I-House Academy

Prominent intellectuals who represent the "Wisdom of the 21st Century" and play a leadership role in various domains are invited to give lectures for I-House members as well as for the general public.

The twelfth I-House Academy
Deng Xiaoping's Historic 1978 Visit to Japan
Implications for the Future of Sino-Japanese Relations

Speaker: Ezra F. Vogel, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences, Emeritus, Harvard University
Moderator: Shin Kawashima, Associate Professor, University of Tokyo
Date & Time: Wednesday, October 28, 2009, 7:00 pm
Venue: Iwasaki Koyata Memorial Hall, International House of Japan
Admission: 1,500 yen （IHJ Members: Free, Students: 1,000 yen）
Language: English/Japanese (with simultaneous translation)

 

Contributing greatly to the development of China and Japanese studies in the postwar United States, Prof. Vogel has served as Director of Harvard’s East Asian Research Center, Chairman of the Council for East Asian Studies, and Director of Program on U.S.-Japan Relations at the Center for International Affairs. His publications include Japan as Number One: Lessons for America (1979), Canton Under Communism: Programs and Politics in a Provincial Capital, 1949-1968 (1980), and The Four Little Dragons: The Spread of Industrialization in East Asia (1991).

In this lecture, Professor Vogel will discuss Deng’s historic visit to Japan in 1978 and the Sino-Japanese relations since this visit.

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