(BGF) – The Boston Global Forum Japan is pleased to host its first conference on “How to improve Japan- China Relations” on September 16 in the International House of Japan.
The conference features Ambassador Ichiro Fujisaki, Ambassador Seiichi Kondo, Harvard Professor Ezra Vogel, Tokyo University Professor Koichi Hamada, and the Yomiuri Research Institute senior research fellow Masahiko Sasajima.
Watch the conference here.
HOW TO IMPROVE JAPAN-CHINA RELATIONSHIP
Date: September 16, 2014
Location: the International House of Japan
Moderator:
Ambassador Ichiro Fujisaki – Former Ambassador to the U.S; President of the America-Japan Society, Inc.; Professor of Sophia University and Keio University
Speakers and Delegates:
Professor Ezra Vogel – Henry Ford II Professor, Harvard University
Professor Koichi Hamada – Professor Emeritus, Yale University and University of Tokyo; Advisor for the Prime Minister of Japan and his Cabinet, the originator of Abenomics
Ambassador Seiichi Kondo – Director, Kondo Institute for Culture & Diplomacy; Ambassador, Special Envoy for U.N. Affairs; Project Professor, UTokyo Policy Alternative Research Institute, University of Tokyo; Former Commissioner of the Agency for Cultural Affairs
Masahiko Sasajima – Senior Research Fellow, Yomiuri Research Institute, The Yomiuri Newspaper
(BGF) – The Boston Global Forum is pleased to successfully host the conference focusing on “Building a Framework for Peace and Security in the Pacific”, featuring participation and contributions of several policy makers, scholars, and business leaders.
The September 17 conference is a part of the Forum’s series of conferences in 2014 and was live-streamed online with delegates from Washington DC, Bejing, Tokyo, and Hanoi.
Below is speeches of distinguished delegates who greatly contribute to the Forum.
Michael H. Fuchs – Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Strategy and Multilateral Affairs, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, U.S. Department of State
Ambassador Stephen W. Bosworth – Former U.S. ambassador to South Korea; Senior fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School; Dean Emeritus, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University
Dr. Anders Corr – Principal, Corr Analytics, Inc.
Professor Joseph S. Nye, Jr. – Member of Board of Thinkers, Boston Global Forum; University Distinguished Service Professor, Harvard University; Former Dean, Harvard Kennedy School
(BGF) – Ambassador Swanee Hunt, the former Ambassador to Austria, and the Eleanor Roosevelt Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School shared her thoughts on building peace and reconciliation during the Boston Global Forum’s conference on Building Framework for peace and security in the Pacific on September 17.
(BGF) – Ambassador J.D. Bindenagel, the former U.S. Ambassador and the Henry Kissinger Professor for International Security and Governverce at Bonn University shared his view on the use of Soft power to peace and reconciliation on Building framework for peace and security in the Pacific, a focus of Boston Global Forum’s conference on September 17.
(BGF) – Professor Ezra Vogel, the Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus at Harvard University; Ambassador IchiroFujisaki, the former Ambassador of Japan to the United States; Ambassador Seiichi Kondo, special advisor to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, the specially-appointed professor at the University of Tokyo and former Commissioner of Agency for Cultural Affairs; and Mr. Masahiko Sasajima, Senior Researcher at Yomiuri Research Institute gave their views and thoughts on New Structure for the Pacific during the Boston Global Forum September 17 Conference on Building a Framework for peace and security in the Pacific.
