6月上旬、サザン・メソディスト大学主催で、日米関係と安全保障のシンポジウムが開かれます。著名な学者の方々が参加されます。


Southern Methodist University Tower Center

Sun & Star Symposium in Japan 2016

 

U.S.-Japan Relations and Security in the Asia-Pacific: Challenges and Hopes

 

June 10 and 11, 2016

 

 

Friday, June 10

G-SEC, Global Security Research Institute

Mita Campus, Keio University

 

5:00 – 5:30 p.m.         Registration

 

5:30 – 7:00 p.m.         Keynote Speech & Discussion

 

Five Years since the Operation Tomodachi and the Current State of U.S.-Japan Alliance

 

Keynote Speaker:

Admiral Patrick Walsh (confirmed)

Admiral U.S. Navy (retired), former commander of the Pacific Fleet

Senior Fellow of the Tower Center, SMU   

 

 

7:30 p.m.                     Dinner (invited guests only)

                                    Venue: Keio University Mita Campus Faculty Club

 

 

Saturday, June 11

G-SEC, Global Security Research Institute

Mita Campus, Keio University

 

9:30 – 10:00 a.m.        Registration 

 

10:00 – 10:15 a.m.      Opening Remarks  

                                    Hiroki Takeuchi (confirmed)

Director of the Sun & Star Program on Japan and East Asia, SMU

 

 

10:15 – 11:45 a.m.      Panel I: World Politics and International Relations in the Asia-Pacific

 

                                    Grand Strategy of the United States and Security in the Asia-Pacific

                                    Joshua Rovner, Acting Director of the Tower Center, SMU (confirmed)  

                                   

Pivot to Asia? U.S. Foreign Policy and Politics of East Asia

Diana Newton, Senior Fellow of the Tower Center, SMU (confirmed) 

 

China’s Rise? The China-Japan-U.S. Triangular Relationship

Rumi Aoyama, Waseda University, Japan (confirmed)

 

Discussant: Hiroki Takeuchi, Director of Sun & Star Program on Japan and East Asia, SMU (confirmed) 

 

                                                                       

12:00 – 1:30 p.m.       Luncheon (bento lunchbox) & Discussion 

 

                                    Japanese Security Strategy and U.S.-Japan Relations

 

                                    Keynote Speaker:

                                    The Honorable Istunori Onodera (confirmed)

                                    Member of the House of the Representatives, Liberal Democratic Party

                                    Former Minister of Defense 

 

 

1:45 – 3:15 p.m.         Panel II: Domestic Politics and International Security Relations  

 

Domestic Politics of American Security Policy

Victoria Farrar-Myers, Senior Fellow of the Tower Center, SMU (confirmed)

 

                                    Japanese Domestic Politics and U.S.-Japan Relations

                                    Satoshi Machidori, Kyoto University, Japan (confirmed)

 

                                    Antagonism of the Allies? Japan-Korea Relations and the United States

                                    Junya Nishino, Keio University, Japan (confirmed)

 

Discussant: Tomoki Kamo, Keio University, Japan (invited)

                                   

 

3:15 – 3:45 p.m.         Intermission, Coffee and Snacks  

 

 

 

 

 

3:45 – 5:15 p.m.         Panel III: New Security Issues and the U.S.-Japan Alliance         

 

Cyber Security and the New U.S.-Japan Defense Guidelines  

Motohiro Tsuchiya, Keio University, Japan (confirmed) 

 

Security Measures against Jihadist Terrorism

Satoshi Ikeuchi, University of Tokyo, Japan (confirmed) 

 

Food Security after the 3.11 East Japan Earthquake

Nicolas Sternsdorff-Cisterna, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, SMU (confirmed)

                                               

Discussant: James Hollifield, Director of the Tower Center, SMU (confirmed)

 

 

5:15 – 5:30 p.m.         Closing Remarks

                                    Tomohito Shinoda, International University of Japan (confirmeds)

 

 

7:00 p.m.                     Dinner (invited guests only)

                                    Venue: Chugoku Hanten (Chinese restaurant)