Subject: Reminder: SPFUSA Speaker Series with Tobias Harris & Sheila A. Smith
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Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 11:01:37 -0500 (EST)

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Sasakawa USA Japan Speaker Series
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"Abenomics After The Election"
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Presentation by Tobias Harris,
Economy, Trade, and Business Fellow, Sasakawa USA
Featuring Dr. Sheila A. Smith, Senior Fellow for Japan Studies,
Council on Foreign Relations, as commentator and moderator
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When

Tuesday, December 16

12:00-1:30 PM

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Where

Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA

1819 L St. NW Suite 300

Washington, DC 20036
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On December 14th, Japan will vote in an election that looks to be a referendum on
Abenomics. While the ruling coalition looks certain to retain its majority, the 
size of the victory could have implications for the prime minister's leadership 
after the election. And regardless of the election results, the economic agenda 
for 2015 is already challenging with controversial decisions on fiscal policy, nuclear
energy, and structural reforms facing the prime minister.

How will Japan's general election affect Abenomics as the Prime Minister faces his
third year in power? On December 16th, please join us for a discussion of the election
results with Tobias Harris, Economy, Trade, and Business Fellow at Sasakawa Peace
Foundation USA.

Note: Mr. Harris's article on this subject can be found here [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001cQes1P8yTPzEvSWe-woHoBdNc6zTKd-id4xW5OTIy2LFCc0SPDfemOF-aB5R6h4SAcQlpDXuBB7JrPmO-Fu18wDxh3vmxP3s5ZiF6dnsVBHVtHJWG_wlp14lKsD8QLkyqI6YpPC4Zc70JhhOQJ-8zYrllCR6rt59U0dhRJJcs4zpn93mCq0Jfl8cq2xE67yFzehl2NKo-3LdIeJhhLalQg==&c=fVnbkSc9yZnirZfE8BOMHURYswqxH8Nhu3EIIxrGDRs4wKwJqznE2w==&ch=Js_RhV89YiJNvhjKp9QeyrJJrVMe_ij2s9OCyTyxcdW6pNPjZ9gRtA==].

This event is off the record.

Lunch will be provided.

Seating will be allocated on a first-come, first-serve basis.
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About the Speaker & Moderator

Tobias Harris is the Economy, Trade, and Business Fellow at the Sasakawa Peace Foundation
USA. He is also an analyst of Japanese politics and economics at Teneo Intelligence,
a political risk advisory firm. Mr. Harris has written about Japanese politics for
publications including the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, and Foreign Affairs
and regularly provides on-air analysis for CNBC, Bloomberg, and other networks. 
In 2006-2007, Mr. Harris worked on the staff of Keiichiro Asao, at that time a member
of the upper house of the Japanese Diet and shadow foreign minister for the Democratic
Party of Japan, for whom he conducted research on foreign policy and Japan's relations
with the United States. Mr. Harris holds an M.Phil. in International Relations from
the University of Cambridge and a BA in Politics and History from Brandeis University.
He has also conducted graduate research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
and, from 2011-2012, at the Institute for Social Science at the University of Tokyo
as a Fulbright scholar.

Sheila A. Smith, an expert on Japanese politics and foreign policy, is senior fellow
for Japan studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Dr. Smith is currently
completing the project on Japan's Political Transition and the U.S.-Japan Alliance,
and has started a project on Japan's New Strategic Challenge,the subject of her 
next book. In fall 2014, she will launch a new project on Northeast Asian Nationalisms
and Alliance Management. She also writes for the CFR blog Asia Unbound. Smith's 
newest book, Intimate Rivals: Japanese Domestic Politics and a Rising China (Columbia
University Press, 2014), will be available in December. Among her other publications
are Shifting Terrain: The Domestic Politics of the U.S. Military in Asia, East-West
Center Special Report No. 8 (East-West Center, 2006) and Local Voices, National 
Issues: Local Initiative in Japanese Policymaking (University of Michigan Press,
 2000). Dr. Smith joined CFR from the East-West Center in 2007, where she specialized
in Asia-Pacific international relations and U.S. policy toward Asia. She was also
recently affiliated with Keio University in Tokyo, where she researched and wrote
on Japan's foreign policy toward China and the Northeast Asian region on an Abe 
Fellowship. From 2004 to 2007, she directed a multinational research team in a cross-national
study of the domestic politics of the U.S. military presence in Japan, South Korea,
and the Philippines. Prior to joining the East-West Center, Smith was on the faculty
of the Department of International Relations at Boston University (1994-2000), and
on the staff of the Social Science Research Council (1992-93). She has been a visiting
researcher at two leading Japanese foreign and security policy think tanks, the 
Japan Institute of International Affairs and the Research Institute for Peace and
Security, and at the University of Tokyo and the University of the Ryukyus. She 
is vice chair of the U.S.-Japan Conference on Cultural and Educational Exchange 
(CULCON), a bi-national advisory panel of government officials and private sectors
members. She earned her MA and PhD degrees from the department of political science
at Columbia University.

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