Asia Policy Events, Monday July 13, 2026

BETWEEN MYTH AND REALITY: SAMURAI AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 7/13, Noon (JST), 7/12, 11:00pm (EDT), HYBRID. Sponsor: Asia Society Japan. Speaker: Dr. Rosina Buckland, Asahi Shimbun Curator: Japanese Collections, The British Museum.

CHINA AND THE SECTION 301 INVESTIGATIONS: THE LEGAL, ECONOMIC, AND DIPLOMATIC ISSUES. 7/13, 10:00-11:00am (EDT), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: CSIS. Speakers: Scott Kennedy, Senior Adviser and Trustee Chair in Chinese Business and Economics; Wendy Cutler, Senior Vice President, Asia Society Policy Institute; Mary Lovely, Anthony M. Solomon Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics; Claire Reade, Senior Associate (Non-resident), Trustee Chair in Chinese Business and Economics; Wei Liang, Professor, Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. 

NATO SUMMIT DEBRIEF: WHAT COMES NEXT AFTER ANKARA? 7/13, 10:45-11:30am (CDT), 11:45am-12:30pm (EDT), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Chicago Council on Global Affairs. Speakers: General Christopher G. Cavoli, 20th Supreme Allied Commander Europe and 19th Commander, United States European Command; Julianne Smith, Former US Permanent Representative to NATO; Leslie Vinjamuri, President and Chief Executive Officer, Chicago Council on Global Affairs.

THE FIRST TARGET AUDIENCES: THE PUBLIC DIPLOMACY OF THE FOUNDERS. 7/13, Noon-1:00pm, HYBRID. Sponsor: Public Diplomacy Council of America. Speakers: Martha Bayles, Author, Popular Culture, Public Diplomacy, and America's Image Abroad (2014); Caitlin Schindler, Author, The Origins of Public Diplomacy in US Statecraft: Uncovering a Forgotten Tradition (2018); Eric Weiner, Author, Ben & Me (2024).

A CONVERSATION WITH SENATOR BERNIE MORENO AND CHAIRMAN JOHN MOOLENAAR ON CONNECTED CARS. 7/13, 4:15-5:00pm (EDT), HYBRID. Sponsor: American Enterprise Institute (AEI). Speakers: Chris Miller, Nonresident Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute; Rep. John Moolenaar (R-MI), Chairman, Select Committee on China; Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH); Moderator: Chris Miller, Nonresident Senior Fellow, AEI.

Asia Policy Events, Monday July 6, 2026

Asia Policy Point is not publishing a newsletter this week, Congress is in recess, and President Trump will attend the NATO Summit the 7th and 8th in Turkey. Apart from NATO's 32 members, Ukraine will attend along with four of NATO's Indo-Pacific partner states -- Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand -- as well as Middle East partners Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. On the 8th, the IMF will release an update of its World Economic Outlook.

JAPAN’S AI START-UP ECOSYSTEM AND TRENDS IN VENTURE INVESTMENT. 7/6, Noon-1:00pm (BST), 7:00-8:00am (EDT), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Japan Society-London. Speakers: James Riney, Founding Partner and CEO, Coral Capital; Jesper Koll, Expert Director, Monex Group and Japan Catalyst Fund; Bill Emmott, Visiting Fellow, Tokyo College, University of Tokyo.

A NEW ERA FOR OLD ALLIANCES: CHINA-NORTH KOREA AND US-SOUTH KOREA TIES IN 2026. 7/6, 9:00am (EDT), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: National Committee on North Korea (NCNK). Speaker: Dr. Chung-in Moon, Former Special Advisor for Foreign Affairs and National Security to South Korean President Moon Jae-in.

PRESERVATION AS CONTINUITY: PROTECTING JAPANESE BUILT CULTURAL HERITAGE. 7/6, 6:45pm (BST), IN PERSON ONLY. Sponsor: Japan Society-London. Speaker: Andrea Carlson, Founder, Kominka Collective.

CRITICAL MINERALS AND THE FUTURE OF KOREAN INDUSTRY. 7/7, 10:00-11:00am (EDT), IN PERSON ONLY. Sponsor: Korea Inter-Parliamentary Exchange Center (KIPEC). Speaker: Meredith Schwartz, Associate Fellow, Critical Minerals Security Program, CSIS.

Asia Policy Events, Monday June 22, 2026

SHADOW OF CATASTROPHE AND THE FUTURE OF NUCLEAR DETERRENCE. 6/22, Noon-1:30pm (EDT), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Harvard Kennedy School, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Speakers: Colin Kahl, Director, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford; Janice Stein, Founding Director, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy; Kristin Ven Bruusgaard, Chief, Norwegian Intelligence School. Moderator: Ulrich Kuehn, Head of Arms Control and Emerging Technologies, University of Hamburg.

PHILIPPINES ASEAN CHAIRSHIP 2026: ADVANCING REGIONAL RESILIENCE AND U.S.-ASEAN COLLABORATION. 6/22, 3:00-5:30pm (EDT), IN PERSON ONLY. Sponsors: US-ASEAN Center; Embassy of the Philippines; US-Philippines Society. Speakers include: Jose Manuel G. Romualdez, Ambassador of the Philippines to the United States; Hunt VanderToll, Deputy Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of State; Hans Siriban, Economic Minister and Consul, Philippine Embassy to the U.S.; Heather Variava, Senior Advisor, Bureau of Economic & Business Affairs, U.S. Department of State.

STABILITY MULTIPLIERS: FOOD AND CLIMATE SECURITY IN A FRACTURED WORLD. 6/22, 6:00-8:30pm (BST), IN PERSON ONLY. Sponsors: Center for Climate and Security, Council on Strategic Risks; Strategic Climate Risks Initiative; Ditchley Foundation; Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia University. Speakers: TBA; Moderator: Erin Sikorsky, Director, Center for Climate and Security, Council on Strategic Risks.

WOMEN ARTISTS IN ACTION: VISUALIZING THE 1970S WOMEN’S LIBERATION MOVEMENTS. 6/22, 6:00pm (JST), IN PERSON ONLY. Sponsor: Modern Japan History Workshop. Speaker: Kanako Tajima, PhD Candidate, Columbia University. 

