第二回シンポジウム

International Politics Symposium


Out of the US Shadow?
Japanese Policy between Bilateralism and Multilateralism

June 20-22, 2002
Sophia (Jyochi) University



June 20
(Jyochi Kaikan 5th floor, Conference Room 5)



10:00-10:40
Introductory Remarks & Organization Session

Atsushi Ishida (Tokyo University)


10:50- 12:30
Session I: Bilateral Trade Relations

Chair: Kojo Yoshiko (Tokyo University)

Len Schoppa (University of Virginia)
"Gaiatsu, Learning, and Japan's Emerging Economic Liberalism"

Eiji Kawabata (Oklahoma University)
"Still Bilateral after All These Years: U.S.-Japan Trade Negotiations in Telecommunications"

DiscussantsAmy Searight (Northwestern University)
        Saadia Pekkanen (Middleburry Collage)


12:30-14: 00
Lunch


14:00-16:00
Session II: Multilateral Trade Policies

Chair: Keisuke Iida (Aoyama Gakuin University)

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

Amy Searight (Northwestern University)
"Trading Toolkits: MITI's Transition and Japan's Changing Behavior in the GATT/WTO Regime"

Saadia Pekkanen (Middleburry Collage)
"Sectoral Theories and Japan's WTO Activities"

DiscussantsLen Schoppa (University of Virginia)
        Eiji Kawabata (Oklahoma University)

16:00-16:20
Coffee Break


16:20-18:00
Session III: International Financial Policies

Chair: Gregory Noble (Tokyo University)

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)
"The Purposes of Asian Monetary Regionalization: Japan Cultivating a Leadership after the Asian Financial Crisis"

DiscussantsYoshiko Kojo (Tokyo University)
        Nobuhiro Hiwatari (Tokyo University)


19:30 Dinner
(Chugoku Hanten)


June 21
(Jyochi Kaikan 5th floor, Conference Room 5)


10:20-12:00
Session IV: International Financial Arrangements

Chair: Gregory Noble (Tokyo University)

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

Nobuhiro Hiwatari (Tokyo University) 
"International Arrangements and Domestic Reforms after the Asian Crisis orTaking Seriously the Sources of Policy Preferences "

Discussants
William W. Grimes (Boston University)
        Saori N. Katada (University of Southern California)


12:00-13:30
Lunch


13:30-15:10
Session V: Security and Political Economy

Chair: Yumi Hiwatari (Sophia University)

Robert Uriu (UC Irvine)
"Outward-Oriented Industrialization and Japan's Postwar Security Preferences"

Shinju Fujihira (Tafts University)
"Political Economy of the U.S.-Japan-China Security Triangle"

DiscussantsAndrew Oros (Columbia University)
         Isao Miyaoka (Osaka University of Foreign Studies)


15:10-15:40
Coffee Break


15:40-17:20
Session VI: Security Policies

Chair: Keisuke Iida (Aoyama Gakuin University)

Andrew Oros (Columbia University)
"The Continuing Politics of Domestic Antimilitarism in the 1990s"

Isao Miyaoka (Osaka University of Foreign Studies)
"Japan's Conciliation of the United States in the Climate Change Negotiations"

Discussants:Kuniko Ashizawa (Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
        Shinju Fujihira (Tafts University)

17:40-19:20
Session VII: Security Arrangements

Chair: Nobuhiro Hiwatari (Tokyo University)

Yumi Hiwatari (Sophia University)
"Between Deterrence and Economic Inducement: Japan's Strategy of Choice in the Post-Cold War Era"

Kuniko Ashizawa
Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
"Japan's Approach toward Asia-Pacific Regional Security From "Hub-and-Spoke" Bilateralism to "Multi-tiered"

DiscussantsRobert Uriu (UC Irvine)
        Atsushi Ishida (Tokyo University)


19:30 Reception
Arcadia Ichigaya (Shigaku Kaikan)


June 22
(Building 7, 11th floor, Conference Room 2)

10:00-12:00
Business Meeting


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