A Family Tradition: Two Generations View U.S.-Japan Relations

Speakers
Ezra & Steven Vogel

Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the San Francisco Peace Treaty, this new series examines the changing face of U.S.-Japan and U.S.-Asia relations as seen through the eyes of two generations of experts from one family.

Ezra F. Vogel is Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard and Director Emeritus of Harvard’s East Asian Research Center. The author of Japan As Number One and other seminal writings, he has made lasting contributions to better American understanding of Japan and Asia. He is joined by his son, Steven K. Vogel, Associate Professor of Political Science at UC-Berkeley and a specialist in comparative politics and comparative and international political economy, in a discussion offering the views of two generations of experts on the U.S.-Japan and U.S.-Asia relationship.

Tickets: $10, Japan Society members $8, students $5.