Contact: Sammy McDavid
A special international seminar Tuesday [March 30] at Mississippi State will examine current relations between the United States and one of its major allies.
"Are Japan-U.S. Relations at a Turning Point?" is the title of the invitation-only program to begin at 2 p.m. in the John Grisham Room of Mitchell Memorial Library. The Web site is www.msstate.edu/chair/radvanyi/upcoming.html.
Sponsored by the Washington, D.C.-based Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA, the event is organized by the university's Janos Radvanyi Chair in International Security Studies and Vanderbilt University's Center for U.S.-Japan Studies and Cooperation, a part of the Institute for Public Policy Studies.
Speakers include James Auer, director of the Vanderbilt center; Sumihiko Kawamura, a retired Japanese rear admiral now serving as vice president of The Okazaki Institute; Tetsuo Kotani, research fellow at the Research Institute for Peace and Security; and Yuka Uchida, manager of the Democratic Party of Japan's international department. (More biographical information at www.msstate.edu/chair/radvanyi/2010/Program-Seminar.pdf.)
While the seminar is not a public event, interested members of the news media are invited to attend.
Also providing support for the afternoon program are MSU's College of Business, and foreign languages, history, and political science and public administration departments.
For more seminar information, contact Tan Chapman at 662-325-4062 or 325-8406, or tsai@research.msstate.edu.
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