Michael Cucek: Japanese politics and policy: The agenda for 2015
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Date: Friday, January 9, 2015
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: Michael Cucek, Adjunct Fellow of ICAS and an Advisor to Langley Esquire K.K.
Moderator:Robert Dujarric, Director of ICAS
Admission: Free. Open to public
Language: English
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Overview
Following a snap election, nuclear reactor restarts, a shrinking economy, rising prices, a sinking yen, the advent of the Special Secrets Act, the revision of the Defense Guidelines, China pressures, a prime minister in a hurry.a lot lies on the plate as Nagata-cho rings in the New Year. ICAS Adjunct Fellow Michael Cucek offers his take on the state of politics and government in advance of the 2015 Regular Session of the Diet, with his forecasts of possible turning points and issues salient in the near and intermediate futures.

Speaker

Michael Cucek is an analyst and author who has spent half a lifetime looking at Japan and the Japanese. A graduate of Stanford University with graduate studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara and Columbia University, he has lived in the Tokyo Metropolitan District since 1994. An employee of a boutique consultancy for 15 years, he now serves clients as an independent consultant on politics and government policy. He is the author of the blog
Shisaku: Marginalia on Japanese Politics and Society and has been a contributor to Foreign Policy, East Asia Forum, Al-Jazeera and The International Herald Tribune. He is an Adjunct Fellow with the Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies at Temple University Japan and an Advisor to Langley Esquire K.K.. His personal interests include the politics of personality and lineage, rural development, the preservation of local customs and the Japanese sense of humor (for more info please visit
http://shisaku.blogspot.jp/)

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