Established in 1984, with the explicit support of the Reischauer family, the Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies at SAIS actively supports the research and study of transpacific and intra-Asian relations, to advance mutual understanding between Northeast Asia and the United States.
The first Japanese-born and Japanese-speaking U.S. Ambassador to Japan (1961-1966), Edwin O. Reischauer started his career teaching at Harvard University and eventually became the director of Harvard’s Yenching Institute. He helped pave the way to bringing East Asian studies to American schools. In 1961, President Kennedy chose Edwin O. Reischauer to be the American ambassador to Japan. With a strictly academic background, Reischauer was an unusual choice for the position. However, he embraced the ambassadorship and sought to strengthen the alliance between the United States and Japan. Following his stint at the embassy in Tokyo, Reischauer returned to academic life at Harvard and spent his remaining years giving lectures, promoting US-Japan relations, and writing.
Edwin Reischauer served as Honorary Chair of the Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies at SAIS from its founding to 1990. His wife Haru Matsukata Reischauer followed as Honorary Chair from 1991 to 1998. They both exemplified the deep commitment to public service and transpacific communication that the Reischauer Center aspires to perpetuate in its scholarly and cultural activities today.
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EXPERTS/ VISITING SCHOLARS
Dr. Kent Calder, Director
Background and Education:Former Special Adviser to the U.S. Ambassador to Japan (1997-2001); Japan Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (1989-93 and 1996); professor for 20 years at Princeton University (1983-2003); Lecturer on Government (1989-93)and Executive Director of the U.S.-Japan Program at Harvard University (1979-80); Ph.D., government, Harvard University, 1979, under the direction of Edwin O. Reischauer.
Publications (books): Pacific Alliance: Reviving the U.S.-Japan Relations (Yale, 2009); East Asian Multilateralism, co-edited with Francis Fukuyama (Johns Hopkins, 2008); Embattled Garrisons: Comparative Base Politics and American Globalism (Princeton, 2007); Pacific Defense (William Morrow, 1996); Strategic Capitalism (Princeton, 1993); Crisis and Compensation (Princeton, 1988); and The Eastasia Edge, co-authored with Roy Hofheinz Jr. (Basic Books, 1982)
Recent Publications (articles and monographs):
Stabilizing the US-Japan-China Strategic Triangle, Reischauer Center
China’s Energy Diplomacy and its Geopolitical Implications, Reischauer Center
The North Korean Nuclear Crisis and American Policy, Reischauer Center
Japan’s Stealth Reform: The Key Role of Political Process, Reischauer Center
Securing Security through Prosperity: The San Francisco System in Comparative Perspective, Reischauer Center
Global Partnership through Resource Dipolomacy: Korea, the United States, and Central Asia, co-authorered with Victoriya Kim, Korean Economic Institute, December 2008
Beneath the Eagle's Wings? The Political Economy of Northeast Asian Burden-Sharing in Comparative Perspective, Asia Security, December 2006
China and Japan’s Simmering Rivalry, Foreign Affairs, March/April 2006
Korea’s Energy Insecurities: Comparative and Regional Perspectives, Korea Economic Institute, November 2005
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Rust Deming, Senior Advisor
Background and Education: Ambassador Rust M. Deming joined SAIS in September 2005, after a 38 year career in the Foreign Service. Deming’s last overseas post was as Ambassador to Tunisia from 2000 to 2003. Prior to that, he served as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs (June 1998 to August 2000). He was Senior Advisor to the Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs from December 1997. From October 1997 to December 1997, he was the East Asian and Pacific Affairs Bureau’s Senior Advisor to the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
Ambassador Deming has spent much of his career dealing with Japanese affairs, having served in Japan as Charge d’Affaires, ad interim, from December 1996 to September 1997, and as Deputy Chief of Mission from October 1993 to December 1996. From September 1991 to August 1993. Deming was Director of the Office of Japanese Affairs in Washington. He served as Minister Counselor for Political Affairs at the American Embassy in Tokyo from August 1987 to July 1991. From 1985 to 1986, Deming was detailed to the National War College at Fort McNair in Washington, DC.
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William Brooks, Senior Advisor
Background and Education:
Currently teaching at Johns Hopkins University after retiring from the U.S. Department of State in 2009. Fifteen years’ experience as head of Embassy Tokyo’s media analysis and translation unit, responsible for keeping the ambassador, his staff, and Washington well-informed on Japanese press coverage of matters of U.S. policy interest, following media trends, and analyzing their impact on U.S. interests. In two earlier postings to Embassy Tokyo’s economic section, covered Japan’s trade, aid, and investment issues, and later provided trade-policy advice and analysis in support of bilateral negotiations. As senior researcher for Japan at the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research, provided the Secretary of State and Washington with policy analysis on Japan. A trained historian with a doctorate from Columbia University, foreign study in Japan, and fluency in Japanese and Chinese languages, taught at the university level for several years before entering government service.
Publications
"The Politics Of The Futenma Base Issue In Okinawa: Relocation Negotiations In 1995-1997, 2005-2006", May 2010
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Yukie Yoshikawa, Senior Research Fellow
Background and Education: After taking her BA at Keio University, Tokyo, she worked at Andersen Consulting (currently Accenture), Tokyo office for five years. In 2005, she received a Master of International Affairs at School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) in Columbia University.
