GSIPM

Tsuneo Akaha, Professor of International Policy Studies, will speak on “3/11: The Day that Shook Japan,”at the Sonoma County World Affairs Council on March 16.
Dr. Akaha during the last few months has been on sabbatical leave at his alma mater,
Waseda Univesity in Tokyo, Japan, teaching a graduate seminar on Asian regional integration. He has watched closely Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda’s dedication to rebuilding confidence in the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) after the devastating earthquake in Northern Japan on March 3, 2011. He will speak about the post-earthquake
era’s impact on politics within Japan and Japan’s evolving foreign policy