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Vol.3
Where Is Japan Headed? Views and Expectations from Overseas

The 3rd International Symposium of Organization for Asian Studies, Waseda University
20 Years of The Pacific Review Commemorative Symposium

April 12(sat.) International Symposium

The April 12th, 2008 symposium commemorates twenty years of the academically acclaimed journal Pacific Review. It has created discussion from many angles concerning the problems that Asia faces now by inviting scholars not only from the Asia-Pacific region, but from Europe as well.

  • Opening Address
    OKUSHIMA Takayasu(English/PDF format 18KB)
    (Dean, Organization for Asian Studies, Waseda University)

    Richard Higgott(English/PDF format 18KB)
    (The University of Warwick, An Editor of The Pacific Review)

  • Keynote Speech
    Makoto Iokibe (President, the National Defense Academy of Japan)

  • "Japan and Asia: Changing Relations in the Past and Present"
Session 1
"Views from within the Region"(English/PDF format 53KB)
  • Chaired byTakashi Terada (Waseda University)
  • Panelist:Ann Capling (University of Melbourne)
    Helen E.S.Nesadurai (Monash University, Sunway Campus, KL)
    Garry Rodan (The Asia research Centre of Murdoch University)
    Natasha Hamilton-Hart (National University of Singapore)
Session 2
"Views from outside the Region"(English/PDF format 53KB)
  • Chaired byChristopher W. Hughes (The University of Warwick, An Editor of The Pacific Review)
  • Panelists:T. J. Pempel (UC Berkeley)
    Richard Stubbs (McMaster University)
    Shaun Breslin (The University of Warwick ,An Editor of The Pacific Review)
    Heribert Dieter (Free University of Berlin)