Northeast Asia has seen significant leadership changes in recent months, with the election of Park Geun-hye as president of South Korea, Xi Jinping as leader of China’s ruling Communist Party, and Shinzo Abe as prime minister of Japan. As leaders of world-leading economies, these key players will no doubt bring about dynamic change in the region’s politics and economy, while balancing relations with the United States and its own newly re-elected president.
On November 28, 2012, the Center for Northeast Asian Studies (CNAPS) at Brookings, the Japan Center for Economic Research, and Nikkei held a one-day conference on “Managing Transitions in Northeast Asia, the Global Economy, and Japan-U.S. Relations.” Three panels, featuring Brookings scholars as well leading experts from across Asia, provided their views on issues of profound importance to the Northeast Asian region including leadership transitions, global economy and trade, global governance, and U.S.-Japan relations in the 21st Century.
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Agenda
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November 28
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Welcome Remarks
9:00 am
Ryoki Sugita Chairman - Japan Center for Economic Research -
Opening Remarks
Sadako Ogata Former Brookings Expert -
Video Address
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Panel 1: Leadership Transitions in Northeast Asia
9:30 am
Richard C. Bush Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for Asia Policy Studies, John L. Thornton China CenterShotaro Yachi Professor - Waseda UniversityRay Yep Professor and Assistant Head, Department of Public and Social Administration, City University of Hong Kong - CNAPS Visiting Fellow, 2001-2002, The Brookings InstitutionLee Sook Jong Senior Fellow and Trustee - East Asia Institute, Professor - Sungkyunkwan UniversityFumiaki Kubo A. Barton Hepburn Professor of American Government and History - Graduate School for Law and Politics, University of Tokyo -
Panel 2: Global Economy and Trade
11:00 am
Tetsuya Jitsu Deputy Chief Editorial Writer for Global Economy and Trade - NikkeiKazumasa Iwata President - Japan Center for Economic ResearchMireya Solís Director - Center for Asia Policy Studies, Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for Asia Policy Studies, Philip Knight Chair in Japan Studies @solis_msolis -
Luncheon Discussion: Global Governance and Japan-U.S. Relations in the 21st Century
12:30 pm
Toshihiro Sunohara Senior Staff Writer, Nikkei - Director, Office of Global Studies, Japan Center for Economic ResearchSadako Ogata Former Brookings Expert -
Panel 3: U.S.-Japan Relations
2:00 pm
Richard C. Bush Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for Asia Policy Studies, John L. Thornton China CenterRichard Weixing Hu Associate Professor, Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Hong Kong - CNAPS Visiting Fellow, 2007-2008, The Brookings Institution -
Closing Remarks
3:30 pm
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