The REDI Task Force invites you to the next event in our "Critical Conversations: Race in Global Affairs" series, featuring a panel moderated by Professor Gabrielle Hecht on inequality in nuclear regimes. This event will be recorded and uploaded to the REDI website.

The nuclear order is rife with inequalities. This panel will contextualize the state of the nuclear order as it stands today  with our ongoing conversation about race, diversity, and inclusion. The panelists will explore how non-proliferation, arms control, and disarmament, intersect and the exclusion that was/remains written into the system. The panel will discuss who in the nuclear world speaks about what, and more importantly, who in the nuclear world can speak about certain things and who cannot. By discussing debates about ‘haves and ‘have nots’ among nuclear states, the role of African-Americans in the disarmament movement, the disproportionate humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons, and inequal effect of the presence of nuclear weapons on marginalized communities, this panel will discuss whether it is even possible to have an equitable framework in a nuclear order that was built to structurally discriminate. There will be time for a Q&A following the discussion.

About the Speakers:

Gabrielle Hecht is the Frank Stanton Foundation Professor of Nuclear Security at CISAC, Senior Fellow at FSI, Professor of History, and REDI Task Force Chair. She is Vice-President/President-Elect of the Society for the History of Technology. Her current research explores radioactive residues, mine waste, air pollution, and the Anthropocene in Africa. Essays based on this research have appeared in Cultural Anthropology, Aeon, Somatosphere, the LA Review of Books, and e-fluxArchitecture. Hecht's graduate courses include colloquia on "Infrastructure and Power in the Global South," "Technopolitics," and "Materiality and Power." She teaches a community-engaged undergraduate research seminar on "Racial Justice in the Nuclear Age," in partnership with the Bayview Hunters Point Community Advocates (BVHPCA). She is currently working with BVHPCA and other partners to develop knowledge infrastructures to underpin community-driven public history that supports racial equity and environmental justice.

 

About the Event:

Even in today’s more informal world, dress codes still determine what we wear, when we wear it—and what our clothing means. People lose their jobs for wearing braided hair, long fingernails, large earrings, beards and tattoos or refusing to wear a suit and tie or make-up and high heels. In some cities, wearing sagging pants is a crime. And even when there are no written rules, implicit dress codes still influence opportunities and social mobility. Silicon Valley CEOs wear t-shirts and flip flops, setting the tone for an entire industry: women wearing fashionable dresses or high heels face ridicule in the tech world and some venture capitalists refuse to invest in any company run by someone wearing a suit.

Dress codes are as old as clothing itself. For centuries, clothing has been a wearable status symbol; fashion, a weapon in struggles for social change; and dress codes, a way to maintain political control. Merchants who dressed like princes and butchers’ wives wearing gem-encrusted crowns were public enemies in medieval societies structured by social hierarchy and defined by spectacle. In Tudor England, silk, velvet and fur were reserved for the nobility and ballooning pants called “trunk hose” could be considered a menace to good order. The Renaissance era Florentine patriarch Cosimo de Medici captured the power of fashion and dress codes when he remarked, “One can make a gentleman from two yards of red cloth.” Dress codes evolved along with the social and political ideals of the day, but they always reflected struggles for power and status. In the 1700s, South Carolina’s “Negro Act” made it illegal for Black people to dress “above their condition.” In the 1920s, the bobbed hair and form-fitting dresses worn by free-spirited flappers were banned in workplaces throughout the United States and in the 1940s the baggy zoot suits favored by Black and Latino men caused riots in cities from coast to coast.

 

About the Speaker:

Richard Thompson Ford is Professor of Law at Stanford Law School. He writes about law, social and cultural issues and race relations and has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, CNN and Slate.   He is the author of the New York Times notable books The Race Card and Rights Gone Wrong: How Law Corrupts the Struggle for Equality.  He has appeared on The Colbert Report, The Rachel Maddow Show, andThe Dylan Rattigan Show.  He is a member of the American Law Institute and serves on the board of the Authors Guild Foundation. 

About the Event: 

Political violence is rising in the United States, alarming citizens and leaders alike. How many Americans endorse partisan violence and other forms of extreme hostility? What are its deep social, political, historical, and psychological roots? What can be done about it? And what does it mean for democracy? 

