Again, good morning and welcome to the fifth annual United Statesjapankorea trilateral symposium organized by International Student conferences and generously sponsored by Sasakawa Peace foundation usa and the Korea Foundation. We thank you all for joining us on this cold and blustery day as impacted hopefully other parts of the east coast more than us but we know it wasnt the easiest commute this morning. For those of you that i follow us and paying attention today on social media we like to point out that we have greater a hashtag for todays conference and that is hashtag isctrilat. For those of you not following on instream and twitter that at so my name is Alexander Evans and i will be your master of ceremonies for todays event and i currently work as the research and Program Coordinator at the center for east Asian Studies within Johns Hopkins. The preps perhaps more portly r todays event i am a lump of the 63rd japan america student conference back in 2011. I think in a lot of wa
Yesterday, the International Student conference, the Korea Foundation and hes Foundation Hosted a conference on the future of relations between south korea, japan and the United States and the role of digital diplomacy. We will hear from former state Department Officials and representatives of student groups. We thank you all for joining us today. We know it wasnt the easiest commute this morning. For those of you following us on social media, we have created a hashtag for todays conference. Ctrilat. My name is Alexander Evans and i will be your master of ceremonies for todays event. I currently work as the research and Program Coordinator at the center for east Asian Studies within johns hopkins. More importantly for todays n alum of the conference back in 2011. It was that experience that continued to motivate me to study japan and put me on the , particularly given it was right after the march japan was not open. To be able to go in there and have a persontoperson exchange changed m
For those of you not following us on instagram and twitter, isc underscore dc. My name is alexander evans, i will be your master of ceremonies. Are working the region programs. For east Asian Studies within job hopkins. I am an alum of the 63rd japan american student conference back in 2011. It continuedays, to motivate me to study in japan and put me on the path that i am and career i am today because of that experience. Particularly given it was right after the march 11 two but disaster, when japan was not open to many students, to be able to go in there and have a persontoperson exchange and it changed my life. Before we get started, we will have a couple of introductory remarks. I would like to introduce linda butcher, the executive director of isc. Director ofs the Media Relations and Public Affairs at the Korean Economic Institute of america, and a legislative researcher for the congressional session at the sse of republic of south korea in dc. Ington she has spoken on topics rel
Are at isctrilat d. C. So my name is Alexander Evans and of the your master for todays event and i currently work as the research and Program Coordinator at the center for east Asian Studies within Johns Hopkins sais. Perhaps more important for todays event i am an alum of the 63rd japanamerican student conference back in 2011. I think in a lot of ways it was bad experience that really continued to motivate me to study japan put you on the path that i am in the creek of that experience. Particularly given that it was right after the march 11 triple disaster, an opportunity when japan was not open to many students to be able to go in and have persontoperson exchange with something that i would say it may sound corny but i changed my life. And so before we get started today will have a couple introductory marks so i would first like to introduce ms. Linda butcher, secular director of isc. Prior to this role she served as a director of Media Relations and Public Affairs at the current Eco
They won 294 new seats, the new komeito, 31. Together it gives them a twothirds majority of the 300 ldps. Prime minister of japan took back the leadership. All those seats will allow the ldp to push through their policies. Even if the upper house rejects a bill, a vote by twothirds of the lower house lawmakers can override that decision. The election ends three years in power for the democrats. The dpj had 230 seats coming into the vote. They held on to just 57. The Restoration Party won just 54 seats. They want to earn an alternative to the established parties. They are anxious to get back to the role theyve held almost continuously since the 1950s. They talk about the ldps policy plans and what this victory means. Translator its not that voters are coming back to put their 100 trust in the ldp, but rather, its their answer to the threeyearlong political confusion brought about by the democrats. So the big question here is whether we in the ldp can meet the High Expectations of the vo