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).