The Ministers of Abe's Fifth Cabinet

On October 2, 2018, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe reshuffled his Cabinet. Of the 19 Cabinet Ministers in his Fifth Cabinet, eight (42.1%) were re-appointed from the previous Cabinet and eleven (57.8%) are new. 

This Cabinet is measurably more conservative than his previous ones. The usual metric is memberships or affiliations with various Diet Leagues, especially the Diet Members’ League for the Shinto Association of Spiritual Leadership [Shinto League] (also can be translated as Shinto Political Alliance Diet Member’s Roundtable; 神道政治連盟国会議員懇談会-Shintou seiji renmei kokkai giin kondankai) and the Diet Members’ Gathering (League) for the Japan Conference, [Nippon Kaigi] (also can be translated as Diet Representative ‘Japan Conference’ Roundtable;日本会議国会議員懇談会- Nippon kaigi kokkai giin kondankai). 

Both organizations advocate revising the constitution to return Shinto as the state religion and the Emperor to political power. They oppose the current Constitution support of individual rights, women's rights, and freedom of speech. They advocate a moral education and respect for Japan's past, while rejecting any Japanese involvement in war crimes.

Only one Minister is a member of neither League: Keiichi ISHII, Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism. He is from the Komeito Party that is associated with the Buddhist religious group, Sokka Gakkai. The party has been a coalition partner with the LDP since 1999. There is one member of the U.S. Congress who is a Sokka Gakkai member.

Taro KONO, Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Masatoshi ISHIDA, Minister for International Affair and Communications; Yoshiaki HARADA, Minister of the Environment; and Takuya HIRAI, Minister for Information Technology Policy, although members of the Shinto League, are not members of the Nippon Kaigi.

There is only one female minister: Satsuki KATAYAMA, Minister of State for Regional Revitalization. In Abe's previous Cabinet (4th) there were four female ministers and in his 3rd, two.

★ New cabinet member
❇︎ Past affiliation with Shinto League, but not in recent years

Position	First Name	Last Name	Shinto League	Nippon Kaigi
Prime Minister	Shinzo	ABE	✔	✔
Minister of Finance	Taro	ASO	✔	✔
Minister for Internal Affair and Communications	Masatoshi	ISHIDA ★	✔
Minister of Justice	Takashi	YAMASHITA★	✔	✔
Minister for Foreign Affairs	Taro	KONO	✔
Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology	Masahiko	SHIBAYAMA ★	✔	✔
Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare	Takumi	NEMOTO	✔ ❇︎	✔
Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries	Takamori	YOSHIKAWA ★	✔	✔
Minister of Economy, Trade, and Industry	Hiroshige	SEKO	✔	✔
Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism	Keiichi	ISHII
Minister of the Environment	Yoshiaki	HARADA ★	✔
Minister of Defense	Takeshi	IWAYA ★	✔	✔
Chief Cabinet Secretary	Yoshihide	SUGA	✔	✔
Minister for Reconstruction	Hiromichi	WATANABE ★	✔	✔
Chairperson of the National Public Safety Commission	Junzo	YAMAMOTO ★	✔	✔
Minister for Promoting Dynamic Engagement of All Citizens	Mitsuhiro	MIYAKOSHI ★	✔	✔
Minister in charge of Information Technology Policy	Takuya	HIRAI ★	✔
Minister of State for Economic and Fiscal Policy	Toshimitsu	MOTEGI	✔	✔
Minister of State for Regional Revitalization	Satsuki	KATAYAMA ★	✔	✔
Minister in charge of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic	Yoshitaka	KATAYAMA ★	✔	✔

Monday in Washington, November 5, 2018

GLOBAL ILLICIT ALCOHOL TRADE. 11/5, Breakfast, 9:00-11:00am. Sponsor: Transnational Alliance to Combat Illicit Trade (TRACIT). Speakers: Jeffrey Hardy, Director-General, Transnational Alliance to Combat Illicit Trade; Monica Ramirez, Global Director, Regulatory & Public Policy, Anheuser-Busch InBev; Juan Ricardo Ortega, Operations Principal Advisor, Inter-American Development Bank; Moderator: Ana Rold, Editor-in-Chief, Diplomatic Courier.

IMITATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS: DEMOCRATIC MALAISE IN POST-COMMUNIST EUROPE. 11/5, Noon-2:00pm. Sponsor: International Forum for Democratic Studies, National Endowment for Democracy. Speaker: Ivan Krastev, Chairman, Centre for Liberal Strategies (Sofia), Permanent Fellow, Institute for Human Sciences (Vienna); Moderator: Marc F. Plattner, Journal of Democracy. 

BEYOND LIBERAL ORDER: STATES, SOCIETIES AND MARKETS IN THE GLOBAL INDIAN OCEAN. 11/5, 12:30-1:30pm. Sponsor: Walsh School of Foreign Service, GTU. Speakers: Dr. Harry Verhoeven, Professor, School of Foreign Service in Qatar, GTU.

DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN: LEADERSHIP IN TURBULENT TIMES. 11/5, Lunch, 12:30pm. Sponsor: National Press Club. Speaker: Doris Kearns Goodwin, author.

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IN SEARCH OF EVIDENCE-BASED SCIENCE POLICY. 11/5, 1:00-2:00pm. Sponsor: Institute for International Science and Technology Policy, GW. Speakers: Author, Dr. Albert H. Teich, Research Professor of Science, Technology, and International Affairs, Elliot School, GW; Dr. Jeff Alexander, Senior Manager of Innovation Policy, Research Triangle Institute (RTI).

VALEDICTORY REMARKS & RECEPTION WITH NEW ZEALAND AMBASSADOR TIM GROSER. 11/5, 4:00-6:00pm, Washington, DC. Sponsor: Washington International Trade Assn. Speaker: Amb. Tim Groser, New Zealand. fee.

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INVISIBLE SLAVES: THE VICTIMS AND PERPETRATORS OF MODERN SLAVERY. 11/5, 4:30-5:30pm. Sponsor: Institute of World Politics (IWP). Speaker: Author, W. Kurt Hauser.

INVESTING GLOBALLY IN PEACE, SECURITY, AND STABILITY. 11/5, 6:00-8:00pm. Sponsor: Women’s Foreign Policy Group (WFPG). Speaker: H.E. Kåre R. Aas, Ambassador of Norway to the US, Former Political Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway.

Remembering Wartime Slave Labor

Nazi slavery recalled at UNESCO-listed Völklinger Ironworks

Deutsche Welle
October 31, 2018

Grenades, aircraft parts and military equipment created in one of Nazi Germany’s largest steel and ironworks were the product of forced laborers. An installation by French artist Christian Boltanski remembers them. Voices whisper their names from all corners of the vast former iron foundry: women, men and children from 20 countries who were transported from across Nazi-occupied Europe and forced to work under inhumane conditions — and ultimately die — at the Völklinger Ironworks.

The French artist Christian Boltanski, in his installations "Forced Laborers" and "Memories," which are on display from November 1 at the site, reminds us of the 12,396 people taken from countries from Albania to Belgium, Bulgaria to France, from Denmark, Serbia, the Ukraine and nearly everywhere in between, to work as slaves as part of the Nazi arms build-up.

The installation employs the actual spoken recollections of former ironworkers, which are emitted from the numbered lockers that form the focal point for the work. Here long-suppressed memories come to life.

Christian Boltanski

➽  CLICK HERE FOR A PDF OF THE EXHIBITION CATALOG. It lists all the names of the forced laborers. This is the English version.

Worked to death

Set in the 19th century German industrial landmark, the installation also features a pile of anonymous black trousers and jackets on the floor surrounded by stacked archive boxes. The light is sparse. Here the visitor understands why, during World War II, forced laborers who were transported to Völklingen near the French border were deprived of their ID cards and made to wear a special badge. A circular forbid staff in the plant from being friendly with the prisoners: "The enemy remains the enemy," it read.

Hermann Röchling was then the head of the iron foundry and a fervent admirer of Adolf Hitler. He was a member of the senior staff of the Nazi department for the "war economy," and thus responsible for the entire armaments industry and the widespread use of imported slave labor. The deaths of 261 forced laborers, including 60 children and infants, occurred under his watch. Some of them did not see their first birthday.

