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SSRC-USC Public Symposium: “POSSIBLE FUTURES FOR JAPAN”

  • Friday, January 31, 2014
  • 2:30 PM - 5:00 PM
  • Davidson Conference Center, Board Room University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA)


Friday, January 31, 2014 2:30pm—5:00pm

Davidson Conference Center, Board Room
University of Southern California

3520 Trousdale Pkwy, SOS B1,
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0037

The earthquake, tsunami and nuclear reactor meltdowns in March 2011 wreaked widespread destruction and suffering on northeast Japan. More than 50,000 evacuees remain in temporary housing and radioactive waste water is still leaking into the ocean near Fukushima. The disaster brought sweeping political changes and a strange buzzword—“Abenomics”—entered the lexicon. As Japan jousts with China in a dangerous territorial dispute and debates a controversial revision of the 1947 “peace” constitution, a quiet demographic crisis—a rapidly aging population—unfolds and seismologists warn of Big Ones ahead. A research project on Japan brought together 17 social scientists and others to look at the country’s near future. Will national resilience carry the day or will Japan falter economically and turn right politically? Experts on political economy, disaster management, and civil rights will discuss the outlook for Japan.

SPEAKERS:

“Fiscal Survival and Financial Revival”
Saori N. Katada
Associate Professor of International Relations
USC

Gene Park
Assistant Professor of Political Science
LMU

“Facing Japan’s Mega Disaster Challenges”
William J. Siembieda
Professor of City and Regional Planning
California Polytechnic State University

“Constitutional Revision: Turning Back the Clock to the Future”
Lawrence Repeta
Professor of Law
Meiji University, Tokyo

DISCUSSANTS:
T.J. Pempel
Jack M. Forcey Professor of Political Science for Study of East Asian Politics
UCB

Lieba Faier
Associate Professor of Geography
UCLA

MODERATOR:
Frank Baldwin
Former SSRC Program Director, Japan

For more information, call 213-740-0800 or E-mail lascis@usc.edu 


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