Dear SSJ-Friends,

We are pleased to invite you to the next GRIPS Forum at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies on November 26.

*Please register at gripsforum@grips.ac.jp by November 22nd (Thu) without changing the title.
*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.

Date: Monday, 26th November, 2012
Time: 16:40-18:10
Venue: GRIPS　Sokairo Hall, 1st Floor
Speaker: Ambassador Masatoshi Muto, Ex Ambassador, Embassy of Japan in Korea
Theme: “South Korea’s Current Situation and Japan-South Korea Relations”
Language: Japanese, (English simultaneous interpretation provided)
Fee: Free

Ambassador Masatoshi Muto will deliver a lecture on South Korea’s current situation and the Japan-South Korea relations that he observed as a Japanese ambassador to South Korea. He will talk about the driving force that allowed South Korea to make such progress, the problems it faces now, and its economic relations and human and cultural exchange with Japan, which is increasing rapidly. He will also discuss the conflict over issues regarding history and the territorial dispute between Japan and South Korea that remains unsolved despite the close relations between the two countries. On the basis of the analysis of these issues, he will touch on how Japan-South Korea relations are expected to develop in the future.

Speakers’ Profile:
1972 Graduated from the Faculty of Economics of
Yokohama National University and entered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
1984 First Secretary of the Permanent Mission of
Japan to the United Nations
1991 Director of the Northeast Asian Division of
the Asian Bureau of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
1993 Councilor of the Japanese Embassy to South
Korea
1996 Minister of the Japanese Embassy to the United
Kingdom
1999 Deputy Director-General of the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs
2000 Minister of the Japanese Embassy to Australia
2002 Consulate General of Japan in Honolulu
2007 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
to Kuwait
2010-2012 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to South Korea

*** GRIPS Forum ***
Since its establishment in 1997, the National Graduate
Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), as the only
graduate school in Japan specializing in policy
research, has promoted education and research on a wide
range of policy issues.
Utilizing our vast policy network, this Forum invites
leaders from various fields including government,
academia and business, as well as staff from our own
faculty, to deliver lectures on current policy
concerns.
The Forum welcomes attendance of GRIPS faculty and
students as well as participants from outside the
university. Simultaneous interpretation will be
available (Japanese/English).

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