Publications:
Can Japanese Agriculture Overcome Dependence and Decline?, Japan Focus, June 2010
Japan’s Asianism, 1868-1945: Dilemmas of Japanese Modernization, Reischauer Center, April 2010
The US-Japan-China Mistrust Spiral and Okinotorishima, Japan Focus, October 2007
Okinotorishima: Just a tip of the Iceberg, Harvard Asia Quarterly, Fall 2005
Prospect of Economic Reform in North Korea, Nautilus Institute, March 2004
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Mariko de Freytas, Research Associate
Background and Education: Mariko de Freytas received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Policy, Princeton University, and since 2008 works as a Research Associate at the Reischauer Center.
Publications:
Global Political Cities as Actors in Twenty-First Century International Affairs, co-authored with Kent Calder, SAIS Review, Winter-Spring 2009
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Shin'ichiro Ichiyama, Visiting Scholar
Background and Education: Visiting Scholar and Special Assistant to the Director of the Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies. He joined Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) in April 1997 and worked in the thermal power business for seven years, and thereafter in an investment section related to independent power producers (IPP) projects, to build, own and operate thermal power plants mainly in Southeast Asia. He took received his master's degree and bachelor's degree at the University of Tokyo.
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Yasuyuki Kimura, Visiting Scholar
Background and Education: A visiting fellow from Japan's Ministry of Defense. He Joined Japan Defense Agency (elevated to Ministry of Defense (MOD) in 2007) as a civilian official in 2000. He has engaged in various issues including Host Nation Support and U.S. Forces in Japan, during his assignments in the Internal Bureau of MOD, Defense Facilities Administration Agency (abolished in 2007) and Okinawa Regional Defense Bureau. Kimura has also seconded at Status of Forces Agreement Office, North American Affairs Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (02 -04). He Received BA and MA from the University of Tokyo.
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Akiko Imai, Senior Research Associate
Background and education: Received master's degree in public administration from the John F.Kennedy School of Government (2005), Harvard University. Has served as the visiting scholar at the SAIS Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies(2005) and at the University of Tokyo's Faculty of Law (2006). Has also been editor of the English-language magazine Japan Echo(1991-2004), overseas public relations editor at the Japan Foundation(2006-07). She is currently public relations director at the Tokyo Foundation, boardmember of Corporate Citizenship Japan, and a lecturer at Showa Women's University.
Publications:
Anatano T-shatsuha Dokokara Kitanoka? (translation of The Travels of AT-shirts in the Global Economy by Petra Rivoli. 2007); Bososuru Shihonshugi(translation of Super capitalism by Robert Reich. 2008), Chaina Furii (translation of A Year Without "Made in China" by Sara Bongiorni. 2008); 1907nen Kyoko (translation of The Panic of 1907 by Robert F. Bruner and Sean D. Carr. To be published in 2009); and others.
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Izumi Oguri, Senior Research Associate
Background and Education: After taking her BA at Aoyama-Gakuin University, Tokyo, she worked at Nippon Television Network Corporation for 19 years as a reporter and an anchor person. From 2007 to 2008, she was a Visiting Scholar at the Reischauer Center as a Fulbright visiting journalist.
Publications:
Senkyo Hodo: Media ga Shiji Seito wo Akiraka ni suru Hi (Reporting on the Election: The Day Media Clarifies its Supporting Political Parties), 2009, Tokyo: Chuko Laclef.
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Arthur Lord, Adjunct Fellow
Background and education: Lord received a masters degree in international relations from Johns Hopkins SAIS, graduating with distinction in strategic studies and international economics. He has previously served as a foreign affairs researcher for Yoichi Funabashi, Editor-in-Chief of Asahi Shimbun; as an intern at the Henry L. Stimson Center; and as the External Affairs Coordinator at the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan.
Select Publications:
"America's Next East Asian Strategy: Listening to Generational Differences," coauthored with A. Greer Pritchett, Adrian Yi, andStephanie Young. Pacific Forum CSIS. PacNet #26, April 13, 2009.
"Next Generation Thinking about America's East Asian Strategy,"coauthored with A. Greer Pritchett, Adrian Yi, and Stephanie Young.Pacific Forum CSIS. Issues & Insights, Volume 9 - No. 2. April 2009.
"From Agency to Ministry: Creation of the Ministry of Defense andImplications for the U.S.-Japan Alliance" chapter in The U.S.-JapanRelationship in A Global Context, 2007. Edwin O. Reischauer Center forEast Asian Studies, Johns Hopkins University SAIS: October 2008.
Introduction and Conclusion chapters (coauthored with Yuki Tatsumi) in Strategic Yet Strained: US Force Realignment in Japan and its Effects on Okinawa. Henry L. Stimson Center: October 2008.
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Mitsuhiro Maeda, Visiting Scholar
Background and Education: Graduated in 1985 from Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo and entered the Ministry of International Trade and Industry, in the same year (Transformed into the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, METI, in 2001).
Since 1998, Maeda has iterated between bureaucrat and academic positions, concentrating in the area of developmental finance. In the government, Maeda served as Senior Analyst at Japan's National Security Council(1988-1991); First Secretary of the Japanese Embassy in Bangkok, Thailand(1993-1996); Director for Trade Finance(2002-2007); and Director of Financial Cooperation Division(2007-2008). He also served as Head of the Japanese Delegation to OECD-ECG (the Working Group on Export Credits and Credit Guarantees)(2002-2008). In academics, Maeda served as Associate Professor, Saitama University (GSPS)(1998-1999); and at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS)(1999-2002), as Visiting Professor at GRIPS(2002-2005) and Tama University(2005-now), and as Visiting Fellow, Royal Institute for International Affairs (Chatham House), in London(2005-2006).
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Contact Information
Program Coordinator
The Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies
1619 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., Suite 637, Washington D.C. 20036
Tel: (202) 663-5812
Fax: (202) 663-5940
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