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Read more: South Korea court orders Japan's Nippon Steel to compensate forced laborers

      NB: A number of the Nippon Steel and Sumitomo Steel sites in Japan have become, like the Völklinger Ironworks, UNESCO World Industrial Heritage Sites. These sites used Korean forced labor as well as Chinese (there was a policy of abduction toward the end of the war) slave labor and Allied and American POW slave labor. There is NO acknowledgment of this. 

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Boltanski, a conceptual artist, painter, sculptor and filmmaker who is a regular at the Documenta art exhibition in Kassel and in 2011 designed the French pavilion of the 54th Biennale in Venice, creates an emotive outlet to understand this dark chapter in the history of the steel plant.

A history of slavery

The Völklinger Ironworks was once the largest manufacturer of iron girders in Germany following its foundation in 1873. It was already producing war equipment during World War I, including 90 percent of the crude steel used to build German army helmets. Forced laborers from Belgium and Italy — in addition to prisoners-of-war from France and Russia — were also employed in the steel factory at the time. Around 10 percent of these slave workers died on site; these victims are also remembered in Boltanski's installation.

"Industrial culture in all European countries was no innocent culture," said general manager and managing director of the Völklinger Hütte, Meinrad Maria Grewenig, at the opening of the installation.

The postwar period was less controversial, with the ironworks booming in the 1960s and employing some 17,000 people before a worldwide steel crisis hit the in the mid-1970s. By 1986, the chimneys in Völklingen had stopped smoking.

In 1994, UNESCO declared the Völklinger Ironworks a World Heritage Site, the first industrial monument to be placed on the prestigious list. But while the site is the only surviving factory from the heyday of iron and steel production in 19th century Germany, the Völklinger Ironworks has a more sinister heritage upon which Christian Boltanski is again shining light.

The Christian Boltanski installation will be on display at the Völklinger Ironworks from November 1 through August 31, 2019.

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Monday in Washington, October 29, 2018

THINKING STRATEGICALLY ABOUT HUMAN RIGHTS CHALLENGES IN NEGOTIATIONS WITH NORTH KOREA. 10/29, 10:00-11:00am. Sponsor: Heritage. Speakers: Jung Pak, Senior Fellow, Brookings; Greg Scarlatoiu, Executive Director, Committee for Human Rights in North Korea; Dan Aum, Director of the DC Office, National Bureau for Asian Research; moderator: Olivia Enos, Policy Analyst, Asian Studies Center, Heritage. Webcast

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EBOLA THEN AND NOW: LESSONS TO RESHAPE OUR STRATEGIES AMIDST NEW OUTBREAKS. 10/29, 10:30am-Noon. Sponsor: Center for Global Development (CGD). Speakers: Oliver Johnson, Visiting Lecturer, King’s College London; Jeremy Konyndyk, Senior Policy Fellow, CGD; Carleigh Krubiner, Policy Fellow, CGD; Sinead Walsh, Ireland Ambassador to Sierra Leone; moderator: Reid Wilson, Correspondent, Hill. Webcast

HEROES OF CHARACTER. 10/29, 11:00am-Noon. Sponsor: Heritage. Speaker: Author Lawrence Reed, President, Foundation for Economic Education, Former President, Mackinac Center for Public Policy in Michigan, Real Heroes: Inspiring True Stories of Courage, Character and Conviction; moderator: Romina Boccia, Director, Center for the Federal Budget, Heritage. Webcast

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JUNGLE GROWS BACK: AMERICA AND OUR IMPERILED WORLD. 10/29, 2:00-3:15pm. Sponsor: German Marshall Fund (GMF). Speakers: Dr. Robert Kagan, Author, Stephen & Barbara Friedman Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Project on International Order and Strategy, Foreign Policy Program, Brookings; Dr. Emily Haber, Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the United States; Moderator: Dr. Karen Donfried, President, GMF.

HEALTH SECURITY AND NORTH KOREA: ADVANCE FILM SCREENING AND DISCUSSION. 10/29, 2:00-4:00pm. Sponsor: CSIS. Speakers: Shanelle Hall, Deputy Executive Director, UNICEF; Victor Cha, Senior Adviser and Korea Chair, CSIS; Kee B. Park, Paul Farmer Global Surgery Scholar, Harvard Medical School; Sue Mi Terry, Senior Fellow, Korea Chair, CSIS; moderator: J. Stephen Morrison, Senior Vice President and Director, Global Health Policy Center, CSIS. 

