Symposium “Germany-Japan-Russia Potentials for the Future”
JAPANESE-GERMAN CENTER BERLIN (JDZB), KONRAD ADENAUER FOUNDATION (KAS), INSTITUTE for INTERNATIONAL POLICY STUDIES (IIPS)

10:00~18:00, Friday, October 7, 2011, Nippon Foundation Building 2F

Program(Registration 9:30~)
10:00~

Welcome Remarks
Dr. Friederike BOSSE (Secretary General, JDZB)
Mr. Joerg WOLFF (Resident Representative Japan, KAS)
Mr. Ken SATO (President, IIPS)

10:25~First Keynote speech“Russia as Strategic Partner for Europe and Asia”
Mr. Ulrich BRANDENBURG, German Ambassador to Russia10:50~

Second Keynote speech“Looking North – Perspectives of Japanese-Russian Relations”
Mr. Takehiro TOGO, Senior Counsellor, Mitsui Global Strategic Studies Institute,
Former Japanese Ambassador to Russia

11:15~

Panel 1: Relations between Germany, Japan, Russia - Strengths
and Weaknesses
Chair: Dr. Friedbert PFLUEGER (Germany, Professor at King’s College London,
Member of the Berlin House of Representatives)
Panelists:
Dr. Andreas SCHOCKENHOFF (Germany, Member of the Bundestag, Deputy
Chairman of the CDU/CSU-parliamentary group)
Dr. Mikhail NOSOV (Russia, Deputy Director, Institute of Europe, Academy ofSciences)
Mr. Seiji MAEHARA (Japan, Member of the House of Representatives, DPJ
Policy Research Committee Chair)
Introductory presentation: Dr. SCHOCKENHOFF“Enemies becoming Friends!? German-Russian Consultations as an
Instrument for a Reliable Partnership”

13:00~Lunch1

14:15~

Panel 2: Energy and Natural Resources
Chair: Mr. Takao KITABATA (Japan, Vice President of IIPS)
Panelists:
Dr. Joachim PFEIFFER (Germany, Member of the Bundestag)
Dr. Mark ENTIN (Russia, Professor of the European Law Chair of the Moscow
State Institute of International Relations)
Mr. Motoyuki OKA (Japan, Chairman, Japan-Russia Business Cooperation
Committee, Japan Business Federation, Chairman of the Board, SumitomoCorporation)
Introductory presentation: Dr. ENTIN“Natural Resources – A Controversial Issue or Opportunity for Foreign
Policy? The Example Russia and Its Relations to Japan and Europe”

15:30~

Coffee Break

16:00~

Panel 3: Stability in East Asia – Joint Task for Japan, Russia andEurope?
Chair: Dr. Shinichi KITAOKA (Japan, Executive Director of Research of IIPS,
University of Tokyo)
Panelists:
Dr. Friedbert PFLUEGER (Germany)
Dr. Georgy TOLORAYA (Russia, Head of Regional Projects Department,Regional Director for Asia and Africa, “Russkiy Mir” Foundation, Moscow)
Mr. Naoki KAZAMA (Japan, Member of the House of Councillors)
Introductory presentation: Mr. KAZAMA“German-Russia Relations: Influence of the power balance change inEurope to the East Asia”

17:45~Summing Up and Closing Remarks
Dr. Stefan FRIEDRICH (Director Asia and the Pacific, KAS Berlin)2Biography of participantsFirst Keynote speech
Speaker: Mr. Ulrich BRANDENBURG (Germany)
Education：Graduated from Sorbonne University in 1977. (Romance and Slavic studies)
Professional Career：Started as a diplomat in 1980. Held positions such as Commissioner for Russia,Caucasus and Central Asia, Deputy Political Director of the German Foreign Office and Permanent
Representative of the Federal Republic of Germany on the North Atlantic Council. German Ambassador toRussia since 2010.

Second Keynote speech
Speaker: Mr. Takehiro TOGO (Japan)
Education：Graduated from the Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo in1958
Professional Career：Joined Ministry of Foreign Affairs in1958. Held positions such as Ambassador toSingapore, Turkey, Russia. Senior Counsellor, Mitsui Global Strategic Studies Institute since 2003.

Panel 1Chair: Dr. Friedbert PFLUEGER (Germany)
Education：Master of Arts degree after studies of political science, public and constitutional law andeconomics in Gottingen, Bonn and Harvard in 1980, Ph.D. degree in 1982.
Professional Career：Member of the Bundestag since 1990. Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal
Ministry of Defense in 2005, Chairman of the CDU Parliamentary Group in the Berlin House ofRepresentatives since 2006. Visiting Professor in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London
since 2009, Director, European Centre for Energy and Resource Security.

