YCAPS-SPF Community Conversations In-Person Seminar

Okinawa's View on the International Order in East Asia
26 August 2023, 13:30 (Okinawa)

YCAPS & the Sasakawa Peace Foundation are pleased to announce the next event in the Community Conversations seminar series in Okinawa! Today, Okinawa is the frontline of the great power rivalry in East Asia. How do Okinawan people see such international situations as well as thier thoughts on the US-Japan alliance? In this presentation, Dr. Fumiaki Nozoe will discuss Okinawa's view on the international order in East Asia after World War 2.
 

All are welcome and refreshments will be provided.
 

Please use this link to register for the event.
 

Location:

Vessel Hotel Campana Okinawa

〒904-0115 Okinawa, Nakagami District, Chatan, Mihama, 9−22

Google Maps: Here
 

Schedule:

• 13:30-14:30 Refreshments & Networking (food & drinks)
• 14:30-16:00 Presentation and Q&A

Speaker: 

Fumiaki Nozoe is an Associate Professor at the Department of Regional Administration, College of Law, Okinawa International University, where he has taught since 2013, specializing in the Japan-US alliance, the diplomatic history of Japan, and US base issues in Okinawa. He was previously a Junior Fellow at the Hitotsubashi University Graduate School of Law from April 2012 to March 2013, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Australian National University from August to October 2012. His books include History of the US Military Bases in Okinawa (『沖縄米軍基地全史』), and The Japan-U.S. Security Alliance after the 1972 Return of Okinawa to Japan - Strife over the U.S. bases in Okinawa (『沖縄返還後の日米安保ー米軍基地をめぐる相克』), which received the Japan Society for Defense Studies Inoki Masamichi award and the Okinawa Study Encouragement award and his most recent book, Okinawa Prefectural Governors: their lives and thoughts (『沖縄県知事ーその人生と思想』). Dr. Nozoe earned his master and PhD degrees in International Relations at Hitotsubashi University.

Format: This event will be off-the-record.

Registration: Optional: here
Moderators: Jeff Mazziotta

Co-Sponsor: Sasakawa Peace Foundation
Seminar Cost: Free of charge