#  Japan in the World: A Symposium in Honor of Susan J. Pharr, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, Harvard University 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **May 25, 2021** 

 09:00AM - 05:15PM EDT 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **Online Only**  



 

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##  9:00–9:15 am: Welcome

 [Christina Davis](https://scholar.harvard.edu/cldavis/home)  
Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Professor of Government; and Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University

 [Jeffry Frieden](https://scholar.harvard.edu/jfrieden/home)  
Department Chair; Stanfield Professor of International Peace, Department of Government, Harvard University

 [Mary Brinton](https://scholar.harvard.edu/brinton/home)  
Director, Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies; Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology, Harvard University

##  9:15–10:30 am: Panel, "Economic and Social Transformations in Advanced Capitalism"

 Chair:  
[Hirotaka Takeuchi](https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=6563)  
Professor of Management Practice, Strategy Unit, Harvard Business School

 Panelists:

###  Economic Calculations of Political Participation in Japan: Revisiting "Political Women in Japan"

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

###  Voter Responses to Female Candidates' Voice Pitch: Experimental Evidence from Japan

 [Rieko Kage](https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/focus/en/people/people003656.html)  
Professor of Political Science, University of Tokyo

###  Japan's Labor Market and Social Welfare Policies under the Pressure of Demographic Challenges

 [Jiyeoun Song](https://gsis.snu.ac.kr/professor?professor=118)  
Associate Professor of Political Economy, Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul National University

###  Japan and Varieties of Capitalism

 [Michael Witt](https://faculty.insead.edu/michael-witt/research)  
Senior Affiliate Professor of Strategy and International Business, INSEAD

##  2:00–3:15 pm: Panel, "Japan’s Democratic Governance: Institutions and Civil Society"

 Chair:  
[Elizabeth Perry](https://scholar.harvard.edu/elizabethperry/home)  
Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government; Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute, Harvard University

 Panelists:

###  The Good Life is Neither Grey nor Blue/Green: The Critical Nature of Civic and Social Infrastructure

 [Daniel Aldrich](http://daldrich.weebly.com/)  
Professor of Political Science; Director, Security and Resilience Studies Program, Northeastern University

###  Winning More With Less: How Parties Win More Votes Without Having to Win Over More Voters

 [Amy Catalinac](https://as.nyu.edu/content/nyu-as/as/faculty/amy-catalinac.html)  
Assistant Professor of Politics, Department of Politics, New York University

###  Media, Democracy and Public Broadcasting: NHK and the BBC Compared

 [Henry Laurence](https://www.bowdoin.edu/profiles/faculty/hlaurenc/)  
Associate Professor of Government and Asian Studies, Bowdoin College

##  4:00–5:15 pm: Panel, "Japan in International Relations"

 Chair:  
[Christina Davis](https://scholar.harvard.edu/cldavis/home)  
Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Professor of Government; and Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University

 Panelists:

###  Japan: The Harbinger State

 [Phillip Lipscy](http://www.lipscy.org/)  
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science; Director, Centre for the Study of Global Japan, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto

###  Space and the US-Japan Alliance

 [Saadia Pekkanen](https://jsis.washington.edu/people/saadia-pekkanen/)  
Job and Gertrud Tamaki Edowed Professor, The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington

###  Global Activism, Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change in East Asia

 [Kim Reimann](https://asianstudies.gsu.edu/profile/kim-reimann-2/)  
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Georgia State University

###  Japan and the New Geoeconomics

 [Mireya Solís](https://www.brookings.edu/experts/mireya-solis/)  
Director, Center for East Asia Policy Studies; Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Program, Brookings Institution

##  5:30–6:00 pm: Closing Remarks

 [Susan Pharr](https://scholar.harvard.edu/spharr/home)  
Senior Advisor, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, Harvard University

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 *Co-sponsored by the Department of Government, Weatherhead Center Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, and the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies*

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