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SUMMARY:[Symposium] Japan in the Age of Disruption: Domestic and Global Policy Challenges
DESCRIPTION:Weatherhead Program on U.S.-Japan Relations: \nAll 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. \n10:00-11:15 am: “Geopolitics of Alliances and International Institutions”\n\n“U.S.-Japan Defense Cooperation\, 1951-1978: A Reassessment”\nMayumi Itayama\nVisiting Scholar\, Program on US-Japan Relations\, Harvard University; Associate Professor\, Department of Political Science and Economics\, Kokushikan University\n“The Strategic Intent behind China’s Nuclear Buildup”\nKuniharu Kakihara\nAssociate\, Program on US-Japan Relations\, Harvard University; Fellow\, Harvard University Asia Center; Retired Lieutenant General\, Japan Air Self-Defense Force\n“Shackling the Major Powers: Bilateral Trade Effects in International Institutions”\nTomoko Takahashi\nVisiting Scholar\, Program on US-Japan Relations\, Harvard University; Assistant Professor\, Center for Southeast Asian Studies\, Kyoto University\nDiscussant: Thomas Berger\nProfessor of International Relations\, Pardee School of Global Studies\, Boston University\n\n  \n11:30 am-12:45 pm: “Innovations in Law and Business”\n\n“Improving Deliberative Collaboration among Professional and Lay Judges in Japan’s Saiban-in Trials: Practical Lessons from U.S. Jury Instructions”\nMayu Kannari LLM ’25\nAssociate\, Program on US-Japan Relations\, Harvard University; Judge\, Chiba District Court\, Japan\n“Bridging Entrepreneurship Education Between the US and Japan”\nYoshiatsu Murata\nAssociate\, Program on US-Japan Relations\, Harvard University; Chief Real Estate Analyst\, Sasayama\n“Translating Transparency: Institutional Pathways of ESG Disclosure in the U.S.\, the UK\, Germany\, and Japan ”\nNobukazu Nakazawa\nAssociate\, Program on US-Japan Relations\, Harvard University; Managing Director\, Human Resources Development\, Development Bank of Japan\nDiscussant: Daniel Aldrich\nDean’s Professor of Resilience\, Director\, MS Resilience Studies Program\, Northeastern University\n\n  \n2:00-3:15 pm: “Trade\, Supply Chains\, and Economic Security”\n\n“The Global Impact of Economic Policy Changes through the Supply Chain”\nTaiji Furusawa\nVisiting Scholar\, Program on US-Japan Relations\, Harvard University; Professor\, Graduate School of Economics\, University of Tokyo\n“Materials Industries in the Global Supply Chain: Industrial Policy and Economic Security”\nToshiki Kita\nAssociate Principal Deputy Director\, Program on US-Japan Relations\, Harvard University\, Ministry of Economy\, Trade and Industry (METI)\, Japan\n“Unveiling the Utilization Structure of the U.S.-Japan Trade Agreement”\nFumiharu Ito \nAssociate\, Program on US-Japan Relations\, Harvard University; Deputy Director\, Ministry of Finance\, Japan\nDiscussant: William Grimes\nProfessor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University\n\n3:30 pm-4:30 pm: “Political Economy of Energy Transitions”\n\n“Entangled Fishermen: The Decline of the Fishing Industry and the Rise of Anti-Nuclear Social Movements in Japan”\nToshiaki Yoshida\nJapan Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow\, Program on US-Japan Relations\, Harvard University; PhD\, Department of Political Science\, Northeastern University\n“Regulation or Markets? Divergent Paths of Clean Energy Transitions in California and Texas”\nYutaka Yamaguchi\nAssociate\, Program on US-Japan Relations\, Harvard University; Broadcast journalist\, TV-Asahi\nDiscussant: Mary Alice Haddad\nJohn E. Andrus Professor of Government\, Professor of East Asian Studies\, and Professor of Environmental Studies\, Wesleyan University\n\nEvent details can be found on the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations website.
URL:https://eals.law.harvard.edu/event/symposium-japan-in-the-age-of-disruption-domestic-and-global-policy-challenges/
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SUMMARY:Symbolic Legitimacy and Chinese Environmental Reform
DESCRIPTION:Fairbank Center Environment in Asia Lecture Series \nAlex Wang\nProfessor of Law\, UCLA School of Law \nAt the heart of debates over Chinese rule of law is the question of state legitimacy. Critics argue that legitimacy requires liberal democratic rule of law. Chinese leaders have long relied on performance legitimacy — economic development and maintenance of social stability — as the core basis of their rule. Western scholarship on modern Chinese law and politics has\, to a significant degree\, critiqued the ability of China’s current institutions to perform as claimed. \nBut apart from any actual results that Chinese governance may generate\, the entire project of governance reform can be structured in a way that influences public impressions of state legitimacy. The process of reform is not only about attaining performance goals\, but is itself a kind of performance. This act of “performing performance” also signals competence\, commitment to the people\, tradition\, nationalist strength\, and a host of other positive values to citizens and other audiences. \nThis talk explores the symbolic aspects of Chinese environmental reform and potential implications\, drawing on case studies in air pollution\, climate change\, and China’s Belt & Road Initiative. \n\n\n\nAlex Wang is Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law\, and a leading expert on environmental law and the law and politics of China. His research focuses on the social effects of law\, and the interaction of law and institutions in China and the United States. His previous research has examined\, among other things\, the institutional design of environmental law and policy\, environmental bureaucracy\, public interest litigation\, information disclosure\, and environmental courts. His work has addressed air pollution\, climate change\, and other environmental issues. \n  \nEvent details on the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies website (opens in a new tab). \nSponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. Co-sponsored by East Asian Legal Studies.
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