February 28th , 2006

• Looking Back to the Future
  A Conversation on Japan with American Diplomats
  
  With:
  Mr. William Breer,  Amb. William Clark, and Amb. Rust Deming
  
  Free, Brown Bag lunch 
  
  Asia Policy Point in Cooperation with the Sigur Center for Asian Studies
   
  Location:  Sigur Center, George Washington University, 1957 E Street, NW, Chung-wen Shih Conference Room, 5th Floor, Washington, DC, 994-5886
   
  Reservations required: Reserve with your name, organization/GW affiliation to gsigur@gwu.edu by Friday, February 24, 2006.
  
• Further details about this event.
  
  

October 8th , 2004

• MORSE TARGET 2004 : Washington's Movers & Shakers on Japan & East Asia
  
  
  Friday, October 8th, 2004, Noon-2:00 PM
  Luncheon
  Reservations Required, Morse Target & Meeting Transcript available for purchase (This publication will be available about 2 weeks after the program).
  
  
  With:
  Ronald A. Morse, foundation Professor of Japan Studies, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Previously, he was the Paul I. Terasaki Professor of U.S.-Japan Relations and Japanese Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles and Professor of Economics and Business Administration at Reitaku University in Tokyo
  Christopher Nelson, 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.
  
  
  Event Flyer
  Morse Target 2004
  
  

May 11th, 2004

• PUBLIC POLICY SERIES : East Asian Economic Regionalism: Why APEC Matters
  
  
  Tuesday, May 11, 2004, 12:30 -1:45 PM
  Brown bag lunch (cookies and sodas provided)
  Reservations Required, Book available for purchase
  
  
  With:
  Dr. Edward Lincoln, Senior Fellow for Asian and Economic Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is an expert on the Japanese economy and U.S. economic relations with Japan and Asia, author of East Asian Economic Regionalism (Brookings, 2004), Arthritic Japan: the Slow Pace of Economic Reform and several other books.
  
  
  Event Flyer
  
  

April 28th , 2004

• PUBLIC POLICY SERIES : Economic Report from Tokyo: American Chamber of Commerce in Japan
  
  
  Wednesday, April 28, 2004, Noon-1:30 PM
  Luncheon Discussion
  $20 for JIAP members, $30 Non-members, Reservations Required
  Carnegie Endowment, 1779 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
  Washington, DC, Choate Room.
  
  
  With:
  ACCJ Board Members: Debbie Howard, President, ACCJ (President, Japan Market Resource Network); Bill Bishop, President, Bishop Associates; Thomas M. Clark, Co-Chair, Banking and Finance Subcommittee, ACCJ (Chief Legal Counsel, GE Capital); Glen S. Fukushima, Board member and former President, ACCJ (President and CEO, Cadence Design Systems, Japan); Robert Grondine, Chairman and former President, ACCJ (Partner, White & Case LLP); John Kakinuki, Vice President, ACCJ (Partner, Baker McKenzie G.J.B.J./Tokyo Aoyama Aoki Law Office); Charles Lake, Governor, ACCJ (President, AFLAC Japan); Robert “Skipp” Orr, Former Vice President and Board Member, ACCJ (President, Boeing Japan); Kiyoshi Tsugawa, Special Advisor to the President, ACCJ (Chairman, Lehman Brothers Japan, Inc.); and Donald Westmore, ACCJ Executive Director.
  
  
  Event Flyer
  

March 22nd, 2004

• PUBLIC POLICY SERIES : The Disintegration of Japan's Social Contract: Fallout From Economic Restructuring
  
  
  Monday, March 22, 2004, 12:30 -1:45 PM
  Brown bag lunch (cookies and sodas provided)
  Reservations Required, Research materials available for purchase
  Sigur Center, George Washington University, 1957 E Street, NW, Chung-wen Shih Conference Room, 5th Floor, Washington, DC, 994-5886
  
  
  With:
  Dr. Ulrike Schaede, Associate Professor of International and Pacific Affairs at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, the University of California, San Diego.
  
  
  Event Flyer (includes speaker biographies)
  
  

February 19th , 2004

• PUBLIC POLICY SERIES : East Asian Regional Maritime Security and Cooperation
  
  
  Thursday, February 19, 2004, Noon-2:15 PM
  Lunch provided $20 for JIAP members, $30 Non-members, Reservations Required
  Carnegie Endowment, 1779 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
  Washington, DC, Choate Room.
  
