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Speaker:	Watanabe Hiroshi
Topic:	The Evolution of Japanese Political Thought ... and Its Consequences
When:	June 16, 2013, starting at 6:30 pm
Admission:	Buy a copy of A History of Japanese Political Thought, 1600-1901 from Good Day Books

In 1853, a flotilla of U.S. Navy warships commanded by Commodore Matthew Perry arrived in Japan. A scant fourteen years later, the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate, which had lasted 250 years, ended.

Watanabe Hiroshi, Professor Emeritus at the University of Tokyo, is a specialist in the history of Japanese and Asian political thought.  Born in Yokohama in 1946, he graduated in 1969 from the Faculty of Law at Todai. After serving as lecturer and associate professor, he became a full professor at Todai in 1983. After retiring from Todai in 2010, he has been a professor in the Faculty of Law at Hosei University and chairman of the board of the University of Tokyo Press.

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