Dear Colleagues,

we're holding a roundtable discussion about the election and Japan under the Abe II government tomorrow (Jan 23, 2013) at 12:30h PST here at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, see the event listing at http://www.iar.ubc.ca/NewsEvents/EventandConferenceCale
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Panelists and Topics:

Ben Nyblade (UBC, Political Science)
Overview of the Election: Factors Behind the DPJ's Collapse and the Role of Prime Minister Leadership

Ikuo Kume (Waseda University, Visiting Scholar at Institute of Europen Studies/Political Science, UBC) Policy Positions and Party Cohesion in Japan: results from a pre-election candidate survey and policy space analysis

Go Murakami (UBC, Political Science)
Public Opinion Clues behind a Lopsided Election; what happened to third-force parties?

Yves Tiberghien (UBC, Institute of Asian Research and Political Science) Abenomics and the new trajectory of Japan's Economy; fiscal policy, BOJ autonomy, TPP, and energy policy

Tsuyoshi Kawasaki (Simon Fraser University, Political
Science) Abe's Foreign Policy - what can we expect?

If you're interested but unable to attend, note that there will be a webcast available at http://bit.ly/Jan23webcast

Also, we will be live-tweeting the event from @CdnAsiaEvents using #JpnElect=