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USJI Seminar

Disaster and Politics: Japan after March 11

Wednesday, April 6, 2011　10:30am-12:10noon

Venue　The Glover Park A, Ground Floor, The Dupont Hotel
                1500 New Hampshire Avenue NW., Washington D.C. 20036, USA

Welcome Remarks : Dr. Yoshiaki Abe, USJI Operating Adviser / University Professor,
                                                                        Waseda University

Opening Remarks :Cancelled H.E. Ichiro Fujisaki, Ambassador of Japan to the United States
                                      Mr. Kazuhide Ishikawa, Minister extraordinary and plenipotentiary,
                                                                                   Embassy of Japan

Speaker : Dr. Akihiko Tanaka, Chair, USJI / Vice President, The University of Tokyo
Panelists:   Dr. Michael Auslin, Resident Scholar, Director of Japan Studies, American Enterprise
                                                      Institute for Public Policy Research
                   Dr. Andrew Oros, Associate professor of political science and international studies
                                                    at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland

This event is free and open to the public.

Japan is in crisis. The catastrophic earthquake and the tsunami devastated the northern Japan and precipitated a major nuclear crisis over the Fukushima Daiichi power station. The seminar attempts to explore questions such as: How well has the administration of Prime Minister Kan managed this twin crisis? What are the deficiencies of Japan's crisis management? What will be the long-term impact of the disaster on Japanese politics and its international relations?

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  [Related comments and reports by five member university and affiliated institute researchers]
  "What Aid Makes Sense for Japan?" - the comment by Dr. Katsuhiko Shirai, USJI Chair,
      in the New York Times, March 15,2011
  "TEPCO’s Nuclear Power Plants suffered from big earthquake of March 11,2011"
      - the expert report by Dr. Yoshiaki Oka, Waseda University
  Earthquake Research Institute, The University of Tokyo
  Science Media Center of Japan

Organized by : U.S.-JAPAN Research Institute(USJI)

Supported by ：

Keio University, Kyoto University, Ritsumeikan University, The University of Tokyo, Waseda University