[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)