Events category: Seminar

10 September 2012

40 Years of Love and Hate: Sino-Japanese Relations Since Diplomatic Normalisation

The 40th anniversary of the normalisation of Sino-Japanese relations is being marked in both countries with a series of events, exhibitions and cultural exchanges with the objective of promoting a ‘stable and future-oriented’ relationship. Professor Morio Matsumoto, Professor, Asia Pacific Studies (International Relations), Ritsumeikan APU and Professor Caroline Rose, Professor of Sino-Japanese Relations, University of Leeds, will discuss the relationship between the two countries, in a seminar chaired by Professor Barry Buzan, Emeritus Professor in International Relations at the London School of Economics.

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21 June 2012

Russia, China and Global Governance

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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22 March 2012

Lessons from Japan’s Disaster

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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15 March 2012

North Korean Security Challenges – Post Kim Jong-il

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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20 February 2003

The Construction State: Beyond the Polemic

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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29 November 2004

The Urban Utopia: Images of the Perfect City

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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