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    Distinguished Visitors

    Distinguished Visitors

    Since 1987, the Program has annually hosted a leading commentator on U.S.-Japan relations or other relevant topics to give a major address. At Harvard for several days, the Distinguished Visitor also lectures in classes and meets with Associates and students. The individuals so recognized in recent years, and the titles of their speeches, are listed below.

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    Applying to the Program


    Research and Academic Associates

    The roughly 16 Associates who join the Program include businesspeople, government officials, journalists, and scholars. They are primarily from Japan and the United States, but the Program has also hosted Associates from Australia, Canada, the People's Republic...

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    Application to become a Postdoctoral Fellow

    Postdoctoral Fellow Applications

    We seek applications from outstanding scholars in the social sciences who are conducting research that illuminates Japan's relations with the rest of the world in the broadest sense. Thus, we welcome applicants from anthropology, economics, (modern) history, law, political science, public health, and sociology, among other fields. Scholars may examine domestic issues that bear on Japan's external relations or problems that it shares with other countries, and we encourage projects that compare Japan's experience cross-...

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    Application to become an Associate

    Associate Applications

    Qualifications of applicants

    Our goal is to ensure that we admit the best possible group of Associates. We seek applications from highly motivated men and women with well conceived research projects that will illuminate key issues in U.S. Japan relations, individuals with leadership qualities who demonstrate strong potential for contributing to the international dialogue on Japan's relations with the rest of the world. We favor candidates who enjoy working independently and will make the best possible use of their time at...

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    SAMPLE The Program

    The Program on U.S.-Japan Relations enables outstanding scholars and practitioners to conduct independent research on topics in contemporary bilateral relations and to participate in an ongoing dialogue on those topics with other members of Harvard University and the greater Cambridge and Boston communities. The program was founded in 1980 on the belief that the United States and Japan have become so interdependent that the problems they face urgently require cooperation. The program’s intellectual mandate has been broad since its inception...

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    Susan J. Pharr

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

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