayaka Chatani, Assistant Professor, Department of History, National University of Singapore.

Moderator:

Andrew Gordon, Faculty Associate. Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Department of History, Harvard University.

Contact:

Emma Duncan
eduncan@wcfia.harvard.edu

Co-sponsored by the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies and the Korea Institute, Harvard University.

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2022 Mar 28

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar (Zoom)

12:00pm to 1:30pm

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Conference: “Digital Globalization and Governance: East Asia and Beyond”

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Speakers:

Wendy Cutler, Vice President; Managing Director, Washington, D.C. Office, Asia Society Policy Institute.

Lizhi Liu, Assistant Professor, McDonough School of Business; Faculty Affiliate, Department of Government, Georgetown University.

Stephen Weymouth, Provost's Distinguished Associate Professor; Dewey Awad Fellow, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University.

Moderator:

Christina DavisDirector, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; Professor of Government, Department of Government, Harvard University.

Contact:

Emma Duncan
eduncan@wcfia.harvard.edu

This seminar is part of the Special Series on Japan-U.S. Cooperation in Digital Governance.

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2022 Mar 21

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar (Zoom)

8:00pm to 9:00pm

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"Japan's High-Tech Competitiveness in an Era of U.S.-China Decoupling"

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Speaker:

Kazuyuki Motohashi, Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, University of Tokyo.

Moderator:

Christina DavisDirector, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; Professor of Government, Department of Government, Harvard University.

Contact:

Emma Duncan
eduncan@wcfia.harvard.edu

This seminar is part of the Special Series on Japan-U.S. Cooperation in Digital Governance.

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2022 Mar 07

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar (Zoom)

12:00pm to 1:30pm

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Associates' Panel: “Leveraging Digital and Technological Transformations: Lessons from America?”

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Speakers:

"Human Capital Formation in the Digital Transformation Era"

Chinami Iokibe, Director, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan.

"U.S. and Japanese SME Policy in Disaster Response"

Shinichi Kijima, Principal Deputy Director, Business Support Division, Business Support Department, Small and Medium Enterprise Agency, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.

"Assessing the U.S. Microgrid Systems and Their Potential Application in Japan"

Nobuhiro Mitsuoka, Project Manager and System Engineer, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT).

"The Trolley Problem of Automated Vehicles (AVs)"

Keisuke Sakanoue, Superintendent, National Police Agency, Japan.

Discussant:

Daniel P. Aldrich, Director, Security and Resilient Studies Program; Professor, Political Science and Public Policy, Northeastern University.

Moderator:

Christina DavisDirector, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; Professor of Government, Department of Government, Harvard University.

Contact:

Emma Duncan
eduncan@wcfia.harvard.edu

This seminar is part of the Special Series on Japan-U.S. Cooperation in Digital Governance.

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2022 Feb 28

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar (Zoom)

12:00pm to 1:15pm

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Associates' Panel: “Rethinking the Origins of U.S.-Japan Alliance”

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Panelists:

"Why the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty and the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) Have Not Been Revised since 1960"

Kaoru Iokibe, Professor, Graduate Schools of Law and Politics, University of Tokyo.

"Atomic Anniversaries: Mediated Memories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in a Post-Hibakusha World"

Katharine Starr, Former Consulting Producer, NHK World Japan.

"American Public Perceptions of U.S.-Japan Relations, 1990-2020"

Koichi Ai, Embassy of Japan in the United States of America.

Discussant:

Thomas Berger, Professor of International Relations, Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University.

Moderator:

Christina DavisDirector, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; Professor of Government, Department of Government, Harvard University.

Contact:

Emma Duncan
eduncan@wcfia.harvard.edu

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2022 Feb 22

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar (Zoom)

8:30am to 9:45am

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Associates’ Panel: “Security Threats and Alliance Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific Region”

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Speakers:

"The Maritime Self-Defense Forces (MSDF) at the Forefront of U.S.-China Conflict"

Tokuhiro Ikeda, Senior Fellow, Harvard University Asia Center; Fujitsu System Integration Laboratories LTD; Former Vice Admiral, Japan Maritime Self Defense Force.

“Japan and Artificial Intelligence”

Aki Nakai, Policy Innovations Fellow, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University.

“National Decision-Making and Collective Intelligence: U.S. Strategic Response to Gray-Zone Challenges”

Keita Azuma, Cabinet Secretariat.

Discussant:

Jennifer Lind, Associate Professor, Department of Government, Dartmouth College.

Moderator:

Christina L. DavisDirector, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; Professor of Government, Department of Government, Harvard University.

Contact:

Emma Duncan
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2022 Feb 14

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar (Zoom)

12:00pm to 1:00pm

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“Evacuation from Afghanistan: The Case of Japan”

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Speaker:

Yusaku Horiuchi, Professor of Government; Mitsui Professor of Japanese Studies, Department of Government, Program in Quantitative Social Science, Dartmouth College.

Moderator:

Christina DavisDirector, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; Professor of Government, Department of Government, Harvard University.

Contact:

Emma Duncan
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2022 Feb 07

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar (Zoom)

8:00pm to 9:00pm

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"The Global Commons Stewardship: Enacting Systemic Transformations"

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Speaker:

Naoko Ishii, Executive Vice President, Professor, Institute for Future Initiative (IFI); Director, Center for Global Commons, University of Tokyo.

Moderator:

Christina DavisDirector, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; Professor of Government, Department of Government, Harvard University.

Contact:

Emma Duncan
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2022 Jan 31

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar (Zoom)

12:00pm to 1:00pm

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“Why Has the East Asian Covid Model Diverged over Delta and Omicron?”

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Speaker:

Yves Tiberghien, Professor of Political Science; Konwakai Chair in Japanese Research, University of British Columbia.

Moderator:

Christina DavisDirector, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; Professor of Government, Department of Government, Harvard University.

Contact:

Emma Duncan
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2021 Dec 13

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar (Zoom)

9:15am to 10:45am

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Panel: "Japan, the U.S., and Economic-Security Policy Linkages in the Taiwan Strait"

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Panelists:

Tain Jy Chen, Professor of Economics, Taipei School of Economics and Political Science; Professor Emeritus, National Taiwan University.

Sadamasa Oue, Senior Fellow, Asia Pacific Initiative; Lt. Gen. (retired), Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF).

Shelley Rigger, Brown Professor of Political Science, Davidson College.

Daniel Russel, Vice President, International Security and Diplomacy, Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI).

Moderator:

Christina DavisDirector, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; Professor of Government, Department of Government, Harvard University.

Contact:

Emma Duncan
eduncan@wcfia.harvard.edu

Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University. This seminar is part of the Special Series on Policy Innovations in Crises, supported by a grant from the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership (CGP).

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2021 Dec 06

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar (Zoom)

12:00pm to 1:00pm

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"High-Tech Alliance: Pursuing Economic Security through Closer U.S.-Japan Science and Technology Collaboration"

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Speaker:

James L. Schoff, Senior Director, US-Japan NEXT Alliance Initiative, Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA.

Moderator:

Christina L. Davis, Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; Professor of Government, Department of Government, Harvard University.

Contact:

Emma Duncan
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2021 Nov 22

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar (Zoom)

8:00pm to 9:00pm

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"Japan in an Era of Uncertainty: Jabs by Editorial Cartoons, 2020-2021"

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Speaker:

M. William Steele, Professor Emeritus, International Christian University.

Moderator:

Andrew Gordon, Faculty Associate. Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Department of History, Harvard University.

Contact:

Emma Duncan
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