“Is Japan Really Back”: A symposium in honor of Professor Gerald Curtis
Gerald Curtis, Burgess Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, has retired after teaching there since 1968. To celebrate his long and distinguished career as one of the top experts on not only the dynamics of Japanese domestic politics but also Japan’s society and political economy, and in recent years, increasingly, its place in the international community, Columbia held a symposium on December 17th featuring a number of prominent speakers on various topics relating to the question “Is Japan Really Back?”. In a nod to the “Koizumi Children” of several years ago, many participants referred to themselves as “Curtis Children”. The symposium was organized as a series of panel discussions,… Read More »“Is Japan Really Back”: A symposium in honor of Professor Gerald Curtis