Associates' Panel: Naofumi Fujimura (Kobe University), Koji Sonoda (Asahi Shimbun), Seiji Manabe (Japan Air Self-Defense Force); Politics, Ideologies, and Security Policy

Date: 

Tuesday, March 8, 2016, 12:30pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

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

"Compensation for Policy Loss or Rewards for Party Loyalty? Intraparty Resource Allocation and Party Unity”


Naofumi Fujimura
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Law, Kobe University

“Nippon Kaigi and the Grassroots Mobilization of Japan’s Right Wing”


Koji Sonoda
Asahi Shimbun

“Japan’s Collective Self-Defense and Deterrence in East Asia”


Seiji Manabe
Japan Air Self-Defense Force (ASDF)

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

Discussant: Mary Alice Haddad
Professor of Government and Chair, College of East Asian Studies, Wesleyan University