TRUMP-DRIVEN POLARIZATION REFLECTS DIVERGENT VIEWS OF AMERICA’S FUTURE: FINDINGS FROM THE 2018 AMERICAN VALUES SURVEY. 10/29, 2:00-4:00pm. Sponsor: Brookings. Speakers: Robert P. Jones, CEO, PRRI; Karlyn Bowman, Senior Fellow, AEI; E.J. Dionne, Jr., W. Averell Harriman Chair and Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution; William A. Galston, Ezra K. Zilkha Chair and Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution; Janelle Wong, Professor of American Studies, University of Maryland. 

FRENCH AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES THE EVOLVING U.S.-FRENCH RELATIONSHIP. 10/29, 3:00-4:00pm. Sponsor: Hudson. Speakers: Amb. Gérard Araud, Ambassador of France to the US; moderator: Walter Russell Mead, Distinguished Fellow, Hudson. 

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NORTH KOREA: UNDERSTANDING AND EXPLOITING THE MOST RECLUSIVE HUMAN INTELLIGENCE TARGET. 10/29, 4:30-5:30pm. Sponsor: Institute of World Politics (IWP). Speakers: Jihyun (Amanda) Won, Student, IWP, MA in Government, Johns Hopkins. 

VIEW OF AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY OVER 60 YEARS THROUGH THE EYES OF WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY, JR. AND THE MOVEMENT HE FOUNDED WITH ALVIN S. FELZENBERG. 10/29, 5:00-7:00pm. Sponsor: Elliott School, GWU. Speaker: author Alvin S. Felzenberg, Professor of Communications and Political Science, Annenberg School for Communications, University of Pennsylvania.

INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION IN HUMAN SPACEFLIGHT. 10/29, 5:30-6:30pm. Sponsor: CSIS. Speaker: Dr. Jeanette Epps, Astronaut, NASA, Former Technical Specialist, Ford Motor Company; moderator: Nina Easton, Senior Associate, CSIS, Co-Chair, Fortune Global Forum. Webcast.

Monday in Washington, October 22, 2018

RUSSIAN DIMENSION IN US-CHINA RELATIONS. 10/22, Noon-2:00pm. Sponsor: Initiative for US-China Dialogue on Global Issues, GTU. Speaker: Dr. Peter Clement, Visiting Senior Research Scholar, Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, Columbia University, former Deputy Assistant Director for Europe, CIA.

CAREFUL REVIEW OF ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS: ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECT ACTIVITIES WITHIN THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY. 10/22, Noon-2:00pm, Lunch. Sponsors: Leadership, Ethics and Practice Initiative, Elliot School, GW; Institute for International Science and Technology Policy, GW. Speaker: Jason Matheny, Assistant Director, National Intelligence.

INDO-PACIFIC ECONOMIC ARCHITECTURE: FROM BLUEPRINT TO REALITY. 10/22, Noon-1:30pm. Sponsor: Snowcroft Center, Atlantic Council. Speakers: Dr. Robert Dohner, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Scowcroft Center, Atlantic Council; Dr. Ken Jimbo, Professor, Keio University; Dr. Cheol Hee Park, Visiting Senior Fellow, Scowcroft Center, Atlantic Council; Dr. Akihiko Tamura, Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies; Moderator: Dr. Miyeon Oh, Director and Senior Fellow, Asia Security Initiative, Scowcroft Center, Atlantic Council.

THE NEW DYNAMICS OF GLOBAL ENERGY AND CLIMATE: A CONVERSATION WITH EXELON CEO CHRIS CRANE. 10/22, 2:00-3:15pm. Sponsor: Brookings. Speakers: Chris Crane, President and Chief Executive Officer Exelon Corporation; MODERATOR: David G. Victor, Co-Chair - Cross-Brookings Initiative on Energy and Climate.
CHINA BUILDS FOR GLOBAL POWER PROJECTION. 10/22, 4:30-5:30pm. Sponsor: Institute of World Politics (IWP). Speaker: Rick Fisher, Senior Fellow on Asian Military Affairs, International Assessment and Strategy Center.

