21 May 2009
This fourth seminar in the 2009 seminar series “Changing World Views: International Challenges for the UK and Japan” looked to some key dimensions of the UK’s present-day relationship with the Asia-Pacific region.
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‘India and the UK-Japan Dialogue’ was the third in this year’s seminar series, ‘Changing World Views: International Challenges for the UK and Japan’ featuring contributions by Minister Wataru Nishigahiro, Envoy Extraordinary, Minister Plenipotentiary and Deputy Chief of Mission at the Embassy of Japan in London and Barry Gardiner MP, who founded and chaired the Labour Friends of India.
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Chris Orr, former Professor of Printmaking at the Royal College of Art gives a talk to coincide with his exhibition, LONDON-TOKYO-NAGASAKI, on his paintings and prints, regarding contemporary developments on cities and the history.
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‘North East Asia: Territorial Disputes and Divided Countries’ was the second in this year’s seminar series, ‘Changing World Views: International Challenges for the UK and Japan’.
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‘Japanese Society at War’ was launched on 5 March 2009 with a presentation by Dr Naoko Shimazu, chaired by Dr Stephen Large.
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This seminar will reveal the lengthy collaborative process involved in the creation of Shun-kin and the contemporary significance and challenges faced in staging the Japanese modern classic by Jun-ichiro Tanizaki. The production of Shun-kin was supported with a UK-Japan 2008 grant from the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation.
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Katsutoshi Yuasa with his fellow artist, Sara Lee gave a talk and a woodcut demonstration.
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This study examines how Japanese policy toward Middle East security issues is shaped by the need to both maintain Japan’s security alliance with the US and its oil relationship with states in the Middle East. Yukiko Miyagi introduces the historic roots of Japan’s policy, and then focuses on the major contemporary cases – the Iraq war, the Iranian nuclear crisis, and the Arab-Israeli conflict, to expose and explain how clashing interests and dilemmas were negotiated to arrive at policy outcomes.
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‘International Diplomacy Challenges for Britain and Japan’ was the first in the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation’s 2009 seminar series, ‘Changing World Views: International Challenges for the UK and Japan’. Summary The Chair, Sir Graham Fry, British Ambassador to Japan from 2004-2008, opened proceedings by positing that the UK and Japan tend to have the same aims
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