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Kazuhiko Togo:Towards a Japan-Russia Deal on the Northern Territories
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Date: Tuesday, December 3, 2013
Time: Door opens at 7:00pm, Program starts at 7:30pm
Venue:
Temple University Japan Campus, Azabu Hall 2F
(access: http://www.tuj.ac.jp/maps/tokyo.html)
Speaker:
Ambassador Kazuhiko Togo, Director of Institute for World Affairs at Kyoto Sangyo University
Moderator:
Tina Burrett, Assistant Professor of International Relations, TUJ
Admission: Free. Open to public
Language: English
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Overview

Almost 70 years after the end of hostilities, Japan and Russia have yet to sign a peace treaty due to their conflicting claims on the Northern Territories (Southern Kurils) islands that lie to the northeast of
Hokkaido. Recently, however, there appears to have
been progress towards an agreement between Tokyo and Moscow that would settle the issue and open the door to a formal full concluding a peace treaty between Japan and Russia.

Kazuhiko Togo, who was actively involved in many aspects of Japan's Russian policy and is a noted scholar of international relations in Asia will bring us up to date on the state of Russo-Japanese relations and discuss possible scenarios for a resolution of the Northern Territories question.

Speaker

Kazuhiko Togo runs the Institute for World Affairs at Kyoto Sangyo University from 2010. He joined the Foreign Ministry of Japan in 1968, worked extensively on Soviet/Russian affairs, as well as on Europe, America, international law and economics, and served as Ambassador of Japan to the Netherlands and retired in 2002. From 1995 he began teaching in universities in Moscow and Tokyo, and after retirement in Leiden, Princeton, Tansui (Taiwan), Santa Barbara, Seoul, and Temple University Japan Campus. His recent publication includes in English Japan's Foreign Policy 1945-2009 and in Japanese (1) The Inside Story of the Negotiations on the Northern Territories, (2) History and Foreign Policy: Yasukuni, Asia and Tokyo Tribunal and (3) What Japan lost after WWII: Scenery, Human Being and State.
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