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.
(Transcript available in PDF format)
December 7, 2004
Mr. Zhang Yunling
Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
(Transcript available in PDF format)
November 19, 2004
The Honorable Yasuhiro Nakasone
Former Prime Minister of Japan
(Transcript available in PDF format)
October 26, 2004
Dr. Kyaw Yin Hlaing
National University of Singapore
(Transcript available in PDF format)
October 6, 2004
Dr. Kim Sung-han
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Republic of Korea
(Transcript available in PDF format)
September 24, 2004
Dr. Gerald Curtis
Columbia University
(Transcript available in PDF format)
September 21, 2004
Ambassador Aftab Seth
Keio University
(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
(Transcript available in PDF format)
July 7, 2004
Dr. Qin Yaqing
China Foreign Affairs University
(Transcript available in PDF format)
June 24, 2004
Professor Toshihiko Kinoshita
Waseda University
(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