Unhappy Anniversary: The US-Japan Relationship and Okinawa on the 50th Anniversary of the Bilateral Security Treaty

Practical information
This seminar is organized around Gavan McCormack, Emeritus Professor, Australian National University. He is an expert of modern East Asian, especially Japanese politics and intellectual, political, and environmental history. He has published numerous articles and books on the US-Japan relations, including: Client State: Japan in the American Embrace, New York and London, Verso, 2007.
Chair: Céline Pajon, Junior research fellow, Centre Asie Ifri.
The seminar will be held in English.
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