#  The Kennedy Legacy and US-Japan Relations 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **September 20, 2013** 

 12:30PM - 02:00PM EDT 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **Tsai Auditorium (S010), CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA**  



 

 



 

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**Yukio Okamoto**   
Robert E. Wilhelm Fellow, Center for International Studies (CIS), MIT;  
President, Okamoto Associates Inc.; and former Special Advisor to Prime   
Minister Junichiro Koizumi and Ryutaro Hashimoto   ![lind.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum8416/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/us-japan/files/lind_0.jpg?itok=lAuJR41e) 

 

  
**Jennifer Lind**  
Associate Professor of Government, Dartmouth College  
  
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**Andrew Gordon**  
Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Harvard University  
  
Moderator: **Susan J. Pharr**  
Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, and Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics(Co-sponsored by the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum and the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies)

[Mr. Okamoto](http://www.yukio-okamoto.com/) has had a distinguished career as a diplomat, consultant, author, and advisor to Japan’s Prime Ministers. As a career diplomat in Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA), he served in Paris at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and in the embassies in Cairo and Washington. After retiring from MOFA, he established Okamoto Associates Inc., a political and economic consultancy. Mr. Okamoto has served in a number of advisory positions, including Special Advisor to Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto (1996-98), Special Advisor to the Cabinet (2001-03), and Special Advisor on Iraq to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (2003-04). Concurrent with the above last two posts, he was Chairman of the Prime Minister's Task Force on Foreign Relations. He also served as a member of Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda's Study Group on Diplomacy (2007-08). His books include *Okamoto Yukio: Genbashugi wo tsuranuita gaikokan* (Asahi Shimbun, 2008), *Nichibei doumei no kiki* (Bijinesusha, 2007), and *Sabaku no sensou* (Bungei Shunju, 2006). His recent articles and interviews have appeared in *Bungei Shunju, Chuo Koron, Sankei Shimbun, Yomiuri Shimbun,* and *Zaikai.* Mr. Okamoto teaches as an adjunct professor of international relations at Ritsumeikan University, and sits on the Board of Directors of several multinational companies. He is the president of Shingen'eki Net, a non-profit group for active seniors with 16,000 members.

[Professor Lind](http://www.dartmouth.edu/~jlind/about.htm) has published extensively on East Asian security, war memory and international reconciliation, North Korea, and Japanese security policy. She is the author of *Sorry States: Apologies in International Politics* (Cornell, 2008), and articles in *International Security,* *Security Studies, International Studies Quarterly*, *Journal of East Asian Studies, Foreign Affairs,* the *Atlantic, New York Times, Washington Post,* and other publications. Her recent [article](http://nationalinterest.org/article/when-camelot-went-japan-8651) in the *National Interest* examined the role of Robert Kennedy in U.S.-Japan relations in the early 1960s. Professor Lind has worked as a consultant for RAND and for the Office of the Secretary, U.S. Department of Defense. She is Fellow in the [U.S.-Japan Network for the Future](http://mansfieldfdn.org/program/dialogues/u-s-japan-network-for-the-future/) and an Associate in Research at Harvard’s [Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies](http://rijs.fas.harvard.edu/programs/groups.php). Her current research projects include articles on the coming struggle for the Western Pacific between the United States and China, and a book project about the speed and complexity with which countries rise to the status of great powers.

[Professor Gordon](http://adgordon.net/) has published extensively on modern Japanese history. He is the author of *A Modern History of Japan* (Oxford, 3rd edition, 2013), *Fabricating Consumers: The Sewing Machine in Modern Japan* (California, 2011), *The Unknown Story of Matsuzaka’s Major League Revolution* (in Japanese, Asahi shinsho, 2007), *The Wages of Affluence: Labor and Management in Postwar Japan (Harvard, 1998),* *Labor and Imperial Democracy in Prewar Japan* (California, 1991; Winner, John King Fairbank Prize in 1992 for the best book on modern East Asian history), and *The Evolution of Labor Relations in Japan: Heavy Industry, 1853-1955* (Harvard University Council on East Asian Studies Monographs, 1985)*.* He has also edited *Postwar Japan as History* (California 1993), and is translator of *Portraits of the Japanese Workplace* by Kumazawa Makoto (Westview, 1996) and *The Ashio Copper Mine Riot* by Nimura Kazuo (Duke, 1997). Professor Gordon has served as Chair of the History Department and Director of the [Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies](http://rijs.fas.harvard.edu/programs/groups.php).



 

 



 

 

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