Past Events
Tomohito Shinoda (International University of Japan) and Woonjin Jeong (Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, ROK). "Panel: Japanese Diplomacy Today: Challenges and Opportunitites"
November 6, 2012
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12:30PM - 2:00PM EST
"Insitutional Change and Japanese Politics" Tomohito Shinoda Professor, International University of Japan "Prospects for ROK-Japan Relations" Woonjin Jeong Associate, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University; and Director of the Japan Division...
Michael Dukakis (Northeastern). "The 2012 Presidential Election: What’s at Stake?"
November 1, 2012
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12:30PM - 2:30PM EDT
Michael Dukakis Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Northeastern University; Democratic Party Nominee for the President of the United States (1988); and Governor of Massachusetts (1975-79; 1983-91) (Co-sponsored by the Institute of Politics (IOP...
Pippa Norris (Harvard Kennedy School). "Why Electoral Integrity Matters"
October 23, 2012
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12:30PM - 2:00PM EDT
Pippa Norris McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics, Harvard Kennedy School; Australian Research Council (ARC) Laureate Fellow; and Professor of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney (Co-sponsored by the Minda de Gunzburg Center...
Leonard Schoppa (University of Virginia). "Keeping the Streets Safe for Children: Residential Mobility and Local Civic Engagement in Japan and the U.S."
October 16, 2012
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12:30PM - 2:00PM EDT
Leonard Schoppa Professor of Politics, and Associate Dean for the Social Sciences, University of Virginia Moderator: Mary C. Brinton. Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology, and Chair, Department of Sociology, Harvard University (Co-sponsored by the...
Ambassador Ichiro Fujisaki. "Where Japan is Headed"
October 9, 2012
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12:30PM - 2:00PM EDT
Ichiro Fujisaki Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to the United States of America Tsai Auditorium (S010), Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street (Co-sponsored by the WCFIA Fellows Program and the...
Sayuri Guthrie-Shimizu (Michigan State). "Transpacific Field of Dreams: How Baseball Linked the United States and Japan in Peace and War"
October 2, 2012
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12:30PM - 2:00PM EDT
Sayuri Guthrie-Shimizu Professor of History, Michigan State University Moderator: Andrew Gordon. Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Harvard University (Co-sponsored by the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies)
Yumi Shimabukuro (MIT). "Excluding the Poor: Democratization and the Development of Japan's Uneven Welfare State"
September 25, 2012
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12:30PM - 2:30PM EDT
Yumi Shimabukuro Postdoctoral Fellow, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University Dr. Shimabukuro received her B.A. in International Relations from Lewis & Clark College, M.I.A. from Columbia University, and Ph.D. in Political Science from MIT...
Gerald L. Curtis (Columbia). "Another Year, Another Government: Making Sense of Japan's Political Confusion"
September 18, 2012
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12:30PM - 2:30PM EDT
Gerald L. Curtis Burgess Professor of Political Science, Columbia University
Wolfram Manzenreiter (University of Vienna). "Homeless Diaspora: The Impact of Return Migration on Latin American Japanese Communities"
September 13, 2012
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12:30PM - 2:30PM EDT
Wolfram Manzenreiter Associate Professor, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Vienna Moderator: Theodore C. Bestor. Reischauer Institute Professor of Social Anthropology,and Director, Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard...
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