Benjamin Bartlett 

Postdoctoral Fellow, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University

 

Moderator: Susan Pharr

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

 

Co-sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center; Kim Koo Forum on Korea Current Affairs at the Harvard Korea Institute; Cyber Security Project, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School 

Michael Witt

Academic Associate, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University; Affiliate Professor of Strategy and International Business, INSEAD

 

Moderator: Susan Pharr

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

 

Co-sponsored by the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies

Lt. Gen.(Ret.) Koichi Isobe

Retired, Japan Ground Self-Defense Force; Asia Center Senior Fellow; Senior Fellow, Asia Pacific Initiative, Tokyo; Strategic Advisor, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd.

 

Chair: Ezra Vogel 

Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences, Emeritus, Harvard University

 

Discussants:

Sak Sakoda

Former Executive Assistant to the Deputy Secretary of State, and former Senior Country Director for Japan, the Office of the

Secretary of Defense.

 

Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Burton M. Field

Retired, U.S. Air Force; Vice President, Strategic Planning, Aeronautics Strategy and Business Development, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co.; former Commander, U.S. Forces, Japan

 

Admiral (Ret.) Scott H. Swift

Retired, U.S. Navy; Distinguished Fellow, U.S. Naval War College; Robert E Wilhelm Fellow, MIT Center for International Studies; former Commander U.S. Pacific Fleet

 

Joseph Nye

Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor; Research Professor, Harvard Kennedy School (to be confirmed)

 

Asia Beyond the Headlines Seminar Series, sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center, co-sponsored by the WCFIA Program on U.S.-Japan Relations

Ito Peng 

Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto

 

Moderator: Mary Brinton

Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology, and Director, Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University

 

Co-sponsored by Harvard University Asia Center

 

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