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2019 May 02

Panel: “Political Parties, Bureaucracy, and Public Policy”, Daniel Koss (Academia Sinica), Diana Stanescu (Harvard & Princeton), Shimpei Sunaga (Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries)

12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location:
Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street

"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

Harvard and Princeton University

“TPP, Agriculture, and U.S.-Japan Trade Negotiations”

Shimpei Sunaga

Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries

Discussant: Christina Davis

Acting Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations (Spring 2019); Professor of Government and Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
2019 Apr 30

Amy Searight (CSIS), “Southeast Asia and the Great Powers: Hedging, Balancing, and Rivalry”

12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location:
Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street
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 (Spring 2019); Professor of Government and Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University

This seminar series is supported by a grant from the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership (CGP).

Special Series on The Future of East Asia
2019 Apr 26

Panel: “Trade and Investment in U.S.-Japan Relations”, Remy Magnier-Watanabe (University of Tsukuba), Naoya Okada (Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry), Kazuhide Ishiwaka (Ministry of Finance)

12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location:
Lee Gathering Room (S030), CGIS South Building, 1730, Cambridge Street
“Japanese Foreign Direct Investment Location in the U.S.: A Home-Country Firm Bandwagon Effect”

Remy Magnier-Watanabe

University of Tsukuba

“Japan’s Intellectual Property and International Trade"

Naoya Okada

Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry

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

Kazuhide Ishiwaka

Ministry of Finance

Moderator: Christina Davis

Acting Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations (Spring 2019); Professor of Government and Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
2019 Apr 23

Tristan Ivory (University of Missouri), "Insider Out: Foreign-Born Women's Labor Force Participation in Japan, Sweden, and the U.S."

12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location:
Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street
Tristan Ivory

Assistant Professor of Black Studies and Sociology, University of Missouri

Moderator: Mary Brinton
Director, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies; Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology, Harvard University

This seminar series is supported by a grant from the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership (CGP).

Co-sponsored by the Weatherhead Initiative on Gender Inequality; Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies
2019 Apr 16

Naomi Hirose (Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.), “The Future of Fukushima”

12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location:
Belfer Case Study Room (S020), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street
Naomi Hirose
Executive Vice Chairman (Fukushima Affairs); President (2012-17), Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) Holdings, Inc.

Moderator: Andrew Gordon

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

Co-sponsored by The Center for the Environment; The Environment and Natural Resources Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School
2019 Apr 09

Panel: "Democracy, Civic Engagement, and the Rule of Law", Yeonju Lee (Harvard), Kanoko Kamata (Community Organizing Japan), Akiko Kojima (Ministry of Finance)

12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location:
Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street
“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

“LGBTQ Rights in Japan: Strategies for Social Change”

Akiko Kojima
Ministry of Finance

Discussant: Daniel Aldrich
Professor of Political Science, Public Policy and Urban Affairs; Director, Masters Program in Security and Resilience
2019 Apr 02

Phillip Lipscy (Stanford University), "From Leader to Laggard: Japanese Energy and Climate Change Policy."

12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location:
Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street
Phillip Lipscy
Assistant Professor of Political Science; The Thomas Rohlen Center Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University

Moderator: Christina Davis
Acting Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations (Spring 2019); Professor of Government and Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University

Co-sponsored by The Center for the Environment; The Environment and Natural Resources Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School

This seminar series is supported by a grant from the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership (CGP).

Special Series on The Future of East Asia
2019 Mar 29

William W. Kelly (Yale University), "85 years on Suye Mura: The Life History of a Japanese Village - and its Anthropology"

4:15pm to 5:45pm
Location:
Kang Seminar Room (S050) Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse CGIS South Bldg. 1730 Cambridge St.
William W. Kelly
Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Sumitomo Professor Emeritus of Japanese Studies, Yale University

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

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2019 Mar 26

David Leheny (Waseda University), “Empire of Hope: The Sentimental Politics of Japanese Decline”

12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location:
Belfer Case Study Room (S020), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street
David Leheny
Professor, Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University

Moderator: Christina Davis
Acting Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations (Spring 2019); Professor of Government and Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University

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

This seminar series is supported by a grant from the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership (CGP)
Special Series on the Future of Democracy in Japan and Asia
2019 Mar 12

Eiko Maruko Siniawer (Williams College), "Waste: Consuming Postwar Japan"

12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location:
Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street
Eiko Maruko Siniawer
Professor of History, Williams College

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

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

Past Events

Panel: “Political Parties, Bureaucracy, and Public Policy”, Daniel Koss (Academia Sinica), Diana Stanescu (Harvard & Princeton), Shimpei Sunaga (Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries)

Location:

Amy Searight (CSIS), “Southeast Asia and the Great Powers: Hedging, Balancing, and Rivalry”

Location:

Panel: “Trade and Investment in U.S.-Japan Relations”, Remy Magnier-Watanabe (University of Tsukuba), Naoya Okada (Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry), Kazuhide Ishiwaka (Ministry of Finance)

Location:

Tristan Ivory (University of Missouri), "Insider Out: Foreign-Born Women's Labor Force Participation in Japan, Sweden, and the U.S."

Location:

Naomi Hirose (Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.), “The Future of Fukushima”

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Panel: "Democracy, Civic Engagement, and the Rule of Law", Yeonju Lee (Harvard), Kanoko Kamata (Community Organizing Japan), Akiko Kojima (Ministry of Finance)

Location:

Phillip Lipscy (Stanford University), "From Leader to Laggard: Japanese Energy and Climate Change Policy."

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William W. Kelly (Yale University), "85 years on Suye Mura: The Life History of a Japanese Village - and its Anthropology"

Location:

David Leheny (Waseda University), “Empire of Hope: The Sentimental Politics of Japanese Decline”

Location:

Eiko Maruko Siniawer (Williams College), "Waste: Consuming Postwar Japan"

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