U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS AND THE THUCYDIDES TRAP: HOW RISING POWERS AND ESTABLISHED POWERS RELATE. 10/22, 6:30-8:45pm. Sponsors: US Former Member of Congress (FMC); Committee of 100; Elliott School, GW. Speakers: Dan Maffei, Former US Representative (D-NY), Commissioner, Federal Maritime Commission; David Shambaugh, Director, China Policy Program, Elliott School, GW; Robert Gee, Former Assistant Secretary of Energy, President, Gee Strategies Group LLC.

Monday in Washington, October 15, 2018

TAIWAN’S VIBRANT DEMOCRACY AND ITS IMPACT ON ASIA AND US. 10/15, 12:15-2:00pm. Sponsor: Stimson. Speakers: Derek Mitchell, President, National Democratic Institute; Harry Harding, Ph.D., University Professor and Professor of Public Policy, University of Virginia; Distinguished Adjunct Professor, International Doctoral Program in Asia-Pacific Studies, National Cheng Chi University, Taipei, Taiwan; Shirley Lin, Ph.D., Adjunct Professor of Political Economy at the Chinese University of Hong Kong; Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Virginia; Moderator: Yun Sun, Co-Director, East Asia Program; Director of the China Program, Stimson Center.

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THE VIRTUE OF NATIONALISM. 10/15, 2:00-3:00pm. Sponsor: Heritage. Speakers: Yoram Hazony, Author, President, Herzl Institute in Jerusalem, Director, Jewish Philosophical Theology project, John Templeton Foundation; Dr. Theodore R. Bromund, Senior Research Fellow in Anglo-American Relations. 

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FOUNDATION OF THE CIA: HARRY TRUMAN, THE MISSOURI GANG, AND THE ORIGINS OF THE COLD WAR. 10/15, 4:30-6:00pm. Sponsor: Institute of World Politics (IWP). Speaker: Author Richard E. Schroeder, Former Intelligence Officer, US Army, Former Deputy Director, CIA Center for the Study of Intelligence.

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE IN THE 21ST CENTURY: THREATS AND OPPORTUNITIES (PART 3). 10/15, 6:00-7:30pm. Sponsors: Environmental Law Institute; ABA Section of Civil Rights and Social Justice; Program on Environmental and Energy Law, AU Washington College of Law. Speakers: Charles Lee, Senior Policy Advisor for Environmental Justice, USEPA; Vernice Miller-Travis, Senior Consultant, Skeo Solutions, and Founder, WE ACT for Environmental Justice; Dr. Ezra Rosser, Professor of Law, Washington College of Law, AU; Dr. William J. Snape III, Professor of Law, Washington College of Law, American University; Moderator: Kendra Brown, Senior Director for Diversity, Inclusion and Affinity, Washington College of Law, AU.

Monday in Washington, October 8, 2018

Also known as Columbus Day

HOLIDAY IN WASHINGTON
Federal Offices Closed

NEW DAWN FOR PROTECTIONISM? FROM TRADE WARS TO MEGA-REGIONAL TRADE AGREEMENTS. 10/8, 2:00-3:30pm. Sponsor: Brookings. Speakers: Edward Alden, Senior Fellow, CFR; Soumaya Keynes, US Economics Editor, Economist; Toshihiro Nakayama, Professor, Keio University, Japan Fellow, Asia Program, Wilson Center; Hylke Vandenbussche, Professor, Economics and Business, Head, Research Center of International Economics, University of Leuven; Mark Wu, Professor, Harvard Law School. Moderator: Mireya Solís, Director, Senior Fellow, Center for East Asia Policy Studies, Brookings.

