Will the US Defend the Senkakus ?
- Paul Sracic and Jun Okumura
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Date: Thursday, December 18, 2014
Time: Door opens at 7:00pm, Program starts at 7:30pm
Venue:
Temple University Japan Campus, Mita Hall 5F
(access: http://www.tuj.ac.jp/maps/tokyo.html)
Speakers:
Paul Sracic, Chair, the Department of Politics and International Relations at Youngstown State University in Ohio Jun Okumura, visiting researcher at the Meiji Institute for Global Affairs (MIGA), special advisor to the National Students Information Center (NISA), and counselor at a risk analysis firm
Moderator:
Robert Dujarric, Director of ICAS
Admission: Free. Open to public
Language: English
RSVP:
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Dear friends,

Paul Sracic and Jun Okumura will discuss and debate the question of the United States' willingness and ability to join in the defense of Japan in case of a Chinese attack on the Senkaku islands.

Speakers

Paul Sracic chairs the Department of Politics and International Relations at Youngstown State University in Ohio. His latest book, Ohio Government and Politics (co-authored with William Binning), will be published in March by Congressional Quarterly Press. He is also the author of San Antonio v. Rodriguez and the Pursuit of Equal Education (University Press of Kansas, 2006) and co-author of the Encyclopedia of American Parties, Campaigns, and Elections (Greenwood, 1998). Dr.
Sracic's op-eds on American and Ohio politics have appeared in the Washington Post, USA Today, Bloomberg View, CNN.com, the Atlantic.com, and The Diplomat. Dr.
Sracic is a former Fulbright Scholar in Japan, where he taught American Politics at the University of Tokyo and Sophia University. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Rutgers University.

Jun Okumura

entered the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI, then MITI) upon graduation from the Faculty of Law of the University of Tokyo. During his career at the ministry, he was stationed in Brazil, headed the JETRO office in New York City, and obtained an LLM at Harvard Law School. He is now visiting researcher at the Meiji Institute for Global Affairs (MIGA), special advisor to the National Students Information Center
(NISA), and counselor at a risk analysis firm. A
frequent commentator on Japanese affairs and participant in ICAS events, his blog, Global Talk, is at http://son-of-gadfly-on-the-wall.blogspot.jp/

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