In this talk, Drs. Mason and Kalmoe make sense of our contentious politics with a groundbreaking study of radicalism among ordinary American partisans. Their individual-level studies utilize more than a dozen new nationally representative surveys and experiments to trace recent trends since 2017, reactions to elections and violent events, broader conditions that spur support for violence, links from violence attitudes to aggressive behavior, and the role of leaders in enflaming or pacifying their followers.

The results reshape the study of modern American political behavior by showing that ordinary partisanship is far more volatile than scholars have recognized in the past century of study.  

 

About the Speaker(s)

Dr. Nathan P. Kalmoe is an associate professor of political communication at Louisiana State University in the Manship School of Mass Communication and Department of Political Science. He is the author of With Ballots & Bullets: Partisanship & Violence in the American Civil War and co-author of Neither Liberal nor Conservative: Ideological Innocence in the American Public. He has also written essays for The Washington Post and Politico, and his work has been featured in The New York Times, The Atlantic, and Vox, among other popular outlets.

 

 

 

 

Lilliana Mason is associate professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, College Park, and author of Uncivil Agreement: How Politics Became Our Identity (University of Chicago Press). Her research on partisan identity, partisan bias, social sorting, and American social polarization has been published in journals such as American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Public Opinion Quarterly, and Political Behavior, and featured in media outlets including the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, and National Public Radio.

 

 

About the Speaker:

Stephen Krasner is the Graham H. Stuart Professor of International Relations. A former director of CDDRL, Krasner is also an FSI senior fellow, and a fellow of the Hoover Institution.

From February 2005 to April 2007 he served as the Director of Policy Planning at the US State Department. While at the State Department, Krasner was a driving force behind foreign assistance reform designed to more effectively target American foreign aid. He was also involved in activities related to the promotion of good governance and democratic institutions around the world.

At CDDRL, Krasner was the coordinator of the Program on Sovereignty. His work has dealt primarily with sovereignty, American foreign policy, and the political determinants of international economic relations. Before coming to Stanford in 1981 he taught at Harvard University and UCLA. At Stanford, he was chair of the political science department from 1984 to 1991, and he served as the editor of International Organization from 1986 to 1992.

He has been a fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences (1987-88) and at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (2000-2001). In 2002 he served as director for governance and development at the National Security Council. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

About the Event:  Decentralization and community-driven development programs have become increasingly common policies to attempt to improve the distribution of public goods across low- and middle-income countries. We study a series of reforms in the city of Delhi that decentralized the administration of discretionary school-level budgets to elected bodies of parents. We find that parents have preferences for representatives that are substantially more educated than them and discriminate against Muslims. Parents act on these preferences when given the opportunity to elect SMC members. They elect parents that are wealthier and more educated and are also of higher status. The paper provides empirical evidence to the question of under what conditions decentralization leads to elite capture. When bureaucrats have a stronger say in the selection of representatives, budgets are captured to reflect the preferences of state representatives, rather than constituents.

 

About the Speaker:  Emmerich Davies is an Assistant Professor of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, a Faculty Associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and Center for International Development, and a co-convener of the Brown-Harvard-M.I.T. Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics. He studies the political economy of education with a regional focus on South Asia. His work has been published in Comparative Political Studies and Governance. He received his Ph.D. and M.A. in political science from the University of Pennsylvania, and his B.A. in political science and economics from Stanford University.

About the Event:   The number of Americans arrested, brought to court, and incarcerated has skyrocketed in recent decades. Criminal defendants come from all races and economic walks of life, but they experience punishment in vastly different ways. How and why is the court process unequal? This talk draws on findings from my book Privilege and Punishment: How Race and Class Matter in Criminal Court (Princeton University Press, November 2020). Drawing on fieldwork and interviews in the Boston court system, I show that lawyers and judges often silence, coerce, and punish disadvantaged defendants when they try to learn their legal rights and advocate for themselves. These dynamics reveal how unwritten institutional norms devalue the exercise of legal rights among the disadvantaged, and that ensuring effective legal representation is no guarantee of justice. Drawing on other research and activism on the courts as a tool of racialized social control, I conclude with reflections on the democratic potential and possibilities of criminal court abolition.  

