#  Panel: Keizo Takemi (House of Councillors), Margarita Estévez-Abe (Syracuse University), Aya Goto (Fukushima Medical University), Michael Reich (Harvard Chan School of Public Health), "Japan’s Response to COVID-19" 

 



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 **October 14, 2020** 

 08:30AM - 09:30AM EDT 

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 **Online Only**  



 

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 [Keizo Takemi](https://www.intrahealth.org/people/keizo-takemi)  
Member, House of Councillors of the National Diet of Japan; Former State Secretary for Foreign Affairs of Japan; Former Senior Vice Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare of Japan

 [Margarita Estévez-Abe](http://estevezabe.com/)  
Associate Professor of Political Science, Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs, Syracuse University

 [Aya Goto](https://aya-goto.squarespace.com/)  
Professor of Health Information and Epidemiology, Center for Integrated Science and Humanities, Fukushima Medical University

 Moderator: [Michael Reich](https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/michael-reich/)  
Director, Takemi Program in International Health; Taro Takemi Research Professor of International Health Policy, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

 *This seminar is part of the Special Series on Japanese Economic Statecraft*

 *​​​​​​​**Co-sponsored by the Takemi Program in International Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.*

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 This event is scheduled for 21:30-22:30 JST, 8:30-9:30 EDT

###  Additional Resources

 1. Estévez-Abe, Margarita, 「[知られざる日本のコロナ対策「成功」要因──介護施設](https://www.newsweekjapan.jp/stories/world/2020/07/post-93979_1.php)」

 2. Estévez-Abe, Margarita and Hiroo Ide "COVID-19 and Japan's Small Death Toll in Long-Term Care Facilities" (pdf provided by author. See 'file' section below.)

 3. Aya Goto, Rima Rudd, Alden Lai, Kazuki Yoshida, Yuu Suzuki, Donald Halstead, Hiromi Yoshida-Komiya, and Michael Reich, ["Leveraging public health nurses for disaster risk communication in Fukushima City: a qualitative analysis of nurses' written records of parenting counseling and peer discussions"](https://bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1472-6963-14-129)

 4. Takemi, Keizo, ["Rapid infectious disease response is needed: Challenges seen from the frontlines of politics"](https://www.japanpolicyforum.jp/diplomacy/pt20200624130349.html)

 5. Toyo Keizai Online article, 「[新型コロナ対応｢日本モデル｣とは何だったのか](https://toyokeizai.net/articles/-/380248)」

 6. View API press conference (Oct. 8, 2020),「[新型コロナ対応・民間臨時調査会 会見](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHkIs1dQj_g)」



 

 

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