Symposium: The Future Security of East Asia
April 8, 2003 (Tuesday)
Symposium: The Future Security of East Asia
featuring Yoichi Funabashi (Columnist and Chief Diplomatic Correspondent of the Asahi Shimbun; Visiting Fellow of the Donald Keene Center* and the Weatherhead East Asian Institute)
301 Uris Hall (118th St. between Broadway and Amsterdam Aves.)
4:30 PM-6:00 PM (Reception to follow in Calder Lounge, Uris Hall)
Registration Required
Please go to http://www.gsb.columbia.edu/japan/ and click on “events” to register online.
Dr. Funabashi, an award-winning journalist in the field of Japanese foreign policy, discusses the future security of East Asia with leading specialists on Japan, China, and Japan-U.S.-Asia relationships.
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Co-hosted by Columbia University’s Center on Japanese Economy and Business, Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture, and Weatherhead East Asian Institute
*Dr. Funabashi is a Visiting Fellow of the Donald Keene Center, under a program supported by the United States-Japan Foundation.
FUNABASHI Yoichi (Columnist & Chief Diplomatic Correspondent, The Asahi Shimbun)
Yoichi Funabashi is a leading journalist in the field of Japanese foreign policy, currently serving as Columnist and Chief Diplomatic Correspondent at the Asahi Shimbun. He is also a contributing editor of Foreign Policy. Previously, he served as correspondent for the Asahi Shimbun in Beijing (1980-81) and Washington (1984-87), and as American General Bureau Chief (1993-97). In 1985, he received the Vaughn-Ueda Prize for his reporting on international affairs. He won the Japan Press Award, known as Japan’s “Pulitzer Prize,” in 1994 for his columns on foreign policy, and his articles in Foreign Affairs and Foreign Policy won the Ishibashi Tanzan Prize in 1992.
His books in English include Alliance Tomorrow, ed. (Tokyo Foundation, 2001); Alliance Adrift (Council on Foreign Relations Press, 1998, winner of the Shincho Arts and Sciences Award); Asia-Pacific Fusion: Japan’s Role in APEC (Institute for International Economics, 1995, winner of the Mainichi Shimbun Asia Pacific Grand Prix Award); and Managing the Dollar: From the Plaza to the Louvre (1988 winner of the Yoshino Sakuzo Prize); and in Japanese, U.S.-Japan Economic Entanglement: The Inside Story (1987); and Neibu: Inside China (1983).
His recent articles and papers in English include: “International Perspectives on National Missile Defense: Tokyo’s Temperance” (The Washington Quarterly, Summer 2000); “Japan’s Moment of Truth” (Survival, Winter 2000-01); “Japan’s Unfinished Success Story” (Japan Quarterly, 2001); “Asia’s Digital Challenge” (Survival, Spring 2002); “Northeast Asia’s Strategic Dilemmas” (Assessing the Threats, 2002); and “Learning from Five Years of Trialogue” (China-Japan-US: Meeting New Challenges, 2002).
He received his B.A. from the University of Tokyo in 1968 and his Ph.D. from Keio University in 1992. He was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University (1975-76) and an Ushiba Fellow at the Institute for International Economics (1987).
During his Visiting Fellow stay in spring 2003, he gave numerous talks on topics ranging from North Korea to new trends in U.S. foreign policy to Japan’s new course in the coming century. In addition to giving talks at Columbia, he lectured at Stanford University, the University of California-Los Angeles, the Pacific Council on International Policy (University of Southern California), Oberlin College, the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, the Japan Society of New York, the Asia Society, the Japan Society of Boston, Harvard University, and Boston University. At Columbia, he gave a talk at the East Asian Institute; presented a lecture organized by Nihon Benkyokai, a student group at the School of International and Public Affairs; participated in a class on US-Japan relations in the postwar era; and was the featured speaker of a panel discussion on security issues in East Asia.
