Record: List of Activities
Conferences / Symposium
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26/11/2008
East Building
Hall

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25/72009
East Building
Hall

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26/7/2009
Discussion
Room, SouthBuilding

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Title
International Symposium“Implications for State Sovereignty of EU Integration in a
Transnational World”
European and National Enforcement of EU Competition
Law: Sharing the Sovereignty?
Dr. Robert Lane, Senior Lecturer, University of Edinburgh
A Transnational Integration of Europe and Trade Union
Dr. Hitoshi Suzuki, Researcher, Keio Jean Monnet Centre forEU Studies
Referendums and the Political Constitutionalisation of theEU
Dr. Min Shu, Center for European Studies and School ofEconomics, Fudan University and Visiting Associate
Professor, Waseda Institute for Advanced Studies
The Lisbon Treaty and the Strengthening of the EU’s Systemof GovernanceProf. Frank Delmartino, Institute for International andEuropean Policy, Katholike Universiteit LeuvenInternational Symposium“The EU and the Global Economic Governance”
Europe and the Management of Globalization
Dr. Sophie Meunier
Research Scholar, Woodrow Wilson School of Public andInternational Affairs, Princeton University
Institutional Power and Restraint for Leadership: The EU inthe Global Trade Negotiations
Yukari Akeda, Lecturer, Keio UniversityThe Global Financial Crisis : the EU and Japan
Sahoko Kaji, Professor of economics, Keio University
The European Union and the Integration of South East Asia
Alfredo C. Robles, Jr.
Professor, De La Salle University
The 1st Japan-EU Relations Workshop(Economy & Human Rights)
European Policy Reactions to the Financial Crisis
Sahoko Kaji, Professor of economics, Keio University
Economic Partnerships Going Beyond the EU and Their
Relations to Japan
Yu Hasumi, Professor, Faculty of Economics, Rissho
University
The Role of the Japan and EU Governments for Global
Human Rights Protection
Kanae Doi, Tokyo Director, Human Rights Watch
International Human Rights in the Relationship between
the EU, the United Nations and East Asia
Kohki Abe, Professor of International Law, Kanagawa
University School of Law

Date / Venue

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4

19/9/2009
Distance
Learning
Room, South
Building

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25/10/2009
Conference
Hall, North
Building

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31/10/2009
Conference
Hall, North
Building

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Title
The 2nd Japan-EU Relations Workshop(Security Policy)
Euro Atlantic Relationship over Conflict Management: Its
Implications for Japan-EU RelationshipTomonori Yoshizaki, Chief, 5th Research Office, National
Institute for Defense Studies
Why Japan-EU Security Cooperation Today: How Japan Can
Use Europe
Michito Tsuruoka, Research Fellow, National Institute forDefense Studies
EU and International Policymaking on Anti-personnel
Landmine Issues
Makiko Nishitani, Associate Professor of International
Relations Graduate School of International Cooperation
Studies (GSICS) Kobe University
Biodefense Frameworks in EU and Japan
Tomoya Saito, MD, MPH,Ph.D, Assistant Professor, Keio
Univerisity, Research Fellow, Keio Global Security ResearchInstituteThe 3rd Japan-EU Relations Workshop(Development, Assistance & Human Resources)
An Overview of European Union Development andHumanitarian Assistance and Japan-EU Relationship
Hiroshi Okuma, Professor of International Relations, Facultyof Social Innovation, Seijo University
Prospects of Aid Coordination by European Countries andJapan
Motoki Takahashi, Professor, Graduate School ofInternational Cooperation Studies
Fostering Agenda Shaping Leadership as an Objective of theTokyo University EMP and Its Implications for future
Japan-EU Relationship
Yoshinori Yokoyama, Social system designer/Program
Director, Tokyo University EMP
Proposals for Human Capital Training and Effective
Communication between EU and Japan
Kenji Watanuki, Vice Director, JICPAS; Josai International
Center for the promotion of Arts & Science(HQ) Professor,
Josai International University
The 4th Japan-EU Relations Workshop(Environment, Academic & Educational Exchanges)
Global Environmental Challenges and EU-Japan
Environmental Cooperation
Yukari Takamura, Professor, Ryukoku University
What Can the EU and Japan Do together for the Better
Environmental Governance?
Yoko Wadachi, Associate Professor, Faculty ofEnvironmental Studies, Nagasaki University
Educational and Academic Exchanges between Japan andthe European Union
Toshiro Tanaka, Professor, Jean Monnet Chair ad personam,
Faculty of Law, Keio University, Director, EU Studies
Institute in Tokyo (EUSI)Japan and European Integration in Higher Education andResearchDate / Venue7

