#  Symposium: Akio Takahara (U. of Tokyo), Victor Cha (Georgetown University), Sheila Smith (Council on Foreign Relations), Zheng Wang (Seton Hall University); East Asia: Where Are Things Headed? 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **April 29, 2016** 

 04:00PM - 06:00PM EDT 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **Belfer Case Study Room (S020), Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street**  



 

 



 

Speakers:  
**[Akio Takahara](http://www.tokyofoundation.org/en/experts/t/takahara-akio)**  
Professor, Faculty of Law and Graduate School of Law and Politics, University of Tokyo

**[Victor Cha](http://explore.georgetown.edu/people/chav/)**  
D.S. Song-KF Endowed Chair in Government and International Affairs, Georgetown University, and Senior Advisor and Korea Chair, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

**[Sheila Smith](http://www.cfr.org/experts/asia-and-pacific-japan/sheila-a-smith/b12373)**  
Senior Fellow for Japan Studies, Council on Foreign Relations

**[Zheng Wang](https://www.shu.edu/profiles/zhengwang.cfm)**  
Associate Professor and Director, Center for Peace and Conflict Studies, School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University

**[Poster](http://programs.wcfia.harvard.edu/files/us-japan/files/special_events_4.pdf?m=1461790783)**

**[Pamphlet](http://programs.wcfia.harvard.edu/files/us-japan/files/april29booklet_final.pdf?m=1461869242)**

Moderator: [**Susan Pharr** ](http://www.gov.harvard.edu/people/faculty/susan-pharr.html)  
Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics and Director, WCFIA Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University

*Co-sponsored by Harvard University Asia Center, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Korea Institute, **Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies**, *Harvard Kennedy School Japan Caucus,* and Japan Society of Boston.*

This symposium is supported by a generous grant from the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership (CGP).



 

 



 

 

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