 

About the Speaker:  Dr. Matthew Clair is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and (by courtesy) the Law School. His research examines the law, culture, and inequality. Dr. Clair's research has been published in Criminology, Law & Social Inquiry, Social Science & Medicine, and Social Forces and has been supported by the National Science Foundation and the American Society of Criminology. He has received awards from the American Sociological Association, the American Society of Criminology, the Law & Society Association, and the Society for the Study of Social Problems. His first book Privilege and Punishment: How Race and Class Matter in Criminal Court was published by Princeton University Press in November 2020.

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This event is co-sponsored by the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law.

How does autocratic lobbying affect political outcomes and media coverage in democracies? This talk focuses on a dataset drawn from the public records of the US Foreign Agents Registration Act. It includes over 10,000 lobbying activities undertaken by the Chinese government between 2005 and 2019. The evidence suggests that Chinese government lobbying makes legislators at least twice as likely to sponsor legislation that is favorable to Chinese interests. Moreover, US media outlets that participated in Chinese-government sponsored trips subsequently covered China as less threatening. Coverage pivoted away from US-China military rivalry and the CCP’s persecution of religious minorities and toward US-China economic cooperation. These results suggest that autocratic lobbying poses an important challenge to democratic integrity.

Erin Baggott Carter is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Southern California. There, she is also a Co-PI at the Lab on Non-Democratic Politics. She received a Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University, is currently a visiting scholar at the Stanford Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law, and was previously a Fellow at the Stanford Center for International Security and Cooperation.

Dr. Carter's research focuses on Chinese politics and propaganda. She recently completed a book on autocratic propaganda based on an original dataset of eight million articles in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish drawn from state-run newspapers in nearly 70 countries. She is currently working on a book on how domestic politics influence US-China relations. Her other work has appeared or is forthcoming in the British Journal of Political Science, Journal of Conflict Resolution, and International Interactions. Her work has been featured by the New York Times, the Brookings Institution, and the Washington Post Monkeycage Blog.

 

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This event is part of the 2021 Winter/Spring Colloquia series, Biden’s America, Xi’s China: What’s Now & What’s Next?, sponsored by APARC's China Program.

 

This event is co-sponsored with the generous support of the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO), the Japan Society of Northern California, and the Japanese Chamber of Commerce of Northern California.

Simultaneous interpretation (English <=> Japanese) will be offered. 同時通訳があります。

Ten years have passed since the Great East Japan Earthquake devastated Japan’s northeast. As a country that has experienced a variety of natural disasters throughout its history, Japan has developed various preventive and remedial technologies and social mechanisms, especially since the 1995 Hanshin Earthquake and the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. California has had similar experiences with natural disasters, particularly earthquakes, and it has developed its own preventive measures. On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake, this conference features two keynote speakers who have directly dealt with the aftermaths of recent earthquakes in Japan – Makoto Iokibe, who was the Chairman of the Reconstruction Design Council in Response to the Great East Japan Earthquake and is the author of The Era of Great Disasters, and Ikuo Kabashima, who as the Governor of Kumamoto led the recovery efforts from a major earthquake in 2016 and flooding in 2020. The conference will also provide a forum for speakers from Japan and California to learn from each other the cutting-edge approaches toward reducing the damages of natural disasters. 

大災害の時代における防災の最前線：東日本大震災から10年を経て

東日本大震災が関東・東北地方に大被害をもたらしてからすでに10年が経とうとしている 。その歴史の中で、多くの自然災害を経験してきた日本は、特に1995年の阪神大震災と2011年の東日本大震災以来、様々な防災・減災のための技術やシステムの開発に取り組んできた。一方で、地震など同じような自然災害を多く経験してきたカリフォルニアでも、独自の災害対策が進められてきた。東日本大震災から10年の節目に当たって、このコンフェレンスでは、東日本大震災復興会議議長として、復興への道のりをリードしてきた五百旗頭真氏（近著「大災害の時代」）と、熊本県知事として、2016年の地震と2020年の水害という大きな災害からの復興を指揮してきた蒲島郁夫氏の二人に基調講演をお願いし、日本の災害と復興の歩みについてご報告いただく。さらには、日本とカリフォルニアそれぞれから防災・減災の最前線で活躍する識者を招き、双方の取り組みについての理解を深め、新たな災害対策の道筋を探ることを目指す。

