SSJ Friends,

YCAPS is pleased to be producing, together with our partners at JUMP and ICAS, a webinar with sociologist, Dr. Kawano Hitoshi, on the Roles and Responsibilities of the Japan National Defense Academy. Please join us on 19 Aug. Details below.

Best,

John Bradford


YCAPS Community Conversation Webinar

The Roles and Responsibilities of the Japan National Defense Academy

Wednesday, August 19, 2020 at 7:00 p.m. (1900 JST)

via Google Meet

Join YCAPS and its partners at JUMP and ICAS for the next iteration of our webinar series exploring interesting and contemporary topics relevant to our base communities and beyond. Our featured guest will be Dr. Hitoshi Kawano, a professor of Sociology at the Department of Public Policy and the Director for International Exchange at the National Defense Academy (NDA) in Yokosuka, Japan.

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

Dr. Kawano Hitoshi will explore the National Defense Academy's exciting and important responsibility of educating the future officers of Japan's Self-Defense Forces. After discussing the illustrious history of the NDA and its contributions to the Yokosuka community, Dr. Kawano will discuss his article "The Expanding Role of Sociology at Japan National Defense Academy." In this article, he examines how and why sociology gained momentum as an academic discipline. Audiences are invited, but not required, to familiarized themselves with his past publications prior to the webinar.

Developing Diversity Leadership in the Japan Self-Defense Forces: How Can We Develop Diversity Leaders?

Military and Society in Israel and Japan: Family Support, Mental Health and Public Support,

Dr. Kawano is a professor of Sociology at the Department of Public Policy and the Director of the Center for International Exchange at the National Defense Academy in Yokosuka, Japan. He received his Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 1996. His research interests include military history, sociology of combat and peacekeeping, mental health, family support, gender mainstreaming and diversity management issues within the Japanese Self-Defense Forces, and civil-military relations in Post-Cold War Japan. His publications include "Combat Leadership on Guadalcanal: In Extremis Leadership of the Japanese and American Soldiers in World War II" in Leadership in Extreme Situations, M. Holenweger et al. eds., Springer, 2017; "Developing Diversity Leadership in the Japan Self-Defense Forces," in Disaster, Diversity and Emergency Preparation, L. Magnussen, ed., IOS Press, 2019; and "Family Support and Gender Policy in the Japan Self-Defense Forces," in Military and Society in Israel and Japan: Family Support, Mental Health and Public Support, E. Ben-Ari and H. Kawano, eds., Global Security Seminar Series No.5, Center for Global Security, National Defense Academy, 2020.

Webinar Cost: Free of charge.

Please RSVP to info@ycaps.org. RSVP not required, but helpful for organizers.