Cambridge Central Asia Forum in collaboration with the Centre of
Development Studies invites you to a talk by
Professor Akiko Yamanaka, Former Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs of
Japan
on
‘North East Asia: Toward the End of the Cold War’
Date: 4 June 2018
Time: 10:30-12:30pm
Venue: Room S1, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge
Biography: Prof Yamanaka is Visiting Professor at Tenjin Foreign Studies
University. She served as the Member of the House of Representatives of
Japan as well as Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs, Director of the
Committee of Foreign Affairs, and Director General of the Women's Bureau
of Liberal Democratic Party. She is an expert on international
peacebuilding and preventive state theory, international negotiation and
strategic studies, and intercultural studies. She has been a visiting
Professor at the United Nations University in Tokyo and Hokkaido
University Graduate School and a senior researcher at St. Antony’s
College, Oxford University and CSIS in Washington D.C.
Everyone is welcome.