  
  With:
  Mr. Michael Tsai, TECRO, Editor, Taiwan's Maritime Security
  Dr. Bernard D. Cole, NDU, Author, Great Wall at Sea: China's Navy Enters the Twenty-first Century
  Ms. M. Elizabeth Guran, US General Accounting Office
  Mr. Paul Giarra, SAIC
  
  
  Event Flyer (includes speaker biographies)
  
  

February 13th , 2004

• PUBLIC POLICY SERIES : Shanghai Cooperation Organization
  and China's Anti-terror Strategy
  
  
  Friday, February 13, 2004, 12:30 -1:45 PM
  Sigur Center, George Washington University, 1957 E Street, NW
  Chung-wen Shih Conference Room, 5th Floor
  Washington, DC, 994-5886
  Brown bag lunch (cookies and sodas provided)
  Reservations Required, Research materials available for purchase
  
  
  With:
  Dr Pan Guang, Director of the SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organization) Studies Center in Shanghai
  
  
  Event Flyer
  
  
  

February 3rd, 2004

• Key Findings from the New OECD Economic Survey of Japan
  
  OECD BREAKFAST SERIES In partnership with the Japan Information Access Project (JIAP) and the National Association for Business Economics (NABE)
  
  Videoconference
  
  8:30 AM Registration and Coffee; 9:00 - 10:00 am Program
  OECD Washington Center
  2001 L Street, NW, Suite 650 Washington, DC 20036
  
  
  With:
  Randall S. Jones (speaking from Paris), head of the Japan/Korea Desk of the OECD Economics Department
  Edward J. Lincoln,Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations, JIAP Board Member.
  
  
  Event Flyer (includes link to registration)
  
  

December 10th , 2003

• ARE WOMEN TRANSFORMING JAPANESE POLITICS (ECONOMICS)?
  
  A discussion of Joyce Gelb's new book on Gender Policies in Japan and the United States: Comparing Women's Movements, Rights, and Politics (Palgrave Macmillan, December 2003), The book will be available for sale, discounted to only $20.
  
  Wednesday, December 10th, 2003, noon-1:30pm
  Sigur Center, George Washington University, 1957 E Street, NW
  Chung-wen Shih Conference Room, 5th Floor
  Washington, DC, 994-5886
  
  Brown bag lunch (cookies and sodas provided), reservations required, research materials available for purchase
  
  
  With:
  Joyce Gelb , from the City University of New York, author of Gender Policies in Japan and the United States: Comparing Women's Movements, Rights, and Politics (Palgrave Macmillan, December 2003)
  Dr. Dorothy Robins-Mowry, discussant and author of The Hidden Sun: Women of Modern Japan.
  
  
  Event Flyer
  
  

September 15th , 2003

• PUBLIC POLICY SERIES : Saving the Sun: A Wall Street Gamble to Rescue Japan from Its Trillion-Dollar Meltdown
  
  A discussion of Ms. Gillian Tett's new book on the Japanese economy (the book will be available for sale)
  
  Monday, September 15th, 2003, noon-1:30pm
  At the Law Firm of Sidley Austing Brown & Wood LLP, 1501 K Street, NW, 6th floor, Washington DC. (736-8000)
  Members: $8; Non-Members, $15. Reservations required, sandwich lunch included.
  
  
  With:
  Gillian Tett , former Tokyo Bureau Chief for the Financial Times (FT). She is currently on leave to write a book about Japan's financial system while contributing occasional articles to the FT.
  
  
  Event Flyer
  
  
  

July 17th , 2003

• PUBLIC POLICY SERIES : Report from Tokyo: A luncheon discussion with the ACCJ (American Chamber of Commerce in Japan)
  
  A discussion of Japan's economic, political, and investment climate
  
  Thursday, July 17th, 2003, noon-1:30pm
  At the Law Firm of Sidley Austing Brown & Wood LLP, 1501 K Street, NW, 6th floor, Washington DC. (736-8000)
  Members: $10; Non-Members, $20. Reservations required.
  
