21 June 2012
With the rise of non-Western nations in the new world order, the need for international cooperation and global governance on economic, financial and security issues has never been greater. Our three speakers, Charles Grant, Akira Imamura and Professor Urs Matthias Zachmann, discussed Russia, China and global governance issues from their own varying perspectives in this seminar chaired by Gideon Rachman.
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In this invitation only seminar at Chatham House, Dr Yoichi Funabashi and Professor Heizo Takenaka, the editors of “Lessons from the Disaster: Risk management and the compound crisis presented by the Great East Japan Earthquake” (The Japan Times, 2011), reported on the lessons Japan has learned from the Great East Japan Earthquake on 11 March 2011.
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North Korea is a source of security tensions in Northeast Asia, and the regime there poses a range of problems for its own people, its neighbours and the wider world. Three speakers will discussed the security challenges presented by the new regime in North Korea to the US, South Korea and Japan.
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The 2011 Euro-area debt crisis has led us to question if we are again in a danger zone. This seminar considered the economic challenges for countries with aging populations such as the UK and Japan, and discussed structural policies that will overcome obstacles to future growth.
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Maritime issues in relation to disputed territorial boundaries are becoming a key theme in debates on regional security in East Asia. One year after the September 2010 incident, the speakers discussed Sino-Japanese relations and the impact of the event from wider political and historical perspectives.
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In labelling Japan ‘the construction state’, some have sought to hold the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure & Transport partly responsible for Japan’s current malaise. Prime Minister Koizumi’s recent attempts to address the perceived excesses of the highway building lobby have been regarded as reinforcing this impression. The seminar sought to go beyond the polemic and
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The Daiwa Japan Forum Prize 2003 was awarded to Dr Christopher S. Jones for his article, Politicizing travel and climatizing philosophy: Watsuji, Montesquieu and the European tour (vol:14, No.1 2002).
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This final, special event at the Royal Institute of British Architects marked the culmination of the series. All speakers and audience members who had attended any of the previous lectures were also invited to join the discussion on the urban utopia, which focussed on what Japan and the UK can learn from each other in seeking to make this goal a reality.
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Recent figures released by the Japan National Police Agency have shown a growth in recorded crime in ways that are similar to trends in other industrialised countries. Noriaki Kawamura explained what contributed to the rise in recorded crime and the steps that are being taken to address the problem.
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Dr Ashikari was awarded the Daiwa Japan Forum Prize 2004 for her article The Memory of Women’s White Faces: Japaneseness and the Ideal Image of Women (vol:15, No.1 2003).
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