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2024 Apr 22

Program on US-Japan Relations Seminar (Hybrid)

12:00pm to 1:15pm

Location: 

CGIS Knafel, 1737 Cambridge Street, Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)

Associates' Panel: "New Dimensions of U.S. Alliance Coordination in East Asia"

Speakers:

Chikako Kawakatsu Ueki, Visiting Scholar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Professor, Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University.

Kento Hara, Associate, Program on US-Japan Relations. Diplomat, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan.

Takayuki Sugimoto, Associate, Program on US-Japan Relations. Advisor, IHI Corporation; Vice Admiral, ret., Japan Maritime Self Defense Force; Senior Fellow, Harvard University Asia Center.

Discussant:

Thomas Berger, Professor of International Relations, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies; Director, BU Center for the Study of Asia, Boston University

Moderator:

Christina L. DavisDirector, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, Department of Government, Harvard University.

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