  
  With:
  Lance Lee, President, American Chamber of Commerce in Japan (IGC Japan)
  Bill Bishop, Member, ACCJ External Affairs Advisory Council (Eli Lilly)
  Andrew J. Conrad, Co-Chair, ACCJ Insurance Subcommittee (AFLAC)
  Lance Gatling, Chair ACCJ Aerospace Subcommittee (Gatling Associates)
  Werner Geissler, Governor, ACCJ Board of Governors (Procter & Gamble Far East, Inc.)
  Kenji Izumi, Co-Chair, ACCJ Food and Agriculture Committee (Pastoral, Inc.)
  Don Kanak, Chairman and former President, ACCJ (AIG Companies, Japan and Korea)
  Jonathan Kushner, Vice Chairman of, ACCJ E-Business Committee (Microsoft)
  Bob Lamansky, Co-Chair, ACCJ Transportation and Logistics Committee (Northwest Airlines)
  Tim Langley, Governor, ACCJ Board of Governors (Tim Langley and Associates)
  Mark Schwab, Governor, ACCJ Board of Governors (United Airlines)
  Linda Sherman, Vice Chair, Direct Marketing Committee (The Courage Group)
  Gary Thomas, Former Chair of ACCJ Taxation Committee (White & Case)
  Yuki Yokobori, Co-Vice Chair, Government Relations Committee (Goldman Sachs)
  Don Westmore, Executive Director, ACCJ
  
  
  Event Flyer
  
  

May 21st , 2003

• PUBLIC POLICY SERIES : Will Japan Implode?
  
  A discussion of Japan's economic and investment climate
  
  Wednesday, May 21st, 2003, 4:45-6:00pm
  At the Law Firm of Sidley Austing Brown & Wood LLP, 1501 K Street, NW, 6th floor, Vince Prada Room, Washington DC. (736-8000)
  Members: $10; Non-Members, $20. Reservations required.
  
  
  With:
  Donald Westmore Executive Director, American Chamber of Commerce in Japan (ACCJ).
  Abby Pratt External Affairs Manager, American Chamber of Commerce in Japan (ACCJ)
  
  Event Flyer
  
  

May 6th , 2003

• PUBLIC POLICY SERIES : A Sorry State? Apologies and Japan's Foreign Relations
  
  A discussion of the definition and use of contrition in Japanese politics and foreign relations.
  
  Tuesday, May 6th, 2003, 12:00-1:30pm
  At the Law Firm of Sidley Austing Brown & Wood LLP, 1501 K Street, NW, 6th floor, Vince Prada Room, Washington DC. (736-8000)
  Members: $8; Non-Members, $15. Reservations required.
  Sandwich Lunch
  
  With:
  Jennifer M. Lind (MIT), Visiting Fellow at the Dickey Center for International Understanding, Dartmouth College, and a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at MIT.
  
  
  Event Flyer

April 23rd, 2003

• PUBLIC POLICY SERIES : Occupying Iraq: Are There Lessons From the Japanese Experience?
  
  A discussion of the historical lesson of American occupation. Resource guide on the American Occupation of Japan will be distributed.
  
  Wednesday, April 23rd, 2003, 12:00-1:30pm
  At the Law Firm of Sidley Austing Brown & Wood LLP, 1501 K Street, NW, Suite 600, Washington DC. (736-8000)
  Members: $10; Non-Members, $20. Reservations required.
  Sandwich Lunch
  
  With:
  Major General William L. Nash (USA, Ret.), Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Preventive Action, Council on Foreign Relations
  Dr. Ronald Spector, Professor of History and International Relations, George Washington University, and author, Eagle Against the Sun: The American War with Japan
  Mr. Toshiyuki Yasui, Senior Fellow, Development Finance Institute, Japan Bank for International Co-operation
  
  
  Presentation Slides
  Resource Guide
  Event Flyer
  
  

March 11th, 2003

• PUBLIC POLICY SERIES : Asian Criminal Networks: North Korea, Japan, and the East Asian Underworld Nexus
  
  New Book Discussion
  Tuesday, March 11th, 2003, 12:00-1:30pm
  At the Law Firm of McKenna, Long & Aldridge, 1900 K St., NW, Suite 100, Washington, DC (202) 496-7500
  Members: Free; Non-Members, $10. Reservations required.
  Brown Bag Lunch, Refreshments provided, Book Available for Purchase
  