TAIWAN’S STRATEGIC OUTLOOK AND THE FUTURE OF US-TAIWAN RELATIONS. 6/22, 6:30-8:30pm (EDT), IN PERSON ONLY. Sponsor: Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI). Speakers: Tom Chih-Chiang Lee, Director-General, Taipei Economic and Cultural Office; Shihoko Goto, Vice President of Programs and Director, Asia Program, FPRI; Chris Estep is a Non-Resident Fellow, Asia Program, FPRI; Rupert Hammond-Chambers, President, US-Taiwan Business Council; Aaron Stein, President, FPRI; Vincent Wei-Cheng Wang, Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Asia Program, FPRI.

APP'S BOOKS OF THE WEEK of May 24, 2026

 📚Books of the Week📖

China's War on Faith

By Ambassador Sam Brownback (R-KS), Chairman, National Committee for Religious Freedom

PURCHASE BOOK (5/12/2026)

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) spends billions of dollars annually to either control or exterminate people of all faiths. It is a strategic imperative for them. Christians, Buddhist, Muslims, Falun Gong, and more are seen as a threat to the control of China and the world by the CCP. 

The Modern Japanese Garden

By Stephen Mansfield, Author and 

Freelance Photo-Journalist based in Japan

PURCHASE BOOK (10/7/2025)

Japan has an immense diversity of garden designs, from animist-infused, prototypical stone arrangements placed in sacred groves, to extraordinary post-war innovations. Mansfield examines post-war shifts in attitudes towards the contemporary garden as they moved from status symbols and expressions of influence to spaces of healing, mediation, and connection to nature. The book contains brief essays from notable specialists in the fields of landscape design, garden aesthetics, and architecture, including Shyunmo Masuno, Japan’s leading garden designer.

Realizing Saudi Vision 2030: Governance, 

Institutions and Human Capital Development

By the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (ABOUT)

PURCHASE BOOK (2/19/2026)

A behind-the-scenes investigation into the current transformations taking place in Saudi Arabia. It comprises contributions from academics, researchers, policymakers and practitioners who have access to the decision-makers and relevant institutions in the country. Chapters focus on the remodeling of government entities, the creation of institutions, and the new opportunities made available for Saudis through human capital development initiatives, all key issues that are central to the Vision. 

*Books purchased through the links here support Asia Policy Point*

Books selected on the APP website are not a sign of endorsement. 

They are simply new and interesting.

Asian Art Corner

ARTS JAPONICA

GLOBAL SAMURAI CONFERENCE. 4/10-11, HYBRID. Sponsors: British Museum and SOAS. Speakers: Filippo Cervelli (SOAS); Rosina Buckland (British Museum); Oleg Benesch (University of York); Joe Nickols (British Museum); Edward Boyle (Nichibunken); Rebekah Clements (Autonomous University of Barcelona and ICREA); Helen Macnaughtan (SOAS); Birgit Tremml-Werner (Stockholm University); Satona Suzuki (SOAS); Nam-lin Hur (University of British Columbia); Chika Tonooka (Cambridge University); Luke Gartlan (University of St Andrews); Sarah Thal (University of Wisconsin-Madison); Mark Ravina (University of Texas Austin); Sven Saaler (Sophia University); Michele Monserrati (Smith College); Maria Framke (University of Erfurt); Tatiana Linkhoeva (New York University); Ignacio López-Calvo (University of California Merced); Hiromu Nagahara (MIT); Natasha Bennett (Royal Armouries); Julie Reynolds and Emile de Bruijn (National Trust); Sarah Panzer (Missouri State University); Clemens Büttner (University of Heidelberg); Ethan Mark (Leiden University); Thomas D. Conlan and Christina Lee (Princeton University). This event is part of the public programme supporting the exhibition Samurai (open until 4 May). PURCHASE EXHIBITION CATALOG: https://amzn.to/4mqEJ1h

SAMURAI: THE MAKING OF A GLOBAL ICON. 4/23, 5:30–6:30pm (DST), 12:30-1:30pm (EDT), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: British Museum. Speakers: Satona Suzuki, Senior Lecturer in Japanese and Modern Japanese History at SOAS; Oleg Benesch, Professor and Head of the Department of History at the University of York and co-author of the exhibition book, Samurai; Matt Alt, co-founder AltJapan, a Tokyo-based company that specialises in localisation and author of Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World (2021). This event is part of the public programme supporting the exhibition Samurai (open until 4 May).

FORTHCOMING art two special issues of the Japan Review focused on the samurai.

And if you had enough of all this Samurai stuff--most of which is made up for Western consumption--see here for a humorous take: LORD IT'S THE SAMURAI.

BOOK TALK: SIMPLY DONABE! (JAPANESE CLAY POT COOKING). 4/ 19, Noon-2:00pm (EDT), IN PERSON ONLY. Sponsor: Kinokuniya New York. Speaker: author Ms. Naoko Takei Moore, owner of TOIRO, an online and brick-and-mortar shop in West Hollywood that specializes in Japanese kitchen goods. PURCHASE BOOK: https://amzn.to/4dPUYTd

TOIRO kitchen supply (donabe), https://toirokitchen.com/

BOOK TALK: IMPERIAL ANIMATIONS IN TRANSPACIFIC CONTEMPORARY ART. 5/4, 9:00-10:30pm (EDT), 9:00-10:30am (HKT), HYBRID. Sponsor: Centre for Cultural Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong. Speaker: author Namiko Kunimoto, Director of the Center for Ethnic Studies, Associate Professor, Department of History of Art, Ohio State University; Moderator: Prof. SaeHim Park (CUHK). PURCHASE BOOK: https://amzn.to/4bImyzf

THESE EVENTS ARE PAST BUT MAY HAVE RECORDINGS

*EXHIBITING JAPAN IN MID-CENTURY NEW YORK. 3/30, 6:00-8:00pm (EDT), IN PERSON ONLY. Sponsor: Digital Museum of the History of Japanese in NY. Speaker: Dr. Angus Lockyer, author of Exhibitionist Japan: The Spectacle of Modern Development (Cambridge, 2025) and Japan: A History in Objects (Thames and Hudson, 2026). He currently teaches at the Rhode Island School of Design. 