2/12/2009/
Auditorium,Embassy of
Sweden826/6/2010
Conference
Hall, East
Building

916-17/7/2010
G-SEC Lab,
6F, East
Building

Title
Jun Oba, Associate professor, Research Institute for Higher
Education, Hiroshima University
International Symposium“EU-Japan Relations in the Decade Ahead- Something New or More of the Same?”
1. EU-Japan Co-operation—Scope and Limits
The EU-Japan Relationship-Problems and Achievements
Professor Axel Berkofsky, Giovanni Mazzochi Fellow
University of Pavia, Italy
Towards an East Asian Community: What Kind Lessons
Should We Learn from Europe?
Professor Hirotsugu Koike, Kwansei Gakuin University
2. Trade Issues
Trade Issues, Mutual Recognition Approach in the Context ofa Japan-EU Economic Integration Agreement (EIA)
Professor Katsuhiro Shoji, Director, Keio Jean Monnet EU
Studies Centre of Excellence
Impact of EU-Korea FTA on Japan
Dr. Patricia A. Nelson, Seijo University
3. Security Issues
Conflict and Culture: The Role of Cultural Initiatives in
Peace-building
Dr. Akiko Fukushima, Japan Foundation
The Nexus of Security and Development
Associate Professor Paul Midford, NTNU
The Impact of Environmental Issues on International Legal
Regimes: Possible Contribution of Japan and EU to theFuture Schemes
Professor Hiroyuki Banzai, Waseda UniversityInternational Symposium“Implications of European Integration for the State andSovereignty in a Transnational World”
1. The EU’s External Relations with Asia
Dr. Sebastian Bersick
University College Lecturer, National University of Ireland,
Cork
2. Intel Decision and the EU’s New Standards for Behaviours
by Dominant Firms
Dr. Kuo-lien Hsieh
Assistant Professor, School of Law, Shih Hsin University,Taipei, Taiwan
3. Change and Japan-EU Relations: Spotlighting Economic andBusiness Organization
Dr. Patricia Nelson
Visiting Professor, Graduate School of Law, Keio University
4. Asian Perceptions of the EU
Prof. Martin Holland
University of Canterbury, New ZealandInternational Conference“The Art of Chairing the G8 Summits: Lessons from the Past
and Recent Trends of Multi-lateral Diplomacy”
1. Experiences and Lessons of European Integration
The European Council: Key Institution of the European
Integration Process
Wilfried Loth, Professor, University of Duisburg-EssenDate / Venue

Title
Japanese Perspectives of Joining Trilateral Meetings: Trade
Wars in Europe and America
Hitoshi Suzuki, Lecturer, University of Niigata Prefecture
2. Launching the G7 Summits
From the G6 to the G20: From Consultation to Multilateral
Economic GovernanceOlivier Giscard d'Estaing, Canon Foundation in EuropeMy Experience as the Japanese Sherpa
Kazuo Ogura, President, Japan Foundation
Japanese Summit Diplomacy After the End of the Cold War
Takashi Inoguchi, President, University of Niigata
Prefecture
3. Recent Summits and Its Presidency
Japanese Presidency at 2008 Toyako Summit on Climate
ChangeTomohito Shinoda, Professor, International University ofJapanThe European Union Rotating Presidency and the G8
Summits: Learning from the 2008 French Presidency?
Pascal Vennesson, Professor, European University Institute
4. The “New Members”
China and the G8: Roles and Perspectives of a “NewMember”
Xavier/Jiejin Zhu, Assistant Professor, Shanghai
International Studies University
NGOs, Social Movements and Arguments against the G8Apichai Wongsod Shipper, Professor, University of Southern
California