Rediscovering Common Bonds | Interacting Cultures
Can a shared love of manga, anime, and cosplay help draw neighbors in Northeast Asia closer together? What mutual influences can be found in today’s popular culture in China, Japan, and Korea? These questions were the focus of the third seminar in JCIE’s Rediscovering Common Bonds among Japan, China, and Korea series.
Trilateral Commission | 2017 Asia Pacific Group Regional Meeting
The Asia Pacific Group of the Trilateral Commission held its annual regional meeting in Tokyo, gathering more than 70 members, guests, fellows, and invited speakers.
Strategic Assistance: Disaster Relief and Asia-Pacific Stability | Workshop III
The third workshop provided the project research team the opportunity to engage with key constituencies within the US., Japanese, and international HA/DR communities, present tentative recommendations designed to enhance US-Japan cooperation and coordination on HA/DR, and move toward operationalizing the Strategic Assistance concept.
Strategic Assistance: Disaster Relief and Asia-Pacific Stability | Workshop II
This second workshop was designed to solicit input regarding the region’s likely reaction to the proposed US-Japan Strategic Assistance concept from leaders in the United States, Japan, Singapore, Indonesia, India, Australia, the Philippines, Myanmar, and Thailand, and to assess the regional perceptions of the current and future threat to regional stability that is posed by major disasters.
Strategic Assistance: Disaster Relief and Asia-Pacific Stability | Workshop I
A Washington DC workshop held as part of the Strategic Assistance Project, a collaborative research project of the National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR) and JCIE, discussed how to develop an alliance-based approach to humanitarian assistance and disaster relief (HA/DR) operations in South and Southeast Asia by engaging and incorporating military, government, and NGO leadership from the United States and Japan.
Korea-Japan Forum | 24th Meeting
The 24th Korea-Japan Forum was held in Tokyo on August 24–26, 2016, convening 50 participants from both countries. Discussions were held on “Japan-Korea grassroots/citizen exchange,” “Japanese and Korean foreign policy and security policy,” “Japan-Korea economic cooperation in the context of current international conditions,” and “what strategic interests do Japan and Korea share?”
Rediscovering Common Bonds | TV Dramas as a Reflection of the Times
A Japanese TV that reflected the rising tide of temp workers following deregulation was later remade employment, the show was remade for Korean TV. The producers of these two shows met for the first time in Tokyo to discuss the commonalities and differences reflected in these two dramas.
Rediscovering Common Bonds | Taste the Expanding World of Tea
The fifth seminar of this series focuses on the theme of Chinese, Korean, and Japanese tea culture. Along with a tea ceremony demonstration and tasting, the event explores how the tea world is growing in various ways through different methods of manufacturing and drinking tea using similar tealeaves.
Rediscovering Common Bonds | Talking with America about China-Japan-Korea Relations
The eighth seminar in this series brought together Gerald Curtis, one of America’s leading experts on Japanese politics and diplomacy and on US-Japan relations, as well as other experts to explore America’s relationship to trilateral China-Japan-Korea ties.
Rediscovering Common Bonds | Learning from Pre-modern Korean Diplomacy
With Japan-Korea diplomatic relations being a hot topic in recent years, more than 150 people gathered at JCIE’s 4th “Rediscovering Common Bonds among Japan, China, and Korea” seminar, titled “Screening and Discussion: Learning from Pre-modern Korean Diplomacy,” to learn what history can teach us about promoting peace between these two neighbors.
