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YCAPS cordially invites you to our next online seminar.

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TOKYO 2021! Delays, Soft Power & US-Japan Relations

YCAPS Yokosuka Webinar Series

Thursday, July 23, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. (JST)

via Google Meet


Join YCAPS for a webinar discussing the impacts of postponing the Olympics to 2021. Our featured guests will be Dan Cintron, Nancy Snow, and Risa Kamio.


To join, please go to: meet.google.com/gkr-fved-tqp


Dan Cintron is the Olympics coordinator at the US Embassy in Tokyo. Prior to his current position, Dan Cintron was most recently the Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, following a year-long detail at the White House's National Security Council where he was the Director for Japan and Oceania Affairs. Other positions Dan held at the State Department include Deputy Director of the Office of Japanese Affairs, Special Assistant to the Under Secretary for Political Affairs, and UN General Assembly Coordinator. Overseas, Dan served assignments at the U.S. Embassies in Kabul, Tokyo, Beijing, and Manila. Prior to joining the U.S. Foreign Service in 2002, Dan worked in New York City in the for nearly ten years, first for a Japanese governmental organization supporting U.S. companies seeking to expand their business in Japan and then for a Japanese multinational heavy industrial corporation as a sales manager. Raised in upstate New York, Dan received bachelor's degrees from Boston University in East Asian Studies and Political Science. He is married to Izumi Cintron, and they have twin sons who have just graduated college.

Nancy Snow (Ph.D., International Relations) is Professor Emeritus of Communications at California State University, Fullerton and Pax Mundi Professor of Public Diplomacy, Kyoto University of Foreign Studies. In 2020 she was Walt Disney Chair in Global Media and Communications, Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University, where she taught a course in "Public Diplomacy and Pandemic." Snow was an Abe Fellow and Visiting Research Professor at Keio University where she researched Japan's public diplomacy after 3/11 and published Japan's Information War (English and Japanese versions). She was a Fulbright student in Germany (Bayreuth, Regensburg) and a Fulbright professor at Sophia University in Japan. Snow is the author/editor/co-editor of thirteen books, including the Routledge Handbook of Public Diplomacy 2nd edition (with Nicholas J. Cull); The SAGE Handbook of Propaganda (with Paul Baines and Nicholas O'Shaughnessy); Information War; Propaganda, Inc.; and Propaganda and American Democracy.


Risa Kamio is a member of the Setagaya City Assembly and the Executive Director of Japan Global Education, a non-profit organization that promotes Japanese language education abroad and also people-to-people exchange between young people in Japan and overseas. After graduation from Sacred Heart University in Tokyo with a major in English literature and a minor in education, she taught Japanese at an elementary school in Maryland USA, supported educational travel by young Japanese to the US, and then served for ten years as Director of Educational Programs at the Japan-America Society of Washington DC (JASWDC). At JASWDC she was the Director of the National Japan Bowl, an academic competition for high school students who are learning the Japanese language, and she expanded the program across the US and to eleven countries around the world. She accompanied her husband, a Japanese diplomat, on his assignments to Poland and Bosnia-Herzegovina, where she continued to promote closer personal and cultural ties to Japan. Setagaya is "Host Town USA" for the American Olympic Team, and as a member of the City Assembly she is actively involved as a member of its committee on the Olympics and Paralympics, where she continues to emphasize a personal and "hands-on" approach to promoting Japan's relationship with the world.

Co-Sponsors: Japan-U.S. Military Program, Institute for Contemporary Asian Studies
Wbinar Cost: Free of charge.

Please register on Facebook or RSVP to info@ycaps.org. RSVP not required, but helpful for organizers.