2013年4月のバックナンバー

2013.4.15New

Missing Diplomacy toward Asia? --The Blind Spots of Japanese Foreign Policy Recognized through a Visit to Vietnam

The audiences brimmed with passion. The hundreds of pairs of eyes pierced into me. The students of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, were much more interested in Japan than I had imagined. While Professor Yasushi Watanabe presented the essence of soft power and public diplomacy in an easy-to-understand manner, I was tasked with a somewhat more solemn subject "The Rise of China and Japan's Responses: Implications for Regional Security."

2013.4. 1New

Rethinking Japan-U.S. Relations through a Visit to Vietnam

In March 2013 Keio University professor Dr. Yoshihide Soeya and I gave a series of lectures in Vietnam on the theme of "Japan's New International Relations: Japan-China-US Relations and South East Asia." At the seminar, hosted by the Japan Foundation as part of its Japanese studies seminar tour program, I delivered a lecture entitled "Soft Power and Japan's International Cultural Engagements" in which I introduced the Japanese experience, practices and challenges in public diplomacy, drawing on developments in this field in various other countries.

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