#  Symposium: Mary Brinton (Harvard University), Yoshio Higuchi (Keio University), Margarita Estevez-Abe (Syracuse University), Paul Chang (Harvard University); Is Demography Destiny? Japan in Comparative Perspective. 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **November 17, 2017** 

 04:00PM - 05:45PM EST 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **Belfer Case Study Room (S020), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street**  



 

 



 

 **“Japan’s Demographic Dilemma: A Comparative Perspective”**  
**[Mary Brinton](https://scholar.harvard.edu/brinton/home)**  
Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology, Harvard University

 **"How Changes in the Japanese Labor Market Shape Marriage and Fertility Decisions"**  
**[Yoshio Higuchi](https://keio.pure.elsevier.com/en/persons/yoshio-higuchi)**  
Professor, Department of Business and Commerce, Keio University

 **“International Marriages and Families in East Asia: Lessons from a Survey of Filipina Wives in Tokyo, Seoul and Taipei”**  
**[Margarita Estevez-Abe](https://www.maxwell.syr.edu/psc/Estevez-Abe,_Margarita/)**  
Visiting Senior Fellow, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University; Associate Professor of Political Science, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University

 **“Alternative Solutions to the Demographic Crisis: The Case of South Korea”**  
**[Paul Chang](https://scholar.harvard.edu/paulchang/home)**  
Associate Professor of Sociology, Harvard University

 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; Korea Institute; the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Japan Society of Boston*

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



 

 



 

 

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