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Asian Voices: Promoting Dialogue between the U. S. and Asia “Japan's
Political Realities:What's Changing, And What's Not"
This event is supported
in part by a grant from The Sasakawa Peace Foundation, Japan .
About the Panelists Dr. Gerald Curtis is Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and is a specialist on politics in Japan and U.S.-East Asian relations, with particular research interests in parties, interest groups, and state-society relations. He has served as Director of the East Asian Institute for a total of twelve years between 1974 and 1990. Dr. Curtis has been a consultant and adviser to Newsweek for its Japanese and Korean Language editions, a columnist for the Tokyo/Chunichi Shimbun, a member of the international advisory board for The Asahi Shimbun, a member of the Board of Directors of the U.S.-Japan Foundation and the American Academy of Political Science, and a member of the Trilateral Commission and the Advisory Council for the Center for Global Partnership of the Japan Foundation. He won the Masayoshi Ohira Prize in 1989 for the best book on Japanese politics and was cited by Newsweek as one of the ten leading Asia scholars in the United States. Dr. Curtis received his Ph.D. from Columbia University. He is the author of Election Campaigning Japanese Style (1971), The Japanese Way of Politics (1989), The United States, Japan, and Asia: Challenges for U.S. Policy (editor and contributor, 1994), and several other books and numerous journal articles in English and Japanese.
Mr. Nishimura
Yoichi has been Bureau Chief of The Asahi Shimbun’s Washington,
D.C. bureau since 2002. He first served in the Washington bureau
from 1998 to 2001 covering
issues related to defense, diplomacy, and the U.S. 2000 presidential
election. Mr. Nishimura previously spent one year at the newspaper’s
Tokyo office as deputy foreign editor and senior diplomatic writer.
He also has covered
the office of the Prime Minster, the Diet, and the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs in Tokyo. From 1993 to 1997, he worked at The
Asahi Shimbun’s
Moscow Bureau. Mr. Nishimura received a B.A. from Tokyo University
and studied at
Moscow University and the Institute of Ethnology of the Russian
Academy of Science. He is the author of Grave of Prometheus (Purometeusu
no Haka), and
has contributed to the books The Iraq War (Iraku Senso, 2003), The
World at a Crossroads (Kiro ni Tatsu Sekai, 2002), 55 Chapters to
Know Modern Russia (Gendai Roshia wo Shirutameno 55 Sho, 2002) and The
Gulf Crisis and Japan (Wangan Kiki to Nippon, 1992). Dr. G. John Ikenberry is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University. Previously he taught at Georgetown University. Dr. Ikenberry also has been a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. Dr. Ikenberry is the author of numerous publications, including State Power and World Markets: The International Political Economy (2002), After Victory: Institutions, Strategic Restraint and the Rebuilding of Order after Major Wars (2000), and Reasons of State: Oil Politics and the Capacities of American Government (1988). About the Seminar Program The "Asian Voices: Promoting Dialogue between the US and Asia" Seminar Program seeks to provide a forum for Asian voices to be heard within the Washington community-voices on a wide range of regional and global topics. The Seminar Program, however, will not be restricted solely to Asia-Pacific issues, or US-Japan relations, but will focus on the broader global questions that confront both parts of the world. For information or to register for this event, please contact Seminar Program at 202-296-6694 or at seminar@spfusa.org |
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