  With:
  David E. Kaplan, co-author YAKUZA: Japan's Criminal Underworld
  
  
  Event Flyer
  
  

February 4th, 2003

• PUBLIC POLICY SERIES : What Could Happen When The Japanese Economy Blows Up
  
  Tuesday, February 4th, 2003, 12:00-1:30pm
  At the Law Firm of McKenna, Long & Aldridge, 1900 K St., NW, Suite 100, Washington, DC (202) 496-7500
  Members: Free; Non-Members, $10. Reservations required.
  Brown Bag Lunch, cookies and soda will be provided.
  
  With:
  Bert Ely, Financial Institutions & Monetary Policy Consultant
  Osamu Takemoto, Chief Representative, Bank of Japan, DC Office - Comentator
  
  Event Flyer
  Speaker Biographies
  What Could Happen When The Japanese Economy Blows Up, Presentation
  
  

December 2nd , 2002

• JAPAN BOOK DISCUSSION: Japan's Intelligence Operatives In War And Peace: The Nakano School From 1938-2001
  
  The Shadow Warriors of Nakano: A History of the Imperial Japanese Army's Elite Intelligence School (Brassey's, 2002)
  
  Monday, December 2, 2002, 12:00-1:30pm
  At the Law Firm of McKenna, Long & Aldridge, 1900 K St., NW, Suite 100, Washington, DC
  Members: Free; Non-Members, $10.
  
  With:
  Stephen C. Mercado, Author
  
  Event Flyer
  Flyer for book discount $15.00 for members, $18.95 for nonmembers!!
  

June 28th, 2002

• Steel's Divided Markets: Japan & Europe
  Sponsored by the Japan Information Access Project
  
  Speaker:
  Professor Mark Tilton, Purdue Univesrity
  
  Event Flyer
  Steels Divided Market's: Japan & Europe, by Mark Tilton, JIAP Working Paper

May 31st, 2002

• Japan-US Relations: The Next Ten Years
  US-Japan Relations in a Changing World. Sponsored by the Japan Information Access Project
  
  Speakers:
  Steven Vogel (JIAP Board Member), University of California, Berkeley
  Leonard Schoppa, University of Virginia
  
  Event flyer
  

April 8th, 2002

NEW! Order a printed copy of the proceedings by clicking here

• Fixing Japan's Economy Symposium
  
  Speakers:
  Keynote Luncheon Speaker: Chairman R. Glenn Hubbard, Council of Economic Advisers, The White House
  Commentator: Dr. Gillian Tett, The Financial Times
  Professor Magnus Blomström, President of the European Institute of Japanese Studies, Stockholm School of Economics
  Professor Anil Kashyap, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago
  Professor Sumner La Croix, University of Hawaii and East-West Center
  Professor Hiroshi Ono, European Institute of Japanese Studies, Stockholm School of Economics
  Mr. Jay Tate, Doctoral Candidate, University of California, Berkeley
  
  
  Table of Contents for the proceedings:
  
  
  Preface and Acknowledgements
  Chairman Glenn Hubbard, Council of Economic Advisers, Keynote Address - Impediments to Growth in Japan
  Anil Kashyap - Japan's Financial Crisis: Priorities for Policymakers
  Sumner La Croix - Economic Reform in Japan: Why It Happens, Why It Doesn't
  Magnus Blomström - What Can Japan Learn from the Swedish Crisis in the 1990s?
  Hiroshi Ono - Japanese Labor Market Reform, Why Is It So Difficult?
  Jay Tate - Japan's Industry Associations: Reconsidering Business Relations
  Gillian Tett - Japan's Property Market Needs A Leap Of Faith: The Government Should Deal With Falling Real Estate Prices In The Same Way The U.S. Solved Its Savings & Loan Problem
  Gillian Tett - A Hard Choice For Japan: The Head Of The Central Bank Is On A Mission To Protect The Integrity Of The Yen. But Extraordinary Measures Will Be Needed To Reinstill Faith In The Sliding Economy
  Gillian Tett - Alarming Weakness: JAPAN The Country's Financial Crisis Is Now Becoming A Cause For Global Concern
  Chairman Glenn Hubbard, Council of Economic Advisers - On the Record Roundtable, U.S. Embassy, Tokyo, March 19, 2002
  Information Resources On The Japanese Economy
  Participant Biographies
  Participating Institutions
  Order Form
  
