Social Science Research Council

"Soft Power: National Assets in Japan and the United States"
March 2-4,  2006, Cambridge, MA

AGENDA

Friday, March 3

8:30 - 8:45 a.m.
Welcoming Remarks (Yasushi Watanabe and Frank Baldwin)

8:45 - 11:30 a.m.
Public Diplomacy
Discussant: Joseph Nye

Japan's Soft Power and Public Diplomacy, Seiichi Kondo
Soft Power in Practice: U.S. Diplomacy in Japan, William G. Crowell

11:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Perspective
Discussant: Andrew Gordon

Baseball and American Soft Power, Sayuri Shimizu
Popular Culture in the U.S. Foreign Policy: Movies and Broadcasting, Matthew Fraser

2:30 - 5:00 p.m.
Education
Discussant: William G. Crowell

Higher Education as a Projection of America's 'Soft Power', Patti Peterson
Soft Power and Japanese Education, Akiyoshi Yonezawa
Assessing Soft Power: The Impact if Participation in Japan-U.S. University Exchange Programs, Ellen Mashiko and Miki Horie

Saturday, March 4

9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Japanese Pop Culture
Discussant: Naoyuki Agawa

Finding Japan? The Attractive Power of J-Pop Amongst American Youth, Anne Allison
Softening the Sharp Edges: Growing Up with Images of Tojo, Doraemon, and Tokyo Love Story in China, Yoshiko Nakano
Culture as a Source of Soft Power, Tsutomo Sugiura

1:15 - 3:00 p.m.
Perception
Discussant: Anne Allison

The 'loci' of America in Japan, Yasushi Watanabe
Lost in Translation? The JET Program as Cultural Diplomacy, David McConnell

3:15 - 4:45 p.m.
Civil Society
Discussant: Seiichi Kondo

The Global Freedom of Information Movement as an Example of Soft Power, Lawrence Repeta
Soft Power and Japanese NGOs, Kaori Kuroda

4:45 - 5:30 p.m.
Wrap-up Session