21 October 2009
This seventh seminar in the 2009 seminar series, ‘Changing World Views: International Challenges for the UK and Japan’, reflected on relations with Russia since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
24 September 2009
This sixth seminar in the 2009 seminar series, ‘Changing World Views: International Challenges for the UK and Japan’, looked at the particular roles played by Japan and Britain in international development assistance.
18 November 2009
The eighth seminar in the 2009 seminar series, ‘Changing World Views: International Challenges for the UK and Japan’, took its title from a recently-published book that examines Japan’s role in ‘a more complicated world’.
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.
23 April 2009
‘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.
18 March 2009
‘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’.
21 January 2009
‘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
This year-long series set the challenges facing the UK and Japan within the broader framework of international diplomacy, analysing the structures and systems that allow for consultation and cooperation in national, regional and global contexts; it considered bilateral and multilateral relationships against the backdrop of history and present-day and future agendas.
18 January 2010
This first seminar in the 2010 series, ‘States in Change: National Identity in the UK and Japan’, explored the impact of political change or its prospect on society, its values and aspirations. The Democratic Party of Japan’s recent election victory has overturned over fifty years of nearly unbroken rule by the Liberal Democratic Party. Does this major political upheaval represent a rejection of the past or does it point to a profound change in Japanese society and its expectations of government?
23 February 2010
This second seminar in the 2010 series, ‘States in Change: National Identity in the UK and Japan’, explored the historical development of national identity in modern Japan, situating the Japanese experience in a wider comparative framework with particular reference to Germany and Italy.