#  Associates' Panel: “Rethinking the Origins of U.S.-Japan Alliance” 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **February 28, 2022** 

 12:00PM - 01:15PM EST 

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 **Online Only**  



 

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###  "Why the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty and the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) Have Not Been Revised since 1960"

 [Kaoru Iokibe](https://programs.wcfia.harvard.edu/us-japan/people/kaoru-iokibe)  
Professor, Graduate Schools of Law and Politics, University of Tokyo

###  "Atomic Anniversaries: Mediated Memories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in a Post-Hibakusha World"

 [Katharine Starr](https://programs.wcfia.harvard.edu/us-japan/people/katharine-starr)  
Former Consulting Producer, NHK World Japan

###  "American Public Perceptions of U.S.-Japan Relations, 1990-2020"

 [Koichi Ai](https://programs.wcfia.harvard.edu/us-japan/people/koichi-ai)  
Embassy of Japan in the United States of America

 Discussant: [Thomas Berger](https://www.bu.edu/pardeeschool/profile/thomas-berger/)  
Professor of International Relations, Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University

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

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##  Additional Resources

 1. Iokibe, Kaoru. "[Japan since the Meiji Restoration (1): Lessons from Diplomatic and Constitutional History](https://www.tkfd.or.jp/en/research/detail.php?id=26)." The Tokyo Foundation for Policy Research, July 24, 2018.

 2. Yoshida, Mayu. "[After the hibakusha: the future of Japan's anti-nuclear movement](https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/backstories/1870/)." NHK World Japan, January 31, 2022.



 

 



 

 

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