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Date: 2020.07.17 (Fri.)
Time: 15:00-16:30
Venue: Online Seminar (ZOOM)
Guest Speaker: Hideaki Watanabe (Former Commissioner of the Acquisition, Technology and Logistics Agency, Ministry of Defense)

※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 “Technology and Security: Japan’s Policy Agenda in the age of US-China Rivalry for Critical and Emerging Technologies”.

Date: 2020.07.09(Thu.)
Time: 15:00-16:30
Venue: Online Seminar (ZOOM)
Subject: “Technology and Security: Japan’s Policy Agenda in the age of US-China Rivalry for Critical and Emerging Technologies”
Panelist: KANEHARA Nobukatsu, Former Deputy Secretary-General of National Security Secretariat (NSS) and Assistant Chief Cabinet Secretary of Japan’s Government/ Professor, Doshisha University
Discussant: ITO Shingo, Principal Researcher, Institute for International Economic Studie
Discussant: SAHASHI Ryo, Associate Professor of International Politics, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, The University of Tokyo
Moderator: Fujiwara Kiichi, Director of Institute for Future Initiatives at the University of Tokyo/ Professor of International Politics, Faculty of Law, The University of Tokyo

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

Date: 2020.07.03 (Fri.)
Time: 13:00-14:30
Venue: Online Seminar (ZOOM)
Guest Speaker: Yasushi Sato (Niigata University)

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

Date: 2020.06.25 (Thu.)
Time: 10:30-12:00
Venue: Online Seminar (ZOOM)
Guest Speaker:Shuhei Yamada (Nikkei)

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

Taken the domestic circumstances relating to Novel Coronavirus into consideration, please accept our apology for the cancel of SSU Forum/GraSPP Research Seminar “The Japan-UK Joint Declaration on Security Cooperation in an age of maritime and technological competition”

Date: 2020.02.28(Fri.)
Time: 15:30-17:00
Venue: SMBC Academia Hall, 4F International Academic Research Building, the University of Tokyo
Subject: “The Japan-UK Joint Declaration on Security Cooperation in an age of maritime and technological competition”
Speaker: Chris Hughes, Professor, and Pro-Vice-Chancellor, University of Warwick
Speaker: Kazuto Suzuki, Professor, Hokkaido University
Speaker: David Ellis, Minister and Deputy Chief of Mission, British Embassy Tokyo
Speaker: Chiyuki Aoi, Professor, GraSPP, University of Tokyo
Moderator: Yee Kuang Heng, Professor, GraSPP, University of Tokyo

Date: 2020.02.21 (Fri.)
Time: 11:15-13:15
Venue: Seminar Room, 3th Floor, Ito International Research Center, the University of Tokyo
Attendee: Fujiwara, Sahashi, Hanai, Ito (A), Wei, Tsuzuki (The University of Tokyo), Ito(S)(IIES), Nakajima (Weseda University), Yoshioka (Hitotsubashi University), Takehana, Serizawa (Observer)

The Security Studies Unit (SSU) of the Institute for Future Initiatives (IFI), in collaboration with the Graduate School of Public Policy (GraSPP), was delighted to host a research seminar entitled “China’s Approach to Eurasia: Its Visions and Impacts”.

Date: 2020.01.07(Tue.)
Time: 10:30-12:00
Venue: SMBC Academia Hall, 4F International Academic Research Building, the University of Tokyo
Subject: “China’s Approach to Eurasia: Its Visions and Impact”
Speaker: MASUDA Masayuki, Senior Fellow, National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS), Japan
Speaker: YAMAZOE Hiroshi, Senior Fellow, National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS), Japan
Speaker: TAKAHARA Akio, Professor, Graduate School of Law and Politics and Dean of the Graduate School of Public Policy, The University of Tokyo
Speaker: SAHASHI Ryo, Associate Professor of International Politics, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, The University of Tokyo
Moderator: AOI Chiyuki, Professor, Graduate School of Public Policy, The University of Tokyo

Date: 2019.12.06(Fri.)-2019.12.07(Sat.)
Time: 10:30-12:00 (Dec. 6th ) 9:30 AM – 3:00 PM, 4:20-6:00 PM (Dec. 7th) 9:00 AM -1:10 PM
Venue: Seminar Room, 3rd Floor, Ito International Research Center, the University of Tokyo (Dec. 6th)
The Sanjo Hall, the University of Tokyo (Dec. 6th)
Tetsumon Memorial Hall, 14 Floor, Faculty of Medicine Experimental Research Building, the University of Tokyo (Dec. 7th)
Subject: “In Search for Common Security in an Age of Deglobalization”

The Security Studies Unit of the Institute for Future Initiatives (IFI), in collaboration with the Graduate School of Public Policy, was delighted to host a talk with Mr. Kiyoshi Adachi, Chief of the Intellectual Property Unit of the Division on Investment and Enterprise at the Geneva-based United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).

Date: 2019.11.27(Wed.)
Time: 10:30-12:00
Venue: SMBC Academia Hall, 4F International Academic Research Building, the University of Tokyo
Subject: “Asia’s Preferential Trade and Investment Partnerships in the Post-TPP Era”
Speaker: Mr. Kiyoshi Adachi, Chief of the Intellectual Property Unit of the Division on Investment and Enterprise at the Geneva-based United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)