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JIIA regularly organizes forums and conferences to enhance public awareness on international affairs and developing global networks and collaboration. Distinguished speakers from around the world are invited to these events to speak on current international affairs and policies and to offer their insights. These events provide useful ideas and analysis to policy makers, researchers and specialists as well as a wider public.

Forthcoming Event
to be announced
JIIA Forum / Symposium
JIIA organizes some 30 forums annually in which we invites distinguished speakers from Japan and abroad to address germane issues and offer insights on international relations and Japanese foreign policy.
Mr. Peter Maurer, President, the International Commitee of the Red Cross
Theme: "Recent trends in humanitarian emergencies and ICRC approach to promote a humanitarian space in armed conflicts: the ICRC marks 150 years of humanitarian action"
(Co-Sponsored by ICRC and JIIA)
(2013-05-20)
JIIA Forum "TPP and Growth Strategies in the Asia-Pacific from the Perspective of Economic Outocomes Analysis"#1(open access)
[Opening Remarks] Yoshiji Nogami, President, The Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA)
[Keynote Speech] Peter Petri, Professor, Brandeis University
[Presentations]
Moderator: Motoshige Ito, Professor, Tokyo University
1. Kenichi Kawasaki, Consulting Fellow, The Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI)
2. Masayoshi Honma, Professor, Tokyo University
3. Naohiro Yashiro, Visiting Professor, International Christian University (ICU)
4. Deborah Elms, Head, Temasek Foundation Centre for Trade & Negotiation (TFCTN), Nanyang Technological University(2013-03-19)
JIIA Forum "TPP and Growth Strategies in the Asia-Pacific from the Perspective of Economic Outocomes Analysis"#2(open access)
[Round-Table Discussions]
Moderator: Motoshige Ito, Professor, Tokyo University
1. Yoshiji Nogami, President, JIIA
2. Peter Petri, Professor, Brandeis University
3. Naohiro Yashiro, Visiting Professor, ICU
4. Masayoshi Honma, Professor, Tokyo University
5. Kenichi Kawasaki, Consulting Fellow, RIETI
6. Kazuyuki Kinbara, Director, International Economidc Affairs Bureau, Japan Business Federation (Nippon Keidanren)
7. Deborah Elms, Head, Temasek Foundation Centre for Trade & Negotications (TFCTN), Nanyang Techinological University(2013-03-19)
JIIA Public Forum "Deepening Japan-US-India Security Cooperation"
Co-organaized by Okazaki Institute, Grant: Center for Global Partnerships, the Japan Foundation, and the Suntory Foundation
Opening remarks: Yoshiji Nogami, President, JIIA
Summery: Hideki Asari, Deputy Director Generarl, JIIA
Presentation "Regional Security Overview" / Wallace Gregson, Former US Secretary of Defense
Presentation "Deepening Security Cooperation" / Hideaki Kaneda, Adjunct Fellow, JIIA
Presentation "Securing Global Commons" / Vinay Shanker, Member, USI Council(2013-03-07)
JIIA Forum "Prospects for the Japan-US Relation under the Second Obama Administration and the New Japanese Administration"
Michael Green, Senior Vice President and Japan Chair, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Victor Cha, Senior Adviser and the Korea Chair / Professor at Georgetown University
Wallace "Chip" Gregson, Senior Director, China and the Pacific at the Center for the National Interest
Comment:
Toshihiro NAKAYAMA, Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University / Adjunct Fellow at JIIA
L.Gordon Flake, Executive Director of the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation
Moderator: Yoshiji NOGAMI, President, The Japan Institute of International Affairs(JIIA)(2013-03-05)
JIIA Public Symposium "Security Order in the Indo-Pacific and Japan's Foreign Policy" Study Report
Project Leader: Yoshinobu YAMAMOTO, Professor Emritus, University of Tokyo
1 "The Indo-Pacific Security Order from the Perspective of Naval Strategy" / Naoto YAGI, Instructor, JMSDF Staff College
2 "The Indo-Pacific Maritime Order from the Perspective of International Law" / Jun TSURUTA, Associate Professor, Japan Coast Guard Academy
3 "The Indo-Pacific Security Order from the Perspective of India" / Toru ITO , Associate Professor, National Defense Academy of Japan
4 "The Indo-Pacific Security Order from the Perspective of ASEAN" / Susumu YAMAKAGE, Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University
5 "The Indo-Pacific Security Order from The Perspective of Australia and Indonesia" / Tsutomu KIKUCHI, Visiting Research Fellow, JIIA; Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University(2013-02-22)
JIIA Public Symposium "Technological Innovation and Changes in the International Order" Study Report
Geopolitical Changes Due to Unconventional Resource Development
--Examining Japan's Energy Strategy and Resource Diplomacy--
Moderator: TOICHI Tsutomu, Advisor, The Institute of Energy Economics
"A Re-examination of Current Energy Supply and Demand" / TAKEISHI Reiji, Professor, School of International Relations, Tokyo International University
"The Shale Resource Revolution" / NOGAMI Takayuki, Senior Economist, Japan Oil,Gas and Metals National Corporation(JOGMEC)
"Japan's Energy Strategy and Resource Diplomacy" / AKIMOTO Satohiro, Depyty General Manager, Global Strategy & Business Development Department, Mitsubishi Corporation (This presentation is omitted from video streaming according to presenter's request.)(2013-02-21)
JIIA Public Symposium "The Future of the 'Arab Spring'" Report1~3
Report 1: "The Egyptian Transition Process Causing Confusion" / Dr.Emi SUZUKI(Associate Professor, Waseda University)
(2013-02-19)
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International Policy Conference
JIIA regularly organizes international conference to exchange opinions and discuss policies. We hold a variety of meetings at which officials, journalists, academics and other foreign-policy specialists debate world affairs.
March 2013
The US-Japan alliance in action: Threats
to thwart, opportunities to seize, American Enterprise Institute (AEI), Washington, DC
(13 March 2013)
-SUMMARY(English)
-SUMMARY(Japanese)
-Video streaming(AEI-www.aei.org)
June 2012
The 3rd Japan-Russia-US Trilateral Conference on Security Challenges in Northeast Asia, Moscow
The 27th JIIA-IFANS Conference, JIIA
G20 Foreign Policy Think Tank Summit (An International Conference), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
May 2012
The 37th CSCAP Steering Committee Meeting, Kuala Lumpur
The 26th CIIS-JIIA Dialogue, Beijing
China-US-Japan Trilateral Dialogue, The 15th Meeting, Beijing
The 3rd JIIA-SAIS-APF Japan-US-Canada trilateral conference (May 7-8,2012)
The 3rd Meeting of The Japan-Canada-US Conference Series on Trilateral Cooperation, Washington D. C.
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Lecture Series
[Lecture on Disarmament and Non-Proliferation]
Center for the Promotion of Disarmament and Non-Proliferation (CPDNP-JIIA) provides a lecture series on Disarmament and Non-Proliferation, 19-21 September, 2012, and calls for the participants. See the syllabus below for the outline and application process.
Syllabus of the lecture series on Disarmament and Non-Proliferation
Topics
Membership
A highlight of JIIA's recent activities and a summary of its organization.
Publication
Journal
Kokusai Mondai (International Affairs)
No.621 May 2013 TICADâ…¤: Challenges for Africa's Development
Books
Political Infrastructure of American politics
(Fumiaki Kubo ed., 2010)
US-China Relations: Post Cold War Framework and Development
(Seiichiro Takagi ed., 2007)
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