The Romanian-American University has the pleasure to invite you to the online conference entitled “Competition and Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific: Diplomatic Policies of Japan and China”, a lecture given by Prof. Akio TAKAHARA (University of Tokyo).
The event will take place on Thursday, 21st of October 2021, starting at 11 AM (Romania time).
The online lecture is organized by the Embassy of Japan in Romania, the Romanian Diplomatic Institute and the Romanian-American University.
The Zoom link to participate to the event is https://zoom.us/j/95347047445.
About Prof. Akio TAKAHARA
- Akio Takahara is Professor of Contemporary Chinese Politics at the Graduate School of Law and Politics and the Graduate School of Public Policy (GraSPP) at the University of Tokyo.
- He received his DPhil in 1988 from Sussex University, and later spent several years as Visiting Scholar at the Consulate-General of Japan in Hong Kong, the Japanese Embassy in Beijing, Harvard University, Peking University, and at the Mercator Institute for China Studies.
- Before joining The University of Tokyo, he taught at J. F. Oberlin University and Rikkyo University. He served as President of the Japan Association for Asian Studies, and as the Secretary General of the New Japan-China Friendship 21st Century Committee. Akio was Dean of GraSPP from 2018 to 2020.
- He currently serves as Senior Adjunct Fellow of the Japan Institute of International Affairs, Distinguished Research Fellow of the Japan Forum on International Relations, and Director of JICA Ogata Sadako Research Institute for Peace and Development.
- His publications include The Politics of Wage Policy in Post-Revolutionary China, (Macmillan, 1992), and Japan-China Relations in the Modern Era, (co-authored, Routledge, 2017).
