{"id":57784,"date":"2019-02-23T14:20:31","date_gmt":"2019-02-23T05:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pp.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/?p=45500"},"modified":"2019-02-23T14:20:31","modified_gmt":"2019-02-23T05:20:31","slug":"2019-02-23-45500-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/graspp.neopa.jp\/en\/news\/2019-02-23-45500-2\/","title":{"rendered":"GraSPP-SAIS Joint Seminar was held in January 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-19443\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pp.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/54394331_552896765204827_3137605186051112960_n-1024x768.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On January 16th, 2019, a Joint Seminar with GraSPP and SAIS (John Hopkins University &#8211; School of Advanced International Studies) was held at the International Research Building, SMBC Academia Hall. The event was organized by the GraSPP Student Council at the request of SAIS and had the participation of 47 students, with 24 visitors from John Hopkins University. Relevant topics on Japanese Security were presented by three GraSPP professors.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19444\" style=\"background-color: transparent; color: #333333; float: left; font-family: -apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,&amp;quot; segoe ui&amp;quot;,roboto,oxygen-sans,ubuntu,cantarell,&amp;quot;helvetica neue&amp;quot;,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; height: 199px; letter-spacing: normal; max-width: 848.27px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 8px 16px 8px 0px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pp.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/50233389_293968647929476_7403614584180834304_o-300x199.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>First, Prof. Takeuchi made a presentation titled \u201cDefense Policy of Japan Focusing on the New National Defense Program Guideline\u201d where he shared the events for Japan in 2019, the geopolitical security issues of Japan and the government\u2019s approaches to deal with those. Second, Prof.Takahara presented on \u201cSecurity Issues in Japan-China Relations\u201d, focusing on the diplomatic rapprochement of China and Japan and the challenges it might face, also sharing the impression Chinese and Japanese citizens have towards the other. The third presenter, Prof. Heng, talked about \u201cJapan in the World Risk Society\u201d, explaining the ambiguity of \u201crisk\u201d in the age of globalization, and the type of \u201crisk\u201d that are considered to have more impact in the Japanese society, as the 2018 Summer heatwaves among others.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-19442\" style=\"background-color: transparent; color: #333333; float: right; font-family: -apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,&amp;quot; segoe ui&amp;quot;,roboto,oxygen-sans,ubuntu,cantarell,&amp;quot;helvetica neue&amp;quot;,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; height: 225px; letter-spacing: normal; max-width: 848.27px; orphans: 2; outline-color: #72777c; outline-style: solid; outline-width: 1px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 8px 0px 8px 16px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pp.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/50570657_293971734595834_952625429879980032_o-300x225.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After the presentations, the students had the opportunity to discuss the topics presented and formulate questions addressed to the professors. Students seemed particularly intrigued by Japan\u2019s possible constitutional changes, security strategies and the future of its diplomatic relations. GraSPP\u2019s students would be happy to welcome them again in the future.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>1\/23\/2019 \u2013 Lia Cristine Rego Santee<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 16th, 2019, a Joint Seminar with GraSPP and SAIS (John Hopkins University &#8211; School of Advance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[196,348],"coauthors":[234],"class_list":["post-57784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-faculty-news","tag-348"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/graspp.neopa.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/graspp.neopa.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/graspp.neopa.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graspp.neopa.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graspp.neopa.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/graspp.neopa.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/graspp.neopa.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graspp.neopa.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graspp.neopa.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57784"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graspp.neopa.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=57784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}