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Asian Vocies: Promoting Dialogue between the U. S. and Asia

"Japan and the United Nations: Past and Present"

by

Ambassador Kitaoka Shinichi
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary and
Deputy Permanent Representative of Japan to the United Nations

Discussants:

Ambassador Rust Deming
Distinguished Visiting Fellow
Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University

Moderator:

Dr. G. John Ikenberry
Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs
Princeton University

Tuesday, June 22, 2004
5:00-6:30 p.m.

at

The Brookings Institution,
Stein Room (2nd Fl.)
1775 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C.

Reception Will Follow the Seminar

Transcript (PDF format)

For information or to register for this event please contact Seminar Program at 202-296-6694 or at seminar@spfusa.org

The "Asian Voices: Promoting Dialogue between the US and Asia" Seminar Program is supported by a grant from The Sasakawa Peace Foundation

About the Panelists
-Main Speaker

Ambassador Kitaoka Shinichi is Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary and Deputy Permanent Representative of Japan to the United Nations. Previously he was a Professor of Political Science at the University of Tokyo and a Professor at Rikkyo University. Ambassador Kitaoka also has been a member of the Prime Minister's Task Force on Foreign Relations, the Japan-India Wisemen Group, and the Advisory Committee for Prime Minster Keizo Obuchi's "Vision of Japan in the 21st Century." He has received many awards, including the Yomiuri Prize for the Opinion Leader of the Year and the Suntory Prize for Liberal Arts. Ambassador Kitaoka received both a B.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo. He has published many books and articles, including Dokuritsujison: Fukuzawa Yukichi no cho-sen (Pride and Self-Independence: The Challenge of Fukuzawa Yukichi, 2002), Futsu no kunie (Toward a "Normal Country," 2000), and in English, "Is Nationalism Intensifying in Japan?: Focus on Recent Change in Security Policy," Journal of Japanese Trade and Industry (2002).

-Discussants

Ambassador Rust Deming is Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University. He joined the INSS Directorate in September 2003 on the completion of his tour as U.S. Ambassador to Tunisia. Prior to that, he served as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs. He has also been Senior Advisor to the Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs and the East Asian and Pacific Affairs Bureauﾕs Senior Advisor to the United Nations General Assembly. Ambassador Deming has spent much of his career dealing with Japanese affairs, having served in Japan as Charge d'Affaires, ad interim, and as Deputy Chief of Mission. He has received numerous awards, including the Secretary of State's Career Achievement Award in 2003. Ambassador Deming received a B.A. from Rollins College and an M.A. in East Asian studies from Stanford University. He is also a graduate of the National War College.

-Moderator

Dr. G. John Ikenberry is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University. Previously he taught at Georgetown University. Dr. Ikenberry also has been a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. Dr. Ikenberry is the author of numerous publications, including State Power and World Markets: The International Political Economy (2002), After Victory: Institutions, Strategic Restraint and the Rebuilding of Order after Major Wars (2000), and Reasons of State: Oil Politics and the Capacities of American Government (1988).

About the Seminar Program

The "Asian Voices: Promoting Dialogue between the US and Asia" Seminar Program seeks to provide a forum for Asian voices to be heard within the Washington community-voices on a wide range of regional and global topics. The Seminar Program, however, will not be restricted solely to Asia-Pacific issues, or US-Japan relations, but will focus on the broader global questions that confront both parts of the world.

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