Democratic Infrastructures: Planning the First Bullet Train (1958-64)

This seminar, hosted by the Program on U.S. - Japan Relations at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, will be given by Jessamyn Abel, Assistant Professor of Asian Studies at Pennsylvania State University and moderated by Andrew Gordon, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History at Harvard. It is co-sponsored by M-RCBG and supported by the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership (CGP) as part of a Special Series on the Future of Democracy in Japan and Asia.