AGENDA (Pacific Time)

4:00 – 4:15 PM Opening remarks and Greetings from Gi-Wook Shin (Director of Shorenstein APARC, Stanford University), Ambassador Eleni Kounalakis (Lieutenant Governor of California) and Toru Maeda (Consul General of Japan, San Francisco)

4:15 – 5:00 PM Presentation from Cal OES, Keidanren, Fujitsu Laboratories, Research Institute for Earth Science Visualization Technology and JETRO

5:00 – 6:30 PM Keynote speakers: Kumamoto Governor, Ikuo Kabashima

Talk title: Dreams in Adversity & Making the Impossible Possible: The Politics of Disaster Response. 逆境の中にこそ夢がある　～不可能を可能に　災害対応の政治～

Makoto Iokibe, Chairman of the Reconstruction Design Council in Response to the Great East Japan Earthquake

Talk title: On Reconstruction from the Great East Japan Earthquake. 東日本大震災の復興について

6:30 – 7:00 PM Q&A Session 

SPEAKERS

Ikuo Kabashima, previously a Professor of Law at the University of Tokyo, became the Governor of Kumamoto Prefecture in 2008 and is currently serving in his fourth term. He displayed his leadership and creative thinking skills when he led the recovery efforts following both the 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake and the 2020 Kyushu Flooding disasters. After graduating from high school in Kumamoto he worked at a local agricultural cooperative. Ikuo Kabashima moved to the United States in 1968 as an agricultural research student and enrolled in the faculty of agriculture at the University of Nebraska in 1971, where he researched preservation techniques for pig semen. He entered a Master’s program at the University of Nebraska in 1974. Following this he pursued a Ph.D in Political Economy at Harvard University. After returning to Japan he became a professor at the Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences at Tsukuba University, and eventually became a Professor of Law at the University of Tokyo in 1997 where he specialized in political process theory and quantitative methods in political science. He was named a Professor Emeritus of the University of Tokyo in 2008. Kabashima has also served as the chairman of the Japanese Association of Electoral Studies and the vice-president of the International Political Science Association (IPSA). Under the guidance of Samuel P. Huntington, he is also credited with achievements for his empirical research on voting behavior and political development theory surrounding political participation in the United States. 

2008年4月、東京大学法学部教授から熊本県知事に就任し、現在4期目。2016年の熊本地震、2020年の豪雨災害などで、災害対応の陣頭指揮を執り、創造的復興に手腕を発揮。熊本県の高校を卒業後、地元農協に勤務。1968年に農業研究生として渡米し、1971年ネブラスカ大学農学部に入学。豚の精子の保存方法を研究し、1974年、ネブラスカ大学大学院修士課程に進学。その後、ハーバード大学大学院博士課程に入学。政治経済学を研究し、博士号を取得。帰国後、筑波大学社会工学系教授などを歴任した後、1997年から東京大学法学部教授に着任。専門は、政治過程論、計量政治学。2008年、東京大学名誉教授。日本選挙学会理事長、世界政治学会副会長などを歴任。アメリカではサミュエル・ハンチントンなどの指導を受け、投票行動の実証的研究や政治参加に関する政治発展理論において業績をあげる。

Makoto Iokibe is Chancellor of the University of Hyogo and President of the Hyogo Earthquake Memorial 21st Century Research Institute. He is also Professor Emeritus of Japanese political and diplomatic history, Kobe University and Former President of the National Defense Academy of Japan. After the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, Professor Iokibe was appointed Chairperson of the Reconstruction Design Council in Response to the Great East Japan Earthquake, a government-established advisory panel of scholars and experts for formulating governmental reconstruction guidelines. Following the 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake, he served as Chairperson of the Expert Group for Reconstruction and Recovery from the Kumamoto Earthquake. Among his many publications, his volume Nichibeikankeishi (Yuhikaku, 2008) has recently been translated by the Japan Library and published as “The History of US-Japan Relations: From Perry to the Present” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017). His most recent book is “The Era of Great Disasters: Japan and Its Three Major Earthquakes” (University of Michigan Press 2020), a translation of Daisaigai no Jidai(Mainichi Shinbun Shuppan 2016).