Monday in Washington, October 1, 2018

THE BELT AND ROAD AT FIVE. 10/1, 10:00am-2:15pm. Sponsor: CSIS, General Electric, USA Maritime. Speakers: Kurt M. Campbell, Chairman and CEO, The Asia Group, LLC; Kathleen H. Hicks, Senior Vice President, Henry A. Kissinger Chair, Director, International Security, Program, CSIS; Vice Adm. Andy Brown, President and CEO, National Defense Transportation Association; Judd Devermont, Director, Africa Program, CSIS; Nilanthi Samaranayake, Analyst, China and Indo-Pacific Security, CNA; Amy Searight, Senior Adviser and Director, Southeast Asia Program, CSIS; Moderator: Matthew P. Goodman, Senior Vice President, William E. Simon Chair in Political Economy and Senior Adviser for Asian Economics, CSIS; Rilka Dragneva-Lewers, Professor of International Legal Studies, University of Birmingham; Nargis Kassenova, Senior Fellow, Program on Central Asia, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University; Nadège Rolland, Senior Fellow for Political and Security Affairs, NBR; Stephanie Segal, Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Simon Chair in Political Economy, CSIS; Moderator: Steve LeVine, Future Editor, Axios, Adjunct Professor, GTU, Author, The Powerhouse; Jonathan E. Hillman, Senior Fellow and Reconnecting Asia Director, CSIS.

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HAS THE WEST LOST IT? 10/1, 3:00-4:30pm. Sponsor: Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. Speakers: Author Kishore Mahbubani, Former Singapore Permanent Representative to UN, Former President, UN Security Council, Professor, National University of Singapore; Dr. Victor Cha, Senior Adviser, CSIS, Former Director for Asian Affairs, NSC; Dr. John J. DeGioia, President, Georgetown University. 

BROADCASTING THE VOICE OF AMERICA IN THE ERA OF DISINFORMATION. 10/1, Noon. Sponsors: Public Diplomacy Council; USC Center on Communication Leadership and Policy. Speaker: Dr. Haroon K. Ullah, Chief Strategy Officer, U.S. Agency for Global Media. 

Rape of Manila - A history

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RAMPAGE: MACARTHUR, YAMASHITA, 

AND THE BATTLE OF MANILA (1945)

The definitive history of one of the most brutal campaigns of the war in the Pacific.

UPDATE: AUDIO OF PRESENTATION AVAILABLE HERE.

Wednesday, September 26, 2018
Noon-2:00 PM

Sponsors
Asia Policy Point and Sigur Center for Asian Studies

Speaker
Author, James M. Scott

author of Target Tokyo, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; The War Below, and The Attack on the Liberty

Commentator
Richard Frank, Pacific War History Inc., author Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire (1999)

Location
Sigur Center
The Elliott School for International Affairs
George Washington University
1957 E St., NW, Suite 503
Washington, DC 

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Before World War II, Manila was a slice of America in Asia, populated with elegant neoclassical buildings, spacious parks, and home to thousands of U.S. servicemen and business executives who enjoyed the relaxed pace of the tropics. The outbreak of the war, however, brought an end to the good life. General Douglas MacArthur, hoping to protect the Pearl of the Orient, declared the Philippine capital an open city and evacuated his forces. The Japanese seized Manila on January 2, 1942, rounding up and interning thousands of Americans.

MacArthur, who escaped soon after to Australia, famously vowed to return. For nearly three years, he clawed his way north, obsessed with redeeming his promise and turning his earlier defeat into victory. By early 1945, he prepared to liberate Manila, a city whose residents by then faced widespread starvation. Convinced the Japanese would abandon the city as he did, MacArthur planned a victory parade down Dewey Boulevard. But the enemy had other plans. Determined to fight to the death, Japanese marines barricaded intersections, converted buildings into fortresses, and booby-trapped stores, graveyards, and even dead bodies.

The twenty-nine-day battle to liberate Manila resulted in the catastrophic destruction of the city and a rampage by Japanese forces that brutalized the civilian population. Landmarks were demolished, houses were torched, suspected resistance fighters were tortured and killed, countless women were raped, and their husbands and children were murdered. American troops had no choice but to battle the enemy, floor by floor and even room by room, through schools, hospitals, and even sports stadiums. In the end, an estimated 100,000 civilians lost their lives in a massacre as heinous as the Rape of Nanking.

Based on extensive research in the United States and the Philippines, including war-crimes testimony, after-action reports, and survivor interviews, Rampage recounts one of the most heartbreaking chapters of Pacific war history.