*REMAKING THE ACADEMIC MUSEUM FOR THE 21ST CENTURY. 4/2, 8:00-9:15am (JST), 7:00-8:15pm (EDT), HYBRID. Sponsor: Asia Society. Speakers: James Steward, Director, Princeton University Art Museum; Kit Brooks, Curator of Asian Art, Princeton University Art Museum. 

*FROM KIRIN TO CASA BRUTUS: HISTORY OF JAPANESE DESIGN. 4/2, 6:30-8:00pm (JST), 5:30-7:00am (EST), HYBRID. Sponsor: Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies (ICAS), Temple University, Japan. Speakers: Ian Lynam | Associate Professor of Graphic Design, Temple University Japan; Moderator: Benoit Hardy-Chartrand | Senior Lecturer Temple University Japan & ICAS Faculty Fellow. 

What happens when Japan curates its aesthetic for the world?

By Erik Augustin Palm, Japan Times, Mar 28, 2026
     Scathing review of the Japanese government's exhibition of the Japan Sui Collection in Kyoto and Paris that is meant to showcase Japanese regional crafts and cuisine framed around the concept of sui (an Edo Period [1603-1867] concept of aesthetic refinement).

Official Japan's penchant for dealing with the West by leaning into Orientalism can be startling. It is so ingrained that Japanese embassies and consulates still display sensoga, the carely controlled statist art of 1930s wartime Japan. Japan has a vibrant modern art community. It is a shame that it is not promoted more.

Isamu Noguchi

In full swing

from the Monocole Minute on Design, March 18, 2025.

Isamu Noguchi is a household name thanks to his abstract totem-like sculptures, Vitra’s bestselling glass Coffee Table and the ubiquitous Akari paper lamps. Still, the Japanese-American designer maintained that his best projects never saw the light of day. He harboured ambitions to be an urban planner, particularly to make playgrounds, but city officials wouldn’t hear of it. Those torpedoed ideas, such as this swing set, are the subject of Noguchi’s New York, an exhibition at The Noguchi Museum in Queens, which runs until 13 September.

This three-piece swing was originally conceived in 1940 for a playground in Hawaii, which would also have included a curved slide and a jungle gym. That plan was derailed by the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor a year later, with Noguchi spending seven months in an internment camp in Arizona. Later, he pitched the scheme in New York but was unsuccessful; a version of the design finally went up in Atlanta in 1975. With hindsight, everyone can agree that Noguchi should not have had to work so hard to bring play to public spaces. 

Asia Policy Events, Monday March 30, 2026

THE THREE SEAS INITIATIVE: AMBASSADOR ROMANA VLAHUTIN ON EUROPE’S NEW GEOGRAPHY OF POWER. 3/30, 8:00-9:00am (EDT), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Hudson Institute. Speakers: Zineb Riboua, Research Fellow, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East; Romana Vlahutin, Government of Croatia Special Envoy, Strategic Connectivity, National Coordinator, Three Seas Initiative. 

TECHNOLOGICAL TRADE PATTERNS: BRICS AND ASEAN. 3/30, 10:00-11:30am (SGT), 3/29, 10:00-11:30pm (EDT), HYBRID. Sponsor: Yusof Ishak Institute (ISEAS). Speaker: Jennifer Pédussel Wu, Professor of Economics, Berlin School of Economics and Law.

WINNERS AND LOSERS: RUSSIA, CHINA, AND EUROPE RESPOND TO THE IRAN WAR. 3/30, 10:15-11:00am (EDT), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Carnegie. Speakers: Aaron David Miller, Senior Fellow, American Statecraft Program; Rosa Balfour, Director, Carnegie Europe; Evan A. Feigenbaum, Vice President for Studies, Carnegie; Alexander Gabuev, Director, Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center. 

BIODIVERSITY IMPLICATIONS OF LAND-INTENSIVE CARBON DIOXIDE REMOVAL. 3/30, 11:00am-Noon (EDT), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Institute for Responsible Carbon Removal. Speakers: Ruben Prütz, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK); Moderator: Wil Burns, Co-Director, Institute for Responsible Carbon Removal, American University.

HOW THE HUNGARIAN ELECTION WILL CHANGE EUROPE. 3/30, 5:00-6:00pm (CET), 11:00am-Noon (EDT), HYBRID. Sponsor: Carnegie Europe. Speakers: Rosa Balfour, Director, Carnegie Europe; Peter Hefele, Policy Director, Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies; Zsuzsanna Szelényi, Research Fellow, Central European University Democracy Institute.

CHINA’S ECONOMIC SLOWDOWN: RISKS, REALITIES, AND STRATEGIC IMPLICATIONS. 3/30, 11:00am-Noon (EDT), HYBRID. Sponsor: Hudson Institute. Speakers: Miles Yu, Senior Fellow and Director, China Center; Thomas J. Duesterberg, Senior Fellow; Leland Miller, Member, U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, Co-Founder and CEO, China Beige Book. 

POWERING ENERGY DOMINANCE THROUGH INNOVATION: THE STRATEGIC ROLE OF U.S.-KOREA COOPERATION. 3/30, Noon-1:00pm (EDT), IN PERSON ONLY. Sponsor: Global America Business Institute (GABI). Speakers: Chang-Keun Yi, President of the Korea Institute of Energy Research (KIER), John Howes, Principal, Redland Ener    gy Group; Jae Yong Lee, Principal Researcher, KIER; Barbara Tyran, Senior Advisor, GABI. 

THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION SHIFTS THE GLOBAL TRADING SYSTEM: IMPLICATIONS FOR JAPAN AND “MIDDLE POWERS. 3/30, Noon-2:00pm (EDT), IN PERSON ONLY. Sponsor: Association of Women in International Trade (WIIT); Japanese Women in the Professions in Washington DC (J-WIP). Speaker: Barbara Weisel, Nonresident Scholar, Asia Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Former Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Southeast Asia and the Pacific. FEE. Lunch will be served.

