"Energy Transitions in Germany and Japan Five Years after Fukushima"

Date: 
Tuesday, February 16, 2016, 12:30pm to 2:00pm

Location: 
Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street

Speaker:
Miranda Schreurs
Professor, Department of Government and Politics, Freie Universität Berlin

Moderator:
Susan Pharr
Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics and Director, WCFIA Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University

Co-sponsored by Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies and Harvard University Center for the Environment (HUCE)

Special Series on Common Problems of Advanced Democracies

"Energy Transitions in Germany & Japan Five Years after Fukushima," Miranda Schreurs (Freie U.)

Date: 
Tuesday, October 11, 2016
12:30pm to 2:00pm

Location: 
Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street

Speaker:
Seiichi Kondo
Director, Kondo Institute for Culture & Diplomacy; Commissioner, Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japan (2010-13); and Ambassador and Permanent Delegate of Japan to UNESCO (2006-08)

Moderator: 
Theodore Bestor
Reischauer Institute Professor of Social Anthropology and Director, Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University

Co-sponsored by Harvard University Asia Center

Special Series on the Future of East Asia

This seminar series is supported by a grant from the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership (CGP)

"Japan's Soft Power in Asia and the World," Seiichi Kondo (Kondo Institute for Culture & Diplomacy)

Date:
Tuesday, October 18, 2016
12:30pm to 2:00pm

Location:
Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street

Speaker:
Gary Okihiro
Professor of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University

Moderator:
Walter Johnson
Winthrop Professor of History, Professor of African and African American Studies, and Director of the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard University

Co-sponsored by Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History; Asian American Studies Working Group, Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, Rights; Harvard University Asia Center

"American History Unbound: Asians and Pacific Islanders," Gary Okihiro (Columbia University)

Date: Tuesday, February 27, 2018, 12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location: Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street

Speaker: Louise Young
Professor of History, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Moderator: Andrew Gordon
Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Harvard University

Co-sponsored by Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies

Special Series on the Changing Face of Japan

This seminar series is supported by a grant from the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership (CGP)

"The Idea of Class in Modern Japan," Louise Young (University of Wisconsin–Madison)

Date: Tuesday, March 27, 2018, 12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location: Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street

Speaker: Admiral Dennis Blair
Chairman of the Board and Distinguished Senior Fellow, Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA; U.S. Director of National Intelligence (2009-10); Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Pacific Command (1999-2002)

Speaker: Taylor Fravel 
Acting Director, Center for International Studies (CIS), and Associate Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Moderator: Susan Pharr
Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics and Director, WCFIA Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University

Co-sponsored by Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; Asia Center; International Security Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School

Special Series on the Future of East Asia

This seminar series is supported by a grant from the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership (CGP)

"China, the U.S., & East Asia’s Maritime Disputes" Dennis Blair (Sasakawa USA) & Taylor Fravel (MIT)

Date: Tuesday, April 17, 2018, 12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location: Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street

Speaker: Henry Laurence
Associate Professor of Government and Asian Studies, Bowdoin College

Moderator: Susan Pharr
Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics and Director, WCFIA Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University

Co-sponsored by Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies

Special Series on the Future of Democracy in Japan and Asia

This seminar series is supported by a grant from the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership (CGP)

"Public Broadcasting in the Age of Fake News," Henry Laurence (Bowdoin College)

Date: Tuesday, September 25, 2018, 12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location: Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street

Speaker: Nick Kapur
Assistant Professor of History, Rutgers University, Camden
 
Moderator: Andrew Gordon
Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History and Acting Director (2018-2019), Harvard-Yenching Institute, Harvard University
 
Co-sponsored by the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies and the Department of History
 
This seminar series is supported by a grant from the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership (CGP).

“Japan’s 1960 Protests and the Contemporary World,” Nick Kapur (Rutgers University)

"Insider Out: Foreign Born Women's Labor Force Participation in Japan, Sweden, and the United States"

Speaker: Tristan Ivory, Assistant Professor of Black Studies and Sociology, University of Missouri

Moderator: Mary Brinton, Director, Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies; Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology, Harvard University

"Insider Out: Foreign-Born Women's Labor Force Participation...," Tristan Ivory (Mizzou)

Date: Tuesday, October 8, 2019, 12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location: Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street
Speaker: Daniel Smith
Associate Professor, Department of Government, Harvard University

Moderator: Susan J. Pharr
Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, Department of Government, Harvard University

Special Series on the Future of Democracy in Japan and Asia, supported by the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership (CGP). 

Co-sponsored by the Department of Government and the Women and Public Policy Program, Harvard Kennedy School.

