In Memoriam: Ezra Vogel in U.S.-Japan Relations: Enduring Legacies
Speaker: GLEN S. FUKUSHIMA, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress; Former Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Japan and China; Former President, American Chamber of Commerce in Japan
Speaker: JOSEPH S. NYE, JR., Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor, Emeritus, Harvard Kennedy School
Speaker: SUSAN PHARR, Senior Advisor, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, Harvard University
Speaker: STEVEN VOGEL, Chair of the Political Economy Program; Il Han New Professor of Asian Studies; Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
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
U.S. Military Bases and Japan’s National Security Strategy
Speaker: CONNOR MILLS, Postdoctoral Fellow, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. PhD, Department of History, Princeton University
Speaker: YOSHIAKI KUBO, Academic Associate, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. Associate Professor, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of the Ryukyus
Speaker: SADAMASA OUE, Associate, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. Executive Advisor, Mitsui & Co, Ltd.; Lt. Gen. (retired), Japan Air Self-Defense Force
Discussant: SHERRY L. MARTIN, Acting Asia Division Chief, Office of Opinion Research, U.S. Department of State
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
My Inexplicable Journey: from Colorado Paperboy to Comedian and Commentator in Japan
Speaker: PATRICK (“PAKKUN”) HARLAN, Comedian, TV Personality, and Voice Actor; Adjunct Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Moderator: ANDREW GORDON, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Harvard University
Symposium: Japanese Economic Statecraft in an Era of U.S.-China Rivalry
Speaker: TAKASHI SHIRAISHI, Chancellor, Prefectural University of Kumamoto; President, Graduate Research Institute of Policy Studies (2011-2017); President, Institute of Developing Economies-JETRO (2007-2018)
Speaker: DANIEL DREZNER, Professor of International Politics, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University; Nonresident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
Speaker: SAORI KATADA, Professor of International Relations, Department of Political Science and International Relations, University of Southern California
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
Associates’ Panel: Japan in Global Economic Competition
Speaker: DIANA STANESCU, Postdoctoral Fellow, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University
Speaker: RYOMA NIKAIDO, Deputy Editor, Weekly Toyo Keizai Magazine
Speaker: TAKASHI NAKAO, Senior Deputy Director, Ministry of Finance
Discussant: WILLIAM GRIMES, Professor of International Relations and Political Science, 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
Panel: The Carlos Ghosn Controversy and Japanese Corporate Governance
Panelist: CURTIS MILHAUPT, William F. Baxter-Visa International Professor of Law; Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University
Panelist: MARK RAMSEYER, Mitsubishi Professor of Japanese Legal Studies, Harvard Law School
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
Single Mothers in Japan: Employment Histories, Divorce, and Economic Well-Being
Speaker: JAMES RAYMO, Professor of Sociology, Henry Wendt III Professor of East Asian Studies; Princeton University
Moderator: MARY C. BRINTON, Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology and Director, Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University