Morse Target 2001
Washington’s
Movers & Shakers on Japan
Thursday, March 15, 2001,
Noon-1:30 PM
With
Ronald A. Morse
Professor of Economics and Business Administration at Reitaku University
Color Commentary By
Christopher Nelson
The Nelson Report
A candid
discussion of who is influential in the making of U.S.-Japan policy
The Target and accompanying monograph will be distributed at the program
Ronald A. Morse is Professor of Economics and Business
Administration at Reitaku University in Tokyo since 1996. From July 2001, Morse
will be the Paul I. Terasaki Professor of U.S.-Japan Relations and Japanese
Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. In 1998, he was appointed
to an advisory committee of the Economic Planning Agency in Japan and, in 1993,
he was a visiting fellow at the Japanese Ministry of Posts and
Telecommunications Institute. From 1981 to 1988, Morse was Development Director
and Director of the Asia Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for
Scholars. From 1988 to 1990, he served as a special assistant to the Librarian
of Congress. From 1990 to 1991, he was executive vice president of the Economic
Strategy Institute. After he received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in
1974, Dr. Morse joined the Department of Defense. In 1977, he moved to the
Department of State, where he covered Japanese domestic politics and foreign
relations. Later at the Department of Energy (1980-1981), he worked on the
Middle East and subsequently published several books on Asian energy issues. In
1994, he chaired a Pentagon study, “China in the Near Term”--a projection of
scenarios for China in the 1990s.
Christopher Nelson is Senior Vice President of Samuels
International and Editor of The Nelson
Report, a respected daily briefing for the Asia-focused international
business and policy community. Mr. Nelson has been a professional journalist
and congressional foreign affairs analyst with Washington experience since
1966. On Capitol Hill, Mr. Nelson specialized in U.S.-China relations during the
Carter Administration’s normalization process, with service on the House
Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia, as a Senior Advisor to Senate Majority
Leader Robert Byrd, and with the Senate Democratic Policy Committee. During
that time, he traveled extensively throughout Asia and the Subcontinent, with a
focus on China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam. His journalism career includes United
Press International (New York) in the 1960s, and the Orlando (Florida) Sentinel
in the 1970s. Nelson also served as a Press Secretary to two New York
congressmen, one a Republican, the other a Democrat. Nelson holds a BA in
history and political science from the University of California, Berkeley and
did graduate studies in politics, developmental economics, and anthropology at McGill
University, Montreal. Mr. Nelson is a civil war buff, with prominent credits as
consultant to numerous books and movies. He is a Civil War re-enactor as a
private, Co. F, 2nd Rhode Island Infantry, USV.
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Washington’s Movers & Shakers on Japan
Thursday, March 15, 2001,
Noon-1:30 PM
With
Ronald
A. Morse
Professor of Economics and Business Administration at Reitaku University
Color Commentary By
Christopher Nelson
The Nelson Report
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(202) 822-6040, E-Mail: access@jiaponline.org
The Target and
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Admission $10, Reservations Required
Brown Bag
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Cuneo
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