Lecture: Japan’s New Course in the Coming Century

March 13, 2003 (Thursday)

Lecture: Japan’s New Course in the Coming Century
Yoichi Funabashi (Columnist and Chief Diplomatic Correspondent of the Asahi Shimbun; Visiting Fellow of the Donald Keene Center* and the Weatherhead East Asian Institute)
Japan Society, 333 East 47th Street, New York, NY, 10017
6:30 PM (Reception to follow)
Tickets: $10, Japan Society members and seniors $8, students $5
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Yoichi Funabashi is Columnist and Chief Diplomatic Correspondent of the Asahi Shimbun and a leading journalist in the field of Japanese foreign policy. A former Washington Correspondent and American General Bureau Chief of the Asahi Shimbun, he has received numerous awards for his reporting on international affairs, including the Japan Press Award, known as Japan’s “Pulitzer Prize,” for his columns on foreign policy. Drawing from his newest book “Japan’s Postwar Dreams,” Dr. Funabashi reflects on Japan’s postwar history and nation-building aspirations and their significance for Japan’s new course in the coming century.
Co-sponsored by Asahi Shimbun International and by the Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture
*Dr. Funabashi is a Visiting Fellow of the Donald Keene Center, under a program supported by the United States-Japan Foundation.