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On December 03, 2022, this year’s “Japan Korea Dialogue” was held at Korea University in Seoul, South Korea.
“11th Korea-Japan(Japan-Korea) Dialogue on East Asian Security (2022)”

Date: 2022.12.03(Sat.)
Time: 14:00-17:40
Venue: Room# 201, the College of Political Science and
Economics Building, Korea University
Hosts: Institute for Future Initiatives (IFI), University of Tokyo
Korea University

SessionⅠ: “Present and Future Direction of China’s Economic
Development: Implications for the Economic and
Technological Policies of Japan and the ROK”
Sesson Ⅱ: “Chinese Foreign Strategy after the 20th Party Congress”

※This forum was organized by subsidies from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

SSU published and updates of essays and working papers as the final outcome of MOFA Grant Research Project “US-China Competition and Securitization of Critical and Emerging Technologies: Evaluating Policy-making Process and Impacts on Globalized Economy”

Date: 2022.03.15 (Tue.)
Time: 12:30-14:00am(JST)
Venue: Online Seminar (ZOOM)

※This meeting was organized by subsidies from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The Security Studies Unit (SSU) of the Institute for Future Initiatives (IFI) was delighted to host a research seminar entitled “Approaches to U.S.-China Technology Competition: Perspectives from Media Studies and Sociology”.

Date: 2022.03.15(Tue.)
Time: 09:00-10:30
Venue: Online (Webinar)

Keynote speech1 : Aynne Kokas (Associate professor, Department of Media Studies at the University of Virginia)
Keynote speech2 : Seio Nakajima (Professor of Sociology and Asian Studies at the Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University)
Discussant: David Leheny (Professor in the Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies at Waseda University)
Moderator: Kiichi Fujiwara (Professor, Faculty of Law, The University of Tokyo)

※This forum was organized by subsidies from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The Security Studies Unit (SSU) of the Institute for Future Initiatives (IFI) was delighted to host a research seminar entitled “US-China Competition over Innovation Strategies and High-Tech Industry Development Policies: The Current Situation and Implications for the Future”.

Date: 2022.03.08(Tue.)
Time: 09:30-10:40
Venue: Online (Webinar)

Keynote speech1 : Adam Segal(Ira A. Lipman Chair in Emerging Technologies and National Security, Director of the Digital and Cyberspace Policy Program, Council on Foreign Relations)
Keynote speech2 : Shingo Ito (Senior Economist, the Institute for International Economic Studies)
Discussant: Ding Ke (Senior Research Fellow,　Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization)
Moderator: Ryo Sahashi (Associate Professor, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, The University of Tokyo)
Opening Remarks： Kiichi Fujiwara(Professor, Faculty of Law, The University of Tokyo)

※This forum was organized by subsidies from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The Security Studies Unit (SSU) of the Institute for Future Initiatives (IFI) and the Graduate School of Public Policy (GraSPP) of the University of Tokyo were delighted to host a research seminar entitled “The Indopacific – a priority for France”.

Date: 2022.01.21(Fri.)
Time: 10:30-12:00
Venue: Online (Webinar)

Keynote speech: Philippe Setton, Ambassador of France to Japan
Discussant: Yee Kwang Heng, Professor, Graduate School of Public Policy (GraSSP), the University of Tokyo
Moderator: Kiichi Fujiwara, Professor of Graduate Schools of Law and Politics

※This forum was organized by subsidies from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The Security Studies Unit (SSU) of the Institute for Future Initiatives (IFI), in collaboration with the Graduate School of Public Policy (GraSPP) and the University of Cambridge, was delighted to host a research seminar entitled “Resilience and Global Risks”.

Date: 2021.12.15 (Wed.)
Time: 17:00-19:00(JST)
Venue: Online Seminar(ZOOM)
Subject: “Resilience and Global Risks”

Speaker: Dr. Matthijs Maas (Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk University of Cambridge)

Speaker: Professor Hideaki Shiroyama (Director of Institute for Future Initiatives, Professor of Graduate School of Public Policy and Graduate Schools for Law and Politics)

Moderator: Dr. Yee-Kuang Heng (Professor at the Graduate School of Public Policy, The University of Tokyo)

※This forum was organized by subsidies from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Through December 10th-11th, 2021, the 13th annual conference “Five University Conference” was held online.

Theme “New Forms of Cooperation”
Date: 2021.12.10(Fri.)-2020.12.11(Sat.)
Time: 08:30-11:30
Venue: Online (Zoom)
Host: Security Studies Unit (SSU), the Institute for Future Initiatives, UTokyo

Session1: Facing cross-national risks: Global, regional, and national responses
Session2: Politics of regionalism: Integration and confrontation
Session3: Managing a global economy in a nation-first world
Session4: What is to be done? The future of liberal international order in age of realism

※This forum was organized by subsidies from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Date: 2021.12.10 (Fri.)
Time: 16:00-17:30am(JST)
Venue: Online Seminar (ZOOM)

※This meeting was organized by subsidies from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.