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Tuesday in Washington, February 21, 2017
Monday is a National Holiday in the United StatesTHE BATTLE FOR SYRIA: INTERNATIONAL RIVALRY IN THE NEW MIDDLE EAST. 2/21, 10:00-11:30am. Sponsor: Project on Middle East Political Science, Elliott...
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Japan's representative to Trump
On February 20th, Rep Long led a delegation of 12 members of congress to Japan where they briefly met with PM Abe. [VIDEO]White House "listening" session with the Trump Caucus, February 16,...
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Monday in Washington February 27, 2017
CRUDE STRATEGY: RETHINKING THE U.S. MILITARY COMMITMENT TO DEFEND PERSIAN GULF OIL. 2/27, 11:00am-12:30pm. Sponsor: Cato Institute. Speakers: Editor Charles Glaser, Professor of Political Science,...
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Are Fears of Trump giving China free rein in East Asia misplaced?
APP member Daniel C. Sneider, an associate director of research for Stanford University’s Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center and an authority on US, Japan and Korea relations thinks we...
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Monday in Washington, March 6, 2017
HOLLYWOOD MADE IN CHINA. 3/6, 10:00-11:15am. Sponsor: Kissinger Institute on China and US, Woodrow Wilson Center (WWC). Speakers: Aynne Kokas, Assistant Professor, University of Virginia; Robert Daly,...
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Information access is essential to a democracy
Why is federal government data disappearing?By Joshua New, policy analyst at the Center for Data Innovation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research institute affiliated with the Information Technology and...
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Monday in Washington March 13, 2017
Motion is not Movement...CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS AT A JUNCTURE: JAPANESE AND AMERICAN PERSPECTIVE. 3/13, 9:00-11:00am. Sponsor: Brookings. Speakers: Richard C. Bush, Michael H. Armacost Chair, Chen-Fu...
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Abe’s revisionism nets own goals at home and away
What links Osaka, Seoul, Busan and Glendale, California? Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s championing of revisionist historyBY Jeff Kingston, director of Asian Studies, Temple University Japan and APP...
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Monday in Washington, March 20, 2017
LEARNING FROM PRESIDENT DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER. 3/20, 9:00-10:30am, Washington, DC. Sponsor: AEI. Speakers: Bret Baier, Fox News, author Three Days in January: Dwight Eisenhower’s Final Mission; Marc A....
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Trump is 1930s
Timothy Snyder, Housum Professor of History at Yale, has just published On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century. If you missed any of his book lectures, one is above and the one he gave...
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Abe's ideals frighten Japanese voters
Abe caught out in school scandalEast Asia Forum, 12 March 2017By Alexis Dudden, Professor of Japanese History at the University of Connecticut and APP member.‘Growing scandal’ is the only way to...
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Monday in Washington, March 27, 2017
REFORMING THE H-1B VISA SYSTEM. 3/27, 9:00am. Sponsor: Atlantic Council. Speaker: Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA-59), Chairman, Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet; Moderator:...
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Comfort Women History Deniers Denied
U.S. Supreme Court refuses to review challenge to California ‘comfort women’ statueBY ERIC JOHNSTONJapan Times, MAR 28, 2017OSAKA – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear a case calling for...
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Monday in Washington April 3, 2017
WAR IN TRANSITION: COUNTERTERRORISM AND FORCE IN THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION.4/3, 9:30-11:00am. Sponsor: American Society of International Law (ASIL). Speakers: Rita Siemion, International Legal Counsel,...
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Japan Backward
When "Forward" Means "Right"The Sankei group wants to launch a new English-language news organ that more aggressively pushes Japanese perspectives. Good luck with that. by David McNeill, writes for the...
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Monday in Washington April 10, 2017
PRIVATE ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION WITH THE HONORABLE ALAINA B. TEPLITZ. 4/10, 11:00am. Sponsor: South Asia Business Initiative, US Chamber of Commerce. Speaker: Hon. Alaina B. Teplitz, US Ambassador to...
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Monday in Washington April 17, 2017
RUSSIA IN THE GLOBAL ARMS MARKET. 4/17, 10:00-11:30am. Sponsor: CSIS. Speakers: Sergey Denisentsev, Visiting Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program, CSIS, Senior Research Fellow, Center for Analysis of...
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Monday in Washington April 24, 2017
REFLECTING ON TRUMP’S FIRST 100 DAYS. 4/24, 9:00am-Noon. Sponsor: Brookings. Speakers: Darrell M. West, Vice President, Director, Governance Studies, Founding Director, Center for Technology...
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Monday in Washington May 1, 2017
Golden Week in Japan. Many Japanese legislators in Washington.WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY. 5/1, 9:00-11:00am. Sponsor: Broadcasting Board of Governors. Speakers: Frank Sesno, Director, School of Media and...
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Politics of promoting Japanese "culture"
JAPAN HAS MADE CULTURE A POLITICAL TOOLBY Taku Tamaki, Lecturer in International Relations, Loughborough University, UK, Newsweek, 4/29/17 Much has been made of Japan’s recent turn away from pacifism...
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