ESUJ-Lecture&Event

ESUJ New Year's Lecture

"JAPAN’S THREE CHALLENGES"

Dr. Margarita Estévez-Abe
Associate Professor of Political Science at Maxwell School,
Syracuse University

The general election last September resulted in the dramatic shift of power from the LDP-Komeito coalition to the DPJ-led coalition government. What changes does this portend? Is a real two-party system here to stay? Professor Margarita Estévez-Abe, winner of the Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize in 2009, is a brilliant political scientist educated at Keio and Harvard known for her excellent comparative research on Japan, the U.S. and Europe. Join us to hear how she dissects politics in Japan in terms of its “three challenges”.

Date:	Friday, 15th January 2010 　7:00-8:30pm

Place:	Japan National Press Club (9th Floor, Banquet Room) Nippon Press Center Building 2-2-1 Uchisaiwaicho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo Tel. (03) 3503-2721 Uchisaiwaicho Station (Exit A-7) on the Mita Line; JR Shimbashi Station; Kasumigaseki Station (Exit C-4) on the Chiyoda and Hibiya Lines; MAP

Admission:	¥1,000 ESUJ members (no charge for special members and student members) ¥2,000 for non-members ¥500 for students

To attend:	Please apply to the ESUJ office

Profile: Professor Margarita Estévez-Abe

B.A. in political science, Keio University; Ph.D., Government Department, Harvard University. Formerly associate professor, Government Department, Harvard University, she is Associate Professor of Political Science at Maxwell School, Syracuse University since January 2009. She has also taught at the University of Minnesota, Keio University and the University of Konstanz in Germany. She has held a number of prestigious fellowships at Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study, Hansa Institute of Advanced Study (Germany), and Collegio Carlo Alberto (Italy). Her areas of research include: the political economy of Japan; the welfare state in comparative perspective; and gender inequality in advanced industrial societies. One of her recent publications on Japan, Welfare and Capitalism in Postwar Japan (Cambridge University Press, 2008), won the Ohira Masayoshi Memorial Prize in 2009. She is spending part of her research time in Japan under the Abe Fellowship Program of the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership. Professor Estévez-Abe also regularly writes on American politics for Japanese magazines such as Shukan Ekonomisuto.