Monday in Washington, September 24, 2018

SCIENTIFIC, SOCIAL, AND ECONOMIC DIMENSIONS OF DEVELOPMENT IN THE AMAZON. 9/24, 9:00am-5:00pm. Sponsors: Environmental Change and Security Program, Wilson Center; Brazil Institute, Wilson Center; São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPSEP); Alcoa Foundation. Speakers: Paulo Sotero, Director, Brazil Institute; Paulo Artaxo, São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP); Rita Mesquita, Senior Researcher, National Institute of Amazon Research (INPA); Thomas Lovejoy, UN Foundation and George Mason University; Douglas Morton, Earth Scientist, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; Celso von Randow, Researcher, National Institute for Space Research (INPE); Gustavo Fonseca, Director of Programs, Global Environment Facility; José Marengo, Senior Researcher, National Center for Monitoring and Early Warning of Natural Disasters (CEMADEM); Rita Mesquita, Senior Researcher, National Institute of Amazon Research (INPA); Fábio Abdala, Alcoa Foundation.

ADDRESSING CHALLENGES IN THE MARITIME COMMONS. 9/24, 9:00-10:30am. Sponsor: National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR). Speakers include: Admiral Eduardo Bacellar Leal Ferreira, Commander of the Navy, Brazilian Navy; Vice Admiral Michael Noonan, Chief of Navy, Royal Australian Navy; Admiral Tomohisa Takei, 32nd Chief on Staff, Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, Distinguished International Fellow, U.S. Naval War College. Moderator: Admiral Jonathan W. Greenert (ret.), 30th Chief of Naval Operations, U.S. Navy, Shali Chair in National Security Studies, NBR.

RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AND PEACE IN SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST ASIA. 9/24, Noon-1:00pm. Sponsors: Hudson and Heritage. Speakers: Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali, Bishop of Rochester (1994-2009) and President of Oxford Centre for Training, Research, Advocacy & Dialogue; Husain Haqqani, Senior Fellow and Director for South and Central Asia, Hudson Institute; Emilie Kao, Director of the Richard and Helen DeVos Center.
INDO-PACIFIC AND REGIONAL TRENDS: TOWARDS CONNECTIVITY OR CONFLICT? 9/24, 12:30-1:45pm. Sponsor: Sigur Center, GW. Speakers: Dr. Mike Mochizuki, Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, GW; Dr. Robert Sutter, Professor of Practice of International Affairs, GW; Dr. Jagannath Panda, Research Fellow and Coordinator of the East Asia Centre at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi; Moderator: Dr. Deepa M. Ollapally, Director of the Rising Powers Initiative, GW.

AGENDA OF THE FINANCIAL STABILITY BOARD. 9/24, 12:45-1:45pm. Sponsor: Peterson Institute (PIIE). Speaker: Klaas Knot, President, De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB), Governing Council, European Central Bank. Webcast Only

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BORROWED TIME: TWO CENTURIES OF BOOMS, BUSTS, AND BAILOUTS AT CITI. 9/24, 4:00pm. Sponsor: Cato. Speakers: Author, James Freeman, Assistant Editor, Editorial Page, Wall Street Journal; Author, Vern McKinley, Visiting Scholar, The George Washington University Law School; Christy Ford Chapin, Associate Professor, University of Maryland; Moderator: George Selgin, Director, Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives.

NORTH KOREAN MILITARY PROLIFERATION IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA. 9/24, 4:30-5:30pm, Washington, DC. Sponsor: Institute of World Politics. Speaker: Author, Dr. Bruce E. Bechtol Jr., President, International Council on Korean Studies.

THE GENDER GAP IN 2018: SUPPORTING WOMEN IN THE INTERNATIONAL SECURITY COMMUNITY. 9/24, 6:00-7:30pm. Sponsors: Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI), Women In Defense (WID), Women's Foreign Policy Group (WFPG), Women's Foreign Policy Network (WFPN), and Women In International Security (WIIS) Global, Women in International Security (WIIS-DC). Speakers: Jenna Ben-Yehuda, Women’s Foreign Policy Network; Tamara Cofman Wittes, Leadership Council on Women in National Security; Chantal de Jonge Oudraat, Women In International Security; Kim Kahnhauser Freeman, Women’s Foreign Policy Group; Women in Defense Representative (TBD); Moderator: Laura Holgate (Nuclear Threat Initiative).