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Supporting the Endowed Chair in ‘Politics and Mass Media (Asahi Shimbun)’
Visitors ‘Politics and Mass Media’ Forum
‘Politics and Mass Media’ Seminar Public Policy Seminar
Study Meeting Special Guest for Classes
Research Study Publications
Medusa Project
Project Staff Research Overseas
Visitors
Name Affiliation Term Lecture Title
Research Area
Ken Endo Professor, Hokkaido University April - June 2007 EU Politics
Gerhard Lehmbruch Emeritus Professor, Universität Konstanz 19-27 May 2007 Political Science, Comparative Political Economy
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‘Politics and Mass Media’ Forum
Outline
Date 17 May 2007
Venue Conference Room, 8F, Faculty of Law Building No.4
Speakers Hidenao Nakagawa, Secretary-General, Liberal Democratic Party of Japan
Yukio Hatoyama, Secretary-General, the Democratic Party of Japan
Title The Possibilities of Japanese Politics
Contents
Introduction Susumu Takahashi, Professor, the University of Tokyo
Comments Masaki Taniguchi, Associate Professor, the University of Tokyo
Summary Akira Morita, Professor, the University of Tokyo
Chair Katsuyuki Yakushiji, Editor in Chief of Ronza, Asahi Shimbun
Details → Ronza, July 2007, Asahi Shimbunsha
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‘Politics and Mass Media’ Seminar
Date 25 May 2007
Speaker Gerhard Lehmbruch, Emeritus Professor, Universität Konstanz
Title ‘State Structures and Organized Society in German Federalism: Path Dependence and Transformation in a Historical-Institutionalist Perspective’
Chair Kenji Hirashima, Professor, Institute of Social Science, the University of Tokyo
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Public Policy Seminar
Public Policy Seminars are co-sponsored by the Graduate School of Public Policy and University of Tokyo 21st Century Program ‘Invention of Policy Systems in Advanced Countries’.
2007 Seminars and previous seminars → the Graduate School of Public Policy Website (Japanese version)
2004 Seminars → ICCLP Annual Report 2004
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Study Meeting
· Seiken Kotai (Change of Government) Meeting
· Follow-up Meeting of the Second Anglo-Japanese Academy
· Preparatory Meetings for the Medusa Project, Berlin
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Special Guest for Classes
10 December 2015
Yoshihide Suga, Chief Cabinet Secretary; Yakashi Mikuriya, Emeritus Professor, the University of Tokyo
16 & 30 November 2015
Yoshihisa Hara, Emeritus Professor, Tokyo International University
9 November, 2015
Yoshiaki Nakagawa, Senior Staff Writer, Mainichi Shmbun
26 October 2015
Masakatsu Okamoto, Administrative Vice-Minister, Reconstructing Agency
19 October 2015
Takuya Kudo, Managing Director, Accenture Analytics
12 October 2015
Go Yamashita, Division of Public Opinion Surveys, Asahi Shimbun
14 & 28 September and 5 October 2015
Yutaka Matsuno, Visiting Researcher, International Exchange Center, Reitaku University; Former City Council Member of Nagareyama City
28 September 2015
Yuusuke Enjoji, Senior Staff, Division of Information & Administrative Reform, General Headquarters, Saga Prefecture
27 April and 13 July 2015
Tetsuya Miyazaki, Pundit
22 June 2015
Nobukatsu Kanehara, Assistant Chief Cabinet Secretary
15 June 2015
Yoshinori Arai, Senior Staff Writer, Sankei Shimbun
1 June 2015
Banri Kaieda, Advisor, Democratic Party of Japan
Yoshiaki Nakagawa, Senior Staff Writer, Mainichi Shmbun
5 May 2015
Kenji Eda, Member of the House of Representatives
11 May 2015
Taro Aso, Deputy Prime Minister/Minister of Finance
27 April 2015
Shiro Tazaki, Senior Writer, Jiji Press
16 January 2012
Kosei Kito, Senior Researcher, Institute of Journalism, Asahi Shimbun
19 December 2011
Satoshi Hashimoto, Senior Assistant to Executive Editor, Asahi Shimbun
12 December 2011
Kazunori Minehisa, Senior Staff Writer, Asahi Shimbun
5 December 2011
Yasuo Tanaka, Member of the House of Representatives
21 November 2011
Koji Matsui, Member of the House of Councillors
14 November 2011
Masao Akamatsu, Member of the House of Representatives
7 November 2011
Jun’ichi Fukuda, Deputy Director-General of the Budget Bureau, Ministry of Finance Japan
24 October 2011
Takeshi Soga, Senior Staff Writer, Asahi Shimbun
18 May 2009
Seiji Maehara, Member of the House of Representatives
16 July 2008
Taro Tsukimura, Professor, Doshisha University
24 June 2008
Yohei Kono, The Speaker of the House of Representatives
20 May 2008
Toshihiro Nikai, Chairman, General Council, Liberal Democratic Party
30 May 2007
Yasuo Fukuda, MP (became Party President and Prime Minister in September 2007)
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Research Study
· Public Survey by Asahi Shimbun and the University of Tokyo
· Survey of Politicians by Asahi Shimbun and the University of Tokyo
Details → Asahi Shimbun, 4 - 6 December 2012, 28 January 2013, etc.
Details → Asahi Shimbun, 22 July - 30 August 2010; Sekai, No.809, October 2010, Iwanami; etc.
Details → Asahi Shimbun, 18 August - 3 November 2009; Sekai, No.795, December 2009, Iwanami; etc.
Details → Asahi Shimbun, 13 July 2007; Ronza, November 2007, Asahi Shimbunsha
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Publications
Beyond Paradoxology: Searching for the Logic of Japanese History, Shiro Ishii, 2007
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Medusa Project
This project was started by three scholars from the UK, Germany and the US. Their aim is to engage in multifaceted research on the US-Japan Relationship. The first conference was held at the University of Warwick, UK, in March 2006. The second conference was held in Sapporo, Japan, with the support of Hokkaido University in August 2006. A third conference was held at Japanish-Deutshches Zentrum Berlin (JDZB), Germany, in December 2008.

