The Japan-U.S.-China Triangle and the Okinawa Question: Toward Shared History and Common Security

At the George Washington University Sigur Center for Asian Studies

Schedule:

9:00-9:30 AM: Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:30-9:40 AM:  Welcoming Remarks

9:40-11:00 AM:   Session I:  Fostering Shared History

• Chair: Michael SWAINE (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)
• HASHIMOTO Akikazu (J. F. Oberlin University)
  "Change in Japan's Public Will and the History Problem: Implications for an East Asian Peace Strategy"
• TAKARA Kurayoshi (Ryukyu University)
  "'Common Past' and the ‘History Problem': Overcoming the Okinawa Problem"
• Daqing YANG (The George Washington University)
  "A Noble Dream?: Shared History and China-Japan-U.S. Diplomacy"
• Mike MOCHIZUKI (George Washington University)
  "U.S.-Japan Relations and the History-Security Nexus"

11:00-11:10 AM: Break

11:10 AM -12:30 PM:  Session II:  Promoting Common Security

• Chair:  Mike MOCHIZUKI (George Washington University)
• TAKAHARA Akio (University of Tokyo)
  "Toward the Future and the Continuity of History: East Asia in the History of the 20th and 21st Centuries"
• KOJIMA Tomoyuki (Keio University)
  "East Asia and Japan's Modernization: the Case of Fukuzawa Yukichi" (presented by TAKAHARA Akio)
• OGAWA Kazuhisa (International Politics and Military Analyst)
  "Why the History Problem?"
• Michael SWAINE (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)
  "U.S.-China Relations after Bush: Implications for Japan and Okinawa"
• Michael O'HANLON (Brookings Institution)
  "U.S. Strategy toward the Asia-Pacific after Bush"

12:30-2:00 PM:   LUNCH with Keynote Speech by Governor NAKAIMA Hirokazu of Okinawa Prefecture

*Schedule may be subject to change

RSVP: Seating is limited so please RSVP with your name, email address and GW affiliation/organization to gsigur@gwu.edu by Tuesday, January 6, 2009. You must indicate which portions of the event you will attend (Panels I, II, and/or the luncheon).