IRAN WAR NEGOTIATIONS: WHAT’S ON THE TABLE? 3/30, 12:30-1:30pm (EDT), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Middle East Institute. Speakers: Barbara A. Leaf, Distinguished Diplomatic Fellow, Middle East Institute, Senior International Policy Advisor, Arnold & Porter; Alan Eyre, Distinguished Diplomatic Fellow, Middle East Institute, Founder and President of EyreAnalytics LLC; Moderator: Kenneth M. Pollack, Vice President for Policy, Middle East Institute. 

HOW CAN THE US ENGAGE CHINA IN ARMS CONTROL? STRUCTURAL OBSTACLES TO SINO-US NUCLEAR STABILITY. 3/30, 1:30-3:00pm (EDT), HYBRID. Sponsor: Harvard Kennedy School. Speaker: Tianjiao Jiang, Assistant Professor, Fudan Development Institute.

REPORT LAUNCH: HOW THE WEST LOST THE POST-COLD WAR ERA. 3/30, 2:00pm (EDT), HYBRID. Sponsor: Atlantic Council. Speakers: Daniel Fried, Weiser Family Distinguished Fellow, Atlantic Council; Brian Whitmore, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Eurasia Center, Atlantic Council; Moderator: John Herbst, Senior Director, Eurasia Center, Atlantic Council.

HOW THE WEST LOST THE POST-COLD WAR ERA. 3/30, 2:00pm (EDT), HYBRID. Sponsor: Atlantic Council. Speakers: Daniel Fried, Weiser Family Distinguished Fellow, Atlantic Council; Angela Stent, Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute; Brian Whitmore, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Eurasia Center, Atlantic Council; Moderator: John Herbst, Senior Director, Eurasia Center, Atlantic Council. 

IRAN AT THE ENDGAME: WAR OR NEGOTIATION? 3/30, 3:00pm (EDT), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Jewish Institute for National Security of America (JINSA). Speakers: Eric Edelman, JINSA Distinguished Scholar; Former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy; Elliott Abrams, JINSA Gaza Futures Task Force Member, Former United States Special Representative for Iran; Stephen Rademaker, JINSA Senior Advisor; Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for International Security & Nonproliferation; Blaise Misztal, JINSA Vice President for Policy. 

EXHIBITING JAPAN IN MID-CENTURY NEW YORK. 3/30, 6:00-8:00pm (EDT), IN PERSON ONLY. Sponsor: Digital Museum of the History of Japanese in NY. Speaker: Dr. Angus Lockyer, Author, Exhibitionist Japan: The Spectacle of Modern Development and Japan: A History in Objects.

A NUCLEAR RENAISSANCE? 3/30, 5:30pm (CDT), 6:30pm (EDT), HYBRID. Sponsor: Chicago Council on Global Affairs. Speakers: Robert Rosner, William E. Wrather Distinguished Service Professor, Astronomy & Astrophysics and Physics, University of Chicago; Doug Scott, Chair, Illinois Commerce Commission; Rachel Bronson, Lester Crown Senior Nonresident Fellow, Energy and Geopolitics, Chicago Council on Global Affairs.

DRUMMING UP CHANGE: ELECTIONS IN JAPAN, SHIFTING POLITICS, AND THE IMPACT ON OKINAWA. 3/30, 7:30pm (EDT), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Okinawa Collection and Sigur Center for Asian Studies, George Washington University (GWU). Speakers:  Dr. Mike Mochizuki, GWU; Dr. Fumiaki Nozoe, Okinawa International University; and Dr. Shawn Harding, Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA. 

Monday Asia Policy Events, July 28, 2025

JAPAN’S ROLE IN AN EVOLVING WORLD ECONOMY: FINANCE, SECURITY, AND MARKETS. 7/28, 1:15-5:15pm (JST), IN PERSON ONLY-Tokyo. Sponsor: Columbia Business School. Speakers Include: KATO Katsunobu, Minister of Finance, Minister of State for Financial Services, Japan; ARIIZUMI Shigeru, Vice Minister for International Affairs, Financial Services Agency, Japan; IMAGAWA Takuo, Vice-Minister for International Affairs, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Japan; Yuval Rooz, Co-Founder, CEO, Digital Asset; YAMAJI Hiromi, Group CEO, Japan Exchange Group, Inc. 

“DISMANTLING MOTHERHOOD” (2024) & “SINGING TOGETHER IN A MUSEUM” (2025): A DOUBLE FEATURE FILM SCREENING AND DISCUSSION WITH THE PROJECT ORGANIZERS. 7/28, 3:00-4:30pm (JST), 2:00-3:30am (EDT), IN PERSON ONLY. Sponsor: Gender, Sexuality & Identity Research Group, Tokyo College. Speakers: Natsumi Sakamoto, Film Director; Ritsuko Saito, PhD Student, Research Associate, Waseda University. 

COLLATERAL DAMAGE? CENTRAL ASIA AND THE SOUTH CAUCASUS IN THE ISRAEL-IRAN CONFLICT. 7/28, 10:00-11:15am (EDT), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Center for the National Interest. Speakers: James Durso, Managing Director, Corsair LLC; Roger Kangas, Academic Dean and Professor of Central Asian Studies, Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies, National Defense University; Alouddin Komilov, Head, International Political Development Project, Center for Progressive Reforms; Adjunct Assistant Professor, Webster University (Tashkent, Uzbekistan); Damjan Krnjević Mišković, Professor of Practice and Director of Policy Research, Analysis, and Publications, Institute for Development and Diplomacy, ADA University (Baku, Azerbaijan); Moderator: Andrew Kuchins, Senior Fellow, Center for the National Interest. 