The Medusa Project III Berlin
Title: Comparing Approaches to Global Governance Issues in US-Japan, US-UK and US-German Relations
Date: 10 - 12 December 2008
Venue: Japanish-Deutshches Zentrum Berlin (JDZB)
Programme:
<10 December> Pre-Meeting of Organizers
<11 December>
Opening: Friederike Bosse, JDZB
Introduction: Verena Blehinger-Talcott, Professor, Berlin Free University; Elis Krauss, Professor, University of California San Diego; Christopher Hughes, Professor, University of Warwick
Session 1: Global Governance Issues: Environment
Topic: Comparative approaches to climate change politics: The road to Copenhagen
Speaker: Miranda Schreurs, Professor, Berlin Free University
Topic: Japan’s pro-whaling campaign within the context of US-Japan relations
Speaker: Amy Catalinac, PhD candidate, Harvard University
Session 2: Global Governance Issues: Business and Energy
Topic: Governing global business: Policies towards corruption control and corporate social responsibility
Speaker: Professor Verena Blechinger-Talcott
Topic: Governing energy and resources
Speaker: Frank Umbach, Researcher, Centre for European Security Strategies, Berlin
Session 3: Global Governance Issues: Health and Consumer Safety
Topic: Who governs policies toward the AIDS crises in Africa?
Speaker: Yuka Motoda, Professor, Gakushuin University
Topic: Global security and/or safeguarding national interest? Epidemics and discourses surrounding the United States in the United Kingdom, Germany and Japan
Speaker: Naonori Kodate , Research Fellow, King’s College, London
Session 4: Global Governance Issues: Migration
Topic: Japan on the watchlist: Foreign (sex) worker and human trafficking
Speaker: David Chiavacci, Professor, Berlin Free University
Discussion and Wrap-up: Global Governance Issues
<12 December>
Session 5: Global Governance Institutions: ODA and Human Rights
Topic: ODA: A tool for poverty reduction or for managing security relations?
Speaker: Marie Soderberg, Professor, University of Stockholm
Topic: Global goals versus bilateral barriers? The international criminal court in the context of the US relations with Japan, Germany and the UK
Speaker: Kerstin Lukner, University of Duisburg-Essen
Session 6: Global Governance Institutions: The UN and G-8
Topic: The UN Security Council, U.S. alliance, and the legitimacy of the use of force
Speaker: Satoru Mori, Associate Professor, Hosei University
Topic: Managing the MedUSA: US-Japan and US-UK relations in the G8
Speaker: Hugo Dobson, Senior Lecturer, University of Sheffield
Session 7: Global Governance Institutions: Financial Institution and Investment Flows
Topic: The governance of cross-border investment flows by Japan, Europe, and the US EBR> Speaker: Saadia Pekkanen, Professor, University of Washington
Topic: IMF/World Bank
Speaker: Jennifer Amyx, Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania
Discussion and Wrap-up: Global Governance: Institutions
Final Internal Discussion Round for Conference Speakers
(*Sponsored by Japanish-Deutshches Zentrum Berlin (JDZB), Co-sponsored by Freie Universitat Berlin and University of Tokyto, Supported by Japan Foundation and Asahi Shimbun)

Details → ICCLP Annual Report 2005, 2006
Activities of the Endowed Chair before 2007 → ICCLP Annual Report
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Project Staff
Hideaki Uenohara, Project Research Associate (1 May 2011 - 31 March 2012)
Chihiro Okawa, Project Research Associate (1 April 2010 - 31 March 2011)
Shiro Sakaiya, Project Associate Professor (1 May 2009 - 31 March 2012)
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Research Overseas
New European Politics Studies
"Election 2009 in Germany"
Shunsuke Sato, Ph.D. Student (17-27 September 2009, Germany)

Seiken Kotai (Change of Government) Studies
"Fieldwork Research on Change of Government in France"
Toru Yoshida, Associate Professor, Hokkaido University (3-31 March 2009, France)
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