Associates’ Panel: “Challenges of Democracy in the U.S. and Japan”

Speakers:

"Nativism in the US and the Trump Administration's Anti-Immigration Policy"

Yuji Endo, Associate, WCFIA Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University; Staff Writer, Asahi Shimbun.

"Legislative Networks and the Survival of Cabinet Ministers"

Taishi Muraoka, Postdoctoral Fellow, WCFIA Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University. PhD, Political Science, Washington University in St. Louis.

Discussant: 

Mary Alice Haddad, Professor of Government, East Asian Studies, and Environmental Studies; Wesleyan University.

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Associates’ Panel: “Japan in the World Order: Power Shifts and Domestic Contestation"

Speakers:

"Britain’s Role in the Origins of the U.S.-Japan Security System"

Tomoki Kuniyoshi, Associate, WCFIA Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University; Associate Professor, Political Science and Economics, Waseda University.

"Local Contestation of Global Military Presence in Japan and Korea"

Claudia Junghyun Kim, Postdoctoral Fellow, WCFIA Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University; PhD, Political Science, Boston University.

"The U.S.-China Rivalry and Its Impact on Japan’s Global Strategies"

Tatsuki Onda, Associate, WCFIA Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University; Associate Director and Economist, Deloitte Tohmatsu Consulting LLC.

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"Japan’s Global Moment in the G-Zero World"

Speaker:

Joshua Walker, President and CEO, Japan Society.

Moderator: 

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

Contact:

Emma Duncan
eduncan@wcfia.harvard.edu

“Revolution Goes East: Imperial Japan and Soviet Communism”

Speaker:

Tatiana Linkhoeva, Assistant Professor, Department of History, New York University.

Moderator:

Ian Miller, Professor of History, Department of History of Science and Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations; Chair, Program in History and East Asian Languages (HEAL), Harvard University.

Contact:

Emma Duncan
eduncan@wcfia.harvard.edu

"The Evolving Process of U.S.-Japan Security Arrangements"

Speaker:

Shinsuke Sugiyama, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to the United States of America, Embassy of Japan.

Moderator:

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

Contact:

Emma Duncan
eduncan@wcfia.harvard.edu

"Japan by 2030: The Decade Ahead"

Speakers:

Gerald L. Curtis, Burgess Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Department of Political Science; Director, Toyota Research Program; Distinguished Senior Research Fellow, the Tokyo Foundation.

Christina L. Davis, Professor of Government, Department of Government; Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University.

Noriyuki Shikata, Associate, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. Former Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Japan in Beijing.

Phillip Y. Lipscy, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science; Chair in Japanese Politics & Global Affairs; Director, Centre for the Study of Global Japan, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto.

Moderator: 

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

Co-sponsored by the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership (CGP) and the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies.

Contact:

Amy Stockton
astockton@wcfia.harvard.edu

"Special Duty: A History of the Japanese Intelligence Community"

Speaker:

Richard Samuels, Ford International Professor, Department of Political Science; Director, Center for International Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Moderator:

Susan Pharr, Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, Department of Government, Harvard University.

Co-sponsored by the International Security Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School.

Contact:

Amy Stockton
astockton@wcfia.harvard.edu

"Contingent Citizenship: Two Tales of Political Incorporation in Japan and the United States"

Speaker:

Erin Chung, Charles D. Miller Associate Professor of East Asian Politics, Department of Political Science; Director, Program in East Asian Studies, Johns Hopkins University.

Moderator:

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

Special Series on the Future of Democracy in Japan and Asia, supported by the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership (CGP).

Contact:

Amy Stockton
astockton@wcfia.harvard.edu

"Corporate Governance and Value Creation in Japan"

Speaker:

Ryohei Yanagi, Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Eisai Co., Ltd; Visiting Professor, Graduate School of Accountancy, Waseda University.

Moderator:

Christina Davis, Faculty Associate. Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; Professor of Government, Department of Government, Harvard University. 

Co-sponsored by the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School; the Japan Society of Boston; and the Takemi Program.

Contact:

Amy Stockton
astockton@wcfia.harvard.edu

"Black Wave: How Networks and Governance Shaped Japan’s 3/11 Disasters"

Speaker:

Daniel P. Aldrich, Professor of Political Science, Public Policy and Urban Affairs; Director, Masters Program in Security and Resilience, Northeastern University.

Moderator:

Susan Pharr, Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, Department of Government, Harvard University.

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

Contact:

Amy Stockton
astockton@wcfia.harvard.edu

"Japanese Shipping in Empire and War: A Global History"

Speaker:

Elijah Greenstein, Postdoctoral Fellow, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. PhD, Department of East Asian Studies, Princeton University.

Moderator:

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

Contact:

Amy Stockton
astockton@wcfia.harvard.edu

"The Politics of Postwar Japanese Enthronement Ceremonies"

Speaker:

Helen Hardacre, Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Religions and Society, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University.

Moderator:

Susan Pharr, Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, Department of Government, Harvard University.

This seminar series is supported by a grant from the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership (CGP). Co-sponsored by the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, and the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations.

Contact:

Amy Stockton
astockton@wcfia.harvard.edu

"Globalization, Demographic Decline, and the Reform of Japanese Agricultural Cooperatives"

Speaker:

Patricia Maclachlan, Professor of Government and Asian Studies; Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Professor of Japanese Studies, Department of Asian Studies, The University of Texas at Austin.

Moderator:

Christina Davis, Faculty Associate. Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; Professor of Government, Department of Government, Harvard University. 

Special Series on the Future of Democracy in Japan and Asia, supported by the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership (CGP).

Contact:

Amy Stockton
astockton@wcfia.harvard.edu

"Voters, Candidates, and Gender Representation in Japan"

Speaker:

Daniel Smith, Associate Professor, Department of Government, Harvard University.

Moderator:

Susan Pharr, Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, Department of Government, Harvard University.

Special Series on the Future of Democracy in Japan and Asia, supported by the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership (CGP). Co-sponsored by the Department of Government and the Women and Public Policy Program, Harvard Kennedy School.

Contact:

Amy Stockton
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"Democratic Infrastructures: Planning the First Bullet Train (1958–64)"

Speaker:

Jessamyn Abel, Assistant Professor of Asian Studies, Department of Asian Studies, Pennsylvania State University.

Moderator:

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

Special Series on the Future of Democracy in Japan and Asia, supported by the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership (CGP). Co-sponsored by the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School.

Contact:

Amy Stockton
astockton@wcfia.harvard.edu