The SMU Tower Center presents the Sun & Star Japan Symposium 2024: The Rise of Authoritarianism and U.S.- Japan Relations.

 

Date:  Monday, March 25 and Tuesday, March 26, 2024, in Dallas, Texas

Location: Prothro Hall, 5901 Bishop Blvd., Dallas, TX 75205

Parking:  Binkley Garage, 3105 Binkley Ave., Dallas, TX 75205

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The event is free and open to the public. Registration is required. Please click below for registration.

 

Program:

 

MONDAY, MARCH 25

6:30 – 7:00 PM   Registration 

 

7:00 – 8:30 PM   Dinner & Discussion

Keynote Speaker:

Mireya Solís,  Director of the Center for East Asia Policy Studies, Knight Chair in Japan Studies, Brookings Institution

”Japan’s Quiet Leadership: Reshaping the Indo-Pacific”

 

TUESDAY, MARCH 26  

9:30 – 10:00 AM   Registration

10:00 – 10:15 AM   Opening Remarks 

Hiroki Takeuchi, Director, Sun & Star Program on Japan and East Asia in the SMU Tower Center

 

10:15 – 11:45 AM   Panel I: The U.S.-Japan Alliance for New Security Cooperation?

Diana Newton, Senior Fellow of the SMU Tower Center

Adam P. Liff, Visiting Chair in Modern and Contemporary Japanese Politics and Foreing Policy, Georgetown Univeristy

• Cybersecurity and the U.S.-Japan Alliance 

Mihoko Matsubara, Chief Cybersecurity Strategist, NTT Corporation

Discussant: Stan Crow, Founder of Stan Crow Enterprises LLC and Fellow of the SMU Tower Center

 

12:00 – 1:30 PM   Luncheon & Discussion

Keynote Speaker:

Hiroyuki Akita, Commentator of Nikkei 

”The U.S.-Japan Alliance Confronting the Rise of Authoritarianism”

 

1:45 – 3:15 PM  Panel II: Businesses, Economic Security, and International Order

Ulrike Schaede, Professor of Japanese Business, UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy (GPS)

Ning Leng, Professor of Public Policy, Georgetown University

Patrick McDonald, Professor of Government, University of Texas at Austin

Discussant: Stefano Recchia, John G. Tower Distinguished Chair in International Relations and National Security, SMU

 

3:15 – 3:30 PM   Closing Remarks

James Hollifield, Director of the SMU Tower Center

 

Any person who requires a reasonable accommodation on the basis of a disability in order to participate in this program should contact the SMU Tower Center at tower@smu.edu in advance at least 4 days prior to the event to arrange for the accommodation.

 

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