  
  Event Flyer
  Fixing Japan's Economy, Event Proceedings
  Impediments to Growth in Japan, by R. Glenn Hubbard, Remarks
  Program Schedule
  
  

March 20th, 2002

• The First Year of Japan`s FOIA. Is It A Real Tool for Political Accountability?
  Sponsored by the Japan Information Access Project
  
  Speaker:
  Larry Repeta, Information Clearinghouse Japan & Director,
  Law Program in Japan, Associate Dean, Temple University Japan
  
  Event Flyer

October 29th, 2001

• Arthritic Japan - The Slow Pace of Economic Reform
  Sponsored by the Japan Information Access Project. A candid discussion of Japanese economic reform and the prospects for recovery.
  
  Speakers:
  Edward J. Lincoln, Brookings Institution and commentator
  Lael Brainard, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution, former Deputy National Economic Adviser and Deputy Assistant to the President for International Economics.
  
  Event Flyer

June 8th, 2001

• How Politics Undermine Economic Reform in Japan
  Sponsored by the Japan Information Access Project.
  
  Speakers:
  Ulrike Schaede, Associate Professor from the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at the University of California at San Diego
  Mark Tilton, Associate Professor from Purdue University.
  
  Event Flyer
  Under-Regulated Japan: Telecommunications and the New Economy, by Mark Tilton, Working Paper
  Is Japan Changing? "Permeable Insulation" in Japan's Political Economy, by Ulrike Schaede, Working Paper
  
  

April 24th, 2001

• Energizing Japanese Politics
  New Tools for Citizen Participation.
  
  Speakers:
  Jean Heilman Grier, legal adviser to the International Trade Administration in the U.S. Department of Commerce and to U.S. interagency committees.
  Edward J. Lincoln, Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution, specialist on Japanese economy
  Robert Pekkanen, Ph.D. candidate in political science and Academy Scholar at Harvard University.
  Lawrence Repeta, Esq., founding director of the Information Clearinghouse Japan, an NGO devoted to promoting transparent government (www.clearing-house.org) and director of the Japan Civil Liberties Union (www.jclu.org).
  John A. Wecker, economic officer charged with trade matters in the Office of Japan, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, U.S. Department of State.
  
  Speaker Biographies
  Information Resources on Japanese Political Reform, JIAP Resource Guide
  Changing the Guard in the Provinces, A New Platform for Hard Times, by Robert Pekkanen, JIAP Working Paper
  Civil Society and its Regulators, Non-Profit Organizations in Japan, by Larry Repeta, JIAP Working Paper
  New Tools for Public Participation in the Japanese Regulatory System, by Jean Grier, JIAP Working Paper
  Regulatory Transparency in Japan: Half Full or Half Empty? , by Michael J. Marcus, originally published in Asia Perspectives, Vol. 3, No. 2, p.20-22 (March 2001)
  
  

March 15th, 2001

• Register for the Morse Target 2001 Program, March 15, 2001: Washington's Movers & Shakers on Japan.
  A frank discussion of who is influential in the making of U.S.-Japan policy in the new Bush Administration. The Target monograph and the "Armitage Report" will be distributed at the program and available for purchase after. Fee.
  
  Speakers:
  Ronald A. Morse, Professor of Economics and Business Administration at Reitaku University in Tokyo
  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
  
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June 28th, 2000

• Japan's June 25th Elections, Understanding the Results
  JIAP Conference in cooperation with the Japan-US Friendship Commission.
  
  Speakers:
  Ray Christensen, Brigham Young University; Author: Ending the LDP Hegemony: Party Cooperation in Japan, University of Hawaii Press, 2000
  Mike Mochizuki, George Washington University
  Mike Green, Council on Foreign Relations
  Yoichi Kato, Asahi Shimbun
  
  Event Flyer
  Japan's June 25th Elections, Understanding the Results, Event Proceedings