EJARN Conference 2025 Program

The European Japan Advanced Research Network (EJARN) will hold its annual conference entitled "The Tightening Nexus of Security Between Japan and Europe" at Shirokane Campus, Meiji Gakuin University, Room 2401, Building 2, June 14-15.

EJARN Conference 2025 Program in pdf

Preliminary Program

Saturday, June 14th
9:30-9:45: Opening Remarks: Paul Midford, Marie Söderberg and Patrik Ström

9:45-10:45: Roundtable on Trump Initiated Geo-Political Changes
Moderator: Marie Söderberg
Saori N. Katada
Eva Liias
Paul Midford
Wilhelm Vosse

10:45-11:00: Coffee Break

11:00-13:00-Panel on the Nexus of European and Japanese Security
"Geopolitics morphing into Spacepolitics? A New Frontier in EU-Japan Security and Defense Partnership," Eva Liias, University of Tartu

"Beyond the Tyranny of Geography? EU–Japan Relations in the Shadow of U.S. Instability," Paul O’Shea, University of Lund

"Japan’s Policy towards the War in Ukraine and the role of Poland and other Central & Eastern European states in its implementation," Beata Bochorodycz, Adam Mickiewicz University

"EU-Japan cooperation in developing and deploying active cyber defense (ACD)," Wilhelm Vosse, International Christian University

Discussant: Thomas Wilkins

13:00-14:00: Lunch

14:00-16:00: Panel of Japan’s Security Policy
"Japan: Building Enhanced Security Cooperation Across the Bilateral,
Minilateral and Multilateral Levels," Thomas Wilkins, University of Sydney

"Japanese Institution-Building Diplomacy in the face of Regional Order in Flux," Mie Oba, Kanagawa University, and Saori N. Katada, University of Southern California

"Reconciliation and Symbiosis in East Asia from Comparative Perspectives," Kimie Hara, University of Waterloo

Discussant: Beata Bochorodycz

16.15-16:30: Coffee Break

16:30-17:00: European Keynote (Hybrid, online): Jean-Eric Paquet, European Union Ambassador
17:00-17:30: Q&A
Moderator: Wilhelm Vosse

17:30-18:00: Japanese Keynote (Hybrid, online): Shintaro Ito, Former Minister of the Environment, 2023-2024
18:00-18:30: Q&A
Moderator: Paul Midford

18:45-19:50: Reception in Memorial Hall, Second Floor

20:15: Optional Dinner (near Shinagawa)

Sunday, June 15
9:00-11:30 The Nexus of EU-Japan Geo-果冻视频 and Development
"Has the Concept of Comprehensive Security been killed by Geopolitical Changes?," Marie Söderberg, 果冻视频

"Connectivity in a multipolarizing world – Weapon to create spheres of interest or tool for positive interdependence?,” Bart Gaens, International Centre for Defence and Security, Tallinn; Finnish Institute of International Affairs, Helsinki

"Humanitarian aid and media-powered mobilization for Ukraine: Japanese and Polish media narratives in comparative perspective," Iwona Merklejn, Aoyama Gakuin University, Olga Barbasiewicz, SWPS University

"Monetary Policy in Japan," Markus Heckel, German Center for Research and Innovation

Discussant: Saori N. Katada

11:30-11:45: Coffee Break

11:45-12:45: The EU-Japan Nexus of Environmental Security Panel
"Renewable Energy in the Context of Smart Cities and Rural Sustainability in Japan," Paul Midford, Meiji Gakuin University

"The Transition to the Green Economy," H Richard Nakamura, Patrik Ström & Åsa Malmström Rognes

"Fukushima Fallout: Post-2011 Nuclear Power Plant Security in Japan and Europe," Tom Gill, Meiji Gakuin University

Discussant: Wilhelm Vosse

12:45-13:30: EJARN Membership Meeting

13:30: End of Conference

EJARN 2025 has been supported by a grant from the International Relations Institute of the Faculty of International Studies, Meiji Gakuin University.