1943年兵庫県西宮市生まれ。京都大学法学部卒業。同大学院法学研究科修士課程修了。法学博士。専門は日本政治外交史。神戸大学法学部教授、防衛大学校長、熊本県立大学理事長などを経て、現在（公財）ひょうご震災記念21世紀研究機構理事長、兵庫県立大学理事長。この間、日本政治学会理事長、政府の東日本大震災復興構想会議議長、くまもと復旧・復興有識者会議座長なども歴任。文化功労者。主な著書に「米国の日本占領政策」上下（中央公論社、サントリー学芸賞受賞）、「日米戦争と戦後日本」（講談社学術文庫、吉田茂賞受賞）、「大災害の時代」（毎日新聞出版）ほか多数。

PRESENTERS 

Gi-Wook Shin, (Stanford University), is the William J. Perry Professor of Contemporary Korea in Sociology and Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.  He established Stanford’s Korea Program in 2001 and has been directing the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford since 2005.  His research concentrates on social movements, nationalism, development, and international relations, with focus on Korea and broader Asia. Shin is the author/editor of over 20 books and numerous articles, including Divergent Memories: Opinion Leaders and the Asia-Pacific War; One Alliance, Two Lenses: U.S.-Korea Relations in a New Era; Cross Currents: Regionalism and Nationalism in Northeast Asia; and Ethnic Nationalism in Korea.  Shin’s current research initiatives include Global Talent Flows and Rise of Populism and Nationalism. Before coming to Stanford, Shin taught at the University of Iowa and the University of California, Los Angeles. He holds a B.A from Yonsei University in Korea and M.A and Ph.D from the University of Washington.

Ambassador Eleni Kounalakis, (Lieutenant Governor of California) was sworn in as the 50th Lieutenant Governor of California by Governor Gavin Newsom on January 7th, 2019. She is the first woman elected to the post. From 2010 to 2013, Kounalakis served as US Ambassador to the Republic of Hungary and in 2015 published her acclaimed memoir, “Madam Ambassador, Three Years of Diplomacy, Dinner Parties and Democracy in Budapest” (The New Press). Prior to her service, Kounalakis spent 18 years as an executive at one of California’s most respected housing development firms, AKT Development. Throughout her career, she served on numerous boards and commissions including California’s First 5 Commission, the San Francisco War Memorial, San Francisco Port Commission and the Association of American Ambassadors. Eleni Kounalakis graduated from Dartmouth College in 1989, earned her MBA from U.C. Berkeley’s Haas School of Business in 1992 and holds an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from the American College of Greece. She is married to Dr. Markos Kounalakis and the couple has two teenage sons, Neo and Eon.

Toru Maeda, (Consul General of Japan in San Francisco), began his career at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan in 1985 and has been in the foreign service for the last 35 years. Prior to his arrival in San Francisco in February 2020, he served as Minister / Deputy Chief of Mission of the Embassy of Japan in Myanmar. Over the past decade, he has held several senior positions in both overseas and domestic assignments, including Director General and subsequently Senior Vice President of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), Minister / Head of Chancery of the Permanent Mission of Japan in Geneva, and Minister in charge of economic affairs of the Embassy of Japan in Indonesia. His other postings in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs include Director positions in the International Cooperation Bureau and Intelligence and Analysis Service. He received his B.A. in Law from the University of Tokyo and M.S. in Foreign Service from Georgetown University.

Ichiro Soné, (Executive Vice President, JETRO), was appointed Executive Vice President of the Japan External Trade Organization in October 2019. Previously, Mr. Soné served as Director-General of JETRO Osaka, overseeing the Kansai and Hokuriku regions. Before Osaka, he served as Chief Executive Director of JETRO Chicago, where he oversaw the office’s activities designed to facilitate trade and investment between Japan and 12 Midwestern states. Mr. Soné  joined JETRO in 1988 after graduating Doshisha University in Kyoto with a bachelor’s degree in art and aesthetics. He has a deep knowledge in international business through working in the Trade Fair Department and Invest Japan Department at JETRO Headquarters in Tokyo, and the North America Bureau of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. His previous overseas postings were JETRO offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago.