DAVID PETRAEUS ON WHAT TAIWAN CAN LEARN FROM UKRAINE’S BATTLEFIELD EXPERIENCE. 7/28, 4:30-5:30pm (EDT), HYBRID. Sponsor: Hudson Institute. Speakers: Kenneth R. Weinstein, Japan Chair, Hudson Institute; General David H. Petraeus (US Army, Ret.), Chairman, KKR Global Institute; Moderator: Jason Hsu, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute. 

IDEAS UNCORKED: REIMAGINING STRATEGIC DEPTH. 7/28, 5:00-6:30pm (EDT), IN PERSON ONLY, free booze. Sponsor: Hoover Institution. Speaker: Nadia Schadlow, National Security Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution. 

INTRODUCTION TO THE BEAUTY OF JAPANESE SWORDS: ANCIENT TRADITION, LIVING CULTURE, MODERN ART. 7/29, 10:00am (JST), 7/28, 9:00pm (EDT), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Yokosuka Council on Asia Pacific Studies. Speaker: Paul Martin, Trustee and Researcher, Society for the Promotion of Japanese Sword Culture (NBSK). 

Monday Asia Events December 2, 2024

IMPLICATIONS OF AN IRANIAN NUCLEAR BOMB. 12/2, 10:30-11:45am (EST).
VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Heritage Foundation. Speakers: Right Hon. Liz Truss, Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; Nile Gardiner, Director, Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom and Bernard and Barbara Lomas Fellow; Robert Peters, Research Fellow, Nuclear Deterrence and Missile Defense; Andrea Stricker, Deputy Director and Research Fellow, Nonproliferation and Biodefense Program, FDD; Olli Heinonen, Senior Fellow, The Stimson Center. 

"LIQUIDSCAPE" AND THE ART OF CURATING FROM REGIONAL JAPAN. 12/2, 8:00-9:15am (JST), IN PERSON ONLY. Sponsor: Asia Society Japan. Speaker: Yuka Takahashi, Curator, Arts Maebashi.   

BOOK TALK: THE TROUBLEMAKER: HOW JIMMY LAI BECAME A BILLIONAIRE, HONG KONG’S GREATEST DISSIDENT, AND CHINA’S MOST FEARED CRITIC. 12/2, 11:00am-Noon (EST), HYBRID. Sponsor: AEI. Speaker: author Mark L. Clifford, President, Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation. https://www.aei.org/events/the-troublemaker-how-jimmy-lai-became-a-billionaire-hong-kongs-greatest-dissident-and-chinas-most-feared-critic/ PURCHASE BOOK: https://amzn.to/4ihviyE 

 
NEW PARTY POLITICS OF EAST ASIAN DEMOCRACIES. 12/2, Noon-1:15pm (EST). HYBRID. Sponsors: Weatherhead Center Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Korea Institute, Harvard University; Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School. Speakers: Joan Cho, Associate Professor of East Asian Studies, Wesleyan University; Aram Hur, Kim Koo Chair in Korean Studies and Assistant Professor of Political Science, The Fletcher School, Tufts University; Koichi Nakano, Visiting Scholar, Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University and Professor of Political Science, Sophia University; Daniel Ziblatt, Director, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies and Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, Harvard University. 

ANGELA MERKEL IN CONVERSATION WITH BARACK OBAMA. 12/2, Noon (EST). IN PERSON ONLY. Sponsor: The Anthem. Speakers: Angela Merkel, former Chancellor of Germany; Barack Obama, former U.S. President. Fee.

THE FUTURE OF US-CHINA RELATIONS AFTER THE ELECTION. 12/2, 3:30-4:30pm (PST) 6:30-7:30pm (EST), HYBRID. Sponsor: UC San Diego School of Global Policy Strategy. Speakers: Susan Shirk, Director Emeritus, 21st Century China Center, UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy; Xinbo Wu, Dean, Institute of International Studies, Director, Center for American Studies, Fudan University; Richard Madsen, Director, Fudan-UC Center on Contemporary China, Professor Emeritus, Sociology, UC San Diego. 

Shusenjo - Comfort Women Documentary Viewings

See the documentary Shusenjo: The Main Battleground of the Comfort Women Issue at the following universities:

🎥 February 10 - University of California, Berkeley 

🎥 February 13 - University of California, Santa Cruz

🎥 February 15 - University of Victoria

🎥 February 17 - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

🎥 February 19 - University of Chicago

🎥 February 20 - University of Notre Dame

🎥 February 24 - Colby College

🎥 February 26 - University of Massachusetts, Amherst

🎥 February 27 - Smith College

🎥 February 28 - Amherst College

🎥 February 29 - Boston University, We Hope

🎥 March 2 - Harvard University

🎥 March 4 - Haverford College

🎥 March 9 - College of St. Benedict and St. John’s University, TBA

🎥 March 11 - University of Texas, Austin

🎥 March 23 - Soka University

🎥 March 24 - California State University, Fullerton, TBA

🎥 March 25 - Loyola Marymount University

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Viewing the Comfort Women history battle West Coast

See the documentary Shusenjo: The Main Battleground of the Comfort Women Issue in October at the following universities:

🎥October 2nd - University of Minnesota

🎥October 3rd - University of Wisconsin-Madison

🎥October 4th - New Mexico State University, Las Cruces

​October 5th - Immanuel Presbyterian Church, Los Angeles 

🎥October 7th - Pacific University Oregon

🎥October 8th - California Polytechnic State University

🎥October 9th - UCLA

🎥October 10th - California State University Northridge
Conference: Against Forgetting: Feminist Art, Activism, and Comfort Women

🎥October 11th - University of Southern California, Dornsife

The Politics of Hate and Artistic Expression in Japan

statue in question

Organizers of the 2019 Aichi Triennale, a sprawling showcase of contemporary art, got more publicity than they bargained for

By Jeff Kingston, Temple University, The Diplomat, September 14, 2019.

