Past Events

2020 Jul 30

Alumni Panel (webinar), “U.S.-Japan Relations in the COVID19 Era”

8:00am to 9:15am
Location:
Online Only
Registration required: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Msz9omYTSK-3cKWerQMD6g

"U.S.-China Competition in the COVID-19 Era: Views from Japan"

Hiroyuki Akita (2006-07)
Foreign Affairs and National Security Commentator, Nihon Keizai Shimbun.

"New Challenges in International Trade and Investment"

Mireya Solís (2000-01)
Director, Center for East Asia Policy Studies, and Phillip Knight Chair in Japan Studies, Brookings Institution.

"Stakeholder Capitalism in the Midst of COVID-19"

Yoshihisa Masaki (2005-06)
Director, Social Communications Bureau, Keidanren (Japan Business Federation).

"Exploring New Frontiers of U.S.-Japan Economic Cooperation in the COVID-19 Era"

Noriyuki Shikata (2019-20)
Assistant Minister/Director-General, Economic Affairs Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA).

Moderator: Christina Davis (2001-02)
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.
2020 Jul 09

JPOSS: Nicholas Fraser (University of Toronto) & John W. Cheng (Tsuda University), “The New Consensus on Immigration?: Identifying the Racial Undertones of Immigrant Selection Outside the Western Context”

8:00pm to 9:00pm
Location:
Online Only
U.S. EDT: 8 – 9 pm, July 9 (Thursday)

JST: 9 – 10 am, July 10 (Friday)

Presenter: Nicholas Fraser (University of Toronto).

Discussants: Yusaku Horiuchi (Dartmouth), Rieko Kage (University of Tokyo), ...
Read more about JPOSS: Nicholas Fraser (University of Toronto) & John W. Cheng (Tsuda University), “The New Consensus on Immigration?: Identifying the Racial Undertones of Immigrant Selection Outside the Western Context”
2020 Jun 24

Yuki Asahina (Harvard University), "Merit or Inheritance?: How Young Adults Understand Inequality in Japan and Korea"

4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location:
Online Only
Yuki Asahina
Reischauer Institute Postdoctoral Fellow (PhD Sociology, University of Hawai`i 2019)

Moderator: Mary C. Brinton
Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology and Director, Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University

YouTube event link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obnksGKukac&feature=youtu.be

Edwin O. Reischauer Institute Japan Forum Lecture Series. Co-sponsored by the WCFIA Program on U.S.-Japan Relations and the Korea Institute, Harvard University.... Read more about Yuki Asahina (Harvard University), "Merit or Inheritance?: How Young Adults Understand Inequality in Japan and Korea"
2020 Apr 28

Associates’ Panel: “Environmental and Economic Imperatives of Advanced Capitalism," Rie Watanabe (Aoyama Gakuin University), Kuniaki Iwatani (Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry), Kenji Haramura (Ministry of Finance) via Zoom

11:00am to 12:30pm
Location:
Online Only
"Japan's Renewable Energy Policy Changes from 1970s to 2011"

Rie Watanabe
Aoyama Gakuin University

"International Cooperation to Reduce Marine Plastic Waste"

Kuniaki Iwatani
Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry

"Regional Financial Institutions and Local Economic Revitalization in Japan"

Kenji Haramura
Ministry of Finance

Discussant: William Grimes
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies; Professor of International Relations and Political Science, Boston University

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

Register for this event on Zoom

Note: This event requires registration in advance, in order to receive the meeting link & password.
2020 Apr 21

Takatoshi Ito (Columbia University), "Economic Consequences of the COVID-19 for Japan and the World" (via Zoom)

12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location:
Online Only
Takatoshi Ito
Professor of International and Public Affairs, School of Public and International Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University

Moderator: Christina Davis
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

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Note: This event requires registration in advance, in order to receive the meeting link & password.
2020 Mar 10

Associates’ Panel: “Challenges of Democracy in the U.S. and Japan” Taishi Muraoka (Harvard) and Yuji Endo (Asahi Shimbun)

12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location:
Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street
"Legislative Networks and the Survival of Cabinet Ministers"

