Webinar: Japan's Response to Covid-19/ Political Leadership and Crisis Response

On Tues, April 14, we did a webinar panel on Japan's response to Covid-19, with our panelists, Aki Shiozaki and Harukata Takenaka joining from Tokyo. As experts on Japan's political leadership and crisis response, we had an opportunity to hear updates on what was going on, as well a deeper look into important questions about how Japanese institutions were set up, lessons from previous major disaster and crisis, evaluations of the current leadership, and implications for moving forward.

Thanks to Mr. Shiozaki and Professor Takenaka, the panel was very successful with almost 200 attendees and great questions asked in the Q&A box.

Normally, the Japan Colloquium series has been only in-person, but now that the university is completely online, this opens up opportunities to far more easily link up with and hear from our friends in Japan. Our radical social distancing has actually collapsed the distance, mentally and organizationally, for this type of collaboration -- never waste a horrible crisis.