Dear SSJ-Forum,


The Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies (ICAS) at Temple University, Japan Campus cordially invite you to our evening lecture on Sept. 18, 2018. All ICAS events are held in English, open to the public, and admission is free unless otherwise noted.


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Dmitry Birichevsky: Contemporary Russia-Japan Relations
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Tuesday, September 18, 2018
7:30 - 9:00 p.m. (doors open at 7:00 p.m.)



Temple University, Japan Campus, Azabu Hall, 1F Parliament
(access: http://www.tuj.ac.jp/maps/tokyo.html)


Speaker:Dmitry Birichevsky, Minister Counselor of the Russian Embassy in Japan
Moderator:James D.J. Brown, Associate Professor, Temple University, Japan Campus



Registration: email to icas@tuj.temple.edu <mailto:icas@tuj.temple.edu>
* Registration is encouraged, but not required.



Overview:

Dmitry Birichevsky, Minister Counselor of the Russian Embassy in Japan, will outline some significant steps that have been taken in recent years towards the sustained development of friendly and neighborly relations between the Russian Federation and Japan. These include: regular and productive summit talks, an expansion of cooperation in the political and security sphere, interregional exchanges, steady progress towards the conclusion of a peace treaty, and Russian-Japanese joint economic activities in the southern Kuril islands. He will touch on the bilateral economic partnership within the framework of the 8-point economic cooperation plan, noting some of the major fields of cooperation and key projects. He will also discuss Russia's economic potential and its implications for Japanese investments in the Russian Far East in light of the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok (September 11-13). He will conclude on why the "peace through sanctions" paradigm is not valid, the need to overcome phantom fears of the Cold War, and the importance of rebuilding the international order, which in Russia's view depends on a fair and rules-based polycentric world.


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Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies (ICAS)
Temple University Japan Campus (Temple Educational Support Services Ltd.)