2026 March 30 (Mon) 10:00 am - 4:30 pm | (In-Person & Zoom) | Bowie-Vernon Conference Room (K262), Second Level, CGIS Knafel Bldg., 1737 Cambridge St.

[Symposium] Japan in the Age of Disruption: Domestic and Global Policy Challenges

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All panels are chaired by Christina L. Davis, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, Department of Government; and Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University.

10:00-11:15 am: "Geopolitics of Alliances and International Institutions"

Mayumi Itayama
Visiting Scholar, Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University; Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and Economics, Kokushikan University
Kuniharu Kakihara
Associate, Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University; Fellow, Harvard University Asia Center; Retired Lieutenant General, Japan Air Self-Defense Force
Tomoko Takahashi
Visiting Scholar, Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University; Assistant Professor, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University
Discussant: Thomas Berger
Professor of International Relations, Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University

11:30 am-12:45 pm: "Innovations in Law and Business"

Mayu Kannari
Associate, Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University; Judge, Chiba District Court, Japan
Yoshiatsu Murata
Associate, Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University; Chief Real Estate Analyst, Sasayama
Nobukazu Nakazawa
Associate, Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University; Managing Director, Human Resources Development, Development Bank of Japan
Discussant: Daniel Aldrich
Dean's Professor of Resilience, Director, MS Resilience Studies Program, Northeastern University

2:00-3:15 pm: "Globalization and Economic Security"

Taiji Furusawa
Visiting Scholar, Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University; Professor, Graduate School of Economics, University of Tokyo
Toshiki Kita
Associate Principal Deputy Director, Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), Japan
Fumiharu Ito
Associate, Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University; Deputy Director, Ministry of Finance, Japan
Discussant: William Grimes
Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University

3:30 pm-4:30 pm: "Political Economy of Energy Transitions"

Toshiaki Yoshida
Japan Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University; PhD, Department of Political Science, Northeastern University
Yutaka Yamaguchi
Associate, Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University; Broadcast journalist, TV-Asahi
Discussant: Mary Alice Haddad
John E. Andrus Professor of Government, Professor of East Asian Studies, and Professor of Environmental Studies, Wesleyan University

Program on US-Japan Relations Symposium co-sponsored by the Harvard Kennedy School Japan Caucus and the Harvard Undergraduate Japan Policy Network (HUJPN)