#  Kenneth Ruoff (Portland State University), Japan’s Imperial Household and Abdication: The Contemporary Controversy in Historical Perspective 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **October 24, 2017** 

 12:30PM - 02:00PM EDT 

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 **Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street**  



 

 



 

 **[Kenneth Ruoff](https://www.pdx.edu/profile/meet-professor-ken-ruoff)**  
Professor of History and Director of the Center for Japanese Studies, Portland State University

 Discussant: **[Andrew Gordon](https://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/andrew-gordon)**  
Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Harvard University; Victor and William Fung Acting Director, Harvard University Asia Center (2016-2017)

 Moderator: **[Susan Pharr](https://scholar.harvard.edu/spharr/home)**  
Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics and Director, WCFIA Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, 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 East Asia

 **This seminar is part of the Worldwide Week at Harvard, sponsored by the Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs**



 

 



 

 

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