Building U.S.-Japan Relations after the Second World War: Eight Decades of Security, Trade, and Trust

Speakers:

"The Security of Japan, an Island State in the ‘Far East’: Past and Present” 

Kaoru Iokibe

Professor, Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, The University of Tokyo

“Launching Japan’s Postwar 'Trading State': Bureaucratic Conflict between Diplomacy and Economic Agencies, 1945–1956” 

Masaya Inoue

Professor, Faculty of Law, Department of Political Science, Keio University

“The Dilemma of Dependence and Independence: The Linkage between Japan’s Economy and Security in the 1950s” 

Ayako Kusunoki

Professor, International Research Center for Japanese Studies

“Experiences, Perspectives, and Encouragements: Edwin and Haru Reischauer’s View of 20th-Century Japanese Democracy”

Ryota Murai

Professor, Faculty of Law, Department of Political Science, Komazawa University

Discussants: 

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

Christina L. Davis, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, Department of Government; Director, Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University

Moderator:

Susan J. Pharr, Edwin O. Reischauer Research Professor of Japanese Politics; Senior Adviser, Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University

This symposium is co-sponsored by the Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA), the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, the Harvard Kennedy School Japan Caucus, the Harvard Undergraduate Japan Policy Network (HUJPN), and the Japan Society of Boston.

Advance registration is not required.

For inquiries, please contact:

Weatherhead Program on US-Japan Relations

Email: usjapan@wcfia.harvard.edu

Phone: 617-495-1890