Panelist: Dr. Andreas SCHOCKENHOFF (Germany)
Education：Graduated from Tubingen University and Grenoble University in 1976 (Romance studies),Ph.D. degree in 1985.
ProfessionalCareer ： Memberof

theBundestagsince1990.

DeputyChairmanoftheCDU/CSU-parliamentary group in the Bundestag for Foreign Affairs, Affairs of the European Union andDefense Policy since 2005. Coordinator of German-Russian Inter-societal Cooperation since 2006.

Panelist: Dr. Mikhail NOSOV (Russia)
Education：Graduated from Moscow State University in 1963 (Oriental Languages), Ph.D. degree in 1990.
Professional Career：Held positions such as Senior Researcher of Institute of World Economy andInternational Relations, Deputy Director of Institute of USA and Canada, Academy of Sciences. DeputyDirector of Institute of Europe, Academy of sciences, since 2004.

Panelist: Mr. Seiji MAEHARA (Japan)
Education：Graduated from the Faculty of Law, Kyoto University in 1986.
Professional Career：Member of the House of Representatives since 1993. Elected six times. Held positions
such as Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, Minister of State for Okinawa and Northern
Territories Affairs, and Disaster Management, and Minister for Foreign Affairs. Held key positions such as
President in the Democratic Party of Japan. DPJ Policy Research Committee Chair since this August.

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Panel 2
Chair: Mr. Takao KITABATA (Japan)
Education：Graduated from the Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo in 1972.
Professional Career：Joined Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) in 1972, Director-General,
Economic and Industrial Policy Bureau, Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI) in 2004,
Vice-Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry in 2006. Vice President, IIPS since 2009.

Panelist: Dr. Joachim PFEIFFER (Germany)
Education： Graduated from Stuttgart University in 1992(Technical business studies), Ph.D. degree in 1997.
Professional Career： Employee at the Energieversorgung Schwaben AG in 1992, Member of theBundestag since 2002. Freelance consultant since 2003, teaching in energy policy at the Institute forEnergy Economics and the Rational Use of Energy (IER) of Stuttgart University since 2006, Economic
Policy Spokesman of the CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group since 2009.

Panelist: Dr. Mark ENTIN (Russia)
Education： Holder of PhD and post doctorate Diploma in Law from the Moscow State Institute ofInternational Relations (MGIMO).
Professional Career： First deputy director of the Directorate of European Cooperation of the Russian
Ministry of Foreign affairs in 1992, Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to theCouncil of Europe in 1998, Director of the Institute of European Law in 2002. Director of the EuropeanStudies Institute at the MGIMO-University since 2006.

Panelist: Mr. Motoyuki OKA (Japan)
Education： Graduated from the Faculty of Economics, Keio University in 1966.
Professional Career： Entered Sumitomo Corporation in 1966, President and Chief Executive Officer in
2001, Chairman of the Board, Sumitomo Corporation since 2007. Chairman of Japan - Russia BusinessCooperation Committee and Japan - NIS Business Cooperation Committee, Japan Business Federation
since 2008.

Panel 3Chair: Dr. Shinichi KITAOKA (Japan)
Education： Studied at the University of Tokyo (BA 1971, MA 1973, and Ph.D. 1976) and Princeton(1981-83).
Professional Career： Teaching at Rikkyo University (1976-97) and at the University of Tokyo (1997-2004,2006-present). Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations (2004-2006).
Executive Director of Research, IIPS since 2009.

Panelist: Dr. Friedbert PFLUEGER (Germany) * See Panel 1
Panelist: Dr. Georgy TOLORAYA (Russia)
Education： M.A. degree (International Economic Relations), Moscow Institute of International Relations in1978, Ph.D. degree in 1984, Doctor of Economics in 1994.
Professional Career：Minister-Counselor, Deputy Chief of Mission, Russian Embassy in Republic of Korea,Seoul(1993-1998), Consul-General of Russian Federation in Sydney (2003-2007). Head of Regional
Projects Department, Regional Director for Asia and Africa, “Russkiy Mir” Foundation, Moscow since 2008.

Panelist: Mr. Naoki KAZAMA (Japan)
Education： Graduated from the Faculty of Law, Keio University, Faculty of Law in 1990.
Professional Career： Worked at Mitsui & Co., Ltd (1990-1992), Assistant of Kenichi Omae (1992-1994),
Member, Niigata Prefecture Assembly (1999-2003). Member of the House of Councillors since 2007. Held4

positions such as Member of Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defense, Member of Special Committee onNorth Korea Abduction Issue and Related Matters. Member of Committee on Rules and Administration etc.
at present.

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