"Japan and the Future of the Korean Peninsula"

Speaker:

Narushige Michishita, Vice President; Director of Security and International Studies Program; Director of Strategic Studies Program; Director of Maritime Safety and Security Policy Program; Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies.

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 Harvard Korea Institute's SBS Foundation Research Fund and the International Security Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School.

Contact:

Amy Stockton
astockton@wcfia.harvard.edu

Panel: "Japan’s Military Power and Diplomacy in the 21st Century"

Speakers:

Sheila A. Smith, Senior Fellow for Japan Studies, Asia Program, Council on Foreign Relations.

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

Joseph Nye, Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor, Emeritus, Harvard John F. Kennedy School of Government. 

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 East Asia, supported by the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership (CGP). Co-sponsored by the International Security Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School.

Contact:

Amy Stockton
astockton@wcfia.harvard.edu

Book Talk: "China and Japan: Facing History"

Speaker:

Ezra Vogel, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences, Emeritus, Harvard University.

Discussants:

Paula S. Harrell, Professor, School of Continuing Studies, Georgetown University.

Richard Dyck, International Advisory Committee Member, Harvard University Asia Center.

Moderator:

Elizabeth J. Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government, Harvard University.

Co-sponsored by Harvard University Asia Center, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies.

Contact:

Amy Stockton
astockton@wcfia.harvard.edu

"Political Parties, Bureaucracy, and Public Policy"

"Membership Networks and Electoral Resilience: The Case of Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party"

Daniel Koss, Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. Assistant Research Fellow, Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.

"Bureaucratic Structure and the Politics of Protection: The Case of Japan"

Diana M. Stanescu, Pre-Doctoral Exchange Scholar, Department of Government, Harvard University; PhD Candidate, Department of Politics, Princeton University.

"TPP, Agriculture, and U.S.-Japan Trade Negotiations"

Shimpei Sunaga, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Japan.

Discussant:

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

Contact:

Jenni Ting
wting@wcfia.harvard.edu

"Southeast Asia and the Great Powers: Hedging, Balancing, and Rivalry"

Speaker:

Amy Searight, Senior Adviser and Director, Southeast Asia Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Moderator:

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

Contact:

Jenni Ting
wting@wcfia.harvard.edu

"Trade and Investment in U.S.-Japan Relations"

"Japanese Foreign Direct Investment Location in the U.S.: A Home-Country Firm Bandwagon Effect"

Remy Magnier Watanabe, Associate Professor, University of Tsukuba; Academic Associate, WCFIA Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University.

"Japan's Intellectual Property and International Trade"

Naoya Okada, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry; Associate, WCFIA Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University.

"Management and Sale of Government-Owned Shares in Japanese and U.S. Financial Markets"

Kazuhide Ishiwaka, Ministry of Finance; Associate, WCFIA Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University.

Discussant:

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

Moderator:

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

Contact:

Jenni Ting
wting@wcfia.harvard.edu

Panel: "Democracy, Civic Engagement, and the Rule of Law"

"Perceptions and Political Consequences of Inequality"

Yeonju Lee, Postdoctoral Fellow, WCFIA Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University.

"Civic Lawmaking: The Case of Sex Crime Reform in Japan"

Kanoko Kamata, Community Organizing Japan; Associate, WCFIA Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University.

"LGBTQ Rights in Japan: Strategies for Social Change"

Akiko Kojima, Ministry of Finance; Associate, WCFIA Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University.

Discussant:

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

Contact:

Jenni Ting
wting@wcfia.harvard.edu

"The Future of Fukushima"

Speaker:

Naomi Hirose, Executive Vice Chairman (Fukushima Affairs), and President, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) Holdings, Inc. (2012-17).

Moderator:

Andrew Gordon, Faculty Associate. Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Harvard University; Acting Director (2018-2019), Harvard-Yenching Institute.

Contact:

Jenni Ting
wting@wcfia.harvard.edu

"Insider Out: Foreign-Born Women's Labor Force Participation in Japan, Sweden, and the United States"

Speaker:

Tristan Ivory, Assistant Professor of Black Studies and Sociology, University of Missouri.

Moderator:

Mary Brinton, Director, Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies; Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology, Harvard University.

Contact:

Jenni Ting
wting@wcfia.harvard.edu

"From Leader to Laggard, Japanese Energy and Climate Change Policy"

Speaker:

Phillip Lipscy, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Stanford University.

Moderator:

Christina Davis, Acting 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:

Jenni Ting
wting@wcfia.harvard.edu

"Empire of Hope: The Sentimental Politics of Japanese Decline"

Speaker:

David Leheny, Professor, Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University.

Moderator:

Christina Davis, Acting 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:

Jenni Ting
wting@wcfia.harvard.edu

"Waste: Consuming Postwar Japan"

Speaker:

Eiko Maruko Siniawer, Professor of History, Williams College.

Moderator:

Andrew Gordon, Faculty Associate. Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History and Acting Director (2018-19), Harvard-Yenching Institute, Harvard University.

Contact:

Jenni Ting
wting@wcfia.harvard.edu

"Shifting Terrain: Soka Gakkai, Komeito, and Prospects for Constitutional Amendment"

Speaker:

Levi McLaughlin, Associate Professor of Asian Religions, North Carolina State University.

Moderator:

Helen Hardacre, Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Religions and Society, Harvard University.

Contact:

Jenni Ting
wting@wcfia.harvard.edu

"Democracy and Inequality: Learning Through Sound in Tokyo, Boston, and Berlin"

Speaker:

Ian Condry, Professor of Japanese Culture and Media Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Moderator:

Theodore Bestor, Reischauer Institute Professor of Social Anthropology, Harvard University.

Contact:

Jenni Ting
wting@wcfia.harvard.edu

"Japan's Antiracism Movements: Gendered Negotiations of Violence and Vulnerability"

Speaker:

Vivian Shaw, Postdoctoral Fellow, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University.

Moderator:

Christina Davis, Acting 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:

Jenni Ting
wting@wcfia.harvard.edu