The U.S.-Japan Alliance and Taiwan
Speaker: ADAM P. LIFF, Associate Professor of East Asian International Relations, Hamilton Lugar School of Global & International Studies; Director, 21st Century Japan Politics and Society Initiative, Indiana University
Moderator: MARY C. BRINTON, Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology; Director, Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University
The Tokyo Toilet
Speaker: KOJI YANAI, Senior Executive Officer, Fast Retailing Group
Discussant: RAHUL MEHROTRA, Chair, Department of Urban Planning and Design; Director, MArch in Urban Design Degree Program; Co-Director, MArch in Urban Design Degree Program; John T. Dunlop Professor in Housing and Urbanization
Discussant: SENG KUAN, Lecturer in Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design
The Immersive Enclosure: Japanese Virtual Reality and the Privatization of Presence
Speaker: PAUL ROQUET, Associate Professor of Media Studies and Japan Studies, MIT
Moderator: ALEXANDER ZAHLTEN, Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
Domestic Institutions, Geographic Concentration, and Agricultural Liberalization: Evidence from Remote-Sensed Cropland Data and Elite Interviews
Speaker: MEGUMI NAOI, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of California, San Diego
Moderator: CHRISTINA L. DAVIS, Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Professor of Government; Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
Godzilla over the Years: the Changing Landscape of the Godzilla Movies
Speaker: WILLIAM M. TSUTSUI, President and CEO, Ottawa University
Speaker: ALEXANDER ZAHLTEN, Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Social Bases of Democratic Governance
Panelist: MASATAKA HARADA, Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics, Fukuoka University
Panelist: JORDAN HAMZAWI, Postdoctoral Fellow, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University. PhD, Political Science, University of California, Davis
Panelist: YOSUKE TAKASHIMA, Asahi Shimbun
Discussant: MARY ALICE HADDAD, John E. Andrus Professor of Government; Professor of Environmental Studies; Director, Office of Faculty and Career Development; Chair and Professor of East Asian Studies, Wesleyan University
Moderator: CHRISTINA L. DAVIS, Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Professor of Government; Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
Capturing Hiroshima: Australian Artists and the Response to the Atomic Bombing
Speaker: TESSA MORRIS-SUZUKI, Professor Emerita of Japanese History, Australia National University
Moderator: ANDREW D. GORDON, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Harvard University
Threats to Economic Interdependence
Panelist: GABRIELLE CHEUNG, Postdoctoral Fellow, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University. PhD, Political Science and International Relations, University of Southern California
Panelist: MASAHIKO FURUYA, Japan Ministry of Finance
Panelist: HIROKAZU WATANABE, Japan Ministry of Finance; Cabinet Secretariat
Discussant: WILLIAM GRIMES, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs; Professor of International Relations, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University
Moderator: CHRISTINA L. DAVIS, Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Professor of Government; Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
The Japanese Department Store and Modern Design
Speaker: NOZOMI NAOI, Assistant Professor of Humanities (Art History), Yale-NUS College
Moderator: MELISSA MCCORMICK, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Japanese Art and Culture, Harvard University