Home Activities Supporting the Endowed Chair in ‘Politics and Mass Media (Asahi Shimbun)’ Supporting the Endowed Chair in ‘Politics and Mass Media (Asahi Shimbun)’ Visitors ‘Politics and Mass Media’ Forum ‘Politics and Mass Media’ Seminar Public Policy Seminar Study Meeting Special Guest for Classes Research Study Publications Medusa Project 2007 Academic Year Visitors Name Affiliation Term Lecture Title Research Area Ken Endo Professor, Hokkaido University April - June 2007 EU Politics Gerhard Lehmbruch Emeritus Professor, Universität Konstanz 19-27 May 2007 Political Science, Comparative Political Economy ‘Politics and Mass Media’ Forum Outline Date 17 May 2007 Venue Conference Room, 8F, Faculty of Law Building No.4 Speakers Hidenao Nakagawa, Secretary-General, Liberal Democratic Party of Japan Yukio Hatoyama, Secretary-General, the Democratic Party of Japan Title The Possibilities of Japanese Politics Contents Introduction Susumu Takahashi, Professor, the University of Tokyo Comments Masaki Taniguchi, Associate Professor, the University of Tokyo Summary Akira Morita, Professor, the University of Tokyo Chair Katsuyuki Yakushiji, Editor in Chief of Ronza, Asahi Shimbun Details → Ronza, July 2007, Asahi Shimbunsha ‘Politics and Mass Media’ Seminar Date 25 May 2007 Speaker Gerhard Lehmbruch, Emeritus Professor, Universität Konstanz Title ‘State Structures and Organized Society in German Federalism: Path Dependence and Transformation in a Historical-Institutionalist Perspective’ Chair Kenji Hirashima, Professor, Institute of Social Science, the University of Tokyo Public Policy Seminar Public Policy Seminars are co-sponsored by the Graduate School of Public Policy and University of Tokyo 21st Century Program ‘Invention of Policy Systems in Advanced Countries’. 2007 Seminars and previous seminars → the Graduate School of Public Policy Website (Japanese version) 2004 Seminars → ICCLP Annual Report 2004 Study Meeting · Seiken Kotai (Change of Government) Meeting · Follow-up Meeting of the Second Anglo-Japanese Academy · Preparatory Meetings for the Medusa Project, Berlin Special Guest for Classes 18 May 2009 Seiji Maehara, The member of the House of Representatives 16 July 2008 Taro Tsukimura, Professor, Doshisha University 24 June 2008 Yohei Kono, The Speaker of the House of Representatives 20 May 2008 Toshihiro Nikai, Chairman, General Council, Liberal Democratic Party 30 May 2007 Yasuo Fukuda, MP (became Party President and Prime Minister in September 2007) Research Study · Public Survey by Asahi Shimbun and the University of Tokyo · Survey of Politicians by Asahi Shimbun and the University of Tokyo Details → Asahi Shimbun, 13 July 2007; Ronza, November 2007, Asahi Shimbunsha Publications Beyond Paradoxology: Searching for the Logic of Japanese History, Shiro Ishii, 2007 Medusa Project This project was started by three scholars from the UK, Germany and the US. Their aim is to engage in multifaceted research on the US-Japan Relationship. The first conference was held at the University of Warwick, UK, in March 2006. The second conference was held in Sapporo, Japan, with the support of Hokkaido University in August 2006. A third conference is scheduled to take place in Berlin, sometime in 2008. Details → ICCLP Annual Report 2005, 2006 Activities of the Endowed Chair before 2007 → ICCLP Annual Report