It is a troubling sign of the times in Japan when the government fails to unequivocally condemn threats of violence that target freedom of expression while politicians grandstand on censoring art. Organizers of the 2019 Aichi Triennale, a sprawling showcase of contemporary art, got more publicity than they bargained for. In an exhibit entitled After ‘Freedom of Expression?’ organizers displayed some 20 transgressive works, including a comfort woman statue that incensed Japanese conservatives because it drew attention to the Japanese military’s system of sexual slavery in the 1932-45 period. The “Statue of a Girl of Peace” is a South Korean work depicting a young woman in traditional Korean attire sitting next to an empty seat. A similar statue is located across the street from the site of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul that Tokyo wants removed, along with others around the world that reproach Japan over its inadequate contrition and efforts to downplay this sordid saga.

Over the past several months, the rupture between these frenemies morphed from battles over the shared history of comfort women and forced labor into a trade row as Japan instigated tit-for-tat trade restrictions that precipitated Seoul’s decision to terminate an intelligence sharing pact. This trifecta of history, trade and security was triggered by Japan’s bumbling diplomacy and poorly thought out actions, an own goal that plays to the advantage of Beijing and Pyongyang. Certainly, President Moon Jae-in earned an assist on that goal by mishandling unresolved grievances from the colonial era and playing the anti-Japan card to rally public support. Meanwhile, the Japanese public, egged on by a jingoistic press, supports Prime Minister Abe Shinzo’s Trumpian tactics.

His reactionary supporters may not know much about art but they know what they hate.

Japan’s culture wars escalated in early August 2019 over the art exhibit, as some netizens took exception, sight unseen, to the Girl of Peace and a video installation depicting an image of Emperor Showa (Hirohito) being incinerated by a blowtorch. Following a faxed threat to set fire to the venue, 770 threatening emails and a cascade of scripted tirades by angry callers, organizers shutdown the exhibit just three days after it opened, mindful of the arson attack on Kyoto Anime the previous month that killed 35 employees. This decision without consulting any of the artists showing their works at the Triennale drew a sharp reaction in a petition signed by 72 of them condemning both the threats and the organizers’ capitulation. In a gesture of solidarity, two South Korean artists withdrew their work while other artists requested their art be removed from the festival until the controversial exhibit was reopened.

It was certainly an ironic decision given the symbolism of displaying art that had been rejected or removed from previous shows for political reasons. The After “Freedom of Expression” exhibit was intended to highlight and challenge such efforts to stifle this freedom. Adding to the drama, the governor of Aichi accused the mayor of Nagoya of championing censorship by advocating closure of this special exhibit, asserting that this violated Article 21 of the Constitution guaranteeing freedom of expression. As Philip Brasor wrote, “By demanding that a public function be shut down due to a threat of violence without expressly condemning that threat, the authorities, inadvertently or not, send a message that says violence could be an acceptable means of protest.” Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga only said that such threats are wrong “generally speaking” in a manner implying they were just possibly justified in this case.

Japan Forward, the conservative Sankei Shimbun’s English language media outlet, tried to shift blame onto the organizers, accusing them of engaging in hate speech, fuming, “Many of the works shown cannot be characterized as anything but expressions of hate towards the Japanese people and the Emperor,” adding, “It is difficult to imagine why on earth a behavior based on hate — like the exhibition in question — should fall within the scope of ‘freedom of expression.’”

Japan Forward asserted that the Japanese curator sought to inflame “public opinion as a marketing technique to breed confrontation” and called for common sense to prevail, assuming that its aesthetic tastes and constitutional interpretations represent that common sense. Apparently, those threatening violence against the art show share that common sense, one that is inimical to freedom of expression. Moreover, by condoning politicians weighing in against the exhibit, Japan Forward sanctions violating the culture and arts law guaranteeing noninterference by authorities in such situations.

It also turns out that those protesting the burning Emperor video were clueless about the artist’s history and intentions, whipping up hysteria on social media based on ignorance or willful distortion. Art critics assert that the artist is definitely not against the imperial system and that the video was actually a protest against the burning of 470 copies of a museum catalogue containing the Emperor’s image instigated by right-wingers and local assemblymen in Toyama Prefecture.

Perhaps unintentionally the curator succeeded in highlighting how limited freedom of expression is in Japan and how informed opinion has been overwhelmed by an ideologically charged public discourse.

The Aichi Triennale debacle is yet another example of how the rising tide of revisionist denial and downplaying of Japan’s wartime and colonial era abuses under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has had a chilling impact on freedom of expression as academics and journalists are subjected to orchestrated attacks.

Such efforts to rewrite the worst chapter of Japan’s modern history shine a limelight on it and impart a whiff of what life must have been like under the militarists when censorship was widespread and dissent dangerous. Curbs on freedom of expression in contemporary Japan appear to be gaining momentum under a reactionary political leadership and represent a threat to democracy and the free press.

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Japan’s tabloid media accused of racism towards South Korea as tourism dives: A Japanese newspaper has accused the nation’s tabloid media of racism in its coverage of the country’s ongoing diplomatic spat with South Korea, South China Morning Post ,  9/18/19

     The monthly magazine WiLL published a feature with the headline “Countdown to South Korea’s disappearance in 202X” which suggested Seoul’s present economic and political problems are the precursors to the nation’s doom within the next decade. The Shukan Post also printed an article that claimed to draw on academic research to conclude that South Koreans have a pathological inability to control their own anger. It is this failure, it added, that is largely to blame for the deteriorating relationship between Seoul and Tokyo. The Asahi editorial said the premise of the entire article “is nothing less than racist”.

Film Screening: Silence

Silence

Friday, April 19, 2019 from 12:30-3:30 PM

Fairfax County Government Building
Auditorium
12000 Government Center Parkway

Fairfax, VA 22035

WCCW is pleased to bring a free screening of Silence by Korean-Japanese director Park Soonam as a commemoration of the 5th anniversary the Comfort Women Memorial Peace Garden in Fairfax, Virginia. It is a vivid and down to earth testimony of the history. Director Park spent 20 years making this documentary in Japan.

Two-hour film screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Producer and Editor
Ms. Park Mayeu, daughter of Director Park Soonam.