Yasuhiro Uozumi, (Executive Director of Keidanren USA), 

has been Executive Director of Keidanren USA since June 2018. Mr. Uozumi joined Keidanren more than two decades ago. In the course of his career there, he is noted for his expertise on such issues as accounting, taxation, industrial policies, transportation and emerging markets, especially in Southeast Asia and Latin America. He also served as Secretary to the Keidanren Chairman. Mr. Uozumi earned his B.A. in Economics at the University of Tokyo and his MBA from Said Business School at the University of Oxford. He also conducted research on accounting at the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. He is a Certified Public Accountant. Keidanren is committed to the realization of Society 5.0 for SDGs. 

Lori Nezhura, (Cal OES Deputy Director of Planning, Preparedness, and Prevention), has worked for the State of California since 2006. She is currently the Deputy Director of Planning, Preparedness, and Prevention, a role which includes oversite of the agency’s seismic hazards branch, dam safety, radiological preparedness, and statewide all-hazards emergency and continuity planning efforts. Additionally, she oversees the California Specialized Training Institute, a statewide enterprise with responsibility for supporting training, exercises, and education in wide variety of areas including, but not limited to, emergency management, public safety, homeland security, hazardous materials, disaster recovery, and crisis communications. Prior to her current role, Lori spent almost six years as the Legislative Coordinator at the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services and nine years at the California Student Aid Commission as Legislative Director, Program Manager, and various Analyst roles. Lori received her baccalaureate degree from Arizona Christian University in Phoenix and her post-baccalaureate teacher certification at Arizona State University in Tempe. After receiving her teaching credential, she moved to Saitama Prefecture in Japan for two years to teach English as a Second Language. Upon her return to the United States, she taught elementary classes at Carden Christian Academy for ten years before going into state service.

Dr. Akihiko Shibahara, (CEO, Research Institute for Earth Science Visualization Technology Co.,), is a geologist, paleontologist, and 3D-CAM (computer-aided manufacturing) engineer. He received a Doctorate degree of Science from Tsukuba University, and he worked as a curator at the Geological Museum in AIST.  His recent research has focused on the visualization of earth science, such as underground data or hazard maps using 3D modeling techniques.  In 2016, he established the Institute for Earth Science Visualization Technology as an AIST Start-ups to implement his research activity. He is also working at the Institute of Dinosaur Research Investigation in Fukui Prefectural University as a Visiting Professor to visualize the spatial relationship between geology and paleontology. Earth Science Visualization Technology established several techniques of building up finely-detailed 3D miniatures to visualize geological information and hazard maps. 

Dr. Yusuke Oishi​, (Fujitsu Laboratories LTD.), is a project director of Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at Fujitsu Laboratories LTD. Since 2014 he has also been a specially appointed associate professor of International Research Institute of Disaster Science (IRIDeS), Tohoku University. He joined Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. in 2007 and has been engaged in research on simulation, high performance computing, and artificial intelligence. From 2010 to 2014, he was a visiting researcher at Imperial College London, where he was engaged in tsunami research using 3D fluid simulation. In collaboration with Tohoku University, the University of Tokyo, and Kawasaki City, he and his collaborators started a joint project in 2017 for disaster mitigation utilizing cutting-edge ICT such as artificial intelligence and supercomputing. The project aims to realize effective disaster mitigation by repeatedly implementing technology development, technology evaluation by citizens, and technology improvement.

MODERATOR 

Kiyoteru Tsutsui, (Stanford University), is Henri H. and Tomoye Takahashi Professor and Senior Fellow in Japanese Studies at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford University, where he is also Director of the Japan Program, a Senior Fellow of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, and a Professor of Sociology. He is the author of Rights Make Might: Global Human Rights and Minority Social Movements in Japan (Oxford University Press, 2018), co-editor of Corporate Responsibility in a Globalizing World (Oxford University Press, 2016) and co-editor of The Courteous Power: Japan and Southeast Asia in the Indo-Pacific Era (University of Michigan Press, forthcoming 2021).