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New Beginnings: In the U.S.- South Korean Alliance

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New Beginnings, a nonpartisan policy study group of former senior U.S. officials and other experts on Korea, will discuss the results of President Lee's visit and the prospects for forging a real partnership with South Korea at the World Affairs Council, San Francisco on June 3.

Panelists:

Michael H. Armacost, former U.S. Ambassador to Japan and the Philippines, and former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs; currently the Shorenstein Distinguished Fellow, Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC), Stanford University

Evans J.R. Revere, President of the Korea Society, and former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affair

Gi-Wook Shin, Director of Shorenstein APARC and Professor of Sociology, Stanford University

Daniel C. Sneider, Associate Director for Research, Shorenstein APARC, Stanford University, and formerly a foreign affairs correspondent and columnist

David Straub, Pantech Research Fellow at Stanford's Shorenstein APARC, and a former State Department Korean affairs director

Bruce Pickering, Executive Director of the Asia Society Northern California (moderator)

This event is co-sponsored by the Asia Society of Northern California and World Affairs Council.

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Shorenstein APARC announces Alisa Jones as center's first Northeast Asia History Fellow

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Shorenstein APARC is pleased to announce that Alisa Jones has been chosen as the 2008-2009 Northeast East Asia History Fellow.

Alisa Jones received her MA from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London and her PhD from the University of Leeds. She has recently collaborated on various book projects addressing the role of history textbooks, historiography, and popular culture in shaping public memory and national identities across East Asia.

As the Northeast Asia History Fellow, Alisa Jones will be a resident at the center for one academic year. During her year at the center, she will be researching on issues of historical memory, identity, conflict and reconciliation in the Northeast Asian region. She will also teach a credited Stanford lecture or seminar course through the university's center for East Asian and present a lecture on her research topic.

This fellowship was made possible through the generosity of the Northeast Asia History Foundation

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Alisa Jones

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Stanford University
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Alisa Jones received her MA from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and her PhD from the University of Leeds. She specialized in the history of modern and contemporary China with secondary interests in politics and education, writing her doctoral dissertation on history education policy and praxis in the post-Mao reform-and-opening period.

Recently, Jones collaborated on book projects that address the roles played by history textbooks, historiography, and popular culture in shaping public memory and national identities across East Asia and the ways in which the past has been contested in various domestic and international arenas. She is currently working on several related projects, examining the goals and content of history and citizenship education as well as the ways in which other public and private mechanisms (such as the legal system, patriotic campaigns, the media, the internet) have been used and abused to define the parameters of acceptable debate about the past and the claims on the citizens of the present and future it represents.

While at Shorenstein APARC, she will be researching and teaching on issues of historical memory, identity, conflict and reconciliation in the Northeast Asian region.

POSCO NGO Fellowship Committee admitted 10 applicants for 2008 Fellowship Program

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Ten 2008 POSCO NGO Fellows were selected by the Fellowship admission committee during the second POSCO NGO Fellowship Conference held on May 1 and 2 at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

George Washington University:

Ms. Gyung Lan Jung, Center for Peaceful Future of Korea

Mr. Hyun-Mo Choi, Korea Migrant Workers' Human Rights

Indiana University:

Mr. Seoung-Hwan Jeon, National Council of YMCAs of Korea

Mr. Jae-Seok Kim, Gwangju Citizen's Coalition for Economic Justice

Columbia University:

Mr. Tae Ho Lee, People's Solidarity for Participatory Democracy

Mr. Boyoun Joung, Korea Youth Corps

University of British Columbia:

Ms. Jeong Sook Park, Korean Women Link

Ms. Hee-Seon Jeong, Seocho Volunteer Center

Stanford University:

Ms. Hye-Jeong Kim, Korea Federation for Environmental Movement

Mr. Hyun Gon Jung, Korean Council for Reconciliation and Cooperation

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Are the Chinese Anti-American?

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Iain Johnston is the Laine Professor of China in World Affairs at Harvard University's department of government. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. His research and teaching interests include socialization in international institutions, the analysis of identity in the social sciences, and ideational sources of strategic choice, mostly with reference to China and the Asia-Pacific region. He is the author of "Cultural Realism: Strategic Culture and Grand Strategy in Chinese History" (Princeton 1995) and "Social States: China in International Institutes, 1980-2000" (Princeton 2008), and co-editor of "Engaging China: The Management of an Emerging Power" (Routledge 1999), "New Directions in the Study of China's Foreign Policy" (Stanford 2006), and "Crafting Cooperation: Regional Institutions in Comparative Perspective (Cambridge 2007).

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Professor Alastair Iain Johnston Speaker Department of Government, Harvard University
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Research Presentations by Corporate Affiliate Visiting Fellows (session 4)

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In this session of the Shorenstein APARC Corporate Affiliate Visiting Fellows Research Presentations, the following will be presented:

Kazuhiko Ejima, "Reconstructing Japan's Public Finance"

Japan, the second largest economy in the world, is secretly facing public finance crisis with the worst debt-to-GDP ratio among developed countries. What led Japan into such crisis? How to get rid of it? In Japan, it is widely believed that raising the consumption tax is the best approach to fixing Japan’s finances. In contrast, Ejima argues, based on an assessment of the current political situation, that any new budget reconstruction plan should focus more on the expenditure side than on the revenue side, and that it should include reform of the public sector.

Naoki Hiyama, "Newspaper as an Industry:  Seeking New Business Model - Beyond Free News Website"

From the beginning of the internet age, for newspaper companies in advanced countries, revenue from print paper has declined. Still, web news sites are not profitable. Hiyama’s research presentation will explore how newspaper companies can survive in this internet age.

Kaoru Fukushima, "Present and Future Condition of Solar Power Generation Market in Japan and California"

California is enthusiastic about environment. PG&E fully cooperates with people to install solar power on rooftops. California has good geographical conditions for solar power compared to Japan. However, the diffusion of solar power in California is much smaller than that in Japan. What is the reason? What is the perspective for the future in Japan / in California? Fukushima’s research will analyze the difference from various aspects.

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Kazuhiko Ejima is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at Shorenstein APARC for 2007-08 and 2008-09. Ejima graduated from the University of Tokyo (BA in Law) in 1990 and joined the Ministry of Finance. There, he has experienced a wide variety of areas, including budget and tax administrations, as well as privatization of public corporations. In his latest post, he was a deputy director in Ministerial Secretariat, where he worked together with the Minister and other key members in strategic management and coordination of the Ministry of Finance.

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Naoki Hiyama

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Naoki Hiyama is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at Shorenstein APARC for 2007-08. Prior to joining Shorenstein APARC, he worked for the Asahi Shimbun, a national newspaper company in Japan, where he took charge of the digital media division as a staff editor and reporter for their web news site asahi.com. His research interests are the new web service in US newspaper industry, or the post trend of 'web 2.0'. He graduated from Tsukuba University, where he majored in media relations. and in 1997-1998, he participated in an experienced journalist training program in Paris.

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Kaoru Fukushima

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Kaoru Fukushima is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at Shorenstein APARC for 2007-08. Prior to joining Shorenstein APARC, he has worked at the Kansai Electric Power Company, Inc. (KEPCO) since 1996. He has been in charge of framing long-term procurement plan of renewable energy in Facilities Planning Group. He received bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Tokyo.

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