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Schedule

          12:45 PM -- Seated in the auditorium
          1:00 PM -- Film Screening
          3:00 PM -- Panel Discussion: Park Maeui, Prof. Eunah Lee (St. Joseph's College-New York), Prof. Jungah Kim (CUNY: Borough of Manhattan Community College), Dr. Jungsil Lee (George Washington Univ.)
           3:45 PM -- Reception

Monday in Washington, April 15, 2019

2019 ARMS CONTROL ASSOCIATION ANNUAL MEETING. 4/15, 9:00am-3:30pm. Sponsor: Arms Control Association. Speakers: Ambassador Richard Burt, Former U.S. Diplomat and Negotiator on the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), and U.S. Chair, Global Zero; Thomas Countryman, Former Acting Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security, and Chair of the Board, Arms Control Association; Joan Rohlfing, Chief Operating Officer, Nuclear Threat Initiative; Heather Hurlburt, Director of the New Models of Policy Change, New America; Ambassador Bonnie Jenkins, Founder of Women of Color Advancing Peace and Security (WCAPS), Member of the Arms Control Association Board of Directors; Admiral Michael Mullen, Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Bonnie Docherty, Senior Researcher, Human Rights Watch, Arms Division; Erin Dumbacher, Program Officer for the Scientific and Technical Affair Program, Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI); Amy Woolf, Specialist in Nuclear Weapons Policy, Congressional Research Service; Suzanne DiMaggio, Senior Fellow at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Frank Aum, Senior Expert on North Korea, United States Institute of Peace; Thomas Countryman, Chair of the Board, Arms Control Association; Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MA).

NEW RISKS AND NEW ARMS CONTROL SOLUTIONS: NORTH KOREA, DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGIES, AND THE NEW ARMS RACE. 4/15, 9:00am-3:30pm. Sponsor: Arms Control Association. Speaker: Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD).

DECIPHERING THE NAVY’S 2020 BUDGET REQUEST AND SHIPBUILDING PLAN. 4/15, Noon-1:00pm. Sponsor: Heritage Foundation. Speakers: Ronald O’Rourke, Specialist in Naval Affairs, Congressional Research Service; Eric Labs, Senior Analyst for Naval Force and Weapons, Congressional Budget Office; Bryan Clark, Senior Fellow, Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments; Jerry Hendrix, Vice President, Telemus Group; Bryan McGrath, Managing Director, The FerryBridge Group LLC; Thomas Callender, Senior Research Fellow for Defense Programs, Heritage Foundation.

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INSIDE THE MIND OF LASHKAR-E-TAYYABA. 4/15, 10:30am-Noon. Sponsor: Carnegie Endowment. Speakers: author, Christine Fair, Provost’s distinguished associate professor, Security Studies Program, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University; Polly Nayak, distinguished fellow, South Asia Program, Stimson Center; Joshua T. White, associate professor, Practice of South Asia Studies and fellow, Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asia Studies, Johns Hopkins SAIS.

THE SHRINES OF ISE: ARCHITECTURE AS METAPHOR. 4/15, Noon-1:00pm. Sponsor: Library of Congress. Speaker: Jordan Sand, Professor of Japanese History and Culture, Georgetown University.

U.S. ENGAGEMENT IN ASIA: A CONVERSATION WITH SINGAPORE’S MINISTER OF FINANCE HENG SWEE KEAT. 4/15, 3:00-4:00pm. Sponsor: Brookings. Speakers: John R. Allen, President, Brookings; Heng Swee Keat, Minister of Finance, Republic of Singapore; Jonathan Stromseth, Lee Kuan Yew Chair in Southeast Asian Studies, and Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Center for East Asia Policy Studies, John L. Thornton China Center.

AN ACTION AGENDA FOR LEGAL PATHWAYS TO DEEP DECARBONIZATION IN THE UNITED STATES. 4/15, 3:30-5:30pm. Sponsor: Environmental Law Institute. Speakers: William K. Reilly, Former EPA Administrator; Scott Fulton, President, ELI; John C. Dernbach, Commonwealth Professor of Environmental Law and Sustainability, Widener University Commonwealth Law School; Michael B. Gerrard, Andrew Sabin Professor of Professional Practice, Columbia Law School; Kit Kennedy, Senior Director, Climate and Clean Energy Program, Natural Resources Defense Council; Peter Lehner, Senior Strategic Advisor and Senior Attorney, Earthjustice; Charles (Chuck) Sensiba, Partner, Troutman Sanders LLP; Moderator: Rachel Jean-Baptiste, Director of Communications & Publications, ELI.

BLOCKCHAIN 2035: THE DIGITAL DNA OF INTERNET 3.0. 4/15, 4:00-5:00pm. Sponsor: Institute of World Politics (IWP). Speakers: Jared C. Tate, Founder, DigiByte; Andrew D. Knapp, CEO and founder, VESTi Inc.

PRINCIPLED AGENTS: REFLECTIONS ON CENTRAL BANK INDEPENDENCE. 4/15, 5:30-6:45pm. Sponsor: Peterson Institute. Speaker: Lesetja Kganyago, Governor of South African Reserve Bank. Webcast.

Weekend of Comfort Women Herstory

by Christian Poirot 

This weekend is one for the history of the Comfort Women. There are a number of opportunities, especially in Washington, DC. to discuss and consider the history of the Comfort Women and its unique form of sexual violence in conflict. Most of the events below employ the arts to communicate the universal emotions of the trauma and tragedy.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9

[DC] GEORGETOWN GENDER+JUSTICE INITIATIVE’S THIRD ANNUAL FACULTY RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM. 11/9, 1:00-6:30pm, Washington, DC. Sponsor: Georgetown Gender+Justice Initiative. Speakers include: Deborah Epstein, Professor of Law, GTU Law; Lisa Singh, Professor, Department of Computer Science, GTU; Jamillah Williams, Associate Professor of Law, GTU Law; Naomy Mezey, Professor of Law, GTU Law; Lane Windham, Fellow, Kalmanovitz Initiative; Kris Tiscione, Professor of Law, GTU Law.

