EU-Japan Forum

October 24 2016 -> October 25 2016

The EU-Japan Forum was an academic forum to promote research and collaboration on key policy issues between the EU and Japan. The Forum featured two public plenary discussions of broad topics and 5 breakout roundtable expert-led discussions. The themes covered ranged from science & technology (S&T) to social sciences and humanities (SSH). As the EU and Japan approached their self-imposed deadline for concluding their negotiations for an EU-Japan Free Trade Agreement / Economic Partnership Agreement, the Forum began with a keynote address by H.E. Ambassador Kazuo Kodama of the Mission of Japan to the EU.

The Forum was organised by Waseda University, the Université Libre de Bruxelles - Institut d’études Européennes, the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and the European Institute for Asian Studies (EIAS) and was supported by the EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation.

A formal event report is being prepared by the EIAS and this page will link to it once it is published.

The structure of the event was as follows:

Panel DiscussionEXPERT PANEL ON THE STATE OF THE EU-JAPAN PARTNERSHIP
Parallel RoundtablesThe EU-Japan Strategic Partnership in Criminal Matters - The Agreement on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters RevisitedThe EU-Japan Strategic Partnership in health/medical research - prospects associated with Biomechanics and Robotics
Parallel RoundtablesCitizens and their Rights - Shifting understandings of the Rule of LawTransition Planning and Architecture to meet the environmental agenda in Belgium and Japan
Parallel RoundtablesNATO, Europe and Japan - the Prospects of deeper Security CooperationIdentity Politics in Europe and Japan - Polities facing Nationalism and Fragmentation
Parallel RoundtablesThe EU-Japan Strategic Partnership on Competition - From The Agreement on Cooperation on Anti-competitive Activities to the FTA/EPAMicrofluidics and Lab-on-Chips - Research on Emerging Technologies in Europe, Japan & Belgium
Parallel RoundtablesPolitics, Culture and Traditional Values in Post-Modern Societies - Europe and JapanPopular Culture in Japan and Europe - Manga & the Franco-Belgian Comic Book
Panel DiscussionANNIVERSARY PANEL ON 150 YEARS OF BELGO-JAPANESE DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS
Brussels, Belgium

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