Japan in the World: A Symposium in Honor of Susan J. Pharr, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, Harvard University

9:00–9:15 am: Welcome

Christina Davis
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

Jeffry Frieden
Department Chair; Stanfield Professor of International Peace, Department of Government, Harvard University

Mary Brinton
Director, Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies; Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology, Harvard University

9:15–10:30 am: Panel, "Economic and Social Transformations in Advanced Capitalism"

Chair:
Hirotaka Takeuchi
Professor of Management Practice, Strategy Unit, Harvard Business School

Panelists:

Economic Calculations of Political Participation in Japan: Revisiting "Political Women in Japan"

Margarita Estévez-Abe
Associate Professor of Political Science, Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs, Syracuse University

Voter Responses to Female Candidates' Voice Pitch: Experimental Evidence from Japan

Rieko Kage
Professor of Political Science, University of Tokyo

Japan's Labor Market and Social Welfare Policies under the Pressure of Demographic Challenges

Jiyeoun Song
Associate Professor of Political Economy, Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul National University

Japan and Varieties of Capitalism

Michael Witt
Senior Affiliate Professor of Strategy and International Business, INSEAD

2:00–3:15 pm: Panel, "Japan’s Democratic Governance: Institutions and Civil Society"

Chair:
Elizabeth Perry
Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government; Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute, Harvard University

Panelists:

The Good Life is Neither Grey nor Blue/Green: The Critical Nature of Civic and Social Infrastructure

Daniel Aldrich
Professor of Political Science; Director, Security and Resilience Studies Program, Northeastern University

Winning More With Less: How Parties Win More Votes Without Having to Win Over More Voters

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

Media, Democracy and Public Broadcasting: NHK and the BBC Compared

Henry Laurence
Associate Professor of Government and Asian Studies, Bowdoin College

4:00–5:15 pm: Panel, "Japan in International Relations"

Chair:
Christina Davis
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

Panelists:

Japan: The Harbinger State

Phillip Lipscy
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science; Director, Centre for the Study of Global Japan, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto

Space and the US-Japan Alliance

Saadia Pekkanen
Job and Gertrud Tamaki Edowed Professor, The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington

Global Activism, Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change in East Asia

Kim Reimann
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Georgia State University

Japan and the New Geoeconomics

Mireya Solís
Director, Center for East Asia Policy Studies; Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Program, Brookings Institution

5:30–6:00 pm: Closing Remarks

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

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Co-sponsored by the Department of Government, Weatherhead Center Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, and the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies

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