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Tuesday, April 19:

"How Will Japan Recover from the Great Earthquake?"

Public Lecture by Kotaro Tamura, former Japanese Diet member and currently research  
associate at Harvard University

4:00 p.m., Carson L01

Sponsored by the Department of History

Reception to follow sponsored by OPAL and Students for Japan

Mr. Kotaro Tamura earned his degrees from Waseda University (B.A.), Keio University  
(M.B.A), Yale University (M.A.), and Duke Law School (LL.M.).  He was a Liberal  
Democratic Party member of the House of Councillors in the Diet of Japan (2002-10);  
Chairman, Committee on Land and Transport, House of Councillors (2008-09); and  
Parliamentary Secretary for Fiscal and Economic Policy and for Financial Affairs,  
Cabinet Office, Government of Japan (2006-07).  Before entering politics, he worked  
at Yamaichi Securities and was Chief Editor of the Nihonkai Newspaper and CEO  
and President of Osaka Daily News.  He is the author of /Moshi Nihon ga hitotsu  
no kaisha dattara/ [If Japan Was a Company] (Eveil, 2010) and has served as a  
Lecturer at the Duke University School of Law and Keio University Graduate School  
of Law.  In the fall of 2010, he was a Senior Fellow at Yale University's MacMillan  
Center for International Studies.