Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar

2021 Mar 11

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

12:00pm to 1:30pm

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Panel: "Japan's 2011 Disasters: Ten-Year Anniversary Reflections"

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Panelists:

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

Hiroko Kumaki, Postdoctoral Fellow, Society of Fellows, Dartmouth College.

Ryo Morimoto, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Princeton 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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Special Series on Japan’s 2011 Disasters sponsored by the Weatherhead Center Program on U.S.-Japan Relations and the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies.

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2021 Mar 08

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

12:00pm to 1:00pm

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Panel: “The Carlos Ghosn Controversy and Japanese Corporate Governance”

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Panelists:

Curtis Milhaupt, William F. Baxter-Visa International Professor of Law; Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University.

Mark Ramseyer, Faculty Associate. Mitsubishi Professor of Japanese Legal Studies, Harvard Law School.

Moderator:

Christina 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
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2021 Mar 01

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

12:00pm to 1:00pm

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Associates’ Panel: “Liberalization and Regulation in the Global Political Economy”

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Speakers:

“Restructuring Japan: Administrative Reform and the Quest for Free Trade”

Diana Stanescu, Postdoctoral Fellow, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University. PhD, Political Science, Princeton University.

“Duties and Taxes for Cross-Border E-commerce: A Comparative Analysis of the de minimis Threshold”

Takashi Nakao, Ministry of Finance, Japan.

“Competition Policy and Regulation of U.S. Tech Giants”

Ryoma Nikaido, Deputy Editor, Weekly Toyo Keizai Magazine.

Discussant:

William Grimes, Professor of International Relations and Political Science, Boston University.

Moderator:

Christina 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
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2021 Feb 22

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

8:00pm to 9:30pm

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Symposium: “Japanese Economic Statecraft in an Era of U.S.-China Rivalry”

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Speakers:

Takashi Shiraishi, Chancellor, Prefectural University of Kumamoto; President, Graduate Research Institute of Policy Studies (2011-2017); President, Institute of Developing Economies-JETRO (2007-2018).

Daniel Drezner, Professor of International Politics, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University; Nonresident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution.

Saori Katada, Professor of International Relations, Department of Political Science and International Relations, University of Southern California.

William Norris, Associate Professor, Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University.

Moderator: 

Christina 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

This symposium is part of the Special Series on Japanese Economic Statecraft. Co-sponsored by the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government; the Harvard University Asia Center; and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University.

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2021 Feb 16

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

9:00am to 10:00am

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"My Inexplicable Journey: from Colorado Paperboy to Comedian and Commentator in Japan"

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Speaker:

Patrick (“Pakkun”) Harlan, Comedian, TV Personality, and News Commentator; Adjunct Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology.

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

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2021 Feb 08

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

12:00pm to 1:00pm

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Associates' Panel: "U.S. Military Bases and Japan’s National Security Strategy"

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Speakers:

"Conning the Conquerors: The Impersonation of Military Service Members During the Allied Occupation of Japan"

Connor Mills, Postdoctoral Fellow, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. PhD, Department of History, Princeton University.

"The Micro-foundations of Japan’s Base Politics: Regional Disparities and Direct Democracy"

Yoshiaki Kubo, Associate Professor, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of the Ryukyus.

"New Agendas for the 21st Century Japan-U.S. Security Alliance"

Sadamasa Oue, Senior Fellow, Harvard University Asia Center; Lt. Gen. (retired), Japan Air Self-Defense Force.

Discussant:

Sherry L. Martin, Acting Asia Division Chief, Office of Opinion Research, U.S. Department of State.

Moderator:

Christina Davis, Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Executive Committee; Faculty Associate (on leave 2020-2021). 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 Feb 01

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

12:00pm to 1:30pm

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In Memoriam: “Ezra Vogel in U.S.-Japan Relations: Enduring Legacies”

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Speakers:

Glen S. Fukushima, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress; Former Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Japan and China; Former President, American Chamber of Commerce in Japan.

Joseph S. Nye, Jr., Faculty Associate (emeritus). Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor, Emeritus, Harvard Kennedy School.

