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
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
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
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
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 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
Disaster Response History in Japan: Comparative Information Studies about Disaster and Social Structure
Speaker: KEIICHI SATO, Professor of Disaster Management and Policy Sciences, Senshu University and Visiting Scholar, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies
Moderator: ANDREW GORDON, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History and Project Director, Japan Disasters Digital Archive Project, Harvard University
Placing Virtual Reality: Japan's Alternative VR History
Speaker: PAUL ROQUET, Associate Professor of Media Studies and Japan Studies, MIT
New Economic Agendas in Advanced Capitalism
Panelist: AKIKO UCHIYAMA, Professor, Graduate School of Social Sciences, Chiba University
Panelist: TOMOKA MIYACHI, Professor, Faculty of Commerce, Takushoku University
Panelist: YUKI YAMANAKA, Japan Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
Discussant: HENRY LAURENCE, Associate Professor of Government and Asian Studies, Bowdoin College
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 Political Economy of Global Ownership and Supply Chains
Panelist: SHUHEI KURIZAKI, Academic Associate, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University; Associate Professor, School of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University
Panelist: KRISTIN VEKASI, Academic Associate, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University; Associate Professor, Department of Political Science; School of Policy and International Affairs, University of Maine
Chair: 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