Japan and the Transforming International Order
Bilateral Relations, Regional Arrangements, and Global Regimes

March 12-14, 2001

Institute of Social Sciences, University of Tokyo

March 11

Participants Arrival
Welcome Dinner

March 12

9:45-10:00 Welcome Remarks
Siego Hirowatari, Director, Institute of Social Sciences

10:00-11:15
Session�T: US-Japan Economic Relations

Chair: Nobuhiro Hiwatari (Tokyo University)

Len Schoppa (Virginia University)
"U.S.-Japan Economic Relations in the 1990s: The End of Bilateralism"

Eiji Kawabata (Oklahoma University)
"Politics of Trade Sanctions between Japan and the United States since the 1990s"

Discussants：Amy Searight (Northwestern University)
　　　　 　 Saadia Pekkanen (Middleburry Collage)

11:15-11: 25 Coffee Break

11:25-12:40
Session�U: US-Japan Economic and Security Linkages

Chair: Reinhard Drifte (University of Newcastle)

Robert Uriu (UC Irvine)
"Export-Led Development and the Transformation of State Preferences in Industrialized East Asia"

Yumi Hiwatari (Sophia University)
"Issue Linkage in U.S.-Japan Security Relations"

Discussants：Reinhard Drifte (University of Newcastle)
　　　　 Tsutomu Kikuchi(Aoyama Gakuin University)

12:40-13:45 Lunch

13:45-15:00
Session �V: US-Japan Security Relations　

Chair: Toshiya Hoshino (Osaka University)

Andrew Oros (Columbia University)
"National Identity and Foreign Policy Making: Two Cases of Japanese Security Policy"

Shinju Fujihira (Tafts University)
"Macroeconomic Crises and National Security: Japan in the 1990s"

Discussants：Reinhard Drifte (University of Newcastle)
　　　　 Toshiya Hoshino (Osaka University)

15:15-16:30
Session �W: Japan and Asian Security Relations　

Chair: Yumi Hiwatari (Sophia University)

Tsutomu Kikuchi(Aoyama Gakuin University)
"An Emerging "Nested" Security Structure in the Asia-Pacific and Japan"

Kuniko Ashizawa （Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy）
"Japan's Foreign Policymaking at the Creation of the ARF: The Bilateralism-Multilateralism　Nexus"

Discussants：Kiichi Fujiwara (Tokyo University)
　　　　　 Yumi Hiwatari (Sophia University)

16:30-16:45 Coffee Break

16:45-18:50
Session V: Japan and Asian Economic Relations

Chair: Yoshiko Kojo (Yoshiko Kojo)

William W. Grimes (Boston University)
"Internationalization of the Yen and the Stability of the Asian Regional Economy," Contribution or Insulation?"

Saori N. Katada (University of Southern California)
"Japan and Asian Regionalization: Cultivating Constituency in International Finance"　

Ellis Krauss (UC San Diego)
"The U.S., Japan, and Trade Liberalization: From Bilateralism to Regional Multilateralism to Regionalism-Plus"

Discussants：Yoshiko Kojo (Yoshiko Kojo)
　　　 Nobuhiro Hiwatari (Tokyo University)

19:00-21:00 Reception

March 13

9:45-11:00
Session�Y: Japan and the Global Trading Regime

Chair: Len Schoppa (Virginia University)

Amy Searight (Northwestern University)
"The Changing Japan's Multilateral Trade Behavior"

Saadia Pekkanen (Middleburry Collage)
"The Legalization of Japan's Foreign Trade Diplomacy: Causes, Constraints, and Consequences in a WTO World"

Discussants：Len Schoppa (Virginia University)
　　 　 Junji Nakagawa (Tokyo University)

11:00-11:15 Coffee Break

　
11:15-12:30
Session�Z: Japan and the Global Financial Regime

Chair: Keisuke Iida (Aoyama Gakuin University)

Yoshiko Kojo (Tokyo University)
"BIS Reglations and Japan: The Domestic Factors of Regime Creation and Compliance"

Nobuhiro Hiwatari (Tokyo University)　
"The Asian Financial Crisis and the Politics of the IMF"

Discussants：William W. Grimes (Boston University)
Keisuke Iida (Aoyama Gakuin University)

12:30-13:45 Lunch 　　　　

　
13:45-15:00
Session�[: Japan and the Global Environmental Regime

Chair: Hideaki Shiroyama (Tokyo University)

Isao Miyaoka (Harvard University)
"The Two-level Construction of State Identity and Interests: Japanese foreign policy on sustainable development in the 1990s"

Takahiro Yamada (Sophia University)
"The Global Environmental Regime and Japan's Reponse"

Discussants：Atushi Ishida (Tokyo Metropolitan University)
　　 　 Hideaki Shiroyama (Tokyo University)

15:15-16:30
Session IX: Japan and Global Regimes

Chair: Takahiro Yamada (Sophia University)

Toshiya Hoshino (Osaka University)
"Changes in the Global Security Regime and Japan"

Keisuke Iida (Aoyama Gakuin University)
"Changes in the Global Human Rights Regime and Japan"　

Discussants：Takahiro Yamada (Sophia University)
Atsushi Ishida (Tokyo Metropolitan University)

16:30-16:45 Coffee Break

16:45-18:30
Session X: Coordination Meeting 1: Overall Project Structure

Moderator: Yoshiko Kojo (Tokyo University)

Dinner

March 14

10:00-12:00
Session XI: Coordination Meeting 2: Individual Revision Plans

Moderator: Atsushi Ishida (Tokyo Metropolitan University)

12:00-13:00 Lunch

Participants Depart