Dear SSJ-Friends,

We are pleased to invite you to the next GRIPS Forum at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies on October 15.

Date: Monday, 15th October, 2012
Time: 16:40-18:10
Venue: GRIPS　Sokairo Hall, 1st Floor
Speaker: Dr. Shinichi Kitaoka, Executive Advisor to the President; Professor, GRIPS; Emeritus Professor, University of Tokyo
Theme: “Difficulties and Possibility of Historical
Dialogue: Japan-Korea and Japan-China Joint Studies of History Revisited”
Language: English, (Japanese simultaneous interpretation provided)
Fee: Attending the GRIPS Forum is free of charge but prior registration is recommended

Historical issues are resurging again between Japan and Korea and Japan and China. Why are these issues so difficult to solve or to reach agreement on? Is it impossible? Or is there any possibility of mitigating the confrontations over these issues? Japan undertook two joint studies of history in the near past, namely the Japan-Korea Joint Study of History in 2002-2005 and the Japan-China Joint Study of History in 2006-2009.
However, it is not well known where the scholars of those countries differed most with each other and where they agreed to some extent. Professor Shinichi Kitaoka, who participated in the former dialogue as a member and as the leader of the Japanese team in the latter, reexamines those dialogues and discusses the difficulties and possibilities they hold.

Speakers’ Profile:
Oct. 1976-Sep. 1978: Lecturer, College of Law and Politics, Rikkyo University Oct. 1978-Sep. 1985: Associate Professor, College of Law and Politics, Rikkyo University Aug. 1981-Jul. 1983: Visiting Fellow, Princeton University Oct. 1985-Sep. 1997: Professor, College of Law and Politics, Rikkyo University Oct. 1997-Apr. 2004: Professor, Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, University of Tokyo Apr. 2004-Sep. 2006: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Deputy Permanent Representative of Japan to the United Nations Oct. 2006-Mar. 2012: Professor, Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, University of Tokyo Apr. 2012-present : Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) Jun. 2012-present: Emeritus Professor, University of Tokyo

For registration and inquiries, please contact:
GRIPS Forum
Email: gripsforum[at]grips.ac.jp
Tel: 03-6439-6037
Fax: 03-6439-6030

Please register by 12th October (Fri) 2012
＊If you are arriving by a private car, please let us know the car information (type, color, and number) in advance so that we can register it for campus entry permission.

For Access & Map to the GRIPS campus: http://www.grips.
ac.jp/about/access.html
National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS)
7-22-1 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-8677