JHU SAIS to Host Forum on Japan Earthquake and Tsunami
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March 31, 2011
Contact: Felisa Neuringer Klubes
202.663.5626
[email protected]
JHU SAIS to Host Forum on Japan Earthquake and Tsunami
The Johns Hopkins Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) will host a forum, “Japan’s Earthquake and Tsunami: Dimensions of the Disaster and Future Prospects,” on Tuesday, April 5 at 6:30 p.m.
The forum, hosted by Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies at SAIS and the student-led SAIS Japan Relief Team, includes the following participants:
- Ichiro Fujisaki, ambassador of Japan to the United States, will give the featured remarks.
- Jessica P. Einhorn, dean of SAIS, will give the welcome.
- Captain David Barlow, one of the leaders of the unit dispatched to Japan from the Virginia Task Force 1 Urban Search and Rescue Team of the Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department
- Hironori Kawauchi, senior economist of the East Asia and Pacific Region for the World Bank
- Ryo Tsuzukihashi, Japanese SAIS graduate student
- Kent Calder (moderator), director of the Reischauer Center and SAIS Japan Studies Program
The session, which is free and open to the public, will be held in the Kenney Auditorium of the school’s Nitze Building, located at 1740 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. Members of the public should RSVP to the Reischauer Center at [email protected] or 202.663.5812.
Members of the media who plan to cover the event should respond to Felisa Neuringer Klubes at the SAIS Communications Office at 202.663.5626 or [email protected].