Taishi Muraoka
Postdoctoral Fellow, WCFIA Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University

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

Yuji Endo
Staff Writer, Asahi Shimbun

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

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
2020 Mar 06

Roger Goodman (Oxford University), "Family-run Universities in Japan: Sources of Inbuilt Resilience in the Face of Demographic Pressure, 1992-2030"

4:30pm to 6:00pm
Location:
CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Kang Room (S050)
Roger Goodman
Nissan Professor of Modern Japanese Studies and Warden of St Antony's College, Oxford University

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

Edwin O. Reischauer Institute Japan Forum Lecture Series. Co-sponsored by the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations and supported by the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership (CGP).
2020 Mar 03

Associates’ Panel: “Japan in the World Order: Power Shifts and Domestic Contestation," Tomoki Kuniyoshi (Waseda University), Claudia Junghyun Kim (Harvard), Tatsuki Onda (Deloitte Tohmatsu Consulting LLC)

12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location:
Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street
"Britain’s Role in the Origins of the U.S.-Japan Security System"

Tomoki Kuniyoshi
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

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

Tatsuki Onda
Deloitte Tohmatsu Consulting LLC

Discussant: Jennifer Lind
Associate Professor, Department of Government, Dartmouth College

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
2020 Feb 25

Joshua Walker (Japan Society), "Japan’s Global Moment in the G-Zero World"

12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location:
Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street
Joshua Walker
President and CEO, Japan Society

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

Co-sponsored by the Japan Society of Boston.
2020 Feb 18

Tatiana Linkhoeva (New York University), "Revolution Goes East: Imperial Japan and Soviet Communism"

12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location:
Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street
Tatiana Linkhoeva
Assistant Professor, Department of History, New York University

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

Co-sponsored by the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies; and the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University.

Past Events

Alumni Panel (webinar), “U.S.-Japan Relations in the COVID19 Era”

Location:

"U.S.-China Competition in the COVID-19 Era: Views from Japan"

"New Challenges in International Trade and Investment"

"Stakeholder Capitalism in the Midst of COVID-19"

"Exploring New Frontiers of U.S.-Japan Economic Cooperation in the COVID-19 Era"

JPOSS: Nicholas Fraser (University of Toronto) & John W. Cheng (Tsuda University), “The New Consensus on Immigration?: Identifying the Racial Undertones of Immigrant Selection Outside the Western Context”

Location:

Yuki Asahina (Harvard University), "Merit or Inheritance?: How Young Adults Understand Inequality in Japan and Korea"

Location:

Associates’ Panel: “Environmental and Economic Imperatives of Advanced Capitalism," Rie Watanabe (Aoyama Gakuin University), Kuniaki Iwatani (Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry), Kenji Haramura (Ministry of Finance) via Zoom

Location:

"Japan's Renewable Energy Policy Changes from 1970s to 2011"

"International Cooperation to Reduce Marine Plastic Waste"

"Regional Financial Institutions and Local Economic Revitalization in Japan"

Register for this event on Zoom

Takatoshi Ito (Columbia University), "Economic Consequences of the COVID-19 for Japan and the World" (via Zoom)

Location:

Register for this event on Zoom

Associates’ Panel: “Challenges of Democracy in the U.S. and Japan” Taishi Muraoka (Harvard) and Yuji Endo (Asahi Shimbun)

Location:

"Legislative Networks and the Survival of Cabinet Ministers"

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

Roger Goodman (Oxford University), "Family-run Universities in Japan: Sources of Inbuilt Resilience in the Face of Demographic Pressure, 1992-2030"

Location:

Associates’ Panel: “Japan in the World Order: Power Shifts and Domestic Contestation," Tomoki Kuniyoshi (Waseda University), Claudia Junghyun Kim (Harvard), Tatsuki Onda (Deloitte Tohmatsu Consulting LLC)

Location:

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

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

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

Joshua Walker (Japan Society), "Japan’s Global Moment in the G-Zero World"

Location:

Tatiana Linkhoeva (New York University), "Revolution Goes East: Imperial Japan and Soviet Communism"

Location:

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