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

Steven Vogel, Chair of the Political Economy Program, Il Han New Professor of Asian Studies, Professor of Political Science; University of California, Berkeley.

Moderator: 

Christina 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
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Co-sponsored by the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University; the Japan Society of Boston; Japan Society; and the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation.

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2020 Dec 14

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

12:00pm to 1:00pm

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"Smart Work-X: Japan’s Transformations in the New Normal”

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Speaker:

Hirotaka Takeuchi, Professor of Management Practice, Harvard Business School.

Moderator: 

Christina Davis, Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Executive Committee; Faculty Associate (on leave 2020-2021). 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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Co-sponsored by the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School.

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2020 Dec 09

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

8:00pm to 9:00pm

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"Schism 2.0: China and America’s Trade Conflict in the Biden Administration"

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Speaker:

Paul Blustein, Senior Fellow, Centre for International Governance Innovation; Senior Associate (non-resident), Simon Chair in Political Economy, Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS).

Moderator:

Christina Davis, Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Executive Committee; Faculty Associate (on leave 2020-2021). 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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Special Series on Japanese Economic Statecraft. Co-sponsored by the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University.

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2020 Dec 07

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

9:00am to 10:00am

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"Enacting ‘Asia’ as Imagined Geographies: Tokyo 1943 and Bandung 1955"

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Speaker:

Naoko Shimazu, Professor of Humanities (History), Yale-NUS College; Honorary Professor, Department of History; Associate, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore.

Moderator:

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

Contact:

Emma Duncan
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Co-sponsored by the Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global Transformations (WIGH), Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies; and the Harvard University Asia Center.

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2020 Nov 30

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

12:00pm to 1:00pm

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Associates' Panel: "New Dimensions of Japan’s Democratic Governance"

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Speakers:

"Does It Matter That Politicians Are Older Than Their Constituents? Yes"

Charles McClean, Postdoctoral Fellow, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. PhD, Department of Political Science, University of California, San Diego.

"Local Autonomy of 47 Prefectures in Japan"

Sangjun Park, Academic Associate, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. Visiting Researcher, Osaka University.

Discussant:

Kay Shimizu, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh.

Moderator: 

Christina DavisDirector, 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
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2020 Nov 18

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

7:30pm to 8:30pm

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Panel: "East Asia Responds to U.S. Election Results"

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Speakers:

Toshihiro Nakayama, Professor of American Politics and Foreign Policy, Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University. Adjunct Fellow, Japan Institute of International Affairs.

Shin-wha Lee, Professor, Department of Political Science; Director, Peace & Democracy Institute (PDI), Korea University.

Wu Xinbo, Dean, Institute of International Studies; Director, Center for American Studies, Fudan University.

Discussant: 

Ezra Vogel, Honorary Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences, Emeritus, Harvard University.

Moderator: 

Christina 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
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Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies (Harvard), the Korea Institute (Harvard), the Harvard University Asia Center, and the Wilson Center Asia Program.

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2020 Nov 09

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

12:00pm to 1:00pm

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"Japan's Strategy in Asia"

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Speaker:

Michael Green, Senior Vice President for Asia and Japan Chair, Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS); Director of Asian Studies, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University.

Moderator: 

Christina 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
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2020 Nov 02

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

12:00pm to 1:00pm

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“How Pork-Barrel Politics Holds Japan's Governing Coalition Together”

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Speaker:

Amy Catalinac, Assistant Professor of Politics, Department of Politics, New York University.

Moderator: 

Christina 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
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Co-sponsored by the Department of Government, Harvard University.

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2020 Oct 26

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

12:00pm to 1:00pm

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“The Iconoclast: Shinzō Abe and the New Japan” 

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Speaker:

Tobias Harris, Vice President (Japan Analyst), Teneo Intelligence.

Discussant:

Koji Sonoda, Correspondent, Washington D.C. Bureau, Asahi Shimbun.

Moderator:

Christina 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
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Co-sponsored by the Center for Public Leadership, Harvard Kennedy School.

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