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Next Week in Washington
MEMORIALIZING THE PAST: THE ROLE OF NON-GOVERNMENTAL ACTORS IN GERMAN-POLISH AND JAPANESE-SOUTH KOREAN RECONCILIATION. 9/24, Noon-1:30pm, Washington, DC. Sponsor: American Institute for Contemporary...
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Prime Minister of Japan's Schedule August 27-September 2
August 27, 2012 (MON) AM 07:31 Mr. Nagahama, Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary; and Mr. Tezuka, Special Advisor for PM 08:19 Both leave 08:48 Parliament 09:00 The Upper House Budget CommitteePM12:01...
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Stress Test for the Alliance
Edwin O. ReischauerCenter for East Asian Studies Seminar SeriesStress Test for the Alliance under the Democratic Party of Japan, 2009-2012 Professor William L. BrooksAPP Senior Fellow Adjunct...
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Prime Minister of Japan's Schedule September 3-9
September 3, 2012 (MON) AM 09:33 Office 10:42 Make courtesy visits for the first anniversary of his Prime Ministership 11:05 Mr. Edano, Minister of Economy, Trade, and Industry 11:32 Government/DPJ...
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Manufacturing: Presidential Politics
What Policy Initiatives Are Needed To Help U.S. Manufacturing? What the Candidates are SayingDr. Jared BernsteinFormer Principal Economic Adviser to Vice President Joseph BidenandThe Honorable Grant D....
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Beijing Building Influence, Shelving Competition in the South Pacific
Reprinted from the Jamestown Foundation's China Brief, Volume: 12 Issue: 20, October 19, 2012 By: Eric Y. ShibuyaNPC Chairman Wu Bangguo in FijiThe announcement in late August 2012 that U.S. Secretary...
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Prime Minister of Japan's Schedule Oct 1-7
October 1, 2012 (MON) * Inauguration of the Third Reshuffled Noda CabinetAM 09:32 Office 09:34 Mr. Fujimura 09:37 Mr. Saito joins 09:42 Both leave 11:09 Mr. Saito 11:32 Extraordinary ministerial...
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Producing Prosperity
Video of book presentation Producing Prosperity: Why America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance on October 3, 2012 with author Dr. Gary Pisano of Harvard Business School in Washington, DC after a day...
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Prime Minister of Japan's Schedule Oct 8-21
October 8, 2012 (MON)AM OfficePM07:54 Phone conversation with Mr. Shinya Yamanaka, Professor of Kyoto University, who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine07:55 Conversation endsOctober 9, 2012...
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South Korea and Kazakhstan Consolidate Bilateral Cooperation
Reprinted from the Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 9 Issue: 177September 28, 2012 By: Georgiy VoloshinSouth Korean President Lee Myung-bak visits Kazakhstani President Nursultan Nazarbayev (Source:...
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Prime Minister of Japan's Schedule Oct 22-28
October 22, 2012 (MON)AM 09:31 Office10:26 Mr. Matsumoto, Administrative Vice Minister of Cabinet Office; and Mr. Ssakamoto, Chief Cabinet Office Secretary10:39 Both leave11:30 Mr. Armitage, former...
View ArticleRemembering Bataan and Corregidor
In late April of this year, five former POWs of Japan who fought on Bataan and Corregidor visited Washington, DC to commemorate these historic battles. The commemoration events for the 70th anniversary...
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Prime Minister of Japan's Schedule Oct 29-Nov 4
October 29, 2012 (MON) AM 08:53 Office 09:03 Ad-hoc Minsiterial meeting 09:12 Meeting ends 10:39 Mr. Maehara, Minister of State for National Policy 11:15 Mr. Saito, Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary 11:53...
View ArticleShintaro Ishihara at the FCCJ
On November 20th , former Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara and the new president of the reactionary Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Restoration Party),gave a luncheon speech at the Foreign Correspondents...
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What’s in a Word?
Maybe everything, according to noted Japan analyst Michael Cucek. He examines the language of the Liberal Democratic Party's electoral Manifestoon the Senkaku (Daiyu Islands) and finds it more strident...
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Japan and China’s 118-Year-Old Cage Fight
Shinzo Abe, Japan's former prime minister, speaks after being elected president of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) on Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2012. Photograph by Haruyoshi Yamaguchi/BloombergBy James...
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Prime Minister of Japan's Schedule Nov 5-11
November 5, 2012 (MON)* Second Day of the 9th Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM9), and Other ActivitiesAM Meeting with Prime Minister Hun Sen of CambodiaMeeting with Prime Minister Tusk of PolandMeeting with...
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Territorial disputes complicate U.S. relations with China, Japan
by William L. Brooks. APP Senior Fellow, Adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins UniversityFirst published in the Asahi Shimbun Asia Japan Watch Online, December 3, 2012The re-election of Barack Obama...
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