The Abe Fellowship Program presents a public symposium:

50 YEARS SINCE THE WAR: AN OVERVIEW OF US-JAPAN RELATIONS

AND THE CHALLENGES FOR POLICY-RELEVANT STUDIES

Wednesday, July 26, 1995
2:00 -- 6:30 p.m. (Reception to follow: 6:30 -- 8:30 p.m.) Japan Foundation International Conference Hall

ARK Mori Building East Wing, 20F
1-12-32 Akasaka
Minato-ku, Tokyo 107

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To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II, the co-sponsors of the Abe Fellowship Program are holding a symposium to explore US-Japan relations from 1945 to the present. The symposium begins with a keynote address overviewing the post-war period by Dr. Makoto Iokibe of Kobe University.

This will be followed by two panel discussions.

Panel 1 will focus on the roles of researchers in policy-making realms in both the US and Japan. Six Abe Fellows (three from Japan and three from the US) will describe their plans for disseminating their Abe research along with commenting on the potential this research has to help shape policy. Their experiences should shed light on the broader issues of how policy makers in both countries make use of policy-relevent research. Of particular interest are the effects such research has had on the conduct of US-Japan diplomacy. Dr. Edward Lincoln, formerly of Brookings and now the Special Economic Advisor to Ambassador Mondale, will moderate the discussion.

Panel 2 will evaluate the "partnership" achieved by the US and Japan in the 50 years since the war. The latest auto agreement notwithstanding, many would concede that the two countries continue to be less than full partners in the economic realm. At the same time, though, the claim is sometimes heard that the US and Japan have forged cooperative relations in other, equally crucial areas. Six Abe Fellows will assess such claims by commenting on whether and to what extent the two countries have acted as partners in: defending peace and security in Asia Pacific, supporting democracy and defending human rights, stemming the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, preserving the environment, extending the frontiers of science and improving the healthcare of citizens. This panel will be chaired by Mr. Nagayo Homma, professor of American Studies and executive director of the Center for Global Partnership.

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PROGRAM:

Keynote address (2:00 -- 2:45 p.m.)

"History of US-Japan Relations, 1945-1995"

Presenter: Dr. Makoto Iokibe, Professor of History, Kobe University

Panel 1 (2:50 -- 4:15 p.m.)

"The Place of Researchers in Policy-making in the US and Japan: Experiences of Abe Fellows"

Moderator: Dr. Edward Lincoln, Special Economic Advisor to Ambassador Mondale

Panelists (all Abe Fellows):

* Mr. Naoyuki Agawa, Resident Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher

* Dr. Theodore Bestor, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Acting Director of East Asia Program, Cornell University

* Dr. Nobuhiro Hiwatari, Associate Professor, Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo

* Dr. Susan Pharr, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, Director, Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University

* Ms. Alison Wetherfield, Visiting Researcher, University of Tokyo, Faculty of Law

* Dr. Daizoburo Yui, Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, Hitotsubashi University

Panel 2 (4:30 -- 6:30 p.m.)

"US-Japan Partnership: Achievements and Challenges Beyond Economics"

Moderator: Mr. Nagayo Homma, Executive Director, Center for Global Partnership, Chancellor, The Seijo Gakuen Schools and University

Topics and panelists (all Abe Fellows):

* Defending peace and security in Asia Pacific:

Dr. Aurelia George Mulgan, Senior Lecturer, University of New South Wales, Associate, Australian National University

* Supporting democracy and defending human rights:

Dr. James Schear, Resident Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, consultant and policy advisor to U.N. Under-Secretary-General Yasushi Akashi

* Stemming the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction:

Dr. Tatsujiro Suzuki, Research Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

* Improving the healthcare of citizens:

Dr. Susan Long, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Department of Sociology, John Carroll University; and Dr. Aki Yoshikawa, Associate Director, Comparative Healthcare Policy Research Project, Asia/Pacific Research Center, Stanford University

Free of charge; reservations necessary.
English-Japanese simultaneous interpretation available.

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RSVP by contacting Dr. Mary-Lea Cox, Abe Tokyo Office at:

c/o Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership ARK Mori Building 20F
1-12-32 Akasaka
Minato-ku, Tokyo 107
Tel. 5562-3506/3542; Fax. 5562-3504
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