Dear Friends:

The Meiji Institute for Global Affairs (MIGA), the think tank affiliate of Meiji University, is holding its 2013 symposium on February 25 (12:45~17:30) on the Meiji University Surugadai Campus. There is an opening address (12:45~) by Ryozo Hayashi, the Director of MIGA, and two sessions, "East Asia under the New Leadership and the Security Order (13:00~15:00)" and "Peaceful Development in Asia and Japan's Role (15:15~17:30)". Among the featured speakers will be names familiar to those of you follow Japan and its relations within Asia such as Ian Bremmer, the President of the Eurasia Group, Shinichi Kitaoka, political scientist, former Ambassador to the United Nations, and Gerald Curtis, Professor at Columbia University, and Yoriko Kawaguchi, House of Councillors and former Foreign Minister. Please register from this webpage (http://www.meiji.ac.jp/miga/news/2012/6t5h7p00000ebt6f
.html).

Jun Okumura
Visiting scholar
Meiji Institute for Global Affairs (MIGA)