[DC] US DEBUT SCREENING OF NEW DOCUMENTARY ON COMFORT WOMEN CONTROVERSY: SHUSENJO. 11/9, 4:00-6:30pm, Washington, DC. Sponsor: History Department, Georgetown University. Speaker: Miki Dezani, filmmaker who says he interviewed some of the most prominent figures in the debate in Japan and Korea.

[DC] SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN WARFARE: THE FILMS OF UNHEALED WOUNDS FILM FESTIVAL. 11/9-11, Washington, DC. Sponsor: Washington Coalition for Comfort Women (WCCW) and American University. Films: Nine international films highlight the history and trauma of the “Comfort Women” (CW). Four of the films are from Korea, two from Australia, and one each from China, Canada, and the Netherlands. The lives of Dutch, Chinese, Korean, Filipino, and Indonesian former Comfort Women are portrayed. At Noon on Sunday, November 11th there will be a roundtable discussion with the directors and experts on “The Art of the Witness” examining the importance of the arts in conveying the history of the CW and in preserving CW voices.
NOVEMBER 9
6:00 - 8:00PM I Can Speak (119 min)
8:00 - 8:30 Director's Talk
8:30 - 10:00 Reception

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10

[DC] SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN WARFARE: THE FILMS OF UNHEALED WOUNDS FILM FESTIVAL [SEE ABOVE]
10:00 - 11:00 50 Years of Silence (57 min)
11:00 - 11:15 Daily Bread (15 min)
11:15 - 11:45 Director's Talk
11:45 - 12:15 Break & Snack
12:15 - 1:15 Because We Were Beautiful (60 min)
1:15 - 1:40 Discussion
1:40 - 2:00 Break & Snack
2:00 - 3:40 Twenty Two (99 min)
3:40 - 4:00 Discussion
4:00 - 5:00 Break & Snack
5:00 - 7:10 Spirits' Homecoming (127 min)
7:10 - 7:50 Cocktail / Refreshment
7:50 - 8:30 Ae-Eum-Gil (100 min)
8:30 - 10:00 Director's Talk

[TOKYO] INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM: VOICES OF THE ‘COMFORT WOMEN’: REMEMBERING & RECONSTRUCTING. 11/10, 10:00am-6:00pm, Tokyo, Japan. Sponsor: International Joint Nomination Committee (ICJN). Speakers: Heisoon Shin, Director, ICJN Secretariat; Ustinia Dolgopol, Associated Professor, Flinders University; Lilian Sing, Co-chair, “Comfort Women” Justice Coalition; Yasushi Higashizawa (Lawyer); Hye-In Han, Team Leader, ICJN Secretariat; Eriko Ikeda, Commissioner, Japanese Committee; Hyun-Gyung Kim, Post-doc researcher, Berlin Free University; Phyllis Kim, Executive Director, Korean American Forum of California; Shu-Mei Huang, Assistant Professor, National Taiwan University; Edward Vickers, Professor, Kyushu University; Hyun-Kyung Lee, Post-doc researcher, University of Cambridge, Seoul National University; Akihisa Matsuno, Professor, Osaka University; Hye-In Han, Team Leader, ICJN Secretariat; Marie Louise Stig Sorensen, Professor, University of Cambridge; Mary McCarthy, Associated Professor, Drake University; Linda Hasunuma, Visiting Professor, University of Bridgeport; Yujie Zhu, Lecturer, Australian National University; Mina Watanabe, Japanese Committee, Director, Women’s Active Museum on War and Peace (WAM); Phyllis Kim, Korean American Forum of California.

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11

[DC] SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN WARFARE: THE FILMS OF UNHEALED WOUNDS FILM FESTIVAL [SEE ABOVE]

10:00 - 10:15 For Her (14 min)
10:20 - 12:04 The Apology (104 min)
12:04 - 12:30 Director's Talk

12:30-2:00pm - Roundtable Discussion on The Art of the Witness: Film in Persevering the History of the Comfort Women. Directors will discuss their work with history and media scholars. Free. Lite Lunch. Media Innovation Lab, McKinley Bldg., Rm 100.
WITH Ms. Mindy Kotler, Director, Asia Policy Point (Ms. Kotler is a public historian who works on the intersection of history and politics in Northeast Asia. She writes on the progress toward historical justice for the Comfort Women and the American POWs of Japan. In 2007, she assisted Congressman Mike Honda in 2007 in writing and defending his House Resolution 121 that asked Japan for an unequivocal, official apology to the Comfort Women.) and Dr. Greg Metcalf, Lecturer Twentieth-Century Art, Film, Department of Art History and Archaeology, University of Maryland, College Park (Dr. Metcalf teaches Film and Twentieth Century Art for the Department of Art History and Archaeology at the University of Maryland, College Park. He has a B.A. in Art/East Asian Studies/Political Science (St. Olaf), an M.F.A. in Painting and Graphics (Bowling Green) and a Ph.D. in Art and Culture (UMCP).)

WEEK OF NOVEMBER 11TH AND BEYOND
SCREENING AND DISCUSSION OF THE APOLOGY DIRECTED BY TIFFANY HSIUNG.

[PORTLAND, OR] 11/13, 6:00pm. Sponsor: People Organizing for Philippine Solidarity (POPS)and FeND. Location: US Bank Room, Multnomah Central Library, 801 SW 10th Ave, Portland, Oregon. https://www.facebook.com/events/285638112158553/

LOS ANGELES, CA: 11/15, Co-sponsored by Nikkei for Civil Rights & Redress, Progressive Asian Network for Action, Korean American Forum of California, Japanese American Women Speak (JAWS), Survivor Love Letter, Tomorrow Girls Troop, and FeND and will include an all-Japanese/Japanese American panel of activists/artists/scholars following the film, https://www.facebook.com/events/887947484928010/

SEATTLE, WA: 12/8, Co-sponsored by API Chaya, Densho, Pacific Rim Solidarity Network (Parisol), Gabriela Seattle, Seattle Evergreen Coalition, International League of Peoples’ Struggles (ILPS) Seattle, Northwest Film Forum, and the Women’s Commission of the City of Seattle as well as FeND. Https://www.facebook.com/events/1957810347850205/