Event

The Penn Forum on Japan is proud to welcome four leading Japanese authorities on the political and international history of the 20th century. To celebrate the publication of the English-language edition of Showashi kogi (Fifteen Lectures on Showa Japan: Road to the Pacific War in Recent Historiography), editor Tsutsui Kiyotada (Teikyo University), Iokibe Kaoru (Tokyo University), Takeda Tomoki (Daito Bunka University), and Naraoka Sochi (Kyoto University) will join a panel discussion on the causes and consequences of the Pacific War. Why did Showa Japan rush into war? What was the key to its failure? To shed light on these questions 70 years after the war, "Fifteen Lectures on Showa Japan" offers new research findings and the most up-to-date results of research on early Showa history in Japan.

Presentation by Professor Sochi Naraoka, Kyoto University: World War I and Japan— The start of a foreign policy based on international cooperation Japan's foreign policy strategy in the 1930s and Japan-US negotiations

Presentation by Professor Tomoki Takeda, Daito Bunka University: Japan's foreign policy strategy in the 1930s and Japan-US negotiations

Presentation by Professor Kaoru Iokibe, The University of Tokyo: The early Showa period within modern history

Presentation by Professor Kiyotada Tsutsui,Teikyo University: Army, political parties, and public opinion in the early Showa period

Please note that this event will be provided with simultaneous interpretation. If you register in advance your seat will be reserved. Please click here.

Doors open 2:30 pm. After the event beverages and snacks will be served.

The symposium is co-sponsored by the Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture, the Cabinet of Japan and the Japanese Foreign Ministry.