Dear SSJ members,

Please excuse me contacting you out of the blue. I am writing from the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation in London, a charity which promotes closer links between the UK and Japan through events, grants, and scholarships.

The reason I am contacting you is that on Wednesday 13 July (8pm Japan time / 12pm BST) we are hosting an online webinar titled 'Challenges and Opportunities in Refugee Protection: Lessons from Afghanistan to Ukraine', which can be found via this link. The webinar speakers will be Naoko Hashimoto (Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Social Sciences, Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo) and Giorgia Doná (Professor of Forced Migration and co-director of the Centre for Migration, Refugees and Belonging at the University of East London), and it will be chaired by Matthew Gibney (Professor of Politics and Forced Migration at the University of Oxford, and Director of the Refugee Studies Centre).

I believe this webinar may be of interest to the followers and subscribers of Social Science Japan. The event is free and open to all, and will be hosted on Zoom. If you felt that it might be relevant to your followers, we would be hugely grateful and honoured if you would consider sharing it with them online or through mailing lists. With such distinguished speakers, the event is sure to be of high quality, and we would be very keen for it to be made known to all with an interest in migration and refugee studies.

Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions at all. Many thanks indeed for your time and consideration.

Yours sincerely,

Edmund Ryan

Programmes Assistant
The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation
13/14 Cornwall Terrace
London NW1 4QP
Tel: 020 7486 3053
http://dajf.org.uk/