History unrequited

Abe and Park, March 25, 2014

JAPAN'S SECURITY AND RECONCILIATION WITH ITS ASIAN NEIGHBORS: RECTIFYING THE PAST AND PROMOTING TRUST. 4/1, 11:10am-12:25pm, Washington, DC. Sponsor: Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University. Speakers: Satsuki EDA, Former President of Japan’s House of Councillors (upper house of National Diet), Former Minister of Justice and Minister of the Environment; Yukihisa FUJITA, Member of the House of Councillors, Former Senior Vice-Minister of Finance; Takashi EZAKI, Member of the House of Councillors, Vice-Chair of Organization Committee.

OVERCOMING HISTORY'S HURDLES: RISING ABOVE THE CHALLENGES FACING RELATIONS BETWEEN JAPAN, KOREA, AND CHINA. 4/2, Noon-2:00pm, Washington, DC. Sponsor: Asia Program, Wilson Center. Speakers: Jae-Jung Suh, Fellow, Wilson Center; Tetsuya Toyoda, Fellow, Wilson Center; Daqing Yang, Professor of History, George Washington University.

THE SHADOW OF HISTORY AND SINO-JAPANESE RELATIONS. 4/3, Noon-1:15, Stanford, CA. Sponsor: Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (Shorenstein APARC). Speaker: Ezra Vogel, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences, Emeritus at Harvard University.

THE GHOSTS RETURN: HISTORY, MEMORY AND INTERNATIONAL TENSIONS BETWEEN JAPAN AND ITS NEIGHBOR. 4/8, 4:00pm, New Haven, CT. Sponsor: Council on East Asian Studies, Yale University. Speaker: Tessa Morris-Suzuki, Professor of Japanese History, Australian National University.