Asian Voices Seminar Series

Fiscal Year 2004
[April, 2004 - March, 2005]

After four successful years, the Asian Voices Seminar series has built up a sizable following in Washington D.C. The segment of the Washington community with an interest in Asia looks to the seminars, which includes prominent speakers, well-known discussants and relevant topics, for information and perspectives from Asia.

The Asian Voices Seminar series of the Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA is in its fourth year of promoting a dialogue between Asian societies and the United States. Its main goal is to provide a forum for Asian voices to be heard within Washington D.C - voices on a wide range of regional and global topics. During its first four years, the Asian Voices Seminar series has hosted talks on Chinese security policy, Japanese foreign policy, the peace process between North and South Korea, and the political situation in Myanmar, among many other issues.

Copies of seminar transcripts are also available at our library.


Emerging New East Asian Regionalism

(Transcript available in PDF format)
December 7, 2004

Mr. Zhang Yunling
Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Post-war Japanese Politics and Current Affairs

(Transcript available in PDF format)
November 19, 2004

The Honorable Yasuhiro Nakasone
Former Prime Minister of Japan

Contested Legitimacies and Governance in Burma/Myanmar

(Transcript available in PDF format)
October 26, 2004

Dr. Kyaw Yin Hlaing
National University of Singapore

The ROK-U.S. Alliance in Transformation: Korean vs. Regional Dimensions

(Transcript available in PDF format)
October 6, 2004

Dr. Kim Sung-han
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Republic of Korea

Japan's Political Realities: What's Changing, and What's Not

(Transcript available in PDF format)
September 24, 2004

Dr. Gerald Curtis
Columbia University

India and Japan in a Resurgent Asia

(Transcript available in PDF format)
September 21, 2004

Ambassador Aftab Seth
Keio University

Indonesia and Japan: Economic and Political Relations and Implications for Southeast Asia

(Transcript available in PDF format)
September 13, 2004

Mr. Shinji Asanuma
Hitotsubashi University
Dr. Ed Lincoln
Council on Foreign Relations
Dr. Marvin Ott
National War College
H.E. Ambassador Soemadi D.M. Brotodiningrat
Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia

China's Security Strategy with a Special Focus on East Asia

(Transcript available in PDF format)
July 7, 2004

Dr. Qin Yaqing
China Foreign Affairs University

Economic Integration in East Asia and Japan's Role

(Transcript available in PDF format)
June 24, 2004

Professor Toshihiko Kinoshita
Waseda University

Japan and the United Nations: Past and Present

(Transcript available in PDF format)
June 22, 2004

Ambassador Shinichi Kitaoka
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary and Deputy Permanent Representative of Japan to the United Nations

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