Talk by Professor Akiko Yamanaka, Former Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan on ‘North East Asia: Toward the End of the Cold War’

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.