Question for jonathan. Can you talk about sharing with countries of the region to reduce tension can you give what the incentive would be and theater what do you think would be the new approach or the balance look like in the new year and obviously there is a criticism about too much emphasis, and the book you wrote about is very optimistic about the rebalancing strategy received, that after your competing organizations, 37 if i remember correctly, said it is up so very different. And to look to them to be concluded as somewhat expected especially in the congress. What is your thoughts . I think it is fair to say that in retrospect in the early years of the rebalancing policy, it was significantly over sold by some of the proponents that advocated it. That said, the essence, i think as jeff and i tried to argue in our paper makes sense. It makes sense because it is a framework Political Economic and security that the United States would wish to operate in this most dynamic region. The
Yoshiaki Shimizu, distinguished scholar who ‘transformed the study of Japanese art’ and Princeton graduate alumnus, dies at 84
Jamie Saxon, Office of Communications
Feb. 12, 2021 12:45 p.m.
Yoshiaki Shimizu, the Marquand Professor of Art and Archaeology, Emeritus, and a renowned scholar of Japanese art history, curator and Princeton graduate alumnus, died on Jan. 20, 2021, of lung cancer at home in Portland, Oregon. He was 84.
Yoshiaki Shimizu
Denise Applewhite, Office of Communications
His research interests in Japanese art included Japanese ink painting of the medieval period, the arts of Zen Buddhism, Heian and Kamakura narrative painting, Sino-Japanese cultural history of the 12th through the 16th century, Chinese and Japanese calligraphy, and Kamakura Buddhism and its art.