{"id":11874,"date":"2019-09-11T15:32:19","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T19:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/?p=11874"},"modified":"2019-10-01T12:59:32","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T16:59:32","slug":"11874","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/2019\/09\/11\/11874\/","title":{"rendered":"Narushige Michishita lecture, The Rise of China and Japan&#8217;s Response (Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2019)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The BU\u00a0Center for the Study of Asia<\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>is pleased to invite you to a lecture and discussion with<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #d47f5b;\"><strong> Narushige Michishita, Ph.D.<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>(Vice President and Professor,\u00a0National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), Tokyo)<\/em><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">The Rise of China and Japan&#8217;s Response<\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2019 from 12-1:30 pm<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, 121 Bay State Road, Boston University<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/asian\/files\/2019\/09\/Michi-9-25-poster-450x636.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"636\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11864\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/files\/2019\/09\/Michi-9-25-poster-450x636.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/files\/2019\/09\/Michi-9-25-poster-768x1086.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/files\/2019\/09\/Michi-9-25-poster-724x1024.jpg 724w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/files\/2019\/09\/Michi-9-25-poster.jpg 1241w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #d47f5b;\"><strong>A light lunch will be served!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Abstract:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span>In the past ten years, China\u2019s defense expenditure has grown by 83 percent while that of the United States has declined by 17 percent. How can Japan secure itself, and help maintain peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific region? Dr. Michishita will discuss Japan\u2019s strategy towards a rising China.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>About the Speaker:\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Narushige Michishita is vice president of the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) in Tokyo. He acquired his Ph.D. from the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University. A specialist in Japanese security and foreign policy as well as security issues on the Korean Peninsula, he is the author of <em>North Korea\u2019s Military-Diplomatic Campaigns, 1966-2008<\/em> (Routledge, 2009) and <em>Lessons of the Cold War in the Pacific: U.S. Maritime Strategy, Crisis Prevention, and Japan\u2019s Role<\/em> (Woodrow Wilson Center, 2016) (co-authored with Peter M. Swartz and David F. Winkler).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BU\u00a0Center for the Study of Asia is pleased to invite you to a lecture and discussion with Narushige Michishita, Ph.D. (Vice President and Professor,\u00a0National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), Tokyo) The Rise of China and Japan&#8217;s Response Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2019 from 12-1:30 pm at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6625,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7613,7617,4210],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11874"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6625"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11874"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11877,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11874\/revisions\/11877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}