The Transmission of Writing Technology between Korea and Japan in the 8th Century
Speaker: JOHN B. WHITMAN, Professor of Linguistics, Cornell University
Moderator: WESLEY JACOBSEN, Professor of the Practice of the Japanese Language and Director, Japanese Language Program, Harvard University
Japan’s “Predistribution” Solution for Inequality
Speaker: STEVEN VOGEL, Professor of Political Science and Political Economy; Il Han New Professor of Asian Studies; Director, Political Economy Program, University of California, Berkeley
Moderator: CHRISTINA L. DAVIS, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics and Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University
Film screening: SOUP AND IDEOLOGY (2021, 117 minutes), followed by discussion in-person with Director YONGHI YANG
Chair: ALEXANDER ZAHLTEN, Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
Moderator: INGU HWANG, Associate Professor of the Practice in the International Studies Program, Boston College
Invisible Race: Deconstructing Japaneseness and Racialization of Korean Residents in Japan
Speaker: KAZUKO SUZUKI, Associate Professor of Sociology, Texas A&M University
Moderator: KAREN L. THORNBER, Harry Tuchman Levin Professor in Literature and Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
Associates' Panel: Contemporary Challenges of Post-Industrial Economies
Speaker: KENYA AMANO, Postdoctoral Fellow, Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University
Speaker: TAKESHI HIEDA, Visiting Scholar, Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University; Professor, Graduate School of Law, Osaka Metropolitan University
Speaker: HIROKI TAYA, Associate, Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University; National Police Agency
Speaker: TOMOHIRO UEDA, Associate, Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University; Deloitte Tohmatsu Consulting, LLC.
Discussant: MARY ALICE HADDAD, John E. Andrus Professor of Government; Director, Office of the Faculty Career Development; Professor of East Asian and Environmental Studies, Wesleyan University
Moderator: CHRISTINA DAVIS, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics and Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University
U.S. Trade Policy, Japan, and China
Speaker: GLEN S. FUKUSHIMA, J.D. ’82, Vice Chair, Securities Investor Protection Corporation; Former Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Japan and China
Strange Tales from Edo: Rewriting Chinese Fiction in Early Modern Japan
Speaker: WILLIAM FLEMING, Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
Moderator: DAVID ATHERTON, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
Associates' Panel: International Conflicts over Globalization
Speaker: SAYAKA KUME, Associate, Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University; Ministry of Finance
Speaker: SAYUMI MIYANO, Postdoctoral Fellow, Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University
Speaker: RYUTA UEDA, Associate, Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University; Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
Discussant: WILLIAM GRIMES, Professor of International Relations, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University
Moderator: CHRITINA DAVIS, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics and Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University
The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Enters its 14th Year: Ghost Towns, Lawsuits, and a Million Tons of Water
Speaker: MARTIN FACKLER, Journalist and Visiting Research Associate, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies
Borders in Motion: New Paradigms of East Asian Comparative Literature — An Online Book Launch Forum
Speaker: SATORU HASHIMOTO, Johns Hopkins University
Speaker: XIAOLU MA, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Speaker: MIYA QIONG XIE, Dartmouth College
Moderator: KAREN THORNBER, Harvard University
Moderator: DAVID DER-WEI WANG, Harvard University