may0505 seminar

Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA

“ Asian Voices: Promoting Dialogue between the U.S. and Asia”

Remembering the Future:
The Re-Nationalization of Japan and Its Discontents

17 May 2005

 
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Professor Fujiwara will discuss how the recent resurgence of nationalist uproar within and against Japan in Northeast Asia may differ from previous disputes over the memories, or the lack of memories of World War II between Japan, South Korea and China. Unlike the memory wars of the past, territorial disputes are now associated with the assumed amnesia of war crimes in Japan, which has in turn politicized territorial disputes between Japan and her neighbors to an unprecedented political tension. Fewer Japanese, however, now see the issue as related to war memories, but to plots that use history as a tool to push the Japanese around. Furthermore, the proposal to give Japan a permanent seat in the U.N. Security Council has become a focus of public anger in Korea and China. Professor Fujiwara will discuss the domestic origins of the changing nationalist discourse over war memories. He will focus on Japan, although he will briefly discuss the domestic contexts of Chinese and South Korean politics.

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Dr. Fujiwara Kiichi
Professor of International Politics
University of Tokyo


Discussants:
Dr. Kurt Campbell
Senior Vice-President
CSIS

Mr. Taniguchi Tomohiko

Visiting Fellow
The Brookings Institution


Moderator:

Dr. G. John Ikenberry
Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs
Princeton University


This event is supported in part by a grant from The Sasakawa Peace Foundation, Japan .

About the Main Speaker

Dr. Fujiwara Kiichi is Professor of International Politics at the University of Tokyo. He teachers at the Faculty of Law, the Graduate School for Law and Politics, and the Graduate School of Public Policy. Dr. Fujiwara has been a visiting scholar at SAIS and a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He also was a research fellow at the Institute of Developing Economics in Tokyo and received a Fulbright scholarship to study at Yale University. He received a B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo. He has published Heiwa no Riarizumu (Real Peace, 2004), Tadashi Senso wa Honto ni Arunoka (Is There a Just War, 2003), and Demokurashi no Teikoku (A Democratic Empire, 2002), and Remembering the War (Senso wo Kioku suru, 2001).

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About the Discussants

Dr. Kurt Campbell is Senior Vice-President and Director at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Before joining CSIS, he worked at the Department of Defense as deputy assistant director of defense, at the White House as deputy special counselor to the president for NAFTA and as a member of the National Security Council staff. Dr. Campbell received a B.A. from the University of California, San Diego, a Ph.D. in international relations from Oxford University and a certificate in music and political philosophy from the University of Erevan in Soviet Armenia. Dr. Campbell's publications include The Power of Balance: 100 Strategic Insights into the Pacific Century (2003) and To Prevail: An American Strategy for the Campaign against Terrorism (principal author, 2001)..

Mr. Taniguchi Tomohiko is Visiting Fellow at the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies, the Brookings Institution. He is Editor-at-Large of Nikkei Business Publications, Inc. Previously he was chief senior writer at Nikkei Business and bureau chief of the Nikkei Business European Editorial Bureau, London. While in London he was president of the Foreign Press Association. He has also been a Fulbright visiting fellow at Princeton University. Mr. Taniguchi received a B.A. from the University of Tokyo. He has published Tsuuka Moyu: Yen, Gen, Doru, Yuuro no Do-jidai shi (Burning Currency: A Contemporary History of Major Currencies, 2005), Current World from both Vertical and Horizontal Angles (Tate Yomi Yoko Yomi Sekai Jihyo, 2004) and Japan’s Banks and the “Bubble Economy” of the Late 1980s (1993).

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About the Moderator

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 received his Ph.D. from 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).

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