{"id":7178,"date":"2017-01-12T09:21:13","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T00:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/icc\/?p=7178"},"modified":"2021-01-12T15:17:19","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T06:17:19","slug":"politics-economics-and-people-to-people-exchange-perspectives-on-the-future-development-of-japan-baltic-relationsjan-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/icc\/news-en\/2017\/01\/12\/7178\/","title":{"rendered":"Politics, Economics and People-to-People Exchange: Perspectives on the Future Development of Japan-Baltic Relations"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The 9th Japan-Baltic Seminar<br \/>\n\u201cPolitics, Economics and People-to-People Exchange:\u00a0 Perspectives on the Future Development of Japan-Baltic Relations\u201d<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Date&amp;Time<\/strong><br \/>\n26 January 2017 (Thu.) 2:30~6:00 pm<\/li>\n<li><strong>Venue<\/strong><br \/>\nOno Memorial Hall (Bldg.#27), Waseda University<\/li>\n<li><strong>Language<\/strong><br \/>\nEnglish (simultaneous interpretation will be provided)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Admission<\/strong><br \/>\nPre-registration required<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnp.waseda.jp\/portal\/services\/Application\/module\/Enq.php?mode=preview&amp;enq_id=4dd52fe1329cf33f5c6f6daf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The 9th Japan-Baltic Seminar Registration Form<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Purpose<\/h3>\n<p>The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan will invite leaders and influential individuals from the Baltic States to Japan and host the Japan-Baltic Seminar to promote mutual understanding and to further strengthen the friendly relations. The theme of this year&#8217;s seminar,\u3000which is in its 9th year, is \u201cPolitics, Economics and People-to-People Exchange: Perspectives on the Future Development of Japan-Baltic Relations\u201d. As outlined below, presentations from respective countries will explore the development of their relationships with Japan from (i) a political perspective, including relations with Europe (and EU) that the Baltic countries count on; (ii) an economic perspective, reviewing the Baltic trade and investment environment; and (iii) a people-to-people perspective.<\/p>\n<h3>Program<\/h3>\n<h4>14:30-14:35\u3000Opening Remarks<\/h4>\n<p>\u30fbMs. Takako TSUJISAKA, Director, Western Europe Division of European Affairs Bureau<\/p>\n<h4>14:35-14:50\u3000Keynote Address<\/h4>\n<p>\u30fbProf. Hiromi KOMORI, Faculty of Education and Integrated Arts and Sciences, Waseda University<\/p>\n<h4>14:50-15:35\u3000Session 1: Estonia: <em>Politics: Baltic Perspectives on the Future of the EU<\/em><\/h4>\n<p>\u30fbMs. Aino LEPIK von WIREN, Acting Undersecretary for European Affairs, Department of Europe and Transatlantic Cooperation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs<br \/>\n\u30fbMr. Juhan MELLIK, Foreign Desk Editor, Postimees<\/p>\n<h4>15:55-16:40\u3000Session 2: Latvia: <em>Economics: Economic relations between the Baltic, Japan &amp; Asia<\/em><\/h4>\n<p>\u30fbMr. Kaspars OZOLINS, State Secretary, Ministry of Transport of Latvia<br \/>\n\u30fbMr. Karlis BUKOVSKIS, Deputy Director, Latvian Institute of International Affairs: LIIA<\/p>\n<h4>16:40-17:25\u3000Session 3: Lithuania: <em>People-to-People Exchange: Japan and the Baltic States<\/em><\/h4>\n<p>\u30fbDr. Renaldas Ciuzas, Head of Tourism Policy Division of the Ministry of Economy<br \/>\n\u30fbMr. Simonas Kairys, Deputy Mayor of Kaunas City<\/p>\n<h4>17:25-\u3000Closing Remarks<\/h4>\n<p>\u30fbProf. Hidetoshi NAKAMURA, Head of ORIS European Research Unit, Faculty of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University<br \/>\n&lt;h3Poster<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/oris\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/12\/170126_poster.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Poster<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Hosting<\/h3>\n<p>The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan and Waseda ORIS &#8211; EUIJ Waseda<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 9th Japan-Baltic Seminar \u201cPolitics, Economics and People-to-People Exchange:\u00a0 Perspectives on the Future D [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7179,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[94],"class_list":["post-7178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","tag-general-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/icc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/icc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/icc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/icc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/icc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/icc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12000,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/icc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7178\/revisions\/12000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/icc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/icc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/icc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/icc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}