"Voters, Candidates, and Gender Representation in Japan," Daniel Smith (Harvard)

Date: Tuesday, October 15, 2019, 12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location: Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street

Speaker: Patricia Maclachlan, Professor of Government and Asian Studies; Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Professor of Japanese Studies, Department of Asian Studies, The University of Texas at Austin

Moderator: Christina L. Davis, Professor of Government; Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University

Special Series on the Future of Democracy in Japan and Asia, supported by the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership (CGP)

Patricia Maclachlan (UT Austin), on reform of Japanese Agricultural Cooperatives (JA)

Date: Tuesday, October 22, 2019, 12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location: Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street
Speaker: Helen Hardacre
Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Religions and Society, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University

Moderator: Susan J. Pharr
Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, Department of Government, Harvard University

This seminar series is supported by a grant from the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership (CGP). 

Co-sponsored by the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, and the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

"The Politics of Postwar Japanese Enthronement Ceremonies," Helen Hardacre (Harvard)

Date: Tuesday, November 5, 2019, 12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location: Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street
Speaker: Daniel P. Aldrich
Professor of Political Science, Public Policy and Urban Affairs; Director, Masters Program in Security and Resilience, Northeastern University

Moderator: Susan J. Pharr
Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, Department of Government, Harvard University

Co-sponsored by the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies

"Black Wave: How Networks and Governance Shaped Japan’s 3/11 Disasters" Daniel Aldrich(Northeastern)

Date: Tuesday, November 12, 2019, 12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location: Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street
Speaker: Ryohei Yanagi
Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Eisai Co., Ltd; Visiting Professor, Graduate School of Accountancy, Waseda University

Moderator: Christina L. Davis
Professor of Government, Department of Government; Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University

Co-sponsored by the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School; the Japan Society of Boston; and the Takemi Program in International Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

"Corporate Governance and Value Creation in Japan" Ryohei Yanagi (Eisai Co., Ltd.)

Date: Tuesday, November 19, 2019, 12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location: Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street
Speaker: Erin Chung
Charles D. Miller Associate Professor of East Asian Politics, Department of Political Science; Director, Program in East Asian Studies, Johns Hopkins University

Moderator: Mary C. Brinton
Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology; Director, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University

Special Series on the Future of Democracy in Japan and Asia, supported by the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership (CGP)

Contingent Citizenship: Political Incorporation in Japan and the US with Erin Chung (Johns Hopkins)

Date: Tuesday, February 18, 2020, 12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location: Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street

Speaker: Tatiana Linkhoeva
Assistant Professor, Department of History, New York University

Moderator: Ian Miller
Professor of History; Affiliate Professor, Department of History of Science and Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations; Chair, Program in History and East Asian Languages (HEAL), Harvard University

Co-sponsored by the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies; and the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University

Revolution Goes East: Imperial Japan and Soviet Communism with Tatiana Linkhoeva (NYU)

Date: Tuesday, February 25, 2020, 12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location: Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street

Speaker: Joshua Walker
President and CEO, Japan Society

Moderator: Ezra Vogel
Honorary Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences, Emeritus, Harvard University

Co-sponsored by the Japan Society of Boston

Japan's Global Moment in the G-Zero World with Joshua Walker (Japan Society)

In this inaugural episode of the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations podcast, Executive Director Shinju Fujihira interviews the Program’s Honorary Director Ezra Vogel, on his recent book China and Japan: Facing History, his 1979 book Japan as Number 1: Lessons for America (published at the time of the Program’s founding), and the Program’s 40th anniversary.

Transcript: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1W2uvkPNS8L8Br_5ZdkGlbaMeeesrY_LA/view?usp=sharing

Podcast Ep. 1: Ezra Vogel on his China and Japan book, and Program's 40th anniversary.

The Program was founded in 1980 based on the belief that the United States and Japan have become so interdependent that the problems they face require cooperation. Co-sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, the Program enables scholars and outstanding professionals from government, business, finance, journalism, NGOs, and other fields to come together at Harvard. Over the academic year, they conduct independent research and participate in an ongoing dialogue with Harvard faculty and students, and with others from the greater Cambridge-Boston community. The Postdoctoral Fellowship Program enables several outstanding postdoctoral fellows from such fields as anthropology, economics, history, political science, and sociology, to join the Program each year.

The Program's intellectual mandate includes a wide range of issues and problems in U.S.-Japan relations; contemporary Japanese culture, economy, politics, and society as viewed from a comparative perspective; common problems of advanced industrial democracies; international relations of Asia and Asian regionalism; the globalization of Japanese popular culture; the rise of civil society in Asia; and global governance of issues such as energy, environment, and public health.

To insure a broad scope in its endeavors, many of the Program's seminars are co-sponsored with other centers, departments, and schools at Harvard. The Program advances the educational mission of the University in a variety of ways, including the fostering of “research pairs” between the Program's Associates and Harvard's graduate students and working with the Reischauer Institute to provide opportunities for Harvard undergraduates to hold summer internships in Japan.

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