Weatherhead Program on U.S.-Japan Relations:

All panels are chaired by Christina L. Davis, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, Department of Government; and Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University.

10:00-11:15 am: “Geopolitics of Alliances and International Institutions”

• “U.S.-Japan Defense Cooperation, 1951-1978: A Reassessment”
  Mayumi Itayama
  Visiting Scholar, Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University; Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and Economics, Kokushikan University
• “The Strategic Intent behind China’s Nuclear Buildup”
  Kuniharu Kakihara
  Associate, Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University; Fellow, Harvard University Asia Center; Retired Lieutenant General, Japan Air Self-Defense Force
• “Shackling the Major Powers: Bilateral Trade Effects in International Institutions”
  Tomoko Takahashi
  Visiting Scholar, Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University; Assistant Professor, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University
• Discussant: Thomas Berger
  Professor of International Relations, Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University

11:30 am-12:45 pm: “Innovations in Law and Business”

• “Improving Deliberative Collaboration among Professional and Lay Judges in Japan’s Saiban-in Trials: Practical Lessons from U.S. Jury Instructions”
  Mayu Kannari LLM ’25
  Associate, Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University; Judge, Chiba District Court, Japan
• “Bridging Entrepreneurship Education Between the US and Japan”
  Yoshiatsu Murata
  Associate, Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University; Chief Real Estate Analyst, Sasayama
• “Translating Transparency: Institutional Pathways of ESG Disclosure in the U.S., the UK, Germany, and Japan ”
  Nobukazu Nakazawa
  Associate, Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University; Managing Director, Human Resources Development, Development Bank of Japan
• Discussant: Daniel Aldrich
  Dean’s Professor of Resilience, Director, MS Resilience Studies Program, Northeastern University

2:00-3:15 pm: “Trade, Supply Chains, and Economic Security”

• “The Global Impact of Economic Policy Changes through the Supply Chain”
  Taiji Furusawa
  Visiting Scholar, Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University; Professor, Graduate School of Economics, University of Tokyo
• “Materials Industries in the Global Supply Chain: Industrial Policy and Economic Security”
  Toshiki Kita
  Associate Principal Deputy Director, Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), Japan
• “Unveiling the Utilization Structure of the U.S.-Japan Trade Agreement”
  Fumiharu Ito 
  Associate, Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University; Deputy Director, Ministry of Finance, Japan
• Discussant: William Grimes
  Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University

3:30 pm-4:30 pm: “Political Economy of Energy Transitions”

• “Entangled Fishermen: The Decline of the Fishing Industry and the Rise of Anti-Nuclear Social Movements in Japan”
  Toshiaki Yoshida
  Japan Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University; PhD, Department of Political Science, Northeastern University
• “Regulation or Markets? Divergent Paths of Clean Energy Transitions in California and Texas”
  Yutaka Yamaguchi
  Associate, Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University; Broadcast journalist, TV-Asahi
• Discussant: Mary Alice Haddad
  John E. Andrus Professor of Government, Professor of East Asian Studies, and Professor of Environmental Studies, Wesleyan University

Event details can be found on the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations website.